Just starting off a thread to put down our journey and get some advice from the wise one's who're going through the experience and frustration (!!) of building a dream home.
We found an old block with a scary 1960's 3*1 on it - kept it rented out until we sorted everthing out and then we got a company in to demolish it in April 2013.
We went through a designer to work out what we wanted in a house as we couldn't find what we wanted in an established home.
It was ready by March 2013 and we sent it ( and our specifics ) out to tender to three WA builders, Chessington, Trendsetters and Ultimate Homes.
In the end Ultimate and Trendsetters were both of similar quality and only $1000 apart in price - so it was really a toss up as to who to go for.
So Ultimate gave some $$$ discount and we signed up with them on 27th May 2013.
Prestart followed.