Browse Forums Building A New House Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9723Apr 06, 2015 10:22 am CathyLeigh Building the Monte Carlo Executive with rear activities with Balinese Resort Facade, Salt Water Beach Estate, Wallabi Point Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9724Apr 06, 2015 10:30 am Saintly 60 Is anticon suggested for colour bond roofs Building MJH Garden Retreat modified Lot 305 Wattleridge Crescent Kellyville Hi Saintly60 We had to get the anticon blanket (which was an additional $4,000.00) because we are in a BAL 12.5 bushfire zone. I am glad we are getting it now because the house should be really well insulated. CathyLeigh CathyLeigh Building the Monte Carlo Executive with rear activities with Balinese Resort Facade, Salt Water Beach Estate, Wallabi Point Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9725Apr 06, 2015 10:33 am cwiseman Oh right- yeah we are bag and painting with Manhattan! Am loving the choice of facade- watching it come together and makes the home so streamlined! I love it Hey CWiseman Love watching your house come together with all the photos you post on the forum. You must be really happy with the way things are progressing. Can't wait to see your bag and paint colour Manhatton because we have chosen it also. We are signing our Building Contract this week. Happy days!!! CathyLeigh CathyLeigh Building the Monte Carlo Executive with rear activities with Balinese Resort Facade, Salt Water Beach Estate, Wallabi Point Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9726Apr 06, 2015 11:28 am Yeah we are very happy with or timeline so far! Fingers crossed nothing jinxes us! Will be sure to post a pic once done- few months away yet Building the Bronte Executive Grande at Windella NSW Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9727Apr 06, 2015 11:43 am CathyLeigh Davidr13 Hopefully things start to get moving this week. Land was registered last week. Settlement on Friday of this week. Can anyone tell me if MJH waits to sight my land deed before going any further? I wonder if I should personally attend the settlement, in order to get the deed quicker? Electric appointment on Monday the 13th. Now to push things along, if I can, to get plans into council. Hi David I work in a law firm and attend settlements all the time. If you are cash purchaser then your solicitor will collect the Title Deed on settlement; however, if you are borrowing through a bank then your bank will attend settlement and collect the Title Deed as security. If your bank takes the Title Deed on settlement your solicitor will still attend the settlement they just won't receive the Title Deed if you are borrowing through a bank. Also, the Title Deed will not be in your name on settlement. It will still be in the name of the last owner. Whoever collects the Title Deed on settlement (your solicitor or your bank) will have to then send the Title Deed, Transfer, Discharge of Mortgage (if the last owner had a mortgage on the property) and Notice of Sale documents to the LPI (which is the Land Titles Office) and then arrange for the Title Deed and transfer documents to be registered and transferred into your name. Maybe MJH would accept a letter from your Solicitor after settlement confirming that settlement has taken place and that you are now the owner of the property instead of waiting for the Title Deed to be actually transferred into your name. May just save you a week or two, depending on how busy the Land Titles Office is. As far as I know, MJH will require proof of ownership of the land before commencing construction so maybe a letter from your Solicitor will suffice. Hope this makes sense. CathyLeigh Hi Cathy Many thanks for all the good information. It all makes sense to me now. I am a cash purchaser, which might speed things up a bit. Small problem is that I live in Sydney, so my lawyer is here as well. But the land is in Nowra. My lawyer is not too keen to go there, and I am also not very keen to pay for his trip and time! He tells me that he does not have to attend. The land is a new development and for some reason the local council also wants to attend the settlement. Thats why I was thinking that I could attend the settlement, so I can collect the deed myself. I will speak to my lawyer on Tuesday about this, as well as MJH. Maybe a letter will suffice for MJH? Like most who are having a home built, I am anxious to get started, and to stop paying rent. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9728Apr 06, 2015 12:14 pm Davidr13 CathyLeigh Davidr13 Hopefully things start to get moving this week. Land was registered last week. Settlement on Friday of this week. Can anyone tell me if MJH waits to sight my land deed before going any further? I wonder if I should personally attend the settlement, in order to get the deed quicker? Electric appointment on Monday the 13th. Now to push things along, if I can, to get plans into council. Hi David I work in a law firm and attend settlements all the time. If you are cash purchaser then your solicitor will collect the Title Deed on settlement; however, if you are borrowing through a bank then your bank will attend settlement and collect the Title Deed as security. If your bank takes the Title Deed on settlement your solicitor will still attend the settlement they just won't receive the Title Deed if you are borrowing through a bank. Also, the Title Deed will not be in your name on settlement. It will still be in the name of the last owner. Whoever collects the Title Deed on settlement (your solicitor or your bank) will have to then send the Title Deed, Transfer, Discharge of Mortgage (if the last owner had a mortgage on the property) and Notice of Sale documents to the LPI (which is the Land Titles Office) and then arrange for the Title Deed and transfer documents to be registered and transferred into your name. Maybe MJH would accept a letter from your Solicitor after settlement confirming that settlement has taken place and that you are now the owner of the property instead of waiting for the Title Deed to be actually transferred into your name. May just save you a week or two, depending on how busy the Land Titles Office is. As far as I know, MJH will require proof of ownership of the land before commencing construction so maybe a letter from your Solicitor will suffice. Hope this makes sense. CathyLeigh Hi Cathy Many thanks for all the good information. It all makes sense to me now. I am a cash purchaser, which might speed things up a