First we received a couple of bids from
Michael Mark. He gave us bids for the foundation, framing and
plumbing that all came in below our current choices and so we decided
to go with Michael...Duh. :)
This has saved us over 10k alone. We
also like him as a person which helps! :)
We received word that our ERP
(Environmental Review) was finished. The county is requiring us to
fence and leave completely undisturbed just under half of our
five acres. The kicker is that we don't get anything in return for
this, oh wait we are liable if anything happens. That is it...we get
to continue to pay property tax on five acres and build a fence in
exchange for giving up half of said five acres. So the county gets
to put into permanent conservancy our acreage without paying for
it??? Got to love California. Oh, wait it gets better. We have until
February 17th to respond if we want to contest their
decision. The best part is that the decision was dated the 10th
of February...yes it was yesterday. So we have a grand total of 7
days to receive the paperwork, formulate our contest and return it to
the county offices. Interesting thing is that Friday is the 14th
and Monday the 17th is President's day. So we really have
a grand total of three days from the date it was written to receive
the decision via USPS and get it back to them. If we don't the
decision stands...ahh yes, California.
We also heard back from Mark Sweeney
that he wants $400 more dollars to change the system specifics in our
report. This would be less hard to take if he had included said
specifics in the original report. So we have a little “come to
Jesus meetin'” in his future. We are so done with this circus.
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