let there be light (and other important stuff)

In the beginning there was nothing.  God said, "Let there be light!"  And there was light.  There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.   Ellen DeGeneres

Woot!  The builder emailed me yesterday to let me know (and I quote)  "I am meeting with an engineer from REMC (Electric Company), so I will have a cost from them by the end of the week."  

Progress!  I think once we get this number we are ready to begin at least getting the electric moved from the road and back to the build site.  Probably the water will tag along with the electric.  I had planned to pay for both of these things and not include them in the construction loan, so let's hope the cost for the electric is not going to take my breath away.  The cost to get the water hooked up is less than 1K.  

Today I will continue calling banks for loan rates.  That's a whole other story and I promise you, there is very little light in that process.   At the risk of making sweeping generalizations (oh, what the heck.  It is my blog after all.)  mortgage bankers may get added to the list of people who should be moved to an island away from the general population—along with attorneys, politicians, and the entire medical industrial complex.  Why?  Because they are toxic to humanity!