Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 3Oct 29, 2014 1:06 pm Timeline Aug 08-Land Mar 09-Demo/Titles Sept 10-Handover No1 Sept 11-Handover No2 April 12-Sold No2 Aug 14-Land/Demo Jan 15-Slabs viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25736 Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 5Oct 30, 2014 6:53 am Our McDonald Jones Cordova Two Build - http://cordovatwomjh.blogspot.com.au Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 8Oct 30, 2014 7:48 am Our McDonald Jones Cordova Two Build - http://cordovatwomjh.blogspot.com.au Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 11Oct 30, 2014 10:35 am Our Blog: http://werelivingthedream2.tumblr.com Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 14Nov 02, 2014 8:39 am Id never sign on the day. It took me two weeks to send it back and there were many changes and questions (different builder). We too thought we had everything in there but 3 variations later were only just satisfied now lol Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 15May 28, 2015 4:08 pm Mrs Brown Bear I think what others are saying is that the tender price isn't a good indicator of the final price. We ended up around $60-70k over the tender price in the end. Plus they took so long in admin its costed me another $40k in rent I hadn't budgeted for. Now we are way more committed with the home loan than I wanted. @Mrs Brown Bear we've just received our tender from rawsons yesterday and it's come in literally just under our budget/ finance amount. I know I'll probably choose upgrades in the colour selections so we will be taking some unnecessary things out of the tender to have a bit of a buffer. I'll also be requesting a pre-selection appt to check out their standard range before accepting the quote. Just curious what made up the $60-70k on top of the tender price for you? (If you don't mind sharing) Re: Accepting the tender on the day or taking home to review 16May 28, 2015 6:35 pm This tender process is confusing to me. I'm sure someone else had a similar situation, where they were offered a bonus to sign on the day, but didn't and were still able to get the bonus. I had Metricon offer me a dishwasher if I signed on 30th of June. And I had Burbank offer to chuck in $1,500 of "vouchers" if I signed that day. The sales person made it seem as if he was doing me a HUGE favour. A week later the package they told me was ending.. did end, but a new one came out that would have saved me an additional 5k!! I didn't go with them. I'm going with a small builder, by the time I finally sign the contract I will have a fixed price contract with every upgrade, all my plans reviewed piece by piece, picked all my tiles, colours, etc and had my plan preapproved by my design panel and my finance unconditionally approved by the bank. I couldn't imagine signing before all that had happened. 4 7159 The fastest thing a builder will do is bank your cheque, those systems work perfectly with lightning speed, everything else is slow burn. Just the way it is. 1 8843 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 18799 |