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Okay, the last few weeks have been lacking in post.  Funny, It's just like the lack of work that's being done our house.  Needless to say it's been almost an entire month and we haven't seen hardly anything completed or even fixed for that matter on the house.  Phone calls have been giving us the run around with empty promises of how things are moving along.  What they fail to realize is i used to work in construction as an electrician.  So back on the 4th of april we met wit the superintendent of the job site.  Suprisingly he remains optimistic that the house will be completed in the first week of may.  Just like all the superintendent's i worked with back then, he has no idea what he's doing.  The house isn't going to be completed in the first week of may.  The drywall still isn't even onsite as of today.  I'm thinking we'll be lucky if the house is completed by the end of may at the earliest from my predictions.  I would definitely say we have become realists with everything in this house.  We realize that the house wouldn't be completed in six months like they said it would, nor will it be completed by the beginning of may like they said it would.  Also we've pretty much realized there is no way this house is going to appraise anywhere near what they are asking for it.  I'm expecting this house to appraise somewhere in the 140's range at best.  Nowhere near the 160's they are asking for it. Frankly i wish we lived in the same make believe world they are living in because who knows maybe money does grow on trees there.  So Plan B was started again.  After all we all need a fallback, right?  The good news is we have a potential fallback.  We have started potentially looking at preexisting houses once again.  We have a few on the grid that are potentials if the builder isn't willing to negoiate, which we don't think they will.  After all why would they want to lose money?  The biggest concern is that this same house is going for 30,000 cheaper about 45 minutes away from here.  Now i'm not a rocket scientist, but i know for a fact that the labor and building materials in these two areas isn't going to make up the difference of 30,000.  Yeah i will admit the cost of the lot may be a little cheaper there but nowhere 30,000 cheaper.  According to the everybody is building, since it will be complete by the first week of may, we should find out about the appraisal at the end of this month.  I guess time will tell.