Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Eden Brae Homes vs Wisdom Homes - Help please! 183Feb 25, 2009 7:01 am Stevep79 & Principessa Finished building Wisdom Homes Impression 33mkII in The Ponds, Sydney http://lilypadintheponds.blogspot.com Re: Eden Brae Homes vs Wisdom Homes - Help please! 191Jul 31, 2009 9:56 am Or you could drive to the TWAY on Old Windsor Rd, park your car and get onto a bus that takes you to the city. 45min journey from bus stop at Stanhope gardens to Central Re: Eden Brae Homes vs Wisdom Homes - Help please! 193Aug 14, 2009 7:57 am Sorry I didn't get to this post before! There are some express trains from Doonside and Rooty Hill - takes about 48 minutes. Plenty of parking if you get there before 7.30am I'm hoping to be working from home when we live at Stonecutters Ridge - I'll be driving DH to Blacktown Station each morning and doing the pickup - so if you move in - happy to car pool! After 4 years - we're in! Re: 194Mar 22, 2010 1:46 pm stonecutter1309 welcome bigboy52 if you sign a tender, it locks in the price and you have a certain amount of time (3 months I think) to start building. If construction hasn't started - you'll be charged a small increase (I think they charge you half the published base price increase) I'm not sure what you mean by your son wants to "start everything" - if you mean start construction - no way that will happen - but sign the building contract and go to council - absolutely. The timeline works something like this (courtesy of Anita): Sign the final building contract Make colour selections Then 1 week for them to prepare your application to go to the developer (if necessary). Developer approval is usually 2 weeks. Then it takes 1 week to prepare the application to go to Council. Council approval usually takes 4-6 weeks - expect a little longer if it's going to be there over the Xmas period. If you signed a contract today - you could theoretically be breaking ground mid-January (assuming your land is titled) Hi All, I was reading this thread because I'm keen to understand how Eden Brae is rated (in terms of their customer service, punctuality and etc). I came across this old old post by stonecutters "If the construction hasn't started, we'll be charged small increase" ... I'm trying to get my head around this ... if the construction hasn't started, why do we (the customer) get charged for something that we don't have control of? Re: Re: 195Mar 22, 2010 2:28 pm tempura I came across this old old post by stonecutters "If the construction hasn't started, we'll be charged small increase" ... I'm trying to get my head around this ... if the construction hasn't started, why do we (the customer) get charged for something that we don't have control of? Hey Tempura - every 6 months the base price of most project home companies increase slightly. They have standard set times for getting DA, CC etc done. If for some reason things drag on - even if they are out of your control - your signed contract allows them to take into account an increase in the base price. Just have a look at deletedpenguin's thread - council issues meant that they weren't going to start construction by the specified date and their builder (Big M) was going to charge the increase in base price. It doesn't seem fair because you have no control - but not much you can do about it! After 4 years - we're in! Re: Re: 196Mar 22, 2010 2:30 pm stonecutter1309 tempura I came across this old old post by stonecutters "If the construction hasn't started, we'll be charged small increase" ... I'm trying to get my head around this ... if the construction hasn't started, why do we (the customer) get charged for something that we don't have control of? Hey Tempura - every 6 months the base price of most project home companies increase slightly. They have standard set times for getting DA, CC etc done. If for some reason things drag on - even if they are out of your control - your signed contract allows them to take into account an increase in the base price. Just have a look at deletedpenguin's thread - council issues meant that they weren't going to start construction by the specified date and their builder (Big M) was going to charge the increase in base price. It doesn't seem fair because you have no control - but not much you can do about it! WoW .. that is ... ridiculous ... Thanks stonecutter for the info. btw is there many land still available and being released over at StoneCutters Ridge? Re: Eden Brae Homes vs Wisdom Homes - Help please! 197Mar 22, 2010 2:55 pm Still land available and a new release is about to be released (Banksia I think). 5 new homes under construction at the moment with at least 2 more due to start in the next few weeks. After 4 years - we're in! Re: Eden Brae Homes vs Wisdom Homes - Help please! 198Mar 22, 2010 3:35 pm stonecutter1309 Still land available and a new release is about to be released (Banksia I think). 5 new homes under construction at the moment with at least 2 more due to start in the next few weeks. I just got this email from Mark Pardi. Indeed, there's still plenty of land available compared to the Ponds. I wonder why is that? Re: Eden Brae Homes vs Wisdom Homes - Help please! 199Mar 23, 2010 6:51 am Hey Tempura - possibly price - the land isn't over priced - but because the blocks are bigger than The Ponds - you end up paying a little more. It might be the top end of new home buyer budgets. After 4 years - we're in! I built with EB back on 2009. Check out this thread on this forum. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12911&p=154061#p154061 I can't speak for recent expericience however, we had no… 1 23276 Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. 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