Week 8 Construction Update

This week saw backfill rock around the foundation walls, both inside and outside. Ground works plumbing was completed as well. After waterproofing was finished, the City conducted the foundation inspection, which passed. The slab is now ready to be poured. Prior to pouring, the City conducts a slab inspection. The original plans show a drain in the garage floor, but after conferring with the construction manager, we decided to slope the garage towards the driveway as an effective but less costly way to address any water. Unfortunately, the City failed the slab inspection since the drain wasn’t present. So, the construction manager will red line the plans, have it re-inspected, and hopefully have the concrete truck out next week.

In other news, the house next door may have gone into foreclosure. A neighbor mentioned this, and then I found foreclosure announcements for the property in the 02/21/2018 and 070/4/2018 editions of Style Weekly. Though, there isn’t anything more recent that I found. I’ll have to monitor to see what happens. I do know that the tenants of the property moved out a few months ago. Just before that happened, the owner of the property called me to ask if either (1) I would be interested in buying his house or (2) I’d be interested in selling him my land so that he could combine it with his as a house and lot for sale. Obviously, I declined both offers.