This is our timeline so far. We really wanted to have as early as possible site start so I pushed ourselves hard to get ready for the selections and researched a fair bit. I strongly recommend going to Cosham a few times to really check out what's available even after the information session.
Land deposit - 10th October 2015
Henley Initial deposit - 14th October 2015
Cosham Info session - 18th October 2015
Henley second deposit - 28th October 2015
Colour selection - 23rd November 2015
Tender Appointment - 30th November 2015
Contract Appointment - 8th January 11am
Electrical Appointment - 8th January 1pm
Finance Approval - 20th January
Building Permit Issued - 28th January
Handover to Construction - 9th February
Site Start - 29th February
Slab pour - 2nd March
Frame Completion - scheduled 10th March
One very important tip I really learned was to double check every line in quotes, tender or contract. In my initial quotes they had the double glazing to all standard windows as part of the standard Inclusions. So when I signed the quote I didn't bother checking it again coz I thought that it was part of the standard. Lucky for me after I realised and chased it up with basically almost everyone (Sales, Admin consultant and Tender presenter) Sales budged and gave the approval for me to have double glazing instead of paying for it.. Saved us about $2.5k
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This is our house plan. Not much structural change except for moving manhole to laundry instead of WIR and added another linen closet (BRM) on the kitchen side between the 2nd bedroom robes and linen closet in bedroom hallway. My architect uncle pointed what would have been an empty unused space so we decided to make the most of it
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