Coaching Change: Approaching Pre-drywall and now new PM

I spoke with our (new!) project manager last week, and it would appear that we're in roughly the week 7-9 time frame of stuff Ryan Homes says to look forward to when building your home. This means it appears they just finished our Mechanicals and are prepared to wrap up our insulation and then begin drywall.

Quick note on the "new" PM, 3/4's of the way through our home construction..

I received a call last week from our PM (MC), a voicemail actually, since I wasn't near my phone. Where he explained that he had been reassigned to work some Ryan Homes site in PA, and that we would be receiving a call from our new PM (GM) in the next few days. Our previous PM explained that our new PM had in fact, been on site since around August 1st, and that he was a senior PM of sorts, having worked in that role for the past 17 years. After hearing about our new PM's extensive experience, and his having already been on site for quite some time, I was somewhat relieved. 

I did not interact with my previous GM a lot, but the interaction we did have, always, went as well as to be expected. From him ensuring that his first priority was quality, and him pointedly stating that his financial incentives are tied into our rating of him, to him not having an issue with us sending him pictures of suspect wood and basically asking "WTF?" All in all, I am somewhat disappointed to see our PM move on, and I have ZERO idea why the decision was made, but I strongly doubt it was because our PM (MC) was anything other than highly capable. More then likely, I'd suspect is has something to do with Ryan Homes pushing to finish up the remaining ~22ish home sites between now and the end of the year. And management wants someone more experienced with, well, efficiently cutting corners or something? 

Our new PM called and spoke with me for about 10 minutes last week, and we're scheduled for pre-drywall walkthrough this Wednesday! (time does fly...). We also, scheduled our pre-drywall inspection for this Friday, since the two don't need to go hand in hand.

Tangent #2:....pre-drywall inspection. I'll admit that this seems like a great idea. And I was and still am, all for it! But I'll also admit that, part of me wonders if it's a little overkillish. Mainly because Ryan Homes doesn't have to follow any of our inspectors advice. And, the cost of this service seems really $$$. That said, I am a believer in the notion of "you get what you pay for". And our inspector came highly recommended for work in our county. But still...

Progress wise, not too much was done since our last picture posting. We did however, meet some of our new neighbors this weekend, and also, we noticed that Ryan Homes was working on the weekend, with emphasis apparently being on finishing electrical and HVAC. We actually visited the house on Saturday and Sunday (YES, we were that anxious! lol). So we saw some of those components go up just over that day or so.

Final two random things. First, it's interesting that there "appears" to be one other Avalon in our neighborhood, although I think our SR was/is pushing for one more (as in, given the lot, that's what she or someone, from Ryan Homes wants to put on it, as it's the last empty lot)

The other Avalon. We'll call that one our little sister!

Last, does anyone else notice that Ryan Homes approach is definitely the opposite of "measure twice, cut once". There appear to be some many holes or off center or banged up, or whatever other misshapen things going on when we walk through our house and look at some of the other sites, that one would think they spend just as much time cleaning up and repairing, as they would if they had done it properly from the onset!

Just one example...but we have plenty of pics of holes and suspect beams

I'll just randomly slam the few pics we took in here. But there's one that's semi-disturbing, but we have zero proof that it should be. However, I'm pretty sure that one of the weekend workers, decided to take a "whizz", in our house, on the floor, rather than walking to the porta-potty located 50 feet away. That, I can actually understand, but what baffles me is, HE WAS RIGHT BY THE DOORWAY...he could have walked 2 steps, and just urinated out the door??? No, it wasn't a spill. And no, we did not go all Law and Order SVU on the crime scene...but still. It was fizzy, and there was no rain that day smh...

Literally, but the front door...