At last! The first Preliminary Draft (erstenVorentwurf) arrived

After almost seven (7) weeks of waiting, the first preliminary draft of our dream house arrived. It has been a long wait and we are happy to finally see it. Unfortunately, there are some mistakes that we directly saw on it. There are points that we talked with our Architect that is not showing on the draft or showing differently on the draft. Some windows are not right. To know that we are only allowed to do changes on the draft three times, it is frustrating that on the first time, we are only correcting the mistakes of what we already previously planned. But since we cannot do anything about it, we will just mention the mistakes and then add our new wishes. Hubby and I need to work on it this coming weekend anyway, so we can send it back as soon as possible. I hope that, it will not take another 7 weeks for the "second and hopefully final draft" to arrive.

Good news is we have this Preliminary Draft that we need to give to the bank for loan approval purposes. Sad news is, the interest rate is going straight up. It would be best if we had the Preliminary draft after three or four weeks (which the building contrator mentioned before) then, we might have the lowest interest rate for our bank loan.

Time wasted...

It is frustrating when you are just waiting for something for weeks and is still not arriving. Normally, ProHaus mentioned a time frame of three (3) weeks after our Architect schedule, to receive the official house plan. UNFORTUNATELY, six (6) weeks is already gone but we still did NOT receive our official house plan. I contacted the main office for several times already and all they can say is that, they received a lot of work, that ours is not yet done. There are a lot of negative effects on us because of this delay. One of it is that our financial loan is waiting for this official house plan, before they can approve it. Bad news? The interest rate for bank loan is rising. Another thing is, we only have until February 2014 for the fix price, and if they are going to treat us just like right now, I doubt that our dreamhouse will be build this year. I cannot wait until this "waiting time" will have an end.

For the time wasted, hubby and I was thinking of minor changes on the house plan. That means, another 6 weeks or even more, to wait after sending it back to them??? *Sigh* Positive energy please!!!

Sewer Rehabilitation and Sewer Connection

We met the Engineer-in-charge of the Sewer Rehabilitation from the City Hall @ 7:30am in the lot where we plan to build our dreamhouse.

This Sewer Rehabilitation was planned last year. Since they are doing one of the sewer which is located in the lot, we are taking advantage of the plan and requested for the sewer connection installation.

When we arrived this morning, the excavator vehicle is already there.

Bought the Land

Tonight, hubby and his parents talked with the Lawyer regarding the land where we will build our house. The land was originally owned by my in-laws. They are selling it to my husband for a special Price.