Land Update

Well....we are still waiting for our land to be released.

Apparently Australand have lodged compliance with the SRO last week, so now we are waiting for them to release titles.

However this is not going to help us start building before the end of the year. We heard from our CSC today, and we along with all the other Porter Davis clients from Wallara Waters will begin our builds in the middle of January when they get back from the Christmas break.....delays, delays....
...so at least we have a definate start date now (fingers crossed), this means that we will NOT be in our new house in time for me to celebrate my 50th birthday in June...bummer! so we have decided to celebrate it when we finally move it, even if its a few months after :)

House Plans

Tony very kindly informed me last night that I hadn't put the house plans on the blog yet, so, here they are.....

This is the Hayman 34 by Porter Davis (probably the last one to be built), structual changes we made include the removal of the 2nd WIR in the master bedroom/ensuite; voids in the study/master wall, master/ensuite x 2; family/rear hall, added a door to the rumpus room and removed the wardrobe and wall between bedrooms 3 & 4 ( this is to give our adult daughter her own sitting room/bedroom), in bedroom 2 we are putting taller doors onto the wardrobe as this will be my craft room.

We have about 95% of the upgrades that were in the display house, so therefore we have 9' ceilings, the fireplace in the lounge, french doors in the master bedroom leading to a sm verander at the front, bi-fold doors from the kitchen to Alfresco, French doors from the lounge to Alfresco and Sliding doors from the Dining to Alfresco...i know i know...3 different types of doors all leading out onto the one area.

We also have extra overhead cupboards in the kitchen, 2 pot drawers on one side of the oven and 3 graded drawers on the right side.

Nearly forgot...we have extended the Alfresco, so it doesnt finish flush with the house and we added a 3rd garage.

There are heaps more things but at this very moment I cannot think of things...

Porter Davis's Hayman 34.

Land...

This is a waiting game......we wait and wait and wait.....

When we made enquires in Jan 09 we were told that the land should title in June but was running about 6wks behind....that was okay. June came and went, and so did July.....and August...September...and we are still waiting.

According to whispers around the estate, the developers have lodged the compliance with the SRO...so things should be moving soon.

The longer the land takes the more $$ we have to pay to our builder to hold the contract price...it is getting ridiculous.

Feb...the first time we actually saw our block...even then we guessed which one was ours.

May...roads nearly done.

June 09

Begining of July....footpaths and crossover ready to be poured.

Early September...except for the street signs, nothing else has happened.

Banks...

Our Brokers did a real sweet deal for us with Westpac, overall we would start off with 3 loans but end up with just the 1 loan. Our first loan would be a refinance on our existing property along with a third of the money required for the land, the second loan would be soley for the remaining finance for the land whilst the last loan would be for construction and the absorbtion of the second loan.
While the deal was good, we are not too sure what to think about the bank itself....I think we have supplied Tony's income details about 4 times so far.
At the moment we actually have no loans running as we sold our townhouse and paid back loan 1 keeping the land portion aside and our land has not settled yet so obviously construction hasn't started.
In August we had to resubmit Tony's income details as it had been 6 months since approval was first granted, this was not a problem as since the original application he had gone full time and was therefore earning more money. Thankfully it went through without a hitch.

Post Contract Variation #1

Middle of June our Post Contract Variation came through......signed it and returned it to Porter Davis...now all we were waiting for was for the land to become ours and we would be well on our way to start building.

Contract

At the end of May it was time to front up for our Contract Appointment at Keilor.

Having already done both our colours and electrical we knew what our contract price would be, much better than having them done after contracts.

There were only a few adjustments to be made to the drawings and just a few more things we had thought about that would have to be added to our contract.

Time to pay the balance of the 5% of our original price. That has to hurt...now we were poor.

Also it was confirmed that we would have to pay an extra $3000 to hold the build price as we were definatly not going to start before the end of May...think that might have been obvious, so now we were locked in until the end of August.

Light Pics

Nope, can't show you any pics of our lights, you will have to wait until they are installed...like in about 9 months time...as they are pics off the website and i can't manage to get them installed onto the blog. Any ideas?