The second lot is smaller, doesn’t have a stream but does look like it might perk. And the sellers (who are also the next door neighbors) don’t seem to be so difficult.
The challenging part has been finding a soil scientist and a surveyor! Both professions have had such an uptick in work that they can’t keep up. There are only a few soil scientists certified to work in the area, and most were unwilling to travel to the place we had picked out.
Justin was finally able to meet one on the Saturday before Easter. He gave us a nod to go ahead with the survey so we can be certain the house and septic system will fit on the lot.
Then I began calling surveyors, repeatedly. Almost none answered or replied to voicemail. Those I could reach would, again, not travel to our site.
I finally got one. He told me he could be out there in two weeks—great! I emailed him at two weeks, and got an out of office message. Well, everyone has emergencies. I check back the following week and hear, two weeks. And that happened every time I checked. In the mean time, our patient sellers have allowed us to continue the contract multiple times. Our realtor finds a different surveyor (one who hadn’t returned my messages previously), but with the introduction did! We fired Mr. Two Weeks. Mr. New Surveyor has been on the lot several days, so we are waiting for his final survey and the opportunity to send the soil scientist out one more time to analyze the soil in the quadrants laid out by the surveyor.
We joked it would be faster to get Justin certified than wait, but unfortunately there is more to it than sitting a certification exam.
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