Final Changes

Our last and final change was made today.  I was never convinced that the tile we chose for our master bath was what I really wanted.  I wasn't sure that we would be able to change it this late in the game, but our SR came through and let us change it.  We have changed it to:

Wisteria Tortoise Mosaic Border

Stratford Place Truffle 

We also changed all of our plumbing, lighting and door hardware to the oil rubbed bronze.  Our SR mentioned that we are her thickest file!  I bet she can't wait to be done with us.  She has been very patient :)

Our pre-construction meeting is tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to meeting our PM, going over our dates and seeing our lot staked.

Finally, we have decided to switch realtors.  We've had our house listed for 6 months and not had a single offer.  We've also had to correct our listing information (what she originally submitted and then needed an update since our description still referenced Thanksgiving in January), so we are letting our contract expire with her on Wednesday and listing with another realtor on Thursday.  Hopefully, this will help!

Current House

Not only did I call NVR yesterday, I also called our realtor.  We have been listed for a month and a half and have had only two showings.  I expected it to take awhile (and our realtor estimate it would be around four months before we had a contract on the house), but now that we have everything set to begin our new house, we are very anxious to start.

We talked about reducing the price.  However, she recommended that we hold out for a couple more weeks.  Apparently, FHA and other government programs just ended their fiscal year September 30.  Preapprovals and other lending related issues are in limbo because the new programs don't roll out until October 15.  So, we're going to wait on the price reduction and hope we get someone in who's already preapproved.

It's very hard to be patient when everything is ready to go for the new house.  It was a little easier to wait when we had selections to make, meetings with Guardian and NVR and change orders to do.  Until then, it's supposed to be a beautiful weekend, so we are going to take advantage of the fact that we have nothing to do on either house today and just have some fun!