The Signing

Finally, a momentus day, the contract has been signed.
Eagerly awaiting the closing date scheduled for Dec 17th to really seal the deal.

Contract - still in progress

The lawyers are still working through the contract. We had to revised the previous contract to allow for some kind of fencing near the cliff and planting of trees over 4' tall. Looks like the contract will be signed next week. The closing has been scheduled already for 12/17.

Furniture Already!

11/1/08 received the dining table and garden bench that we bought 2 weeks ago before even purchasing the land. our apartment has been turned into storage and design area.
Still waiting for the land contract to be drawn up. In the mean time reviewing Rocio Romero's general contract for details.

Visited a few showrooms today to get some ideas for the design of the kitchen and bathroom. The usual mix of highly out of reach stores..Boffi, Valcucine, Gauggenau...gave us a good idea of what we need to do.

Offer accepted!!!

After two days and three rounds of negotiations, our final offer was accepted. Hooray, on our way to become official land owners, just need to get the formalities and legalities out of the way.

The Offer

We put in our offer for the land today, fingers crossed. Learned anther party has some interest in the same plot of land. What are the chances, after a year sitting on the market, all of a sudden, all this interest at once.
The slow economy is probably helping us out with this. Normally this type of home aesthetic would have never been approved by any subdivion of colonials.
So far, no other plot in the community have been sold, so we might be the first ones there.

First conversation with contractor

10/22/08 Had a first conversation with Matthew King of Mecca Projects in Elizaville. Matthew built the Meeks LVL home in Gallatin, NY. The conversation went really well. We learned quite a bit about the Meeks home that we can apply to our final design. Matthew is currently building another LVL home near the Meeks and has invited us to visit the actual site. Looking forward to Saturday's meeting (10/25/08).

Second visit to our future home site

Yesterday was a great day. It was a second visit to our future site and it looked more beautiful than the first time, which was back in mid-September. The partner of the subdivision (also the surveyor) walked us through the parcel and gave us a lot of information regarding setback requirement, home site, septic systems, etc...

Our contractor Matthew King showed up after to take a quick walk of the land. He liked the site and doesn't foresee any potential roadblocks. Suggested we think about have a walk-out basement or half basement for better resell value. Plus, it'll elevate the home for a better view.

We then drove north to Gallatin, NY to see the Meeks home. Unfortunately, they were not home. The pictures are from the current LVL home that Matthew is working on. It's perched up high, with a walkout basement, so the view is expansive. The bone white is beautiful when you see it in person so we've decided to go with that color instead.