So we've been working our asses off in this crazy heat lately to get all of the construction stuff out of the garage and get it cleaned up so that we can actually get our belongings back from ServPro. Plan was to get our stuff, go through it all, sell the stuff we don't need and/or give stuff to goodwill & get the hell outta Dodge. Meanwhile, finishing touches were being made to get the last doors & windows in, making the exterior of the house completely secure so that we can finally get the rough-in inspection. Things are looking up right? Of COURSE they don't ever play out that way for us! lol Two things happened today that are making us want to run for the hills:
- We called ServPro to arrange for a time to get our stuff delivered. Thinking it will probably take a week tops. I mean, our stuff has been sitting there for almost a year & a half, right? Nope. Six weeks. Six weeks!! They need time for processing. What the hell does that even mean?! What have they been doing with our belongings for all of that time in the first place!? Meanwhile, we're getting emails from our oh-so-very-wonderful insurance agent (can you feel the dripping sarcasm?) that we have thirty more days for them to inspect our damaged property or they won't pay us for any of it. But ServPro won't release our stuff to us for 45! Not to mention, ServPro is telling said insurance agent that none of our stuff is damaged. At all. WHAT!? We have photos to prove how gawd-awfully damaged many items were before they even took them! And let's not forget, we want to get moved to Vermont like, yesterday if possible so we can get settled somewhere around the time that school starts. How in the hell are we supposed to do that without our belongings? GAHHH!!
- Oh wait. There's more! We finally got that inspection today. Structural rough-in inspection so that we can proceed with putting up the insulation & drywall and, you know, live there someday. Does it pass? Of course not! Is it because it's incorrect or unsafe? Nope. It's because they used the wrong piece of wood here, & metal instead of wood there, or the plans don't match exactly what you did here, blah blah blah. Are you kidding me? This bureaucratic bull**** is just beyond me. So our choices are to rip a whole bunch of stuff out & redo it exactly as the plans dictate (so not happening), or get ahold of the damn architecht again and have him inspect what's done to ensure that it's sound, write up a new report that will again take two months for him to actually complete plus a measly thousand or two dollars that we do. not. have. Either way, we can do nothing more to this god-forsaken house until that is all settled.
So now our choices have shifted a little. Either I get that job in NH & we move immediately & rent a house in VT, or we absolutely have to rent a place here for God knows how long. We can't keep doing this hotel thing anymore & we now know for sure that it'll be at least two months until we can go back to that house. Matt's more optimistic, but hell, he thought we'd be home by Christmas. Let's be real here. I have no idea what the hell we're gunna do!!
BUT.......... in two more days we're going on a very nice, very long vacation. NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE deserves a vacation from life more than we do right now! lol We're going to see some family in St. Louis, hang at the beach in South Carolina, spend a day or two checking out DC, then it's a week in VT. All pretending Kansas does NOT exist! :) And PS, while I'm up there, I have an official interview with Dartmouth on my birthday! I guess we'll just let that decide where life will take us. Ugh. I'm ready for life to be boring again! ;)
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