Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Wisdom Homes - Construction Delays is it worth the hassl 5Aug 15, 2023 8:34 am Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Wisdom Homes - Construction Delays is it worth the hassl 7Aug 15, 2023 10:43 am Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Wisdom Homes - Construction Delays is it worth the hassl 11Aug 16, 2023 4:27 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Wisdom Homes - Construction Delays is it worth the hassl 14Aug 19, 2023 12:15 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Wisdom Homes - Construction Delays is it worth the hassl 20Nov 28, 2023 3:25 pm Kippers01 Yes, in the past Wisdom Homes took a very, very, proactive position on social media management. Just google Wisdom Homes and ACCC! In addition, positive (or minimising negatives) social media is critical for marketing and in any forum you can often find proxies and should consider their motives. Not all business social media management is overt, it seems. Prospective customers should always consider the liquidated damages provisions in the contract when assessing project costs because a 6 month delay on a KDR can easily cost them an extra $40,000 or so. Or push them to make progress payments with significant defects outstanding. A $40 per working day liquidated damages provision is effectively only about $200 per week vs rent in parts of Sydney of around $1,500 per week. This provides minimal incentive for Wisdom Homes to complete a build on time and to reasonable quality. In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more recently, Fowler. And it does not look like ACCC went after any of the builders with the same level of rigor as it did against many other industries. People often complain about $1/$40/50 per day liquidated damages being grossly insufficient, and yet ACCC apparently had no issue with that even though every consumer who had been delayed will disagree. The industry is having a structural issue. The contracts are presented to the consumers way too late into the process, after the consumers are emotionally invested into the project having spent a lot of time and money and therefore are less likely to walk away, and will instead accept what is in the contract with a bit of sweet talk from the Sales. Sad really, but the consumers are largely on their own and the government couldn't care less. While i was across this behavior's pre appointing my (the builders) surveyor, I did tell the builder i was aware what they were doing and while i disagreed with it, they… 13 14736 Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 82121 Unless there is something in special conditions the builder does not have to give you timeline. If your demolition contractor has not removed Asbestos and it was found… 12 29082 |