Ryan Homes' Hewitt's Landing site pictures: Back in the day

Earlier this week, we got an e-mail from our awesome SR stating that our PM would probably be contacting us soon since it appears that BGE lines were going in along our street. Only so that the next day, we got an e-mail saying she had spoken a little too soon, and that only the markers were down. However, the lines would be going in soon.

I had some time to kill yesterday, so I drove by the site and took some pics, simply because it as anyone who's building a house knows...it's HARD to not want to check on progress early and often! Even when the progress is, well, seeing other homes going up or seeing grass growing on other folks lots, and, seeing random markers staked in our lot. Thus I took random pictures, ranging from our street sign, to the neighboring lots, etc.,

I'll post them below because digital space is cheap, and I've got nothing else to do until we get the phone call saying "the road is in" or something along those lines. Besides, I think that one day I'll look back like "wow, the neighborhood used to look like this??!"

Anyway, I'm excited about being excited about one day having a road. And here's my way of expressing it.

It appears the development is getting one of those stone signs thingies! They always seem more regal

This is the street that leads into our development. These are the phase 1 homes. That one is Lot #2

This is a side pic of Lot 1. Shown there is the pond, which is hidden behind the trees

There's our intersection. Our lot is the one closest to the trees

Shown below are pics of our site. Which appears to be, well, the dump site...

Here's our future road!!!

Below here is a picture of the end of the phase 1 road. It terminates in a stub, and our back is to a conservatory. So bottomline is, we will have low traffic, despite being a corner lot. And our back is to the woods.

The end of the phase 1 development road

This is a pic of Lot 3--the existing home. See the barn peeking through?

This is facing lot 14. Which I think is the biggest lot. But not a very level grade

This is lot 4. They are across from us and sit besides the barn on lot 3. Look at that grass though...*drools*

This is a far away pic of lot 6 I believe. They also have an existing house. But that one will be removed

This may or may not be our well

We've Got a Road

After meeting with our straight shooter PM, who basically said that he's honestly, only been back to our part of the development maybe twice, because there's no road there yet, we were properly tempered. As in, OK, this guy's going to build us a quality home, once he actually gets the permit, which requires the road to be in, which also requires county approval I think. He said that the actual construction of the road won't take long, maybe a couple days, and that it could be any day now. That was stated on 8/8 at 8 AM Pre-con meeting. He also said that he'd let us know as soon as it went in, and when our house was staked out, so we could better visualize the property lines

Well, we drove by over the weekend, and there was a road!!! Actually, it was just grey cement? Maybe a base coat? I dunno...doesn't matter. My excitement abounds.

Me just thinking about what comes next!

Our SR called yesterday and requested some additional monies, that she said she thought she had collected already, and I docu-signed something or another. I'm going to call or text the PM this week and ask for a more official update. From his words, he stated that if they were able to break ground this week, we'd be done by mid-November--assuming no acts of nature, etc.,

While I don't think they'll break ground this week (I'm also no expert), since I think that what we saw was just step one of the road, and not the actual road. However, I'm hopeful that maybe they'll be able to begin by the end of the month, and we could plan on spending our first Christmas in the house? We shall see.

Permit to build a road: Let's speed this up

Busy weekend last weekend. What, with JUMPING OUT OF AN AIRPLANE and all...

So brave, I let the guy behind me borrow my parachute!

After that, the excitement of the weekend was all downhill. Ok, not really, because there was apparently flash flooding in our state (MD). Maybe not flash, but definitely flooding. Again, not where I lived, but not far from where we "were" considering buying a home and not far from my job either.

Not cool!

We were on our way to Philadelphia however, and didn't return back to town until all the dust had settled. Not too much, if any, house stuff occurred, except for some docusign stuff for home amendments (such as adding outlets and the floor to ceiling tiling).

I did get a phone call from our PM though, actually a voicemail, since I missed his call, once again apologizing for being unable to make our original pre-construction meeting Pre-Pre-Construction Meeting. The main thing that came of that message was his reiteration of the fact: We can't get a permit for your house until there's pavement back there.   

I'll hammer him with questions (see what I did there?) when we actually speak, specifically regarding the aforementioned road we need. Mainly, what's the hold-up? What is actually needed (i.e., survey's, or water table questions or greasing of palms or what???)

Interesting enough, I had tried to look into this (meaning, I googled our street name and the county) and came up with an interesting *.pdf, listing the discussion of our community being planned, as far as 10 years ago. And there was specific mention of concern regarding our lot and something referred to as "uncontrolled fill".

We have no idea what that means, other than context clues, but, it's a tad bit scary, in the sense that Ashley wants to ensure that we didn't build on hazardous wastelands that will give us the opposite of super powers. While I would like to ensure we aren't going to be living on some sort of pet cemetery remake for the foreseeable future.

Ashley's fear

Walt's fear

But on the bright side, we could actually gain super's right? I mean, wouldn't that be cool?

A lot of these guys got there start from uncontrolled fill I bet!

Editors Note. I came across this: What is Uncontrolled Fill?

Road Less Traveled

Is this what's going on in the county permit office?

Still no meeting with our PM. And certainly no groundbreaking news (bad pun) yet.  The reasoning for the latter is because Ryan Homes is still waiting on the road permit, in order to break ground on our portion of the phase.

Going to have to update and zoom in on this later. But we're waiting on Robert's Landing

No real updates or good news other then that. Oh, well, we did last minute decide to have the master bathroom shower tile run from floor to ceiling (an additional $420).  It seems like a nice touch, and it was my idea (yaay me!),  and one of the few design choices I thought of. So there's that.

Also, we're going sky diving this weekend. Random tidbit, but still true--weather permitting. Hopefully, I'll be around Monday to post an update on that!