This is why I hate life...
I just want to know why NOTHING ever works out for me the way it's supposed to. I don't think it's too much to ask to have something happen the way it's been laid out initially. But no, instead I must be tortured by things always falling apart or unexpected "surprises"...which is mostly why I hate surprises, lol.
Here's the deal...
Alex and I as most know are purchasing a brand new townhouse through Eastforest Homes. As outlined in our agreement there were some upgrades we couldn't change due to the permit sent to the city because the foundation was already poured, which is fine. These upgrades were for the most part things that we wanted...
Now, on Thursday at 8:00AM we had our appointment at the Eastforest gallery to choose our colours for our house! Most excellent and most exciting right? Wrong! We get there and our told that we only need to choose our appliances. Excuse me? What? No, we have to choose everything...what are you talking about? So, we find out that everything is chosen for us already, and it was in fact chosen BEFORE we had signed any of the papers. For some reason, this was not clearly outlined in anything we signed, in fact, it wasn't outlined at all. Even the representative we had the appointment with couldn't find it at all!!! So after hours and hours of our time, money spent on gas traveling way out to Huron to see the model homes and get ideas, and 4 painstaking visits as well as immense stress (ask my co-workers, lol, I made myself ill) we finally had what we wanted all picked out. We were absolutely in love with what we chose and the only thing we were iffy on was the paint colour and the carpet colour. No we're stuck with something that I personally dislike greatly and I will want to completely redo the entire counter top in the kitchen AND bathroom, as well as either redoing the cupboards or at the very least sanding the shit out of them and staining them a much lighter colour.
We were only able to do less than half the upgrades we had wanted initially, which is nice for our mortgage, but now we have to spend out-of-pocket money to fix things. We wanted stainless steel handles for all the doors which would have cost us only $150 for all the handles AND hinges and after pricing it out will probably cost us double just to do the handles alone, if not more than that, and then we'll have brass hinges still...*sigh* We now have to do all of the painting ourself so there is more money we don't have on hand to spend. I want to redo the cabinet handles as well as I think they are hideous also, so who knows how much that will cost us also. It's all just a huge freaking mess as far as I'm concerned. The worst part is, everything is ALREADY installed, so I can't even make a big fuss about it and tell them to reorder our stuff to our liking. They're not about to rip everything out and redo it now are they? I think they'd rather try and resell the house to someone else.
So for the inconvenience, all we get out of it is a free over-the-range microwave that we have to install OURSELVES, won't have a dedicated line so won't be up to code, and will overhang from the cupboards, which again will make it not up to code since it needs to be 22" above the stove itself. It's effing ridiculous and I'm absolutely furious about it. They're damn lucky I'm not like a lot of people who would blow up in someone's face about this...I just sit back and deal with it. And maybe I shouldn't, but what more can I do? I think they should take money off of the house to be honest. It's just so stupid.
Alex thinks I should just live with it and not worry about it because if we had purchased a resale home we would have had no choice in what we wanted. BUT, I would have never chosen to purchase a home in which I hated the way it looked now would I? So we're paying over $200,000 for a BRAND new town home in which we have no choice of anything, I won't be happy with it, and now we have to spend MORE money to fix it up to be the way we want it. I could have purchased a resale for about $20,000 less and then used that money to fix it up the way I wanted it.
I'm just plain infuriated and Alex not caring upsets me even more. Am I just being a "girl" about this, because I don't think that I am. This is a BIG purchase...we're not buying a pair of jeans we're not completely satisfied with and we can return. This is a long-term commitment. I plan on living here a LONG time, and if I have to just live with something that I don't like...I don't think it's fair at all! GRRR!
Anyone have an opinion on this. I'm open to whatever you have to say on the matter. Does anyone think I should bother to make a fuss about this when really there isn't much they can do about it?
Here's the deal...
Alex and I as most know are purchasing a brand new townhouse through Eastforest Homes. As outlined in our agreement there were some upgrades we couldn't change due to the permit sent to the city because the foundation was already poured, which is fine. These upgrades were for the most part things that we wanted...
Now, on Thursday at 8:00AM we had our appointment at the Eastforest gallery to choose our colours for our house! Most excellent and most exciting right? Wrong! We get there and our told that we only need to choose our appliances. Excuse me? What? No, we have to choose everything...what are you talking about? So, we find out that everything is chosen for us already, and it was in fact chosen BEFORE we had signed any of the papers. For some reason, this was not clearly outlined in anything we signed, in fact, it wasn't outlined at all. Even the representative we had the appointment with couldn't find it at all!!! So after hours and hours of our time, money spent on gas traveling way out to Huron to see the model homes and get ideas, and 4 painstaking visits as well as immense stress (ask my co-workers, lol, I made myself ill) we finally had what we wanted all picked out. We were absolutely in love with what we chose and the only thing we were iffy on was the paint colour and the carpet colour. No we're stuck with something that I personally dislike greatly and I will want to completely redo the entire counter top in the kitchen AND bathroom, as well as either redoing the cupboards or at the very least sanding the shit out of them and staining them a much lighter colour.
We were only able to do less than half the upgrades we had wanted initially, which is nice for our mortgage, but now we have to spend out-of-pocket money to fix things. We wanted stainless steel handles for all the doors which would have cost us only $150 for all the handles AND hinges and after pricing it out will probably cost us double just to do the handles alone, if not more than that, and then we'll have brass hinges still...*sigh* We now have to do all of the painting ourself so there is more money we don't have on hand to spend. I want to redo the cabinet handles as well as I think they are hideous also, so who knows how much that will cost us also. It's all just a huge freaking mess as far as I'm concerned. The worst part is, everything is ALREADY installed, so I can't even make a big fuss about it and tell them to reorder our stuff to our liking. They're not about to rip everything out and redo it now are they? I think they'd rather try and resell the house to someone else.
So for the inconvenience, all we get out of it is a free over-the-range microwave that we have to install OURSELVES, won't have a dedicated line so won't be up to code, and will overhang from the cupboards, which again will make it not up to code since it needs to be 22" above the stove itself. It's effing ridiculous and I'm absolutely furious about it. They're damn lucky I'm not like a lot of people who would blow up in someone's face about this...I just sit back and deal with it. And maybe I shouldn't, but what more can I do? I think they should take money off of the house to be honest. It's just so stupid.
Alex thinks I should just live with it and not worry about it because if we had purchased a resale home we would have had no choice in what we wanted. BUT, I would have never chosen to purchase a home in which I hated the way it looked now would I? So we're paying over $200,000 for a BRAND new town home in which we have no choice of anything, I won't be happy with it, and now we have to spend MORE money to fix it up to be the way we want it. I could have purchased a resale for about $20,000 less and then used that money to fix it up the way I wanted it.
I'm just plain infuriated and Alex not caring upsets me even more. Am I just being a "girl" about this, because I don't think that I am. This is a BIG purchase...we're not buying a pair of jeans we're not completely satisfied with and we can return. This is a long-term commitment. I plan on living here a LONG time, and if I have to just live with something that I don't like...I don't think it's fair at all! GRRR!
Anyone have an opinion on this. I'm open to whatever you have to say on the matter. Does anyone think I should bother to make a fuss about this when really there isn't much they can do about it?
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