Construction Begins
I am planning on posting a few pics during the process of the new home construction. So far there isn't that much to show you. There is a silt fence that lines the property where the home is going to be built, and the construction driveway is in. Additionally I have a bunch of large boulders that surround the property and I have moved a number of them for the construction trucks and equipment to have access.
The process has been very slow. I ended up having to move the house after a verbal ok was given by the city to proceed where I originally had planned to put it. It seems one of my new/future neighbors complained to the city that "my home was going to over shadow there’s" and therefore had to be moved.
It is true; my first floor will look into the second story of there home. I am building on a bit of a hill, and there home sits the lowest in the Ryan home development that they are in. However that gives them no right to have my home moved. I had conformed to all the zoning rules and regs, and had been given the ok. What they did was call everyone in the building department and cried to anyone who would listen. Finally some one in engineering said that my home would cause too much water to fall into there back yard and my home that I have been planning would have to be moved. This ultimately would cost me over $1600.00 in fees and new topology maps. Needless to say I am not very thrilled with the neighbor right now.
Because of the move of my home, I am going to be less than 45 feet off the corner of my home to the street. This is ultimately what I was trying to avoid.
So far K. Hovnanian homes has been ok to work with. Our construction manager is out of the Youngstown office alone with our job foreman. They have been great to deal with.
Our sales person who originally sold us the home out of the Medina office on using them has left the company and we were not treated very well by the company mortgage group after the women who we were dealing with was let go for some reason. The problem is that there seemed to be no record of our 6.5 percent mortgage agreement that we signed. After the mortgage lady was let go they said the best they would be able to do was 6.75 percent. I told them we had signed for the lower rate and they said that they could find no record of it. Needless to say I was not very happy with KHOV Mortgage but was already to far down the road to argue my case. Naturally due to us moving our paperwork had gotten lost that would have proven we had the lower rate.
The process has been very slow. I ended up having to move the house after a verbal ok was given by the city to proceed where I originally had planned to put it. It seems one of my new/future neighbors complained to the city that "my home was going to over shadow there’s" and therefore had to be moved.
It is true; my first floor will look into the second story of there home. I am building on a bit of a hill, and there home sits the lowest in the Ryan home development that they are in. However that gives them no right to have my home moved. I had conformed to all the zoning rules and regs, and had been given the ok. What they did was call everyone in the building department and cried to anyone who would listen. Finally some one in engineering said that my home would cause too much water to fall into there back yard and my home that I have been planning would have to be moved. This ultimately would cost me over $1600.00 in fees and new topology maps. Needless to say I am not very thrilled with the neighbor right now.
Because of the move of my home, I am going to be less than 45 feet off the corner of my home to the street. This is ultimately what I was trying to avoid.
So far K. Hovnanian homes has been ok to work with. Our construction manager is out of the Youngstown office alone with our job foreman. They have been great to deal with.
Our sales person who originally sold us the home out of the Medina office on using them has left the company and we were not treated very well by the company mortgage group after the women who we were dealing with was let go for some reason. The problem is that there seemed to be no record of our 6.5 percent mortgage agreement that we signed. After the mortgage lady was let go they said the best they would be able to do was 6.75 percent. I told them we had signed for the lower rate and they said that they could find no record of it. Needless to say I was not very happy with KHOV Mortgage but was already to far down the road to argue my case. Naturally due to us moving our paperwork had gotten lost that would have proven we had the lower rate.
posted by DR. NOODLES at 1:54 PM
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