Hi fellow home builders. Well hoping to use this as a space to chat to others about their build and hopefully leave some tips for those who follow in similar footsteps.
We have found some potential blocks in the Shepparton region and are negotiating with real estate at the moment and looking over section 32 which will detail any building restrictions we may encounter.
What has got us to this point? Well we looked at areas we wanted to build first then the land costs and worked out what sort of size home we could get whithin budget. Our priority was location but we hoped to be able to fit a house of around 20sq with 3 bedrooms, 2 living areas and possibly a study/spare room for visitors.
After visitng a few display homes and getting some rough quotes it appeared all was within our reach but only just.
It makes me a little nervous though that most threads I have come across have gone atleast 10k over budget.
We dont want or in fact can't afford this. We have noticed it's easy to get swept up in the extras but we figure its like a new car somthings that used to be extras are standards these days anyway so not to get carried away.
This is our 1st build so it's all new to us however we do have friends that have built and some friends who are tradies who have been good support thus far.
Next step for us is to secure our property hopefully over the next week or 2. We have sent out queries to a few of the builders requesting quotes those in the short list thus far JG King, GJ Lewis (as we like the steel frame), and Dennis family homes all have been great in this early stage providing the info we need. We like the layout of the urbis and have followed a build on here which seemed to go reasonably well.
If anybody has any early tips please feel free to share them and if anyone else is at the same early stages as us let me know good to hear your thoughts.
We are excited and nervous all at the same time... a strange strange feeling.