Hey,
I stumbled across this page whilst looking for other people's experiences building with Ventura Homes and found it so useful so I decided to start my own as we're about to embark on this crazy building journey! We sold up our house SOR with a vision to buy NOR to be closer to family. After looking for ages at established home and finding nothing we liked, we decided to build. We decided on Ventura as they had a plan that came close to what we want and liked all the 'extras' that was included. After talking to the sales guy at the display village, he sourced us a block in Woburn Park which is in The Vines ( we were originally looking in Ellenbrook, but more than happy with this location).
Anyways, we put an offer on the block early may (don't have exact dates at the moment as I'm laying in bed) which was accepted. Titles were originally due in June but we're now looking at early July. Our finance got approved a couple of weeks ago so that's that out of the way.
So we've chosen to build the premiere plus. We made a few changes to it and after seeing the plans both hubby and I are pretty excited and can't wait to get the build started. Will post pics of before and after plans later but basically we wanted a house with one big open living area as oppose to having separate family/formal/media/games as we had 3 separate living areas in our old home and 2 of these ended up being wasted space as we never use them. We've signed the preliminary contracts on the 25 may, had our pre-start 12 June (where we upgraded more than we thought we would) and so now waiting for titles and final contracts.
Apart from a couple issues (such as things being left out in original costing by our sales dude) it so far has been a pleasant experience. Lets hope this continues!!