Hi all,
I'm in Stage 19 on Blanchard Ave
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 35Aug 30, 2014 8:38 am Phoenix, I feel your pain. Our dream to be in before chrsitmas has been ripped away. At least Metricon have given you some discount. Porter Davis has given nothing. They also told us last week that they accidently put in a drought garden instead of a formal garden on our plans. If we wanted to change it then we would need to go through developers approval again. Might I add it took the developer 4 months to approve our roof tiles that we had to upgrade to. They told us which ones we had to have and it still took them four months to approve it. I feel that since porter davis stuffed up that we should get a discount or not even pay for the garden that we did not want in the first place. You are off church road aren't you???? At least i'm still at home and am not having to rent. From memory I think you were saying you were living at your inlaws. You poor things hahaha. Lets hope we start building this week. I did email my building coordinator but of course no reply. Do you know of the delays over christmas? How long they are closed for? I am a teacher and am hoping to move in over the christmas school holidays. Don't know if that will happen. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 36Aug 30, 2014 10:04 pm Emily that's terrible... I can't believe that they won't waive any amount at all from their garden stuff up. Metricon initially declined our request for compensation but then approved it when we complained again a week or so later. Yes we are on the corner of Church and Cherryfield. Where abouts is your block? I haven't asked Metricon specifically about the breaks over the holidays but from what I've heard from others they usually stop a week or so before Christmas and begin again mid January. We've got no hope of getting in before then so I'm sort of deflated and don't care anymore. This last permit requirement has been a kick in the guts. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 37Aug 30, 2014 10:05 pm Oh so what will you do about the garden? Quite a predicament they've left you in! Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 38Aug 31, 2014 10:52 am Phoenix, I am feeling the exact same way. I don't even care and am not interested in the build anymore. We can't do anything about the garden stuff up. We just have to live with a garden that we don't want. I'm not going to change it and then have to go through the approval process again. it is just way too complicated. I am very annoyed that we still have to pay full price for something we didn't want and that they stuffed up. We are just a few streets down from where the old display homes were. So are you still waiting for the permit or have you been handed over to construction? I really hope you guys can start soon!!!! Well hopefully one day soon our houses will both start and then we can update with happy points and progress photos hahaha. Keep us updated with how it is going. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 39Sep 01, 2014 9:21 am Omg what have they done to u guys Phoenix & Emily!??! I'm so sorry to hear this ((( I don't understand why u guys have to keep going back to the developers 4 approvals? We r building with Burbank, and they already did all that b4 the land settled, the only thing that held up our building commencement was the build permit from the council (took 8 weeks). Did u wait long between signing the land contract and the settlement? We waited about 7 months, maybe that's why it gave Burbank heaps of time to get all the approvals from the developers. Emily - does it say on the build contract what ur original garden was? U should put the complaint through or maybe say something like ur gonna pull out or something? Sorry I'm not an expert, just really think it's unfair! We r building with Burbank so far so good (fingers crossed), we r coming up to the fixup stage (cabinetry, painting, tiling, etc) hopefully finishing b4 Xmas. I was in the same situation like u guys - waiting for the build to start and everyone said once it's started it's very quick, so hang in there guys.. I think if u didn't wait that long between the land contract signing and settlement maybe that's why ur still waiting for the developers/council approvals.. All the best for both of ur builds.. Keep us posted ) Building Prescott-Burbank Land Contract: 4/9 Land Settlement: 24/4 Colour: 21/5 Slab: 10/7 Frame: 15/7 Lockup: 13/8 Fixing: 2/9 PCI: 18/11 A lot of those Covenants are put in place at the time the Developers are still involved and marketing a certain look and they get ignored or expire after a time. If the… 1 3332 |