A Decision is Made

Well, we finally did it! We made a decision! What and how?.... We got our three bids today from the builders involved. We of course had our meeting scheduled with MOC, who we've been working with for a couple months now, and then the other two were supposed to fax in there's prior to that meeting.

As it turned out, we didn't get those two other bids before stepping into our meeting with MOC at 3pm. So, you had Ann and I doing a nervous 2 minute chat in the hallway before going in basically saying, what do we do?!? Play it cool, that's what. ;) MOC presented their bid and with no surprises or further adjustments, he came in below our number. Well, hey that's great!.... but wait, what about the other guys? We've already told MOC that if they made our price, we'd go with them, but still, what about the other guys!?

So, we asked for a time out. Yep, Ann and I and Ryan (our architect, who the other bids were faxed to, but who hadn't caught up with us before the meeting) all stepped out into the hall to huddle. There, Ryan explained that one bid (from a comparable builder to MOC) came in slightly higher, and that the other guy, Tim, came in lower, but only by a few thousand.

Well, for all our fretting of "what if this, what if that", the decision was pretty simple. While Tim was slightly lower, we felt there were risks involved and that we couldn't count on his numbers being as accurate. So, that did it... MOC, pending a contract signing, is our builder.

It'll be a couple weeks before demo starts, but we'll get demo permits pulled and dumpster on site. Finally, a place to put the rubbish. I'll also start pulling the redwood siding off the house, which we're also going to re-use. So, the fun keeps on going.