I'm new to this site but already I'm addicted and loving reading peoples stories.
So thought I'd add my own.
My husband, 18 month old daughter and I were told in late Jan that our rental house was being put up for sale, so we toyed with the idea of possibly buying our own home. We were planning to do this in a few years time, as we had had our hopes of building our 'dream' house shattered two years ago when we had our mortgage application rejected after bad advice from our broker.
So in Feb we had a look around at a few estates in different areas and looked at a few builders to get an idea of a price and spoke to a mortgage broker to see how long we needed to wait to be able to get a mortgage and now here we are, 2 1/2 months later. We have already been to prestart, our mortgage is approved and now just waiting for settlement in the next week or two.
Eeeek, it's all too exciting!
We are on fast track with New Gen and it certainly has been that so far! Our rep Paul has been fantastic. We originally looked at 5 different builders and once we had our land chosen we had three builders draw up plans on that block, so that process took sometime, but once we finally decided on New Gen it's all gone pretty fast.
We are building a special home based on the Accolade, which is no longer on their site. Trying to find a house design we liked with a large alfresco, games room for the hubby and a large WIR for me was pretty hard, it took a while to find something we both really liked.
I'll add the plans when I work out how to.
I'd love to hear if anyone else is on fast track, or also building in Annie's Landing?

Timeline:
Feb 14: Began thinking about building
Feb 14: Applied for a mortgage
17th April 14: Signed contract with New Gen
22nd April 14: Planning Approval
2nd May 14: Pre Start

14th May 14: Estimating Complete
14th May 14: Finance Approval
12th June 14: Settlement

23rd June 14: Building Permit
30th June 14: Scheduling
9th July 14: Site works Complete
17th July 14: SLAB


30th July 14: Bricks

23rd Aug 14: Brickie started
29th Sept 14: Brickie finished

30th Sept 14: Roof Timbers started
2nd Oct 14: Roof Carpentry complete
3rd Oct 14: Electrical install and plumbing complete
4th Oct 14: Cavity walls complete for theatre sliders
9th Oct 14: Roof started

10th Oct 14: Windows and sliders installed
10th Oct 14: Roof Completed


14th Oct 14: Drywall and Ceilings started
23rd Oct 14: Drywall, Ceilings and Cornices finished
29th Oct 14: Cabinets in
30th Oct 14: Lock Up
10th Nov 14: Grano poured, tilers done, front door on

12th Nov 14: Electrics finished
14th Nov 14: Kitchen Bench in
17th Nov 14: Aircon in and Smart wiring all finalised
18th Nov 14: Plumber done
25th Nov 14: Gloss painting and ceiling touch up done
28th Nov 14: Laminate in
2nd Nov 14: Pavers started
5th Dec 14: Carpets finished
5th Dec 14: Render complete
6th Dec 14: Pavers finished
10th Dec 14: Blinds in, final clean, inside and out
11th Dec 14: PCI


18th Dec 14: HANDOVER/KEYS


