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So excited our soil test has come back as an M!

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Yaay that's great news! Were you expecting something worse? Ours is suppose to be m too, hoping that's the case at our soil test too

Yeah the street in front of us was H. We had coral put H in our estimate just in case. This means our Tender will be lower than expected.

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Yaay that's fantastic! So nice when things work out better than you expect & cheaper

Went out to check out the new road into our brand new suburb and discovered the fences were gone!! We finally got to touch our land! Thought I was going to cry, ended up giggling instead.



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Yaay can't wait for our fences to come down too! So excited for you

We are building in Aura too, our land was registered in November though! Still havent started yet (finance issues delayed), hope to have the slab down in the next month!

The whole area looks so good !!

Good luck !

Awesome!!! So glad to find someone whose building too! I keep checking online but no news of registration yet.

Who are you building with? They all seem to be going up so fast once started so I hope that continues.

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2 pieces of news! 1 awesome, 1 not so awesome.

Awesome News: Just got notification..... Our Land is Registered ?????

Not so awesome news: Tender letter came in and it's almost $8K more than the estimate. How does that happen when the soil test was M and flat and we planned for H and extra site works? I could handle it not going down, but up????

2 weeks until land settlement is looking a bit stressful when we can't split the loan. But I still can't help but be super excited! ??

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Woohoo we will be on the same time frame by the looks of it! (Except your in QLD so will be finished in 1:2 the time) I'm super excited for you too! I wanted to go have a celebratory drink on our block tonight but think perhaps we should wait until we've paid for it . Not good about tender can you see in there where the xtra $ is coming from? Perhaps they've made an error? Highly likely but woohoo again for land!!!

No we are having trouble finding where some of the extra came from because it's all grouped differently to how it was on the estimate. Other things were easy to identify. Our consultant is breaking it down for us as she is struggling to work it out too.

Other things where just wrong. Eg. We want a robe in our hallway entrance and they put a linen cupboard. The estimate clearly said robe, and the floor plan is correct so I just don't get how it happens lol.

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Our floor plan!



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Oh that's crap. sounds like you have a great SC though who's helping I think that makes a huge difference. I've read from others that HO makes a few errors so attention to detail doesn't seem one of their strong points. We had a retaining wall deleted and told although it was requested by owner C couldn't do but our SC has assured us the person that said that is wrong. Must be frustrating for SCs too as they are the ones dealing with clients and the errors fingers crossed it gets sorted soon for you we have our tile Appt in 2wks

Oh that's crap. sounds like you have a great SC though who's helping I think that makes a huge difference. I've read from others that HO makes a few errors so attention to detail doesn't seem one of their strong points. We had a retaining wall deleted and told although it was requested by owner C couldn't do but our SC has assured us the person that said that is wrong. Must be frustrating for SCs too as they are the ones dealing with clients and the errors fingers crossed it gets sorted soon for you we have our tile Appt in 2wks


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That's awesome. I can't wait to book that first appointment! I think we will go for a picnic on settlement day as well, don't want to jinx it. But might head out for dinner to celebrate today.

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It is exciting!!! You will be soon I'm sure. I'm waiting for hubby & hoping he will suggest takeaway too

We are building with McDonald Jones Homes. The Linden design This is our first home and honestly had no idea of how the process worked before we started !

But we finally got all our finance approved yesterday and within 45mins they had us on the construction list !!!

I visited our land 2 weeks ago and there are already 4 houses in our street that look close to completely done!

Things are looking up! There seems to be a hidden number in the background of the tender letter because if you add it up manually it is $13k less then their total price! Obviously an error in the excel spreadsheet that wasn't discovered before it was saved as a PDF.

Big sigh of relief 😊 Now we just need to get it fixed so we can order the contract for the loan.

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Same Kdoe, we're learning as we go. We go for a drive out every couple of weeks. It is crazy how quickly they are going up!
Just hope it keeps going that fast when it comes to our turn.

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Yaay that's fantastic news! Hopefully it will be corrected quickly

How's it all going your end?