Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 21May 24, 2017 10:50 pm Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I am thinking of going with Mimosa just because of their price and floor plan. I am also getting fixed site cost with them. Your points are making me to think again. Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 22May 24, 2017 10:59 pm When i started building, there was no one to guide me about Mimosa. I solely went because of their design and amazing sales person. The price was decent, so do fix site cost. But proper communication service is something i prefer to get even if i have to pay more. All builders are going to charge everything to us, so some items are cheaper to one builder but others are expensive. In my own street, i have seen houses started after mine or similar time and finished already with people moved in and i am still waiting. Ps: in early states i found mimosa facebook page blocking negative feedback and only approving positive instead of letting all being visible and address them as professional orgs, therefore i said product review not their facebook page. Again, the build quality has been good. I hired my own independent inspector (Darbecca) who found issues and Mimosa was great getting identified things fixed. So highly recommend to hire independent inspector for any builder u chose. It's money worth spend. I think if I didn't have my inspector all defects found would have been left as it is and it may had impact later after maintenance period which would have been worse Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 25May 24, 2017 11:08 pm All builders give u similar time frame in contract. So if u have already spend good time with Mimosa then that might be the better choice than starting from scratch with another builder, but if u just started the hunting then look for others too. Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 27May 30, 2017 11:46 am Hi jmasood, Good to see your construction progressing well. We are building with mimosa homes as well. Construction starting in 2 – 3 weeks. Just a quick question, do you have to pay the electricity connection fee and usage charges while your home is being built ? or is the electricity under Mimosa's name during construction and it'll only get transferred to yours after handover ? We've just got an email from our consultant at mimosa asking us to sign the energy australia electricity set up form. Which says there'll be connection fee of $700. I thought builders were responsible for paying the electricity usage while the house is under construction ? TIA. Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 29May 30, 2017 12:34 pm Thanks for getting back Do you mind me asking how much was the meter connection fee in your case? $700 (that they've mentioned as being the maximum that could be charged) sounds a bit too much... Thanks.. Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 30May 30, 2017 12:36 pm Kanban85 Thanks for getting back Do you mind me asking how much was the meter connection fee in your case? $700 (that they've mentioned as being the maximum that could be charged) sounds a bit too much... Thanks.. Hi Mate, May I know the design you are going with and how's it so far with Mimosa? Thanks Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 31May 30, 2017 12:44 pm It was about $550 i think, i believe it is whatever the service provider charge. I am building Johanna 240, it's going ok. Tiling has been completed today. Let see how long they take further for rest of the work till handover. Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 32May 30, 2017 1:09 pm Cool thanks for that. Good luck with the rest of your build. Looks great so far. We are building Saba 287. Sales and pre construction experience has been good so far. Hope it stays that way till the end.... Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 34May 30, 2017 1:29 pm Kanban85 Cool thanks for that. Good luck with the rest of your build. Looks great so far. We are building Saba 287. Sales and pre construction experience has been good so far. Hope it stays that way till the end.... Great, good luck. It's good design but we skipped it as it did not meet our requirements. The pre-sales experience has always been good, but in my case issues started happening when file went to head office. It was a bad experience, the higher standard set by sales person went all the way to worse, however after waste of some time sales agent helped me to escalate it further, the business owner got it fixed and since then new head office consultants I have been communicating are amazing. PS: Proactive communication from head office is not that great, I have to contact them myself regularly to be aware of the progress of build. Even till date when work is almost done, they cannot tell me date of completion but a rough idea when can i expect. It may be because of more orders vs less resources, but that's definitely an area of improvement for them. Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 37Aug 31, 2017 5:01 pm Hand over has been good. Overall Quality of build is good but paint work has not been great a lot of marks and patches getting visible daily. Lesson learnt is to make sure each bit is checked before signing anything as many of items i am getting response like it's accepted as per Australian standard. Other items are getting fixed like tiling issue and plumbing stuff Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 39Oct 11, 2017 12:20 pm Mimosa have 6 months defect period. But I suggest everyone to go through every single thing especially around paint marks in sunlight and other lighting for not missing anything. I did hired Darbecca for all stages but there were some things not picked by them and builder saying it was not in final report so never existed before. So don't sign anything and take your time. Mimosa is trying to give hard time on some item fixes which were pending for last 3 months, but their upper management is very good so far and listening so let see how it goes. I noticed crack already in garage area. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Journey with Mimosa Homes VIC 40Dec 18, 2017 7:54 am AVOID MIMOSA IF YOU WANT TO AVOID POST HANDOVER STRESS. THEY TAKE AGES TO FIX THING AND THEN SAY WE R PUSHING BUT THEN SUPPLIER WHO HAS AGREEMENT WITH OUR VENDOR IS NOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH US. WHICH MEAN THEY CANNOT DO ANYTHING OR WANT TO ESCALATE. Any advice on how to ensure the kit home granny flat that im thinking of buying will get council approval. The kit home companys wont release plans without a deposit and… 0 7110 I have posted this before: We hired Darbecca to do every stage inspection, and I strongly recommend them to anyone that asks me. They were amazing. Thorough reports… 2 4410 Ask for references and speak to them. 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