settlers run botanic ridge

lasttimehopefully · Sep 25, 2011 4:15 pm

congratulations Rodtrac, when is your site start booked in for?
Didn't know about the pool pricing, that is a bit steep. How do they know which kids are residents and which are visitors?

earley · Sep 29, 2011 6:25 pm

rodtrac

Well after countless display homes, including a drive yesterday over to Point Cook, we have signed with Urban Edge Homes building a modified Rouge 004.

Quoted fixed site costs $24,600.00. Not bad considering we have a 3m fall over the entire block.
Now the fun begins.

Rod

Hey Rod,

We are also in Finlow and are building the Rouge 005, but were quoted $9500.00 for site costs which is a huge difference.

SORRY EVERYONE, LET ME REVISE THAT - UE ADDED ON $17000 TO OUR SITE COST, SO NOW $28000. SOEMTHING WE HAD NOT BUDGETED FOR AT ALL.

Beemac42 · Oct 03, 2011 2:33 pm

Hey LTH
Yes we went past last friday as we had to sign paperwork for the golf memberships etc and had a tour etc
Yay at least it is a start.....
Got our first body corp bill.... wish we could pay it in one hit and not staggered... I like paying mine off so i know where i am at.
Just paid our food and beverage levy too.... ahhh the fun begins lol

ORG · Oct 17, 2011 7:53 pm

Hi everyone!

We've been reading with interest everyone's Settlers Run experiences as we have jsut put a holding deposit on a block in Finlow Street, but are really wondering if anyone can tell us:

Is anyone concerned about the proximity to the power lines?
Has anyones conveyancer explained about the body corporate re: how much it goes up every year? We are a little worried that it will end up being $5-10k a year and price us out of the estate! We've had a read through the Section 32 but its all very legalistic and makes my head hurt!

Also, for those in Finlow has anyone had soil testing done yet? We're hoping that they are ok!

There is only one temp fence up at the moment, so we are wondering who is planning on starting their build this side of Christmas!

Sorry to bombard everyone!

BigE · Oct 19, 2011 1:53 pm

ORG, Welcome to settlers... How exciting. Have you looked at houses at all?

My block is about 900m from the power lines. It was a concern of ours. Health wise and resell value. I think the most part of settlers is a good distance from them. I read mixed results on the health side.

We have had our block awhile now and our house will be finished in the next few weeks. The body corp has gone up by CPI. I would think it would go up CPI each year 2-3% I went to one of the meetings of the body corp and this was a topic. Another topic was also the cost to run the club.

If you look at Sandhurst they pay 8k plus i think... Ours is resonable... From memory (and I would have to check), our contract had a clause in it that capped the body corp amount payable.

The fees scare us too, I wouldnt be surprised if it rose to 5k over 5 years but I wouldnt think it would rise to quickly. It was said that the club costs 3.5m to run divid that by 500 lots and it = 7,000 They have weddings, meals, external memebers, corp golf, guests etc so I would be extremely surprised if it went over 5k per year any time soon.

Jester · Oct 19, 2011 2:13 pm

I was wondering what others thought of if/how the now confirmed new massive Hastings port development announcement would affect the Botanic Ridge estate? I can’t find any information on where the proposed rail/freeway’s are to go, so am not sure if it’s going to be a good or bad thing for the area.

lasttimehopefully · Oct 19, 2011 3:14 pm

Weve started. Site was cut today. very exciting. :z:

BigE · Oct 19, 2011 4:18 pm

LTH - Woohooo... how long did they estimate the build to be?

BigE · Oct 19, 2011 4:27 pm

Jester - Read this article. http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/articl ... -news.html

I have taken some key points and looked up nearmap. Western port hwy is about 1.8km away. Looking at the map there is alot of land in the middle of lyndhurst, sandhurst and dandenong south. Based on this article I think I would be more worried about those areas which should be a good thing for settlers run. If you want to be on the golf estate then Sandhurst having a rail link next to it would make settlers more appealing but at the same time they say that they are all ideas and that a new formed board will review the plan and costings?

From the article;
A dedicated road or rail link, running parallel to the existing Western Port Highway, would potentially link the port to a new distribution centre, or "inland port", near Dandenong.

