Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0

Beeprelude, I thought our build was the longest. It finished in 3 years from the day we first engaged M or 2 years and 3 months from the deposit.

I am impressed with your patience!

We are the same as you Shire_synergy. Some joy today .... i was told (by M) there shouldn't be a hob & asked to send pics.

For all of you looking forward to seeing the back of M .... almost 2 years since keys & i had tradies out last week, 2 more due out next week (all at M's expense)! So still dealing with M. The good news is .... it doesn't stress me at all anymore & the delay is partly my fault for not getting around to reporting/chasing issues. Have just decided to tackle all remaining things now ... hence the current flood of visitors.

That being said .... all of the problems being looked at/fixed are recurring issues (where more than one fix has been necessary to get it right). Fortunately i work a 4 day week so line up tradies for my day off, so I am never too inconvenienced.

Am still hopeful that by the 2 year "moving in" anniversary (may i think?) .... all will be done.

Did anyone sign the building contract at home and mail it back to M? I thought this was a bit strange. Also strange that the insurance expires next month!

Definitely not they are supposed to go through it with you and warranty should finish when your house is completed.

I thought that would be the proper way to do things.
On the one hand I just want to get it over and done with and they said I can't change any terms of the contract anyway. On the other hand, a lot of things look a bit sus: 365 working day build time, no BASIX form but a stamp to sign, plans with hand written notes rather final version.

Problem is that the house design is perfect for our land size, which makes it hard to back out.

WOW - 365 working days, are you kidding me? That's almost a 2 year build, once you add rain days/public holidays & Xmas shutdown for a month (which will probably happen twice, depending on when you start the build!)

When we built our villina 2 years ago it was 200 working days - surely the shortage of tradies isn't that bad? That's an awful lot of rent to be paying while you are waiting .......

I know! I almost missed the clause with the Building Period because it wasn't in the HIA booklet but in a separate "Particulars of the contract" list.

I will look into getting legal advice.

Yes, I'll be on this forum until 2020!

They more than likely made an error on the calculations with days. They quoted me 7-10months. But had written down 322 working days which equalled 16 months. Had to make them change to 230 days (still not happy about it but they won't bludge any more). They had calculated as 7 days instead of 5 days working week. I reckon the f*** up on urs like this too. Make them fix it. I did.