Monday 27 August 2012

Finally...some good news

I havent posted in a while, mainly because there's been nothing to post. Like a lot of people lately, we've had some massive issues with getting valuation where it needs to be by a number of banks. We were almost ready to call it quits and walk away thinking that building our home wouldn't be happening for some time but thankfully with one last push (and some crafty re-working by our builder) we finally received the good news we had desperately been hoping for....we finally got our valuation back on track and just signed our final contract with the builder on friday 24th.

At this stage we are now waiting on a call from our SS to introduce himself and provide a site start date. A few people have mentioned in the forums that they happened to get a site start prior to the SS calling but a drive-by the block today reveals this hasnt happened for us yet.

Luckily we live a good 45mins away otherwise we (I) would be tempted to do the regular drive-by looking for evidence of progress!

In some other good news; we've also just found out that we got free upgrades on our roof tiles and our appliances. We initially upgrade the roof tiles to the flat roof which are now no longer available so managed to score an even better upgrade. The first pic is the old tiles and the second being the new tiles



Hopefully now that things are going ahead I can update a bit more regularly