Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 2Jan 17, 2013 5:49 pm H1 Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=61557 Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 4Jan 17, 2013 7:14 pm H1 Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=61557 Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 7Jan 18, 2013 9:02 pm Nice to see an honest unbiased answer. PPA 30/6/12, Land 28/06/12, Contract 7/9/12, Valuation 11/9/12, Prestart 13/9/12, Settlement 18/10/12, Building Permit Issued 18/10/12, Footings 30/10/11, Slab 31/10/11 Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 8Jan 19, 2013 2:15 am ct-101 First let me declare my interest... I'm the Customer Service Director at 101 Residential, so this is going to be a partial response sazzy91 We find that 101 right now are extremely busy which could be a good thing but also a bad thing as we dont want to be forgotten. You're right, business is good. We think this comes from having a good product, high level of recommendations, of course being one of Scott Park's companies, and I'd like to think our customer service contributes. However, while we're busy, we're growing our team appropriately, so being busy doesn't crush us like it does some companies... in fact we're still averaging lower than our target build times (and happy to compare our build times with any 2 storey builder)... so we're comfortably busy . With high caliber staff consistently knocking on the door wanting to join the team, we are not just growing the team, we're growing it well. However, getting forgotten is something that can happen in any company, and I'm happy to meet with you to discuss how we'll make sure that doesn't happen. sazzy91 Like I said before we are very interested that Ben Trager do a concrete upper slab rather than timber because I could imagine nothing worse than hearing walking upstairs (my dads house is a timber upper floor built in 2002 i think and you can hear every time someone walks). I could talk about accoustic ratings etc, but I think your best bet is to compare the 2 yourself... walk them. You have displays from both companies in Butler. Try them out. Even if I quoted numbers etc, I wouldn't recommend you simply accept them. You can walk around in both, and that should give you a true understanding of the noise factor. If you're interested in more information, I recommend looking into the "slab" construction used by both. sazzy91 They also seem to have a higher "standard" spec, let me know if you want to know how the quotes differ. At first talks with Ben Trager when we were making slight adjustments to our plan we were told to work off approximatly $900psm and that should give us a rough idea and when I worked out the psm charge for 101 from a rough estimation of the cost it was around $950psm. The $psm is not always an apples with apples comparison (some companies include areas that others don't etc), and it's very difficult to get a true comparison between products because they vary so much. I think you really need to look closely at the inclusions (solar hot water, 6 star certified etc), as well as many other factors, and determine which offers the right mix of what you want, and what represents the most value to you. It would be unwise to choose the builder that offers the best value, but not what you want, and equally (unless you have unlimited funds) it could be unwise to only consider what you want without any thought for the value (or lack of it). sazzy91 If you are still looking at 101 displays call them first to confirm lol, we drove an hour south to look at 3 displays that were advertised as open and 2 of them were closed (even though one of the closed ones even had 3 home opens signs at the front). Yes, we'll have to wear that one. I spoke to our Sales Manager, because this simply shouldn't happen, but he tells me we had both illness and car breakdowns that weekend. So our apologies for the inconvenience, it was a rare situation. Good luck! The thing I want to see most is elated home owners... I hope that's your experience. CT thanks for taking customer service so seriously and honest response Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 9Jan 31, 2013 11:34 pm signed the PCQ with 101 this week! yay! but we just got the notice from the owner that we need to move out of our rental in 4 weeks! but we are getting married in just 7 weeks from today! stress max! Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 10Jun 11, 2014 5:14 pm Hi, I'm a second time builder - first time building 2 story. When looking at building a cheaper double story we were much more impressed with Ben Trager. this was due to the fact they were more willing to help, to 101 we were told we couldn't afford the house without them even looking at our deposit or financials. 101 dont have a concrete slab up top which makes for really bad noise if you have kids etc. could always ask and they will do.. and obviously charge a heap for it. but with Ben Trager, we are building through them now.. lovely sales man, but thats as far as it goes.. they are terrible to deal with, prepare to wait a long time for your home and dont expect to much from them in any regard. happy to give you examples personally, 101 sales people were not nice to deal with from get go & Ben Trager I would never ever recommend. Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 11Jun 11, 2014 8:04 pm We had a similar experience with 101, the sales rep at the display we went to was not very pleasant at all nor very helpful and the others didn't really acknowledge us (maybe because we are young and assume we couldn't afford?) they also bag out other builders which didn't sit well with me. I've been into many BTH displays and all of their reps were lovely to deal with, their inclusions and build idea suited us better and seemed better value also, offered most of what we would of upgraded with 101 as an inclusion already. We are only in the contracts stage but we are very happy so far. Our build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70984 Re: Opinion on 101 residential and Ben Trager 12Oct 16, 2014 10:28 pm ok so im building with ben tragar and if i new what i new now i wouldnt be,the build has been stretched out and added to more time then i can remember.sometimes no one will do anything in over 3weeks then a weeks work will be half done and they have been saying,right we will finish it off at a later date but still wanting you to pay for the new stage.i wont go into detail but i have had damage done to the block which they keep putting off and im at the stage of cancelling and doing the rest myself,i havent worked with 101 before but im sure the service isnt this bad. 1 5116 these look like missing batts. Go up and take a look. But yeah moisure meter is a completely different tool 4 9754 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi everyone, a contractor build a "retaining wall" for me and after 3 months there was a crack. 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