Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 13Jan 12, 2015 1:23 pm We are contracted to build the providence 26. The majority of the delays were due to my home central. We were delayed 4 weeks in booking our selection appointments, and now we've been waiting 2 weeks so far for them to finalize our file with no end in sight. I've requested they either meet the jan 31 tender expiry deadline we have. (We have met all their requirements to date). They won't meet the tender expiry date and basically told us if we don't mutually extend, we'll cop a price rise which is in the vacinity of 10k. After you sign the contract you can't pay the 3k to extend the tender. We also had other issues with drafting earlier on in the process, getting our names wrong, then taking another 2 weeks to correct it. We also had concerns with the bushfire requirements which didn't match the Australian standards. We used the gregory hills sales office, but the sales consultant we went through has since moved on to McDonald jones. Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 14Jan 12, 2015 2:35 pm Thanks Extreme for all your information. We will definitely take all that on board and proceed with caution. I am worried because we love the house so much (the display) and don't really like anyone else. but if you say it's not as good quality - how do you know this? Has someone you know built a wisdom home and found its not as good? You have also not started building yet so seems as though you know someone else who's been burnt, ie. Your comment about building 6 months months longer than others? But again, thanks for the feedback. Definitely keep on them and make sure everything is in writing. Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 15Jan 12, 2015 3:51 pm I've seen first hand another wisdom builder take twice as long to go up compared to their newly completed shell cove displays. Issues with brick layers and quality, to issues of them trying to claim rain delays for days they were on site working. Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 16Jan 12, 2015 3:52 pm Just remember virtually any builder can build a house to your specs. Don't get caught up with wisdoms styling etc etc. the colour consultant we had, had only started work with wisdom the week before Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 17Jan 13, 2015 1:43 pm Also I'd like to add that with a Wisdom display home, you basically need to double the price of the base home price to make it look and feel like the display home, my Mrs found it very alluring. Lucikly I didn't show her Metricons which are the worst for this sort of thing It's not just about the 30k front facade and the 30k rear balcony or Alfresco, all the internal high stained doors, nice windows with shutters, upgraded kitchen, upgraded bathrooms are easily 50-60k over the base price. Then there's the rendering and bag finish all over the house, the colourbond roof at 25 degrees, another 30-40k easy++ I'm already at 200k, fancy tiles, the thick carpet with the thick underlay. could go on and on. The display home as displayed is 700k+ whereas the price on the pricelist is less than 400... Wisdom Homes Abode 27 KDRB - Inner West Sydney https://wisdomhomesabode27.wordpress.com/ Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 19Jan 20, 2015 3:36 pm am99 I've heard from our neighbour that registration has been pushed back to end of feb/beginning March. Bruce told them this he said it's because he's waiting for two certificates. Re: Anyone bought in North Kellyville. Kakadu Street?? 20Mar 01, 2015 12:20 am Hi Mummawalshie, Looks like settlement will be end of next week, this is what the agent told me. How are you going with your house plans? Who are you going with and when do you think you will start building? Petercurtis You able to contact the certifier and get a copy of your structural plans, if they are not in your contract. If your home was approved via CDC then they… 1 20187 Hi all. I'm thinking of installing an electric gate in front of this street front villa (link below). The gate would be between the bush on the left and the letter box on… 0 2780 Thanks! I'm spoke to the builder I'm not sure if this is all true but basically went along the lines of they considered all options and if I was to compact and fill it… 2 7316 |