service = :(

We have been in our home almost 13 months and I am still fighting to get my 10 month repairs finished up.

The cabinet people came in last week and verified that yes, our cabinets are separating and they have authorized 2 new cabinets and will be rehanging one that is not quite level with the rest.  They are also ordering a few back panels on the back of the island where someone scratched it and then tried to touch it up with paint...  um yeah.

On another note, the PM who is arranging all these repairs gets a thumbs down.  If you remember, I had to fight with him over our squeaky stairs, our half dead tree...and now I have been trying to get him to fix a sunken seam at the top of the stairs/loft where you can feel that the floor sinks.  It has been THREE MONTHS.

He keeps saying Rite Rug will be calling, they never do.  I will give him over a week before bugging him again and then he says he will check on it, then I never hear back.

The last email from him told ME to contact Rite Rug corporate.  Well I called that number that I found on google because he didn't give me the decency to give me the number, and sure enough no one there was able to help me because my home is thru Ryan and they transferred me to some random extension where I left a message 6 days ago with no reply.

This is annoying!

So I submit a service request on Ryan's website for the same issue, which now my PM is going to contact me again and here I go back in the circle of waiting on him.

So the moral of the story is, while the house is in progress, THAT PM is awesome.  And he's awesome past the point of you buying the house while he still has you under his warranty (aka his survey!!).  But once we flipped from him to the regional guy....it has been a completely different and frustrating experience and I am READY to get my repairs finished and call it a day with him.

Fence stain

Well we got away for about a year without having to stain our fence but I knew our time was coming :)

We got a letter from the HOA asking us to stain it within 30 days and that was abiut 25 days ago lol.  My hubs was out of town so he got back yesterday and off we went to get the stain.

We bought a sprayer a few months back (remember the bathroom fiasco) and a 5 gal bucket of SW Belvedere Tan mixed at Lowe's.   So far we got the front done and it only took 10 min or so thanks to that sprayer!

I love it and think it looks great.  I am sure our neighbor will be getting a note soon too :)

Master bedroom again

So we had to make a few more adjustments in our bedroom.  If there is one complaint I have about the florence, its that the walls don't line up where they need to be in important spaces.  Our living room has the TV off center due to the small wall across from the couch and in our bedroom the wall across from our bed is not centered due to the closet.  After enjoying our suite for a few nights I would find my husband on my side of the bed first because it was straight on the TV and he didnt like having to turn his head apparently lol.  So we did what I thought I would never do and we pushed over the bed so it was no longer centered.   Doing this put my nightstand on the window.  However, we loved it and my husband no joke was doing pirouettes on between his side and the wall because he had so much room!  What was great is it made our sitting area smaller which we never use anyway and we were able to move the table we had into our guest bedroom as a nightstand.   We also put a little shelf we had right outside the bathroom for some extra towels since we have no linen closet in our dinky bathroom.  Love it!

Including pics of the guest and living room.   I just love my living room, makes me happy! Oh and we put the mirror back in the guest room that we had tried in the powder room, because it was a square it just wasn't big enough for my son to see himself while brushing his teeth.  I replaced it with this one from ross for $14!

10 month stuff...still

So, 10 days ago we had our 1 year anniversary of buying our home!!  Hard to believe it's already been a year, and it's been one of the best years.  We just love our home, we LOVE our neighborhood and we have the best neighbors.  Really blessed to be where we are at.

Remember those gaps in my cabinets?  Well the tech that came out, said they needed to be replaced and would have to go up the chain to make that happen.  Here we are 1.5 months later and I'm just now getting a call that a supervisor is going to come out and look at them.  Next Tuesday they will come and see all the beautiful gaps that are visible from a mile away on my gorgeous cream cabinets, that by the way were the MOST expensive option so yeah...they are going to make them right.

We are still waiting to find out when the carpet people are coming, we have a few spots that feel like they have sunk, and a few floor creaks still.  Right at the top of the loft you can feel where the floor seam dips, not sure how they are going to fix that, but I will tell you I am tired of my house settling and am ready for it to stop.  Never could have guessed how annoying that would be.

We still have not started our deck but are hoping to over Labor Day weekend...


Stay tuned!