bit. Small problem is that I live in Sydney, so my lawyer is here as well. But the land is in Nowra. My lawyer is not too keen to go there, and I am also not very keen to pay for his trip and time! He tells me that he does not have to attend. The land is a new development and for some reason the local council also wants to attend the settlement. Thats why I was thinking that I could attend the settlement, so I can collect the deed myself. I will speak to my lawyer on Tuesday about this, as well as MJH. Maybe a letter will suffice for MJH? Like most who are having a home built, I am anxious to get started, and to stop paying rent. Hi David Usually if we have a settlement which is to take place in Sydney and we are located in Newcastle we would get the Solicitor on the otherwise to act as our unpaid agent. So that means they would attend settlement on our behalf and then send all documents to us in the mail. This is usual practice and is probably what your solicitor is doing so he doesn't have to spend all that time travelling. Being a cash purchaser definitely will make the process a lot easier. Good luck with your build. CathyLeigh CathyLeigh Building the Monte Carlo Executive with rear activities with Balinese Resort Facade, Salt Water Beach Estate, Wallabi Point Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9729Apr 06, 2015 4:24 pm gohmsen Hi guys Hope everyone has had a nice Easter. Do MJH normally install A/C unit before gyprock or do they do it all after . Hi Gohmsen, We are Gyprocked and they haven't installed ours yet. I hope that helps. Building the Milano Four 15m Plan in Bingara Gorge Visit our blog Below http://mjh-milano-15m-bingara-gorge.blogspot.com.au Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9730Apr 06, 2015 5:48 pm gohmsen Hi guys Hope everyone has had a nice Easter. Do MJH normally install A/C unit before gyprock or do they do it all after . Hi gohmsen, You'll probably find that'll be installed towards the pointy end of the build. You'd think it would be easier to do all that work before gyprock but I'm sure they have their reasons i.e maybe they worry the unit will be stolen so they leave it towards the end, hope this helps Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9731Apr 06, 2015 7:23 pm I agree, we are nearly done and the aircon is due this week, around the same time as flooring and splash back. I think they only budget a single day to visit so all the vents are cut in at the same time, after painting. http://brontelodge.blogspot.com.au http://brontelodge.blogspot.com.au/ Deposit 22/03 Land 08/04 Colours 02/06 Contract 07/07 Elec 02/09 DA 04/09 Cons list 25/09 Slab 13/11 Frames 25/11 Roof 10/12 Bricks 16/01/15 Locked up 13/02 Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9733Apr 06, 2015 7:35 pm Our aircon was done after painting and electrical.... they must have only taken half a day to do ours. Our dog run is now complete ready to go... 1 week to go until PCI Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9735Apr 06, 2015 9:03 pm That would be cool! We closed ours in so don't have that option but are putting a shutter in the home theatre niche! I think it would look great Building the Bronte Executive Grande at Windella NSW Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9736Apr 06, 2015 9:14 pm So we have carpet dramas a week before what was meant to be our handover I've tried to not think about the build this weekend as it's been stressing me out so much but it's time to snap back to reality and deal with it. Our carpet was meant to go down over a week ago and we were just told Wednesday afternoon last week (Night before PCI) that the stupid supplier doesn't have our carpet in stock and won't be getting it back in until late April. I hate to think how long it would take to ship in and get installed after that! Thanks supplier for telling everybody at the last minute! Our poor SS has been running around trying to sort it out for us. We've already given our notice to vacate this property and booked a removal a week and a half from now! Anyhow I will be hopefully selecting a new carpet tomorrow at the colour studio that is in stock to not delay handover. I only selected a fairly cheap carpet last year at colours because the house will most likely get rented out when we post out of location but we're willing to pay some extra money now to not delay handover any further! I loved the Eco+ carpet when I saw it but thought it may be out of budget and now can't remember how much it cost. Can anybody who selected the Eco + Carpet share how much they spent? I know its relative to the m2 but if i have a rough idea it might soften the blow tomorrow. FWIW we spent just over 3k to do bedrooms and home theatre with our current selection. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9737Apr 06, 2015 10:02 pm Wow! I really love that! We have a feature cut out thingy too (not in a bronte). I didn't want to fill mine in as the room needs the light from the front door/hallway but i hadn't considered doing anything to it other than shutters. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9738Apr 07, 2015 12:49 pm SMS from MDJ. "The site preparation for your home has now been completed . Regards McDonald Jones... I don't know what's this means, will drop by this arvo to check...so excited Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9739Apr 07, 2015 1:47 pm welcomehome SMS from MDJ. "The site preparation for your home has now been completed . Regards McDonald Jones... I don't know what's this means, will drop by this arvo to check...so excited Might of been Site Cut. Or at the very least Fence/toilet or pegged. Building the Milano Four 15m Plan in Bingara Gorge Visit our blog Below http://mjh-milano-15m-bingara-gorge.blogspot.com.au Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 9740Apr 07, 2015 2:29 pm J and A welcomehome SMS from MDJ. "The site preparation for your home has now been completed . Regards McDonald Jones... I don't know what's this means, will drop by this arvo to check...so excited Might of been Site Cut. Or at the very least Fence/toilet or pegged. It could be a Site Cut as the block was pegged before Easter. Hi AKG, We had a base tender of $592 for 31 squares from MC Donald Jones. It looks relatively cheaper than other builders. But I assume there are many hidden things that… 1 17251 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 11660 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! 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