Fence painted.

Waiting, waiting, waiting

We have at last been given a start date. By next Wednesday our site will be cut and then everything is full steam ahead.

Depite waiting so long at least we have been able to take our time choosing colours. We have chosen all exterior colour and most of the interior just need to see the kitchen company. Below are some of our colours.

Exterior colours are;

Bricks- Newport Austral

Roof tiles- Gunmetal

Gutters- Monument

Fascia- Shale Grey

Garage door- Monument

We have a fence.

Well after almost two long years our land is finally ours. On the 26th of March we had settlement and now we (or really the bank) owns a little piece of Australia.

We then expected things to get rolling with our builders, but things were a little slow at first. After a few phone calls and a meeting we are now two weeks off beginning.

In the meantime we have had our fences erected. We were lucky enough to have lovely new neighbours, who just happened to be a fencer. So after doing his own fence, neighbour kindly put ours up.

The estate is looking really great a real little community growing. We're insanely jealous of the many others who bought land well after us and have already got a slab, frame and roof, but good things come to those who wait (and as for us that has been a massive wait so there should be many awesome things to come for us).

Here is a few photos of our fence. We will be painting it next weekend and will post more posts after that

Slowly, Slowly.

No photos yet but things are coming along nicely at the estate. Roads, lights, crossovers and gutters are in. We are now just waiting on the traffic lights to be done. This apparently will take quite some time, but we're so used to waiting what's another couple of months.


We had a bit of a problem just before we signed our building contract. The guy that was going to build our house now can't because his wife is unwell, so we now have a different group of people building it, still within the Premier Builders Group. All's good but we just had to make a few changes to colour selection.

We got our valuation back from the bank yesterday and the land and house is valued at $372,000 which is way more than we are paying, which is great. It makes it even better that we haven't even got our land titled, let alone the house built and it's already worth more than we are paying. So that's good news.

Will update again once we get closer to building.

There is (more) movement at the station...

We went down to The Avenue on the weekend and things are progressing nicely. They have started the roads in some sections and curbing will be going in soon. They are still talking December which is good. We have asked to have our crossover changed to the left side because it would be virtually impossible to have it on the other side because of our block shape.

We also were given the new planning permits from the council where they have put set backs back to 5.5 meters which is quite a lot, again because of the irregular shape of our block. This has meant we have had to go back to Premier and change our plans again. They have been fantastic about it all which has made the whole process no nearly as stressful as it could have been.
I have posted some more photos of the land and how it is looking now. You can't get very close so they are a little difficult to see, but you can tell there is progress.

There's hope- well maybe

Well there has been lots of action down at the paddock. We will be going down there this weekend to take some more photos as it is really progressing. We have heard that the titles may be out a little earlier than expected (December), but we are not getting our hopes up, because we've heard it before. As long as we can get our slab down within 26 weeks of signing our building contract on September 30th we will be happy. Will put some photos up soon.

I have attached a revised copy of our plan, but we will get the final plan in the next two weeks. YAY!!!!

Land delayed AGAIN!!!!!!

Bad news unfortunately. Our land title date has been pushed back again until next January / February which we are absolutely devastated about. We were planning on living in our new house by then. The worst part is we've been told so many different dates and have heard time and time again this is the definite date. I know that things happen and delays occur but we just want our own house.
Will be going in to the estate to fins out what the problem is but we just don't trust what they say anymore. They've sold 4 releases so have a lot of our money sitting in the bank.
The builders have been great but we will now have to start paying money because we went over expected title date. Ahhhh.