Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Lots going on, very little to do with building a house

It's been a busy last couple months, very little of which is advancing our house toward completion.  There is still no hole... coming up on 4 months after we wanted to start.  Some back and forth with the electrical company trying to get a wire moved, we were delayed a week with some personal issues, and now the title company is giving us trouble about me being my own general contractor.

In all honesty, I'm starting to think that being your own GC just isn't worth it if you want to actually have a house.  The system is just not set up to work that way anymore.  It's frustrating at best, infuriating at worst.  It takes absolutely FOREVER to get anything going quickly.  Chasing down contractors by phone is just not feasible for my schedule, but contractors don't respond well to email so it really blows the timeline when you can't get in contact with people.

Bottom line, they need to fix the system so people can build houses and not regulate to the least responsible person out there.