FINALLY STARTING!!

This is a happy post because we have FINALLY started. 2 days after being issued our resource consent the foundation guys have been out and laid our floor. And it looks AWESOME!

So the moral of this Resource Consent story is: Get an Architect.
Because we bought plans designed for a flat section and tried to make them work on a sloped section that we were flattening, the Council wanted to make sure that the new flat section we had created was stable enough to support a house forever.
This delay has been quite expensive and it would have been more cheaper and less stressful to hire an Architect to design a house suitable for our section.

P.S. The resource consent has cost us an extra 1.5k because we had to pay $750 to get a geo-tech report done, etc etc. Not to mention the 4 month long wait for the Resource Consent, and the fact that we were waiting for the Engineer to provide the Council with the information they needed to give us the go-ahead.