Browse Forums Building A New House Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 7Jun 11, 2015 11:50 pm Recently moved to a 60's home in need of some improvement! http://s797.photobucket.com/user/leenii ... ch%20House Old house: http://s797.photobucket.com/albums/yy25 ... loo/House/ Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 9Jun 12, 2015 1:59 pm Our build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70984 Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 16Aug 20, 2015 9:56 pm Following now, somehow I missed your thread Mrs Macca Pacca Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 17Aug 21, 2015 11:53 am Hi MrsM! Just caught up with your thread. I love your design. The way you have managed to fit the shed and workshop on is great! The only thing I would suggest is to consider a door on the en-suite. Speaking from experience, it can be really annoying if your other half gets up earlier than you (especially in winter) and has to turn the light on, noise of electric toothbrush/hairdryer etc. Its a personal thing though! Have you done pre-start yet? Can't wait to see you colour choices! Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 18Aug 21, 2015 12:00 pm I haven't posted in a while because we have had quite a bit of trouble obtaining finance. BankWest valued the property at $70k under what we needed. NAB valued it $30k under. My Husband was ready to walk away from it all and just save some more money when we were told by HGWA that if we were to walk away we would be receiving a big bill for their work. It confuses me a bit because we couldn't apply for finance without the building contract, but to get the building contract they had to do the work drawing up plans. I wasn't willing to just throw money away for nothing, so pushed my Broker to try CBA, and what do you know, they came back $10k over what we need. So currently in the process of applying for finance with CBA and we should find out in the next couple of weeks I hope. In the meantime, Titles have actually issued, but I haven't been able to get excited because of the whole finance debarcle. I have heard that the banks are cracking down, and I understand that Baldivis isn't the place to make mega bucks on an investment, but $70k under?? What are they thinking?! Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 19Aug 21, 2015 12:07 pm Quote: Hi MrsM! Just caught up with your thread. I love your design. The way you have managed to fit the shed and workshop on is great! The only thing I would suggest is to consider a door on the en-suite. Speaking from experience, it can be really annoying if your other half gets up earlier than you (especially in winter) and has to turn the light on, noise of electric toothbrush/hairdryer etc. Its a personal thing though! Have you done pre-start yet? Can't wait to see you colour choices! Thanks nikkis2000! I have been looking at that about the door (to both the ensuite and the wir's). We had initially considered a slider, because there isn't that much room for a door, and then we took it out. We have never shut the door to the bathroom so that was our reasoning by removing the door, but I am going to put it on my list of things to reconsider! We have selected our tiles but haven't completed pre-start as yet. We put everything on hold with HGWA while we are waiting for Finance Approval. I'm hoping to hear something next week! Once I get finance approval, I will post all my photos. I haven't even take a photo of our block yet! Trying to not jinx it all Re: K & L's HGWA Build Baldivis 20Aug 21, 2015 1:07 pm Glad to hear that your finance got sorted. It is very confusing how financial institutes value the property Also surprised to hear that HGWA was going to charge you a lot for their preliminary work (?) I would consider that a push sales technique. Any charges/fees should be clearly disclosed in advance and agreed before proceeding. I have escaped few pushy sales rep in past, very horrible experience. Will never recommend those cowboys. Hope everything goes well for you Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 17591 Hi, did you get any money from insurance? if you did, does it match what you've already paid the builders? 3 9565 Hi We have finally decided to complete a KDR on our corner plot in NE Melbourne suburbs. Given its a corner plot approx. 400 sqm just a standard design may not fit the… 0 8564 |