We have been reading all these wonderful blogs and thought we would jump onboard and do our own. We are currently waiting for the building license which we are hoping to have council approval by the end of the week, it has been 9 weeks now.
We sold our current house after the surprise 3rd child and are renting back while the build is going on, but the biggest lesson so far is patience, patience, patience.
Waiting for the house to sell, waiting for the bank formal approval, waiting for title release and settlement and now council approval. It never happens as quickly as you would like.
Anyway, hope to have something more exciting to share soon.