Building Permit (Baugenehmigung)

Early morning at 6:32am we received bad news from City Hall's Engineers Office, Herr W. The message is: based on the law under the building permit application paragraph 56... if we did not receive any letter from the City Hall from the time we sent the application until a month is over, we can start to build. If we based it on the day we changed the application form, that means, we need to move the scheduled dates of building (for example the scheduled building of the basement next week).

For recap, we applied for the building permit last July. ProHaus Architect's Office prepared a wrong application form. Engineer from the Regional Office, Herr S, (who's in-charge of building permits in the area), was on vacation leave during the time our application arrived on their deparment. We waited for three weeks before we learned that we should have applied for building permit under paragraph 56 of HBO. A lot of time wasted *sigh*

We changed the application form to building permit under paragraph 56 last August 26. We completed the attached documents (papers that we sent to Engineer's Regional Office and was returned to us), last August 28.

It is very frustrating to encounter such situation. We just lost time bcoz of nothing. And to think... when building a house, time is not only gold, but it is also costing money :(

Update: Hubby went to the City Hall before directly driving to office just to fix this issue. Good that he did that. Now we learned that it is ok to continue. From City Hall's Engineer's Office, there is no problem about the application.

WIBank Loan Approval Arrived

Today the documents of WIBank loan approval arrived. We have been waiting for this since Tuesday, because they said they already sent it out last Monday. Unfortunately, it took a while until it reached us. It is already weekend, all we can do is to wait until the next working days for all our questions.

Another important document that we are still waiting is the Building Permit (Baugenehmigung). Our basement is scheduled to arrive in two-weeks and we still did not receive any response or letter from the City Hall. I hope next week will be more productive than this week.

We already applied for the on-site electricity (Baustromanschluss). I hope it will not be too late until it is assembled on the building plot.

We also heard from our earthwork company (Erdarbeiten) and the schedule of digging the building plot is this coming Wednesday. I hope the weather will cooperate. When we checked the weather report for next week, it says... RAIN is on its way.. I hope not. I am excited for this one. I guess, we will find a lot of big rocks under the ground. I just hope that the backhoe (bagger) is good enough for the job. And it will not costs us a lot.

Building Application

Today we received our building application filled-out by the Architect / CAD of Prohaus. We checked if all the informations were correct, including the house plan and then we signed it.

In the afternoon, we sent out the Building Application to the City's Construction Office, as well as the documents intended for the City Engineer's Office. Unfortunately, the person-in-charge for processing the Building Application is on vacation. He will be back after 14-days. That means our paper will be sleeping for 2 weeks... *sigh*

The head of the Engineer's Office is also on vacation, and will be back on the 29th. Whew! All we can do is wait wait wait.