Pre-drywall Walkthrough

We met with "a" project manager for our pre-drywall walkthrough on 11/09/2016. I emphasize "a", not because it was a bad thing, but because it was a somewhat confusing thing. Well, from the outside looking in, until explained. As it turns out, and mentioned in a previous post, this home site will have had 3 project manager's influence on it. Maybe it was the size of the development (although I doubt it, as there's only around 25 homes?) or maybe because of the contractor delays and subsequent schedule slippage? I do not know. What I do know is that we met with Greg, who replaced Matt, but Greg isn't really our PM, he's working half of the remaining sites, and Sean, who's the PM for our house, is working the other half...

Pretty much sums it up

This guy gets it

Upon arrival though, we found Greg to be very straightforward and personable to an extent, as he explained that he's worked on over 30? or so Avalons, in the past, although only 1 in the past 6 or 7 years. He essentially said that they were a lot more common pre-housing bust, about 8 or so years ago. 

He gave us the projected closing date (12/28/2016)...but it sounded like that's the date that Ryan Homes would like ALL of the homes in the development to be closed by, as opposed to the actual date we'll close on. Basically, they'd like to pad their books for 2016, probably for bonuses, etc., 

Which obviously, is a little disconcerting!, but on the same hand, Matt had mentioned something similar in terms of the push to get the community finished, and both he and Greg, stated that their goal was to provide us sturdy, long-lasting and high quality homes!

There's not too much to tell or show after that. Greg pretty much walked us room to room and let us ask any question we could think of. From damaged wood to places where light shown to where would thermostats be (we'll have 3 on the top floor alone, including one for our either bathroom or closet?) One potentially good thing that came from the walkthrough is the possibility that the pipe that's the rough-in for our basement wet bar (future, wet bar, since between buying the house and paying for the wedding, we couldn't splurge on both...so the finished basement got pushed until we can afford it). So we'll see about that.

Other than that, he mentioned that Sean will probably (I'm not too impressed by his communication skills as of this moment) get in contact with us sooner then later. And that he'd like to begin drywall next week. As well as that our frequent "stop ins" will have to stop soon, once they start locking the doors or whatever. Which is fine, because between one of the PMs or our nearby sales rep, someone is usually on site or accessible.