My first home :)

Hi everyone! My first post on here, and hopefully if all goes well it wont be my last.
So, my dilemma, my dream block (in a new small estate) was put on the market for $210k in October last year, the price has since been dropped to $185k.
So my mother has been through this a million times, we went in and put an offer of $160k as our starting offer. The real estate agent immediately stated the seller would decline our offer, but we put it in anyway. Then I heard from the agent later that day, the seller declined our offer. Mum reckons we should go up in increments of $5k amounts. We have been approved for the full amount but as we are over budget, we would prefer to spend anything we save for extras on our build!

Apart from that we have picked our house, we will be building with Statesman. George Giannakakis from Statesman has been an amazing support, and we are off to finalize our build details and costing Sunday night. So excited!

So, waiting for the agent to get back to me I suppose!! The waiting game...

Good luck! Exciting and nerve wracking at te same time

Tell me about it! I hate the waiting game, I'm so impatient!

all the best

I agree, keep coming back with higher amounts. Maybe get the agent to advise you are first home buyers and you can only afford X amount. If you make the owner wait a bit after they reject an offer, they may come back not wanting to lose a sale

Sooo, signing our contract for our land tonight! So exciting!

hooray

Congrats!
Where abouts in the hills are you building?
We (and a few others on here) are in Mt Barker.

Congrats on the land
We were going to build the Hampstead as well with Statesman up in Mt Barker at the grove we loved that house really usable
As deluxes said where abouts are you building?!

Sounds exciting, teeshybee.

Hiya! Congrats on the land

Hi teeshybee! Good luck with the land and the house. What plan did you choose? I have George as a consultant as well and I am so grateful for all his help ( I have a bit of drama going on at the moment and he helps in solving it).

hope your build goes well

We are building near Lobethal!
So excited! Thanks everyone

Lovely spot. How are your house plans with Statesman going?

House plans have gone really well, recieved our master plans last week! Hopefully building starts the end of feb!

How exciting! Have you booked selections yet?