Today we signed the rather large stack of papers (bureaucracy) destined for the local authorities here to get our permission to build. The German word for bureaucracy is great "Papierkrieg" literally "paper war." Apparantly we were waiting on the "measurer" to finish off the plans showing the exact fit of the house on the land. I guess he is like a civil engineer. The architect finished up the stack and sent it to guy at Streif. We met at the modular home village in Wuppertal where we also signed a correction to the contract so we could have pipes and power in the basement as well and also get credits for our change in floor plan and windows. It was more, of course. Andrea will mail the packets on Monday. Theoretically this take up to four weeks.
Meanwhile back at the lots the houses are going up like crazy. Its just us and one neighbor who hasn't seemed to start yet on our little piece of street. One of our neighbors should be able to move in next month!
A funny side note. We had to choose colors for the building permit (I think we can still change our mind). We chose yellow on the bottom and white for the wood part on the top half. Strangely enough there is already two house on the same street that are yellow on the top and white on the bottom!! Maybe we will pick another color. I guess its popular. Anyway, I suspect slow news for the next couple of weeks but stay tuned.
Maybe I will remember to bring my camera to the building site a grap a couple snaps of the area as its changing.
