Plans Plans Plans

I am notorious for planing. Justin hates how much I plan. I will be one of the people that plans my funeral in advance just so I know what goes on. It seems however that I must not convey my plans very well because Southland delivered butchered prelim plans to us on Monday. Oh my gosh it was terrible.

I was excited Monday afternoon to find out that the prelims were ready on the house. I knew there would have to be changes due to our crazy 2 bedroom requrirement, but that would only involve putting up some extra walls. The Southland office is not .25 miles from a Fatz Cafe. Justina and I headed there to review the plans and celebrate. Well, we got our glasses os Sweet Tea and opened the giant booklet of drawings. "Wow, thats the wrong shape," I said. Justin agreed. It was not the right shape at all. He responded with, "I kind of like it though." The garage door was all in the wrong place and everything was all skewed. We turned the page to see the drawing of the opposite side and saw the same problem - duh. The next page is where the real screw-ups began. The 1st floor had the stairs in the wrong spot and there was no bathroom. The next page, the loft, had a note saying that the bathroom could not be up there because there was not enough ceiling height.

I immediately called our guy at Southland. "Kevin," I said, "these plans are completely wrong. Can we meet this afternoon?" He was fortunately available to meet, so Justin and I left some dollars on the table for our waitress and bolted back to the Southland Office. Kevin was waiting for us and he agreed - "they screwed up."

So - we are pretty much back to square one. New prelim plans should be available on Monday at which time we will be rushing to approve them in order to get through underwriting for the financing and such. This has really thrown a wrench in the schedule. Evertything is contingent upon financing and financing is contingent upon the prelim plans. Every day we do not have prelims makes us one day further from getting approval. The # of days available to get the survey, building permits and the like are dwindling quickly.

The good thing is that Kevin is a really nice guy - I think he has our interests in mind. We will see how well the plans were conveyed to him once we get new prelims on Monday....