Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building new home with Hermitage Home 2Feb 14, 2010 7:34 pm BeebsandTass Building In Manor Lakes with Hermitage Homes Re: Building new home with Hermitage Home 4Mar 03, 2010 1:38 pm balwans Hi Guy's, It is my turn to get some information from experienced people. We brought a old home in box hill south Melbourne with 2.5 meter slope(from front to back). Around 1-6 to 1.8 meter slop in building envelop. We are building a new house on this block , we have signed/agreed to build with "Hermitage Home" , put the $1000 deposit yesterday with sales consultant. Keen to hear if any of you have build or planning to build the house with hermitage homes. Specific questions are: 1). Do they start the construction on time. 2). Do they prepare the contract and paperwork on time. 3). General experience with build supervisor and admin staff . 4). Any specific thing need to take care in advance. Many thanks and looking forward for some feedback. Regards B Sorry to tell you we have had dramas with Hermitage ever since we signed the contracts. We signed our contracts in September 09 and we are still awaiting for them to start building. Contracts and paperwork - very slow, Customer service are useless never return emails or phone calls. Have everything in writing. Positive side is they are flexible in changes hopefully when building starts we don't have the dramas that we have encounted ths far. Will keep you updated. Good luck! Is it just a report written to give to the bank initially and it is based on what and how your payments are made up for, or is it a full service where they go out and… 2 5607 Hi Suku18 In NSW the statutory required insurances are: 1. HBCF ( Home Building Compensation Fund) - This is if the builder dies or goes broke. But this only covers 20%… 1 2714 For reference, this is the Austlii reference. My take on this is, that they would be breaking the law denying access to a homeowner in Victoria, or their agent from having… 1 9099 |