Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4693Mar 22, 2017 10:02 pm Hi all Just dropping into this thread since I'll be building with Homebuyers. Going to be building the Retreat 22 in Lollipop Hill @ Manor Lakes. I have my custom color appointment next Wednesday.... Kinda been thrown into the deep end since I'm taking over this build from my younger brother and his ex girlfriend..... it's good that I get to skip a lot of stuff and time waiting but stressful as well since it's been pretty much GOGOGO from the time I started to take over. I'm really liking the Alpine and Basalt themes so I'll probably stick very closely to one of them. I have a 5k in up allowances to play around with during the custom color.... Does anyone know the price of Cat 3 and Cat 4 Kitchen benchtops? Mine's already @ Cat 2 level if that helps.... And are we able to get a price list for upgrades from our custom color rep? TIA. Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4694Mar 23, 2017 11:02 am I was able to get some pricing before hand, they don't have a pricelist per se, while I was in there they kept refereeing to their computer for prices, but even these can fluctuate, I know that downlights went up twice between us signing and doing our colours app, 9 moths later. Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4695Mar 23, 2017 11:13 am RWes Does anyone know the price of Cat 3 and Cat 4 Kitchen benchtops? Mine's already @ Cat 2 level if that helps.... Hi RWes, If you can get hold of the sales person who your brother signed the Pre Works Contract (PWC) with, they should be able to provide you with a price list for changes such as this. Our sales guy in Craigieburn was able to provide a list that ran for about 8 pages and covered the cost of all the different structural and category changes available for the particular design. When reading this list make sure to realise that the prices are always Cat 1 -> Cat X upgrade. The list I mention won't cover the small things like power points, down lights, ethernet and such but will give you the bigger items like upgrading the carpet, benchtops and tiles. Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4697Mar 24, 2017 4:49 am I asked for all upgrade options and prices before pre-start and they happily obliged ! We knew which changes we wanted to make by the time we got into the consultation! This is our first build and never done anything like this before ! But as with any major financial investment! Do the research and know your options ! [/quote] They could've at least given the options and guide first home buyers through the whole process.That's just good customer service [/quote] This is such great advice, just yesterday I had a word with finance, we are using HBCs finance, and was told for the most part that the majority of options selected within the colours appointment are to be paid for on the day of the appointment by us, this is contrary to our last visit where we were told otherwise. has anyone had any experience in putting options into their finance contract? I'm also getting sick of getting the run around in terms of one person saying one thing, another saying something different. If it wasn't for having gone unconditional on the land, I would have told HBC to go jump already. Its is definitely hard to make sure cash is on hand when we're told things aren't available, but then are, an there no way to know prices until the appointment to plan before hand.[/quote] I am super keen to find this out as well!! How much of the upgrades can be included in your finance/mortgage? Because i'm doing this on my own, i know after the house is done and i have bills and the mortgage, i will struggle to get those little extras!! And i'm scared come the colour appointments, i won't have the cash to spare to pay for the upgrades on the day! Any help on this is appreciated!! Started saving - Feb 2017 Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4698Mar 24, 2017 9:09 am we have used HBC finance too, we were told we could put upgrades into our finance package, leading up to our colours appt. we were told otherwise. so what upgrades we did make we paid for about a week after with direct transfer out of our own savings. we couldn't put anything into our finance. we spent about 7.6k all up on upgrades. Ours is also a house and land package so the floor plan and façade are set for us, we did manage to get most our kitchen upgrades into the PWC at the start. Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4699Mar 24, 2017 9:30 am t_holt86 we have used HBC finance too, we were told we could put upgrades into our finance package, leading up to our colours appt. we were told otherwise. so what upgrades we did make we paid for about a week after with direct transfer out of our own savings. we couldn't put anything into our finance. we spent about 7.6k all up on upgrades. Ours is also a house and land package so the floor plan and façade are set for us, we did manage to get most our kitchen upgrades into the PWC at the start. Oh man, that sucks!! So things like down lights, extra electrical points, etc, had to be paid out of your savings? If that's the case, I'm screwed!!! Cos I would then want to hold off as long as I can on that appointment so I can save as much as I can!! I'll have 17k ready as a deposit but I won't have that much more saved if I wanted extras!! Started saving - Feb 2017 Re: Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA? 4700Mar 24, 2017 9:48 am sara_kaleta t_holt86 we have used HBC finance too, we were told we could put upgrades into our finance package, leading up to our colours appt. we were told otherwise. so what upgrades we did make we paid for about a week after with direct transfer out of our own savings. we couldn't put anything into our finance. we spent about 7.6k all up on upgrades. Ours is also a house and land package so the floor plan and façade are set for us, we did manage to get most our kitchen upgrades into the PWC at the start. Oh man, that sucks!! So things like down lights, extra electrical points, etc, had to be paid out of your savings? we paid for all our power points, TV points, we only put in batten lights, but got 1 everywhere we wanted to replace with a down-light later I havent, and i havent looked to much into it, but on face value its not the saviour its trying to make out to be. 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