Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 15208Oct 25, 2019 9:32 am Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 15213Oct 26, 2019 6:22 am 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 15220Oct 26, 2019 1:43 pm Manhattan52 Norfolk Let’s give Mark (Wisdom Homes General Manager) the opportunity to respond from Wisdom’s perspective. He is active on this forum and Reading through his posts he seems OK, very customer focussed. I would expect him to respond. And any other members with opinions too. Wisdom is free to offer whatever liquidated damages amount in their contracts that they Consider reasonable. Innovation here could be a real game changer for Wisdom Homes marketing giving customers confidence they will deliver good quality and on time. At the moment their contract does not support this basic expectation because the ‘token’ liquidated damages amount allows Wisdom leverage to delay the build if they choose with minimal cost. They may not do this however the option is there, as noted by members of this forum discussing other builders. Delays are expensive for customers, extra rent, short term air bnb accomodation etc Most customers would not factor in the financial cost of delays and would likely be under pressure to just accept defects identified at PCI or earlier due to this. manhattan52 factored the cost of a 25% time delay into his numbers, maybe this alternative approach is appropriate for other customers? Another alternative for Wisdom may be to delete the liquidated damages clause all together from the contract. This would allow customers to pursue fair and reasonable compensation from Wisdom in the event of significant delays as long as they can substantiate their extra costs. Just my 2 cents I hope he doesn’t answer because that’s going down a never ending rabbit hole. Maybe that’s a different thread you can start across all builders as delays don’t seem to be an issue that comes up ( well not much that I’ve seen anyway) Personally I love seeing everyone’s updates wether it be through admin, CQ or on site manhattan52 Thanks for you 2 cents, I appreciate your fast response. Me too! Personally I also enjoy seeing everyone’s updates. I have learnt a lot from you as well as from the other active thread members' updates over recent years. I look forward to yours and others future contributions, the positive, the negative as well as challenging. The benefits of the ’Building with Wisdom Homes’ public thread here are twofold, as I personally see it: Firstly, it allows the existing active customer members to share their updates and experiences building with Wisdom, supporting and helping each other along the way. This is really nice, and I feel with your stewardship will continue. Secondly, this public forum and thread provides prospective customers with an opportunity to research Wisdom Homes as a builder. Assuming these people are also considering other builders, their online research may include 5 – 10 potential local builders. Therefore there are a lot more potential customers viewing this thread than the active customer members as noted above. My gut feel suggests up to 10 times or more: say, ratio of 10 active members to 100 passive online researchers. The Homeone forum and thread (as well as Product Review and others) have significant influence in shaping the consumers’ perceptions of Wisdom’s brand and operational capability, as Wisdom Homes well knows per: https://www.accc.gov.au/public-register ... up-pty-ltd To complement the regular building updates and peer support, discussions about items such as; Wisdom Homes’ company culture, their service and final product quality, the house design and inclusions, the contract terms, negotiating the final tender price etc. are of significant value to these people currently researching, including some of my friends considering Wisdom, making a big decision with their life savings. The more information and insights they have, the better for them and for Wisdom's continuous improvement initiatives. This sharing should be encouraged. What do you think? 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 18460 In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more… 19 73443 Hi Everyone, I am exploring builder in NSW and received a very tempting quote from Wisdom home for their momentum series. I just want to know experience of building… 0 8233 |