Good evening everybody!
My name is Cara. I am a 25 year old female from Shepparton looking to build my first home with my partner.
We are currently renting a 3 bedroom home with our babies (pups and cat). Time to move on out and find something a little nicer (and bigger!) and something we can call our own. Really wanting to get into the market - the sooner the better in my opinion.
We are currently dealing with Dennis Family Homes. We have only ever heard great things about them, and my sister also built with them around three years ago. She was very pleased!
We're looking at the "Oxford 231". We originally didn't want a 4 bedroom home, as three is really enough for us. This will be our first home together and we will be using the First Home Owners Grant towards this. Where we want to build (740m2 block for $107,000 pretty good!) has a covenant that you have to build a house larger than 23sq. The lady we are dealing with encouraged us to go towards to Oxford as it was still smaller (and cheaper - apparently) than most homes around 23sq size.
Initially i was interested in the new "$30,000 worth of upgrades for free" advertisement relating to the new Inspirations series, but soon enough learnt that's not exactly how it seems... I was expecting the base price of the house (which on the internet falls in the houses for $180,000 category) to be what it said on the internet with all these great upgrades included. Not the case.. they actually just take off $30,000 from the "base price" which when she gave us the quote was $169,000. Confusing.
Anyway, this is probably more than any other introduction so i will leave it at this for now..
I hope to learn a lot from everybody here and hope to get to know you all.
Thanks for taking the time to read my intro!
Cara