Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1662Apr 05, 2016 4:46 pm Kirst10 Did you both have to pay LMI bluemviews and THX? No, we didn't have to pay LMI. I know though commbank has not had any issue with wisdom payment schedules for others. Which bank are you going with? Do you have a broker? Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1663Apr 07, 2016 10:03 pm Hi guys, Need your help on brick (PGH, Austral or Boral) upgrades, does any one went to darker color like chocolate or dark brown? How much did you paid for upgrade? Thanks in advance, Navy navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1664Apr 08, 2016 1:10 am NavyLion Hi guys, Need your help on brick (PGH, Austral or Boral) upgrades, does any one went to darker color like chocolate or dark brown? How much did you paid for upgrade? Thanks in advance, Navy We went for the chocolatto in PGH which is exposed grade brick and is in the inclusive range so no extra cost. Once you select few colours they will give you some physical address to go and have a look. Building Washington 29, Avanti Facade. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1665Apr 08, 2016 6:14 am Thanks Hashem! navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1666Apr 08, 2016 6:19 am Hi navylion, we have upgraded to a Bowral brick, Brahman granite. Complete upgrade. For our single story 31sq, little over $11k. It is a dry pressed brick, so more insulation too. Building Wisdom Homes Serenity 31 Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1667Apr 08, 2016 6:20 am Thanks Kirst, we'll take that in our notes. navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1668Apr 08, 2016 6:25 am Hi Willodweller, the balcony gets waterproofed with this black paint stuff and that goes up into the doorway so that flooding etc would not affect the internals of the house. Got it done for my own balcony (Savannah, no roof as well). Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1670Apr 08, 2016 3:31 pm Great news, Wisdom have changed their payment structure to meet the LMI requirements. They certainly didnt want to. But it can be done (with the GM's approval). Just incase anyone else encounters the same issue one day, don't take no for an answer, especially if a wisdom home is what you want. We didnt have a 'back up house', so this was our only option. Look forward to getting the revised contract and progressing! What a stressful couple of weeks... Building Wisdom Homes Serenity 31 Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1671Apr 08, 2016 3:49 pm Hi kirst, Well done. What sort of payment structure did you have now? Navy navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1672Apr 08, 2016 3:59 pm I mean, is that still progressing payment or pay the 95% later ?? navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1673Apr 08, 2016 8:18 pm NavyLion Hi guys, Need your help on brick (PGH, Austral or Boral) upgrades, does any one went to darker color like chocolate or dark brown? How much did you paid for upgrade? Thanks in advance, Navy We went with the Wilderness Blackbutt which is an Austral brick. Part of the included range, so no upgrade required (exposure grade) Dark chocolate brick. Hoping my image works Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1674Apr 08, 2016 8:28 pm Thanks MissGoldy, Dark chocolate is our 1st choice, lovely image ? We got more ideas now. Regards, Navy navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1676Apr 08, 2016 8:56 pm I see now. I thought the GM gave you 5% deposit and 95% pay later (or handover) ? Thanks for the info. Regards. Kirst10 So now we have 5%, 15%, 30%, 20, 20, 10. Not all that much different. So don't know what the fuss was about!!! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1677Apr 09, 2016 11:19 am Hi Kirst10, congratulations on your negotiations! I am really glad they have finally come to there senses! I would really hate to see other people go through what we did last year. After a heartbreaking 6 months of dealings with wisdom, over 5k deposit lost, lots of time off for work at selection appointments, rent and interest on land all lost due to a 6 week fight with the bank and wisdom ending with wisdom refusing to amend their progress payments to the ones now required by the banks and as you have gotten. We were corned into a situation where we either lost over 20k in LMI by changing banks as our land loan was with westpac or lost 6 months and 5k if we changed builders. We chose to change builders, after Wisdom left a very sour taste in our mouth. We originally ran two tenders at the same time - fowler homes Paris 34 and wisdom majestic 35. Unfortunately we chose wisdom as we loved the plans a little more and the tender presenter Katie was amazing! This was our mistake. As soon as we were told for about the 5th time that they were not going to change their schedule and taking it as far as we could, we went back to fowler asking if they would still honour their tender presented to us and also change their progress payments to those required by the bank, I had and answer back by email confirming that yes they would and we haven't looked back since. After experiencing the full colour, electrical kitchen and tile appointments (yes we had gone through this full process with wisdom so you can imagine how emotionally invested we were) then going through the same with fowler, I can honestly say that I am GLAD that we are not going with Wisdom. The customer service, the inclusions, the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the house and products you want in your house from fowler has been amazing. Electrical inclusions are fantastic, kitchen upgrades don't cost a bomb and changing models of things like kitchen sinks and bathtubs...not a drama!! Anyone reading these threads considering wisdom homes, please speak to fowler first, they have great home designs, great inclusions and most importantly I cannot fault their staff and service! If your still stuck on one particular design with wisdom or any other builder, ask the question "will you change your progress payments" and if so, speak to your bank and get them both to agree to the %'s in writing first! Good luck with you build! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1678Apr 09, 2016 12:05 pm Wow KP16 how disappointing for you. We were in the same boat as Krist 10 and we are with Westpac too. Fortunately the bank agreed to change their payment schedule and we didn't need LMI so maybe that helped - it just seems to be the luck of the draw with who you get with either the builder or the bank as to your success. But i would been seething if i had invested that much time and then had to start again. 5k is disappointing enough but the loss of 6 mths is so annoying. I guess the advantage with a second round of selections is that you can really confirm if you like what you choose or not. We also didn't have any drama's with Wisdom changing most of our bath items or kitchen sink, spouts etc and the price for us hasn't been exorbitantly marked up. We just went to Reece noted the item number and sent to our consultant who got it priced up. We had a tender with another builder and have found Wisdom to be cheaper with a lot of the upgrades than the other builder. No one seems to get the same experience i seem to detect Navy Lion, we went with PGH Espresso - we have just had them acid washed and we are sooooo happy with the result. Looks so good and it was an inclusive brick so no extra costs (even better ) I will try and post a pic if you want cheers Lou Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 1679Apr 09, 2016 12:13 pm Hi Lou, Thanks, yes please post the pics at your convenient time, really appreciate it. Regards, Navy navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. How long are variations taking with other companies at the moment? We… 0 18466 In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more… 19 73469 Hi Everyone, I am exploring builder in NSW and received a very tempting quote from Wisdom home for their momentum series. I just want to know experience of building… 0 8234 |