David and AM's house, June 2012
"Their" house, June 2012
As you can see folks, our house is still just a little patch of dirt, whilst "their's" is completed, with landscaping (albeit average) complete. They clearly have this one in the bag.
Tuesday 12 June 2012
The competition...not much there of.
When we first found "the world's greatest broker", he had another couple building the same house as ours, just in the next estate over about 1km away. They went through the same bank, with the same builder, but the difference was they had little modifications to their design (ours is fully customised), and they were lucky (very, very lucky) with the valuer they were assigned. They began their build process at the same time as us. So, our house plan went one way and their's another:
Tuesday 5 June 2012
Final valuation of plans approved!
Green light! GO GO GO!!!
After changing the timber doors to aluminium to try and reduce the price to suit the valuation, then deciding that was a poor decision and swapping them back, then removing the render for the same reason, and the spa, then making a deal with the builder so we pay cash for the spa, we have our final approval from the bank! So whats changed? What took six months of stuffing around and going back and forth?The house won't be rendered until after handover. And we lost the battle over having the timber window in the dining room a door. But you can't win them all and a house full of windows and no doors would still be better than a rental with all doors and no windows!
We found our little patch of dirt on 24th July 2011. 11 months in and we are nearly ready to turn some ground. Bring on round two!
After changing the timber doors to aluminium to try and reduce the price to suit the valuation, then deciding that was a poor decision and swapping them back, then removing the render for the same reason, and the spa, then making a deal with the builder so we pay cash for the spa, we have our final approval from the bank! So whats changed? What took six months of stuffing around and going back and forth?The house won't be rendered until after handover. And we lost the battle over having the timber window in the dining room a door. But you can't win them all and a house full of windows and no doors would still be better than a rental with all doors and no windows!
We found our little patch of dirt on 24th July 2011. 11 months in and we are nearly ready to turn some ground. Bring on round two!
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