First Post

Hello everyone. This blog will follow the homebuilding journey of a custom home in Houston, TX. My wife and I have been in the planning stages of this house for 2 1/2 years.

Currently we are attempting to re-plat a 15 acre tract of land owned by my parents to extract a 2.45 acre tract out of it. This process began back in March 2006. It is now the middle of October and we are barely 20% done with it. It was originally expected to take 3 months, but the individual we hired to submit the re-plat with the City of Houston and Harris County has turned out to be consistently unreliable…

We had originally planned on breaking ground around Sept. or Oct. 2006. At this point we will be lucky if we begin in Jan. 2007. We are waiting on the city to set the public hearing date for the re-plat. We have been at this stage for about 2 months. The problem has been a combination of a mix-up at the city and our incompetent civil engineer not being able to submit the correct paperwork. It is looking like our hearing date is going to be Nov. 9th if we are lucky. I should find our for sure tomorrow.

Over the next few posts, I will attempt to describe more about our design process, construction materials, and things we have learned along the way. At this point we are just anxious to get started....