Giant driver-less trucks, similar to those used in mines, are one of the options under consideration to move millions of containers and other freight from Hastings to the new inland port for distribution across the city and state.

A soon-to-be-appointed Port of Hastings Authority will be ordered to evaluate building the first Australian electric truck link between the port and the land likely to be set aside between Dandenong and Lyndhurst for the freight hub.

The "inland port" - a hub for trucks and rail - is likely to be built about 30km north of the port, between Dandenong and Lyndhurst.

wilson3199 · Oct 20, 2011 9:40 pm

ORG

Hi everyone!

We've been reading with interest everyone's Settlers Run experiences as we have jsut put a holding deposit on a block in Finlow Street, but are really wondering if anyone can tell us:

Is anyone concerned about the proximity to the power lines?
Has anyones conveyancer explained about the body corporate re: how much it goes up every year? We are a little worried that it will end up being $5-10k a year and price us out of the estate! We've had a read through the Section 32 but its all very legalistic and makes my head hurt! ::study::

Also, for those in Finlow has anyone had soil testing done yet? We're hoping that they are ok!

There is only one temp fence up at the moment, so we are wondering who is planning on starting their build this side of Christmas!

Sorry to bombard everyone!

Hi ORG and welcome to the Forum, think you will find lots of helpful advice etc., from everyone, I know we did.

wilson3199 · Oct 20, 2011 9:42 pm

lasttimehopefully

Weve started. Site was cut today. very exciting. :z:

Fantastic, can't wait to see it on Nearmap, should be updated in the next few weeks I think.
I have been laid up with the flu and bronchitis for 2 weeks so not been round to see the house but we have paid "fixing" stage now so its very exciting.

Sainter1 · Oct 24, 2011 8:00 pm

Hi people, Long time since on the forum but been busy with work and family. Well block titled last week and have done the tender process today with Carlisle Homes, we went with the Haven 35, long process but happy with the final design. One thing was confusing and I was wondering if anyone else has come up against this? We original went for a tiled roof but according to the covenants we cant have a house over 5 metres high because of the tree line and we had to go for a colorbond roof because the pitch of the roof is now 14 degrees instaed of the standard 22.5 degrees. We are a little bit freaked at the moment because I have never seen a roof with 14 degree pitch, can we move around in the roof, will a sparky be able to do any work up there?
If anyone has come up against this as well we would love to hear about it. We are starting to think between the speed hump outside our block and the roof pitch, someone's out to get us!!!
Thanks.

lasttimehopefully · Oct 25, 2011 11:06 am

Sainter1, I think the developers sometimes take things too far!! the power gets to them.

lasttimehopefully · Oct 25, 2011 11:08 am

BigE and Elaine I just got back from Settlers..your homes look amazing and nearly finished??

ORG · Oct 25, 2011 11:28 am

Sainter, we've just had our architect tell us the same thing! Seems so ridiculous. We wanted 10ft ceiling and it doesn't seem possible now. Even at 9ft it reduces our pitch to about 15 degrees.

As an aside, Has anyone when buying their blocks offered less than the asking price and factored other things into their contracts? Ie body corporate fees paid for 1-2 years etc? We are unsure of what to put in our formal offer as it seems that it's going to cost us more to build something we don't necessarily want to build on order to live in the estate...

wilson3199 · Oct 25, 2011 3:00 pm

lasttimehopefully

BigE and Elaine I just got back from Settlers..your homes look amazing and nearly finished??

Hi Audrey, when you were up there did you see work going on, haven't been out for 3 weeks since catching bronchitis?

lasttimehopefully · Oct 25, 2011 8:55 pm

there was a van on the vacant block next to you, so I think they were working. Ive had a really bad cough for the last 2 weeks as well, hope you feel better soon. They were doing my plumbing today.

lasttimehopefully · Oct 28, 2011 12:15 pm

we have a slab

wilson3199 · Oct 28, 2011 2:40 pm

lasttimehopefully

we have a slab

FANTASTIC NEWS, you can watch the build on Nearmap now.

wilson3199 · Oct 28, 2011 2:43 pm

BigE

Woohoo - House should be complete by first week of november... Cant wait to move in!!! Kitchen in, stairs in, painting this week, tile next week. Getting close!

Hi BigE, its not long now, are you all packed and ready to move?