a new day

Along with a new look, I'm looking at a new day.

The Project Manager "managing" (ha ha) our house build came over yesterday to chat. We went through the current progress payment, deductions and variations and made some real progress.

We don't ever want to see the Builder again. In fact, my opinion of him couldn't be lower. He has gone out of his way to deceive and scam money out of a fixed price contract, deliberately left vital information out of the contract, denied ever having a contract, denied having to bring the house to completion, and dragged this build out 5 months over schedule. To say we're keen to be rid of him would be an understatement.

I'm not naive enough to think that everything is fixed - in fact far from it. Nor do I underestimate that the Project Manager is just pretending to be helpful in the hope that we retract our Notice of Default. We'll just wait and see what happens over the next week or 2 and go from there.

In a few days we'll having a Building Inspector complete a defect list, then it will be up to the Project Manager to tick everything off prior to the final progress payment and handover. The Project Manager foresees 4 days of "fixing". If it's taken this long to get our house built, we conservatively guess a few more weeks...though we'd love to be surprised...it is a new day after all.