Hang in there! I have a friend in the same waiting-hell situation for his garagominium. I think his project is pushing a 6 month delay. Your unit looks like it will be a great space. Good luck with the closing date.
Thanks thanks, naw no rush. It's a hobby private space, good thing it's not trying to open a business space and relying on the income. And honestly these are the **** that's happening to me these few days/within this week keeping me occupy from waiting on the Vaults.
So the last 2 posts where I was organizing home garage, and switched out truck's winter tires/rims to summer. Was on a one of those energy bursts trying to blow off some excitement steam.
So breaking murphy's law (i.e. if it ain't broken don't fix it)... brought the 2002 beater car to tinker with, general ****... found out there was a crack in the fuel rail. (ok, so maybe it was a good thing tinkering)... So now, without worrying about Vaults possession, been working on the beater car for a few days, ordering Ebay parts, calling recyclers (for a fuel rail), trying to be cheap and just ghetto rig and clean the injectors instead of even paying $20/pcs to those injector cleaning places (new would be $75 each @ 8)... Not gonna do **** much to a 300,000 km car
So kind of annoyed how small the house garage is (especially when you have a project/ non-movable car)... Ohhhhh this gets better....
And in a page-break before getting into my drama excitement of the week, for the past 1-2 weeks, I've already fully paid and took delivery of a new ammo press, just dying to try it out, and like well if the Vaults was ready within 1-2 weeks (at the time), I was just gonna wait till getting INTO the Vaults FIRST. Wellll, picture yourselves being 12 again, family goes out, you gain access to the older brother's ******* collection. So, yeah, I cracked it (ammo press) open, and had a great expert shooting buddy set it up for me in the living room, figure before Vaults possession, hitting some off season free time, could probably polish off a few cases. Keep mind off the Vaults (not a hell lot I can do, and might as well not piss the developer/trades off annoying them)
Ok, so the drama excitement part. I lied, I'm a pretty boring guy. This morning trying out the press after buddy set it up last night, I see the city's parking enforcement behind my truck. Usually my truck sleeps in the garage, but right now making room to work on the beater rebuild.
I'm like wtf these guys up to... Good thing I kept an eye,
passenger enforcement officer gets out walking towards the truck, I come out of the house, "hey you writing me a ticket?" They asked if it was my truck, etc... (so I'm thinking what ****** neighbours would call the city, where if you park on the street without moving over a 24 hour period, enforcement can slap a sticker for you to remove the vehicle or get towed, it was just a skip day I didn't drive the truck kinda thing)
Turns out my plates expired January, 2017... lol (our Province "State") stopped mailing license plate reminders this year. And I mostly drive the black beater anyways, so just completely didn't even realize. But what a nice cash cow concept, save paperwork sending out reminders (I'm just assuming someone prob pockets that savings), and law enforcements get to write all these forgotten renewal tickets now.
But the bylaw officers were extremely nice and understanding, they gave me a chance to pull the vehicle inside the garage around back right away; without finishing their ticket. (would be a $150 expired plate ticket)
Now legally and physically I can't drive neither vehicles, lol.... But good thing got a friend who owns a registry office (Canadian "DMV", it's privatized in our province; private businesses offering government regulated products)... So they personally dropped off my updated slips.
Tom: looks like things at the Vaults are moving along nicely and maybe by May you'll be able to move the stuff in your garage to there and start setting it up. also nice job pre thinking this possible move with the mobile racking at your house's garage.
have you met all of your neighbors maybe at a pre ownership meeting or are you just meeting a few of them onsite where they are talking to contractors and taking pictures of their units?
good luck and keep the pictures coming cause looks great from where i'm sitting.
Thanks for the compliment (pre planning mobile racks, totally padding myself on the back for that, those were $400 each, when you include the $50/pcs 800lbs rated casters)
On yesterday's visit, there was a 3rd party safety inspector audit (so everyone was in hardhats and bright vests), I saw from a distance (sign in trailer), of a unit owner being scissor platform lifted to see something on the exterior walls of their unit.
The visit before that, met a husband/wife in the sign in trailer... We joked about calling ourselves by unit numbers. I think owners would be from all walks of life, so it'll just be like living in a condo/apartment, but in the warehouse environment. I've learned from my last commercial business warehouse however, it's just people relations. There'll be trouble makers, assclowns (OR, they think I'm one), one unit owner thinks and talks he/she as if they owned the entire complex/bossy, some wants to be left alone, some sincere and just curious kinda nosy, etc... So in answer to that, I'm just gonna let it naturally flow.
Ok, ending this post, to put a smile on you guys... As I was compiling this post, my realtor just forwarded the developer's "official" possession notice for me to sign return (but, it started from Oct 31, 2016... to early March, to end of March... ok, forth time's a chime lol)... It's been exciting, developer is again, extremely pleasant to work with and like I said they're trying to satisfy every unit owner's ideas and helping us setup our rough-in's. (maybe later phases will just get a turnkey and have to reno on their own)
