March Update

Not too much happening. After a 2-3 week period when it seemed like our current house vanished from the market - showings and activity has picked up again. Once again we have a showing this week where the agent says its the best unti they have seen in a long time, that we are in the clients top 3. But its all a waiting game. We have another showing on Saturday and then we will take a crack at an open house on Sunday (we will see what happens - not a true believer that an open house sells homes - but it can never hurt).

Still finalizing plans for the new home - floorplan is still the same - just doing some checks on the room dimensions - trying to replicate them in the real world to make sure they feel right. Only change that may happen is a bay bump out in the breakfast area. Other than that, I may finally be content that its the best we can do - given if you change one thing - it impacts another.

Have a call into a civil engineer to survey and do their work on the site. Have fear that one of the 100 year old trees flanking the lot line may need to come down - but we shall see. Hate to see that happen as the tree is GINORMOUS and I am sure a couple grand to take down. Plus it provides such a great feel to the yard. Luckily, there are 3 others that should be OK.

Meeting with our consultants on Friday to tighten up the specs/budget and after that, its finalzing the floorplan with the architect and then starting the joyous permit and teardown approval process with the city of Naperville. Having meet with the staff at city hall once already (all wonderful and very nice)- it can be rather intimidating - given they told me not many people attempt to do what we are doing - most hire a full blown (expensive and over priced) custom builder. Bu

We shall see - you dont get anywhere in life without taking some calculated risks....right??