Delay...

I feel like that's all I know about this house.

Seeing how the final inspection has not happened yet and the fact that our mortgage lender needs two weeks from that time...we will NOT be moving in on the 12th as anticipated.

Needless to say, Dave and I are kinda frustrated at this point.  The end is in sight...we know that.  We just want this process to be done.  We just want to live in our own house.  We just want to live in Walpole. 

Some things have been finished in the past two weeks...

All the shutters are on now and we have front steps and a walkway.

They also poured a patio under the back deck.

The kitchen is 100% complete now with the missing cabinetry, cabinet legs and even under the counter lighting.

The master bathroom is finished...can't wait to take a shower here!

Things seemed to be going smoothly until I found this...

And this...

And this...

And this.

We had 3 leaking windows and a leak in the roof.  Wait...are we buying a new house or an old one?  So we have had the windows addressed and fixed and supposedly the roof was fixed but we are still finding water in the bucket that we put it up there.  It looks like it's coming from where the furnace is vented out.  Great.

Soooooo...here is the new and improved checklist that we need to get done before we can think about moving into this house:

- make sure the roof and windows are fixed
- patch up water stain marks on wall and ceiling
- paint entire house again with one more coat
- clean the house
- fill and grade the yard (the fill in the back and the planting of the shrubs will not be until the spring)
- put the final coat on the driveway
- put in all the floor and ceiling grates (which were half done last week and 2 out of the 6 were broken)
- install all the inside door hardware
- build the built-ins
- install the garage door openers
- get the two ac condensers delivered (we are opting to have my cousin install them)
- get final inspection 

I'm guessing it will be February 2013 before we move in at this point...  But as always...my fingers are crossed that it will be sooner.