K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis

Welcome to the hgwa family - there are lots of us on here
Your plan looks great - especially your massive alfresco. Looking forward to following your build.

Congrats on the start of your building journey! I love that plan, it looks massive! Me too I love that alfresco too, looks huge!! Fingers crossed for you titles are soon, look forward to following

Yay you made your thread Love the plan! That alfresco is huuuuge.

Thanks everyone! I love our plan, its been months of designing! And pre-start is around the corner, and I cant decide what I want colour wise!
rebellagacy we are building in The Spires Estate in Baldivis.
leni - north is shown correctly. Its a battleaxe block - 15 x 43 meters so we kind of had to design the block this way. Our current rental is situated the same way on the block (with the living areas in pretty much the same spot) and it has actually been really good, cool in summer and warm in winter. Strange right?!
I don't mind that the WIR's don't have doors in the master bedroom. And my one big brief was storage storage storage, and I think I have managed that!
Cleaning three toilets is going to be a pain though hahahaha

Love the changes you made to your plan

Thanks jlo1990! Me too! I cant wait to actually see it built!
me786 - We saw the block first and put a deposit down. We knew we wanted the big block (646sqm) but because of the shape (long and skinny) we knew it was going to be a custom build and because of the garage and workshop. (My husband is a mechanic) I emailed about 4 different builders, told them our budget, the size of our block and what we wanted in the house. All four builders got back to me, we went and met with them all and they showed us some of their house designs. It was down to two builders, but we eventually chose Home Group WA, because they ended up being cheaper (slightly!), and our sales consultant was really good. Our house ended up being a modification of the Naples, because we loved the rear living design.

Thanks ColleyCrew!

Following now, somehow I missed your thread Mrs Macca Pacca

I haven't posted in a while because we have had quite a bit of trouble obtaining finance. BankWest valued the property at $70k under what we needed. NAB valued it $30k under. My Husband was ready to walk away from it all and just save some more money when we were told by HGWA that if we were to walk away we would be receiving a big bill for their work.
It confuses me a bit because we couldn't apply for finance without the building contract, but to get the building contract they had to do the work drawing up plans. I wasn't willing to just throw money away for nothing, so pushed my Broker to try CBA, and what do you know, they came back $10k over what we need. So currently in the process of applying for finance with CBA and we should find out in the next couple of weeks I hope.
In the meantime, Titles have actually issued, but I haven't been able to get excited because of the whole finance debarcle.
I have heard that the banks are cracking down, and I understand that Baldivis isn't the place to make mega bucks on an investment, but $70k under?? What are they thinking?!

Glad to hear that your finance got sorted.
It is very confusing how financial institutes value the property

Also surprised to hear that HGWA was going to charge you a lot for their preliminary work (?) I would consider that a push sales technique. Any charges/fees should be clearly disclosed in advance and agreed before proceeding.
I have escaped few pushy sales rep in past, very horrible experience. Will never recommend those cowboys.

Hope everything goes well for you