Walk-through Complete!

The stonework on the house was finished today. Next is the pre-stucco layer, then the stucco. My feeling is they won't have the stucco done before we settle on wed. The neighbors across the street moved in today and theirs is not done.

The walkthrough went surprisingly well. Last night we went to the house and walked through and wrote down everything we found, so we were pretty prepared today.

We met Shagnon (pronounced Shannon) at the house an hour early. We didn't work today and were there watching the stone go up... he came early, so we started early. Things got off to a rough start when I told him we were going to video tape the entire thing. I wanted to do this so we had a record of everything said in case things got nasty. He told us he didn't want to be videotaped... so we were like great, this guy is already shady. But things ended up working out and he at least let us record important things like where shut off valves were, where we put the stickers, etc.

Maybe I'll type up the full list tomorrow, but in general, the things we found were:

Marks on the wall, marks on the floor, dent in the garage door, cabinets needing to be adjusted, poor paint job on stair spindles, all outside doors repainted, chips in window sills, etc etc.

One thing brought up was the one hvac conduit in the basement that they had ran under a beam instead of over... the idea of moving that was shot down. Not a huge deal.

The next big thing was the oven cabinet. The one they tried to repair. We looked again at it last night and it was scratched up and still noticeable. So I told Shagnon today that we paid almost $1k for it and it still did not look right. He called Rufus (the project manager) right there and asked him to call the kitchen guys and see what they suggested. He called later today and left a message on the machine. They're going to rip out the cabinet, bring it to their shop and it sounds like replace the one damaged piece. Hopefully that will look ok when they're done.

The other concern we brought up was the backyard and the three foot drop off. He said it would be sloped when they did the final grading (probably not until spring). SO hopefully it will be... I may have to "help" the situation before then though.

We placed these stickies everywhere there was a problem to be fixed so that the workers would know where the problems were.

There were two accidents today about 20ft from eachother. The first one happened as we were finishing up the walkthrough, they were clearing it when we left. Someone in an SUV pulled in front of an old worktruck... I hope there wasn't a passenger in the SUV because the passenger side was completely missing.

The second accident happened when we were on our way back from dinner and we drove past the house to put up the "do not show" sign on the door (so other realtors don't show the house). We missed the accident by only a few minutes as only two cops were there directing traffic around it. We waited for the cop to signal us to turn, but before he could do that, a fire truck, rescue truck and another few cops showed up and blocked us in. We waited a good 15 mins while the rest of the rescue squad showed up and then pulled a quick 3point turn, turned around and went home a different way.