So the last few months have been full of ups and downs when its come to getting to build our house. Bottom line is we found a bank that gave us the minimum evaluation needed to allow us to build. We have to have a ridiculously large deposit to make up the gap but its worth it to start soon.
We signed the contract and have pre start set for the 22nd of January. They offered us three earlier dates to begin with and an hour later took them all back and offered early February. Jake fought hard and they decided it would be okay to do three pre-starts in one week.
I don't like the way they did the contract. Any errors we found in the contract (of which there were many) they wrote a PCV (post contract variation) for so we don't get to see plans with the correction and have to trust that the written word is what we want.... So I recommend not paying your initial deposit till you have everything right, we didn't have this choice because we wanted a soil test done on the block.
We went over it with a fine tooth comb many times to make sure we had everything exactly the way we wanted it.
Despite having told them many times we did not want awning windows, they still placed them along the front of our house and when they finally took them out we were credited over $800!
Now on to colour selection!
