Call from Ty

Well, received a follow up call from Ty, it appears that LH paid him what he was due and all is well in the universe...

After the previous experiences he had with Steve, he was quite surprised by the apparent change in demeanor. Ty said that he gave Steve some invoices he asked for, and then asked for his payment. Steve asked Mel if they could write him a check, Mel said yes, and they wrote him a check.

So I guess the moral of the story is be sure to catch Steve when he has money... So I hope he has money when we go to closing.

Call from Ty (1/28)

Received a call from Ty today, he wanted to tell me that he was going to talk to Steve about the money owed him. He also said that he had been invited to a meeting with LH and there subcontractors to discuss there future. Actually, it sounds like LH is going to be sticking around from what I have heard. Or course we will see how long it takes for them to pay Ty and Joanne.

It is actually quite ironic, because when we first met up with LH they were very insistent that we pay them up front, because they had a policy of paying their subs ASAP. Now they have this 2 week delay.

Ty also mentioned that he thinks the rails on the porch don't meet code (they are too far apart). Also that the ceiling over the staircase is too low to meet code... I don't know, the building inspector didn't say anything, so I am not going to worry about it. I think he wanted me to use it as leverage to get LH to pay him so...

Bills from Joanne (cont.)

Well, I called and talked with Joanne this morning. She said that LH had paid her for some of her work, but then instructed her to bill us directly. I replied that we had already paid that in the last draw request. She indicated that that is was news to her, so I asked if she wanted to call them and straighten it out. She thought it would be better for me to call...

So I then called Mel, got his voice mail, but received a call from him about 20 minutes later. I told him the situation and he referenced the overage agreement and realized his mistake. Apologized and said that he would pay her, but he did not recall getting a check from the title company for it, so he was going to check on that first.

I think the title company made the check out to LH, which was then deposited and forgotten about... But in any event it was actually a positive outcome I think. I asked if they were still planing on using it in the parade and he said yes, nothing has changed yet. Maybe it will all turn out as planned.

Bills from Joanne

We received a bill in the main from Joanne, stating that we owe her $260 for bath supplies and materials. And that she was instructed by Lighthouse to bill us directly...

This is very interesting since at the meeting this was one of the items that we specifically paid for, and a check was written by the bank to pay this. Now we could assume that LH is confused and this was actually done in good faith, but at this point I am starting to think that it is going to get messy going forward.

I just looked at the draw 7 request and it looks like the check for the bath materials was actually made out to LH, so that is unfortunate. It is really quite sad, when you hear from people about the problems that they have had with builders and all the legal safe guards that are put into documents, ect. I thought that is ridiculous how could a business person act that way, but I guess this is the experience that causes all the safeguards to be put in place...

Meet with Ty (part 2)

Ty was telling us that he met with Lighthouse and presented them with an invoice for additional work that he had performed at Steve's direction. The first time that he presented them with that, Steve got mad and yelled and cursed at Ty. Can't say exactly about what or how that went down. Ty said is wasn't pleasant. Ty agreed to adjust the figures (as he put it, screwing himself), and presented them with an adjusted invoice (going from 1 thousand something to around 800). Apparently Lighthouse is going to try to recoup the cost from Sterling (some of it, some of the work was fixing problems with the windows). Lighthouse agreed to pay Ty, so he asked when he could get a check and they new policy at LH is to pay the contractors 2 weeks after the work is performed... So needless to say Ty is nervous about getting paid and just wanted to keep us in the loop. He also mentioned that we could pay him, then deduct that from what we pay LH. Unfortunately, we don't owe them anymore money, and they owe us One other interesting bit of new from Ty is that LH moved their office. Apparently, they are now shacked up with Rob at the Keller Williams office... That is very concerning. And disappointing, they had such nice plans for setting up a showroom, ect at their old offices.

Meet with Ty

Ty gave us a call and asked us to meet with him so he could check out the house and discuss some other issues. We all concur that the painters aren't doing such a good job, they didn't sand enough, so there are rough patches on the trim where the saw at the mill scoured it.

We found a cigarette butt on the floor, that was classy. Ty is such an interesting guy, he was telling us about the time he spent working on Hollywood sets and he would travel all over for that. He told us some other stuff as well, that is probably going to be affecting us in the coming weeks. I am planning on writing drafts of posts and then posting them after this is all over, so stay tuned...

Cleaning at work

I was cleaning out my desk at work today and wanted to recycle the old alliance statements, but I thought I would post the amounts for posterity:

9/18/08 - 114,859.25 -- 659.89
10/18/08 - 272,077.99 -- 1372.85
11/18/08 - 368,605.73 -- 2023.68
12/18/08 - 400,743.33 -- 2283.89
1/18/09 - 464,970.06 -- 2711.19

So again I will grumble about the delay...