Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 28, 2020 3:03 am Hi I’m new here, I recently bought a house and land package from eagle homes. I was wondering if anyone had bad experience building with eagle homes and what I have to look out for. Also it’s 2 seperate contracts so, I can buy that land and build with someone else? I just feel secure with eagle homes cause of the building contract. Let me know your experiences. Ps. My first time building. Re: Eagle homes experience 2Jul 05, 2021 9:44 pm alfiej Hi I’m new here, I recently bought a house and land package from eagle homes. I was wondering if anyone had bad experience building with eagle homes and what I have to look out for. Also it’s 2 seperate contracts so, I can buy that land and build with someone else? I just feel secure with eagle homes cause of the building contract. Let me know your experiences. Ps. My first time building. Hey how was your experience with eagle homes? Please do share. Thanks. Re: Eagle homes experience 3Oct 24, 2022 7:01 am alfiej Hi I’m new here, I recently bought a house and land package from eagle homes. I was wondering if anyone had bad experience building with eagle homes and what I have to look out for. Also it’s 2 seperate contracts so, I can buy that land and build with someone else? I just feel secure with eagle homes cause of the building contract. Let me know your experiences. Ps. My first time building. How was your experience with Eagle Homes? Re: Eagle homes experience 4May 01, 2023 1:25 am Nina WF alfiej Hi I’m new here, I recently bought a house and land package from eagle homes. I was wondering if anyone had bad experience building with eagle homes and what I have to look out for. Also it’s 2 seperate contracts so, I can buy that land and build with someone else? I just feel secure with eagle homes cause of the building contract. Let me know your experiences. Ps. My first time building. How was your experience with Eagle Homes? Not that great, very bad communication, constant delays and and asked for more money once we signed 6 months prior their delays due to covid excuses Re: Eagle homes experience 5May 05, 2023 12:11 am alfiej Not that great, very bad communication, constant delays and and asked for more money once we signed 6 months prior their delays due to covid excuses That original post was from 2020, and it's 2023 now, so, did you end up completing the build with Eagle Homes ? (eg. you completed, but after those setbacks & budget blowout? ) Re: Eagle homes experience 6May 05, 2023 12:36 am qrius alfiej Not that great, very bad communication, constant delays and and asked for more money once we signed 6 months prior their delays due to covid excuses That original post was from 2020, and it's 2023 now, so, did you end up completing the build with Eagle Homes ? (eg. you completed, but after those setbacks & budget blowout? ) Yep complete but still had problem with there communication and still getting things repaired Re: Eagle homes experience 7May 05, 2023 3:33 pm alfiej Yep complete but still had problem with there communication and still getting things repaired How long did the build take ? and which state was the build? I liked one of their designs, and they were on the shortlist, because of my budget needs. So, the more I know about them, the better,...ha See this ... *source poseiden and handover occurred quite some time ago. Let me put it this way to you ..... I would rather build a mud hut myself then ever build with Eagle Homes again!! Re: Eagle homes experience 8May 05, 2023 6:49 pm qrius alfiej Yep complete but still had problem with there communication and still getting things repaired How long did the build take ? A year and which state was the build? NSW I liked one of their designs, and they were on the shortlist, because of my budget needs. So, the more I know about them, the better,...ha I feel the over price for the quality they give you See this ... *source poseiden and handover occurred quite some time ago. Let me put it this way to you ..... I would rather build a mud hut myself then ever build with Eagle Homes again!! Re: Eagle homes experience 10May 29, 2023 3:02 pm alfiej Yep complete but still had problem with there communication and still getting things repaired How was the Eagle Homes experience been ... ? They have cheap offers for their designs and their display homes certainly have the 'wow factor' Re: Eagle homes experience 11May 29, 2023 4:13 pm A cheap builder is cheap for a reason. You're likely going to have a bad time with a bad outcome. You've even had people here say so. Shopping around based on price doesn't work in this industry unless you don't care about the quality of your home. Re: Eagle homes experience 12May 29, 2023 4:54 pm stonesthrow A cheap builder is cheap for a reason. You're likely going to have a bad time with a bad outcome. You've even had people here say so. Shopping around based on price doesn't work in this industry unless you don't care about the quality of your home. Thanks for being candid in your reply. I guess it's the shock of seeing the building prices post-Covid. I used to see numbers like "3,4,5" in front of house prices, ie. 300k, 400k, etc. Those same houses now are fetching 2,3,4 ... Millions, all in the space of 25 - 30 years, when house prices rose 10x, but my salary rose 2x - 3x only. ( I should have bought _anything_ 20 years ago, when I could ) Building costs have also risen, but not only that, the bushfires, global conflicts & inflation has created an odd set of circumstances: high cost, low margins...so, like a profit-less boom. So, in trying to 'curb my enthusiasm', I'm finding myself drawn to a budget, rather than drawn to workmanship, and it's hard act now. I've looked at kit homes and want to even go down that route, as I can see the price is quite "fixed", and it's the labour that I can _try_ to have control over. Re: Eagle homes experience 13May 29, 2023 5:44 pm qrius stonesthrow A cheap builder is cheap for a reason. You're likely going to have a bad time with a bad outcome. You've even had people here say so. Shopping around based on price doesn't work in this industry unless you don't care about the quality of your home. Thanks for being candid in your reply. I guess it's the shock of seeing the building prices post-Covid. I used to see numbers like "3,4,5" in front of house prices, ie. 300k, 400k, etc. Those same houses now are fetching 2,3,4 ... Millions, all in the space of 25 - 30 years, when house prices rose 10x, but my salary rose 2x - 3x only. ( I should have bought _anything_ 20 years ago, when I could ) Building costs have also risen, but not only that, the bushfires, global conflicts & inflation has created an odd set of circumstances: high cost, low margins...so, like a profit-less boom. So, in trying to 'curb my enthusiasm', I'm finding myself drawn to a budget, rather than drawn to workmanship, and it's hard act now. I've looked at kit homes and want to even go down that route, as I can see the price is quite "fixed", and it's the labour that I can _try_ to have control over. Yeah it's difficult now and I think the gap between haves and have nots has grown significantly over the last few years. We've had to put off building to save and strip out a lot of things to make it work for us. Still need a bigger loan than we wanted. Have stuck with a good quality custom home builder though because we want to try and minimise the likelihood of things going pear shaped. If you gotta go down that path I think you have to prepare for a tough time and put in a huge amount of diligence. Critique everything and get inspections as much as possible. Last year, 50% of their staffs left. Is it going be bankruptcy this year? 10 31077 Yes, i hace signed build contract and currently awaiting colour selection appointment. 2 29531 I apologise for any confusion, but your understanding is correct. We approached our situation differently based on advice from… 11 37535 |