The Nature of Home Building (Delays)

I wanted to reiterate something about the nature of home building (or any kind of construction). I've touched on it a few times during the process of building our house, and we experienced these things since before excavation. I'm seeing this now with a friend who is building another earth-home (specifically a Terra-Dome) nearby.

I wont mention names, because I'm not sure he'd like that. I will say that this guy and his family paid a visit to us to look at our house and to ask a load of questions. They've bought property about 45 minutes away from us. They had planned to build and should've gotten started by now, but buying the property and getting easements has taken a lot longer than anticipated. This is the nature of buiding. There are delays that you can't count on.

Evidently, as best I understand it, the people developing the area where my friend is building, haven't created the easements yet, so they really can't get trucks in to do a lot of work yet. They had hoped to have this done so that the could start, but the delays are hampering progress.In addition, they were holding off on buying some equipment until after getting this stuff resolved, but were approaching a deadline of when the price would go up and there'd be finance changes. So they've ended up buying now and will be storing equipment off-site. What a mess! And it's all because of delays.
There will be delays due to inspections. For instance, you might have pipe or electric work in a wall, and you want to due drywalling next. The problem is, you can't until the work inside the wall has been inspected. If the inspector doesn't get to your site for a couple of days, well, you can't drywall for a couple of days and so you have to work on something else.

If you plan on building, plan on delays. There will be delays because of weather. There will be delays due to illness (your's, a family member, or a contractor). There will be delays due to a death in the family (a family member, a friend, or that of a contractor).There will be delays due to bureacratic red tape, depending upon where you intend to build. There are these easement delays.

There are delays due to poor planning. This poor planning could be your poor planning, or it could be poor planning on the part of a contractor. Either way, you're going to have to deal with it.

Most of the delays are things you can't control. Get used to it.