Construction - Day 40

It's interesting to see the differences in building between the house we're in now and our new house. When we signed a contract to build our house in Maricopa, the builders were selling a house a day. We signed in July and we closed in March. It was getting to the point that the trade workers were hard to come by. Shortly after we bought, they were selling homes using a lottery system. Dozens of people were on waiting lists to buy a handful of houses.

Now they're averaging sales of about a house a week and finishing construction in 135 days per house. They have an overabundance of trades, and they're very anxious to get properties off of their hands. Never mind all of the forclosures and short sales out there... but I'm sure you're all more than aware of that.

Seems kind of early for them to be welcoming us to our home, but counting the days, it looks like we're almost a third of the way there.




It still cracks me up to see the chicken wire on the outside of the house.