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I am a first home buyer signed up on the 15th March and recieved my contract last week, and now want to hold off until the 1st July to get the extra money from the government,
All customers should be treated equally.
It should not make any difference to the builders.
After reading your response to what I had written I took your advise and called DFH, fortunately for me the lady I normally speak to was out to lunch so I spoke to a man who seemed very concerned about what was happening with us (maybe he was the boss) he took my number and gave me his mobile number and told me he would be in touch this afternoon when he had some news. Well an hour later he apologized on behalf of DFH and said he has been promised that our contracts will be in Ballarat next Wed and we should have them by Friday of next week.
Fingers crossed anyways.
Many Thanks for your comments if I hadn't of read that I may not of got the outcome that I have
Maybe next week I'll be able to write something a little more positive like we have a contract and a start date.
Excellent news! Looking forward to seeing your plans!
Well now I will cross everything i can possible cross and hope the bank follows through on time for you
Having said that there are still some issues to iron out which will hopefully bring the price down to the original quote but so far so good.
at least I have an idea now on the cost.
As we upgraded and added a few things like entertainer doors and alfesco the cost has increased by $33000 whoopsee daisy but that is including the site cost. We are JUST on budget.
Sadly I may have to reconsider my tile choice of porcelain throughout entry meals family kitchen as it will well and truly blow us out.
Does anyone know of a nice shiny ceramic tile in a light grayish tone? Going to Geelong and Hoppers Crossing on Tuesday for a look.
We upgraded the ceaserstone from the standard builders range to the colour nova aurora I am so amazed that this upgrade cost an extra $1278 think this is a bit pricey for a colour change
And the Kitchen cupboards cost an extra $850 just because we wanted a gloss finish.
Over all we are quite suprised as to how much these changes are. But maybe that's what things cost these days. JUST SO GLAD WE HAVE SOMETHING now we can move forward.... yeahhhhhhh
Just received our contract in the mail from DFH and excited to say that the contract price is only $3,000 more than the original quote!!!!!!
Having said that there are still some issues to iron out which will hopefully bring the price down to the original quote but so far so good.
Having said that there are still some issues to iron out which will hopefully bring the price down to the original quote but so far so good.
Yeah that's great news HAPPY DAYS
Far out this is so crazy DFH are incredibly disorganized.
My Mum is also building with DFH and signed the same time as us, they hopefully will start hers in 3 weeks. Apparently!! It's crazy to think that when Mum bought her land she was the first to buy in that subdivision back in Jan 09, then 2 other people bought in March and have started building frames nearly up should have gone with "M" H
People said building was stressful but Man we haven't even began yet and I'm about to flip a lid lol
i am actually waiting on a estimate from dennis family homes..
i am just scared because my block has a fall.. witch means excavations and also retaining walls needed. does anyway know how much people charge for retaining walls?
When we finally got the contract our house was sited wrong it was almost into next doors block and we are on 5.5 acres so how that happened we dont know but it did... as well as having site excavation fee of 1800 dollars(our block is as flat as a tack as we got our site cut done first) we also had peirs to every part of our slab which was another 8700 dollars which was because of the wrong siteing...
Well the site supervisor and the area manager came to inspect the block admited that the plans were wrong and said they would endeavour to fix them phone call after phone call we finally got some updated plans on the 3rd feb 2010 but alas still things were wrong and not fixed..
after asking for a colour appointment nurmerous times we got one for the 11th feb the colour girl was fantastic the best ever..
I asked to have my variations done by the 11th so i knew what i could spend on extras for the colour appointment we went into the office and got some variations but not all of them they then told us that by that night or the next day we would have our plans adjusted and the rest of our variations done . we were told we were going to build in Feb
it is now two weeks later and no variations i have phoned and to keep me happy they sent the adjusted plans well guess what they still have not fixed everything ... The area manager wont return my calls she makes our sales consultant do it all he is fabulous i feel sorry for him having to make excuses for the company .. i have blown up over the phone now they are saying i will have them by tuesday next week if i havnt then first thing Wednesday morning i will be phoneing head office to speak to someone higher ..
WOW so long winded i just wish i had a good run like some people get although i guess someone has to get the bad one heheh
Soots
Cheers, fucando
I am curious to know who you guys meet with to sign the contracts. Do you go to the office or do they come to you and do you get to keep the contract at that time.
Cheers, fucando
Cheers, fucando
Hi Fucando you go to the display homes and talk to one of the sales consultants there they organise your contract and you will need to go back to sign all paperwork
hope this helps
Soots
I am building with DFH in Doreen
Pretty good building procces but slow paper work procces
Paid deposit in January and it didn't go to site until June.
Sales consultants don't have that much knowledge especially when it comes to prices. Very poor knowledge in construction...
Overall DFH quality is good. This is coming from someone that has been in the domestic building game for 8 years.
Give your self 6 months for paper work!
Hi everyone
I am building with DFH in Doreen
Pretty good building procces but slow paper work procces
Paid deposit in January and it didn't go to site until June.
Sales consultants don't have that much knowledge especially when it comes to prices. Very poor knowledge in construction...
Overall DFH quality is good. This is coming from someone that has been in the domestic building game for 8 years.
Give your self 6 months for paper work!
I am building with DFH in Doreen
Pretty good building procces but slow paper work procces
Paid deposit in January and it didn't go to site until June.
Sales consultants don't have that much knowledge especially when it comes to prices. Very poor knowledge in construction...
Overall DFH quality is good. This is coming from someone that has been in the domestic building game for 8 years.
Give your self 6 months for paper work!
Hi Nick,
Just came across your post. You must be near starting your house or is it already on it's way now. What house are you building and how is it all going?
Love to have more reports from you.
i am building an 231 Oxford. from generations series.. Nothing like a generation though me and my partner upgraded almost everything in it and out of it to.... In the end we should of built something from aspiration series.
but i love for a first house!!!!
The house is on its way. apparently the kitchen is booked for the 16th of this month so hopefully few more weeks after that i should get the house!
any info would be appreciated
cheers
We have been looking at a few builders and came across Dennis yeaterday, had a good chat with the sales member @ Epping (very helpful). The house we are looking at is the Hartley 321 (or 341), we received the price of 214k for the 321, and we were priced up on a few other things we knew we wanted throughout the house..
My question is, 'the prices, are they GST inclusive or exclusive?'
Also reading the 'product review' - http://www.productreview.com.au/p/dennis-family.html, I know this is where most come to complain about a product rather than positive talk, however we picked up on a few points by reading the negative comments.
For everyone building with DFH what is the time you receive your contracts from initial 1k deposit?
Do they impose penalties for going over build time & are they recognised when over build time?
from the experiences of everyone are there any questions I should ask the sales rep?
Thanks in advance
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