It's been a little over a month since we signed our contract and we do not yet have a permit. This isn't suprising, I originally made a semi-educated guess of about 6 weeks before construction would begin. There's a *lot* of work that has to go into planning a house before construction can begin, plans have to be made and submitted to the city, utilities have to be re-located, etc... but there is very little tangible progress which can get discouraging if you let it.
But you have to remember that this is the calm before the storm. Once construction starts things will move pretty quickly and we'll have to be careful not to get left behind or worse, start making decisions in a panic that we will regret later.
In an attempt to prevent that from happening, we've definitely taken advantage of this "slow" time by doing a lot of research and making a lot of decisions about design and upgrade choices, so hopefully we'll know exactly what we want when it comes time to make those decisions and hopefully that will make the process go that much smoother and result in us having a house we're that much more happy with.
And from the discussions we've had with our realtor, it sounds like the wheels have been turning and we're getting pretty close to getting started. I'm excited for that phase, once the house starts going up and I can see the tangible progress and actually get in a walk around a bit, I think I'll start enjoying this a lot more.
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