Now the fun begins...

We have finally (hopefully) done our last bit of signing for the house.

Pete and I met with our broker on Friday night to sign our Mortgage documents which were lodged with the bank on Monday.
We have also just signed off on our final drawings for the house which mean no more changes can come for us and that we now are officially locked in to building!

Our builder requested that we remove the rubbish from our block and that we give it a hair cut before they get started with the site scrape, which we took care of over the weekend.

So now we just have to wait to be given an official start date from the builder and we should be off and running.

Good News...

Finally some good news...

We have finally received unconditional approval from the bank for our construction loan, It felt like we were waiting a life time, it took them almost a full month from when we signed our contract to when we finally received the good news. All we have wait for now is the loan contract to be drawn up so we can sign it and then we will finally have a site start date from our builder.

We have also changed the design of our rangehood from the standard one our builder provides to one with a glass canopy... I have been trying to do this since we signed our contract on the 19th but have been waiting for PD to get back to me on exactly what our options were as they only like you to pick form a few selected models.

This is the rangehood I've picked.. Well with Peters help of course!

Just move it over...

I got a call on Monday from our building Co-ordinator at Porter Davis who said she had good news and bad news...

The good news: we have developer approval

The bad news: we were rejected by the council

Our house was to close to the fence line of the house next to ours. We had 2 options to get around this.

1) knock on our neighbours door and ask them to consent to us building on their fence line.

2) move our house 1.15 meters to the left away from the fence.

When our salesman originally plotted our house sitting he put it right up on the fence line. As this wasn't something we asked for, it was just something he took upon himself to do we opted to move the house over. Makes no difference to us as we don't require car access to our back yard any way.

Soo.. Slightly delayed but things are moving!