Permits Are In

Permits came in on 09/25/07. Only a week and a half later than expected. Thanks to our general (Ken) being on top of the engineering, he caught a problem with the flooring and resolved it before the plans were kicked back out. We were very thankful we didn't have to start over with it.

With all of the extra engineering that went into this house, our house in indestructible.

Bring on the Hurricanes, Heavy Snow, Tsunami's, & Tornado's; but not the Bill to pay for all the extra Lumber and Concrete.

Bringing In the Big Gun's

Rocks, Rocks, & More Rocks

The Excavator had to dig the utility lines 430 feet to the homesite,

this was what he say 3/4 of the way.

The Home Site will have 6 steps in the foundation,
you can see them if you look close.

First Look!

View of Powell Butte area from what will be the Master bed/bath windows.

View of Redmond from what will be the Great Room and Dining room windows.

View of Smith Rock from what will be the office and great room windows. This is on a hazy day so you can barely see smith rock in the background.

We will be building a second story great room above the garage. This will provide views of Bend from Kelly’s craft room and the Bonus room. These pictures do not do the views justice at this time as the floor level will be higher than we are right now.
Still waiting for permits to come in. Excavator is laying conduit today and finishing prep for the homesite so the concrete workers can get up there and start setting forms. Hopefully posts will be more frequent after the excavation is done. Things don’t appear much different day to day at this point because they have had to hammer so much rock.
Thanks to all the blogstalkers for checking in regularly, we will try to keep up with demand...

Highly Deserved Pizza & Beer...

After....

5 years of searching,

4 months of financing

3 mortgage lenders

2 much frustration

and 1 piece of land later....






Pizza and Beer on "our" little piece of dirt. (Priceless)



We couldn't have picked a worse month to close on a construction loan. We started with West Cost Bank, they pulled there LTV Construction loans a week before we were ready to close. The second loan company called the day we were to sign closing docs, and said they were pulling out of construction loans all together due to the number of Loan Companies going out of business. Its hard to believe a loan company can commit to funds then back out at anytime. Finally we locked in, signed docs, and funded with an Oregon based bank before the mortgage market got any tighter with construction loans.