Hi All,
First post here on this forum. New to building (but not renovating!) so needing a lot of advise!!! This will be our third home but first new home.
Hubby & I have deposited on a block of land at Gregory Hills and where set to build with Widsom Homes (Providence 26 MKII). We had our ""tender"" presentation last week which was a bit of a joke. The survey hadn't been done as they couldn't gain access to the land (fair enough) but everything we asked as extras hadn't even been included in the tender so instead of the suggested 2 hr presentation we where there for maybe 30 mins?? The consultant apologised and said they would redo the tender and have it ready for Thursday - well Thursday came and went and nothing... :/ We love the house and the sales service we got from the sales rep at Oran Park was great (the one at Gregory Hills was useless :/) so couldnt' fault them there. But since it's gone to head office things have just gone pear shapped and we haven't even gotten past the price yet!!!
We are thinking of pulling the pin and doing our $700 in as their customer service sucks and going with EB and possibly build the Saville 27 or the Manchester 23 based on the fact that EB are really pushing the ""Fixed priced tender"" (""no more to pay, if something happens they wear it"" policy they seem to have. This was attractive to us a we don't want any unexpected site costs coming in as these could send us over budget. But on googling EB & reading on the forum a lot of people have had issues with the so called fixed priced tenders not being fixed price. Is this correct?? If so what are they trying to sting you for???
We walked past a Masterton home yesterday and never even considered building with a ""big guy"" but we fell in love with the Overture 26.7. It's everything we need and are waiting for their free quote with a few modifications.
The issue we have at the moment is we have pretty much over Wisdom but will wait for their tender to come back to see what it comes in at. We are thinking of putting down the $750 deposit to secure the $6000 promo that EB have at the moment and also avoid the price increase that happens as of tomorrow. Also as a long weekend special they had an additional $2000 promo. Way we see it is if we don't we are loosing out on the $3000 price increase that will happen tomorrow and then the $2000 (so $5000 all up) as opposed to loosing $750 if we decide not to go with them.... but the research from last night about the not so fixed price tender has us worried.... :/
Thoughts? Suggestions? Experiences?
We have sold our home and it settled last week and we are now renting and obviously would like to get this process happening as fast as we can (land due to register July/August) and would to be in this time next yr which is what the time frame with Wisdom was to be. We have two small children and I am finding this whole process extermely stressful I barely sleep at night!!!!!!!!!! I have to say renovating was Much easier!!
TIA,