Have to wait for a long long time

Tender date has been determined - 13 June (black Friday.. haha lucky me)

But color selection appointment still..... wait, wait and wait...

Called them today and was told that color selection won't happen until close to the contract date (approx 2 weeks prior to the contract date)... argh... have to wait for another 5 to 6 weeks... too bad... i really want to get everything done ASAP...

Let's think this is another good news

Just signed the loan contract last night and today, recieved a call from Simonds that i should be expecting an a gallery arrangement in 2 weeks time... let's start counting... 

Also being introduced to someone who will be our main contact moving forward... my CSR seems like a nice guy, hopefully this is going to be well... let's prey first...

Good and Bad things come together

Bad thing:  first day going back to work after 2 weeks holiday...

Good thing: received a call from the bank that my land loan has been approved (just need my signature)... hahaha... too good to be true...

Hope everything is on track...

My solicator has advised last week that i may be looking at land settlement in June... (although i personally confirmed with the estate agent that it is still July as originally planned), but either is good to me as long as NO DELAY TITLE....

Bricks, Bricks, Bricks

While still enjoying the 2 weeks holidays..  We bought a new melway (2008 version) and decide to drive around and check what color/material we will be choosing for our new house

We went to Austral Bricks and have a look at the bricks.. get some addresses from them so that we can see some 'build in progress' house

First choice, Buff, looks ok, but not impress

Secnd choice, Red Gum, seems better... but i don't really want Red to be honest.. but my husband seems like it a lot

Third choice, Macadamia, OMG, the color is not even what i have expected... but still better than Buff

So finally, since we are tired and don't want to keep going, so we decide on Red Gum, hope we are not rushing to have this choice... i think it should be ok

Next on agenda, properly go to Springvale and see some roof tiles in the next few days... 

Checking things

We went to Richmond visiting Trueloc (the timber floor company through Simonds), the sale guy was very helpful and very honest about the pricing (if going through Simonds or not)

We love one of their latest series S1000, although it is the cheaper range, but the quality is still quite good... so i think we have pretty much made the decision..

We then go to Carpet Call, look for the standard range carpet which is crap... so i think we may need to upgrade it... also have a look their timber floor and turned out they are more expensive then Trueloc

Then we went to Austral Bricks... found some good color... have asked the sale guy giving us some addresses, so we will look at it in the next few days...

Too many things to look and take into consideration... thanks god we take 2 weeks off from work at the right time, so we can relax and do some more researching...

First time writing blog

My story so far - 

- 04 Aug 2007 - paid deposit to a block of land in Point Cook Alamanda, the estate is taking shape and looking great, hopefully the July title is scheduled as expected.  Here is some construction pic for the estate

and i am at stage 3

Since we paid the land deposit last year, we are still a bit unsure whether or not, we should be building...  As the land title is getting closer, we decide to look around first, and we went from first preference PD, to Carlisle, then DFH....etc

We have found this house in Manor Lakes - Simonds Milan 2200 and fell in love straight away... so yes, we are building... paid deposit on 23 Mar 2008

Finalising all paper works and provided pre-approval loan document on 29 Mar 2008, now i am just waiting for all the appointment for color selection/brick/tiles/flooring/contract...etc

Hopefully this is going to be a smooth and painless journey