When we signed our tender, we received our Home Option Gallery (HOG) pack. It was definitely exciting, especially after you drop a 5% deposit! The pack consisted of a lot of things, mainly a lot of brochures (upgrades)! I managed to scan them in to show you what it consisted of. I have also put the links if you're interested: Home Option Gallery...
We love our updated house plans! So the main structural changes (that are visible on the plan) we did were: Added a wall to the front lounge to make it a media room Changed our study to our study nook, expanding our WIP Added a door (dwarf door) under the stairs for storage And I think that's it. We were quite happy with...
It was going to be an awesome day today! We were so excited that tender signing day was here! We received a confirmation email from our tender presenter about a couple of days after our tender presentation to advise of our appointment and that it would take about 1.5 hours. During the appointment we will go through the tender, new plans, and any...
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It's been so long since I've been to the bank to draw a bank cheque! Well, that's what we did and at the same time, we saw our savings dwindle away, all for a good cause of course! We arrived back at our solicitors office with our signed land contract and our 10% deposit cheque. It all happened so quickly because there really...
In between everything else, I received a phone call from our Solicitor to advise that he had received our land contract and that we had to go in and review the contract with him. I'd say we had about a week to visit him, talk about the contract, and come back and sign it along with our 10% deposit cheque! I thought it...
The day after our tender presentation, we received a confirmation email from our tender presenter of our appointment for our contract signing. They recommend that you read the sample HIA contract in between. I knew from other posts on the homeone forum is that you pretty much don't receive your building contract about 48 hours before your tender presentation, and you know what,...
When all is ok and you're happy with your upgrades and pricing etc, you will have to give $2500 to have the new plans and building contract drawn. It does sound a lot to just draw plans as some people don't even continue once they have the plans drawn! We decided to pay the $2500 as we knew that there was no turning...
Ok, this was it! Pretty much every night for 2 weeks I was researching, adding, subtracting and changing this on our house plans. I made sure that I went and documented all inclusions that we had were in the tender as well, and any questions I had were put into a spreadsheet!We had an afternoon meeting, so we met with our Tender Presenter...
Here are the original house plans before we made some changes. I love the layout. It's awesome! Will post our changes to the plans shortly. ...
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As soon as you leave the sales office, you basically have about 14 days until your tender presentation. The most important things you need to think about are your structural changes, so anything that is connected to the walls of your home. When we initially looked at our house plans at the sales office and knew that we wanted to add and subtract...
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At this point in time, the journey has just begun, but everything happens so fast! After a couple of days of being at the sales centre, I received a voicemail about the introduction our Customer Service Administrator (CSA). The CSA will basically be there through your whole building journey (that is if they don't leave the company!) to help answer any of your...
*hand up in the air* yep, we're first home buyers. I'm not going to lie, I didn't know what we needed a solicitor or conveyancer for. Lucky for us, Eden Brae provided us with a timeline of what we required during the process. As soon as you put your $2000 deposit during at the sales centre, they ask if you have a solictor...
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To be honest, when we were at the sales centre at Eden Brae, we didn't expect to walk away with a deposit on a house and land package! We were probably talking for about half an hour, trying to get a grasp on the house and land plans. Half of the phrases I didn't even understand! What happens when you cut and fill...
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We already knew how tough the property market was, but we still decided to look into it anyway! We initially started looking at blocks of land in new estates (mostly in south west Sydney). We knew that it was more inexpensive than the west and north west, and it was a perfect area is it was close to both my parents and in-laws....
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Ok, so I thought I should start a blog about building our first home in Sydney. There's so much to do and know that it is a bit overwhelming! Other blogs have been helpful to date, so I'm hoping that this will be useful to others too! Thanks in advance to the other building blogs. Here it goes..! ...
