Between the end of June and mid-July, each of the trades came in to work on our punch list. With just about everything done, we officially moved in on July 21st!

Over the past several weeks we've been working with Daniel Mendoza and his landscaping crew to finish the fences and landscaping, including hard scape, trees, sod, and plants. Now both the front and back yards are done. Here is a picture of the final product!

The right side fence is almost complete now and Daniel Mendoza's landscapers are starting to put in the posts on the left side.

SolarCity came and patched a hole they put in the wall next to the inverter where they installed it.

Nelson Cleaners came back in the afternoon to do some more cleaning in areas they had missed.

We met with Brad this afternoon and spent about 1-1/2 hours going through our punch list with him. Over the next couple of weeks, he's going to schedule each of the trades to come in and finish up their items on the list.

Daniel Mendoza's landscapers were busy working on the left and right side fences today. They started to dig the holes for each of the fence posts.

City workers from the utility department arrived later in the afternoon to hook up the power line to the house and install the electricity meter. But first, I had to call Brad and ask him to remove the temporary power to the house. He showed up right away, removed the wires, and a few minutes later we had full power!

On Friday, Daniel Mendoza's landscapers started removing the remaining parts of the old fence. They also started clearing out the area to prepare for installing the new fence.

We spent Friday and the weekend going through the house and making our final punch list for Brad. You could say we're anal -- there are about 300 items on the list (most of them are just minor paint touch-ups)!

This morning Daniel Mendoza called to tell us he was planting the tree that our neighbor had selected. We're replacing a tree which we removed about a year ago when we started digging the basement. The very large tree was on our neighbor's property but the roots were growing right where one of our light wells was going to be. At the time we promised to replace his tree with a new one of his choosing.

When we arrived at the job site, Daniel's crew was finishing up.

They will be back tomorrow to start working on the fence.

Also early this morning, Nelson Cleaning Service came back to finish cleaning the house. They spent the whole day working on everything including the walls, floors, windows, doors, tiles, and cabinets.

Later in the morning, we had our last meeting with Brad and gave him our final payment. While we're looking forward to moving into our new house, the meeting was bittersweet. This project was a large part of our lives for the past year. It was both a challenging and an exciting experience, but now it's come to an end.

Brad had to wait several hours for the inspectors to show up, but eventually they did, and.... [drum roll].... WE PASSED THE FINAL INSPECTION! Unfortunately, we couldn't be there when it happened, but Brad called us afterwards to give us the great news! The city will come out in seven to ten days to hook up our power so Brad's going to call and have our temporary power pole removed on Monday.

Brad also told us that tomorrow, the cleaners will be back to continue where they left off. And tomorrow, Daniel Mendoza will start on the fence.

Earlier in the morning, we had met Alberto at the job site. He thought it would only take a couple of hours to finish touching up, cleaning, and sealing the granite counter tops, but by the mid afternoon he still had not finished, so I had to return in the evening to lock up.