Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Better Built Homes 47Dec 10, 2016 5:53 am Hi Guys, we have the tender presentation next week with better built and need your inputs in terms of negotiation on pricing. Would like to know how flexible they are in price reduction? thanks for your help. Re: Better Built Homes 48Dec 10, 2016 7:08 am rpen Hi Guys, we have the tender presentation next week with better built and need your inputs in terms of negotiation on pricing. Would like to know how flexible they are in price reduction? thanks for your help. Hi rpen. Welcome to our little forum. Like any company they want your business and they are willing to budge a little on the price but from our experience they were more willing to include extra things rather than lower the price by a great deal. We wanted a particular price and they got as close as they could but added in extra things. Considering the driveway and flyscreens are included whereas with other builders they are separate is already good value in my opinion. I also think their prices are reasonanle. Our base price was 407k and after all appointments and modifications we are 467k. I spoke with other people building or who have built with other companies and they cant believe we only did 60k extra. My advice would be to have ongoing dialogue with Neel and give him a price goal and work towards it before tender to save you some time. Looking forward to hearing about your journey! Re: Better Built Homes 49Dec 10, 2016 7:12 am Just an update from our end. We got council approval yesterday which was about 4 weeks!! We are starting to see the light at the end of the admin tunnel!!!! I wiĺl post plans and progress pics as we go. Really wanting this thread to grow as i think this is the only better built homes thread here. Re: Better Built Homes 51Dec 11, 2016 6:25 pm Which council was that Krusade? rpen prices weren't very negotiable I have found. Especially for any changes. The only way we could lower the tender price was removing some of the extras. Re: Better Built Homes 52Dec 11, 2016 6:50 pm mathewfrost Which council was that Krusade? rpen prices weren't very negotiable I have found. Especially for any changes. The only way we could lower the tender price was removing some of the extras. It was camden council. We were warned 6-8 weeks but it was actually only 4 which was great. Re: Better Built Homes 57Dec 13, 2016 6:57 pm Hi Guys, Glad to have found this thread We have a tender presentation this Friday with Jeff. We are looking at building the Astoria 39. Has anyone built this before? Been dealing with Neel as well and found him to be quite helpful. Any tips guys for the tender? Did most of you sign on the day? James Re: Better Built Homes 58Dec 13, 2016 10:41 pm Welcome to our growing club james32. Astoria 39 is a beautiful home. I reckon you would probably be one of the first people to build that one but i could be wrong. Neel is very good and we found Jeff helpful. We signed our tender on the day. Having said that we took our time and double and triple checked all aspects of the tender. Make sure you compare your tender details with what they state in the advertising magazine they give you. I double checked that we had nylon flyscreens as well as colour to the full driveway. We also made sure that everything we were promised was included in the tender at the price agreed upon in our initial consultations. Looking forward to hearing about your journey as well. All the best. Re: Better Built Homes 59Dec 14, 2016 4:32 pm Thanks Krusade. That kind of makes me worried that it could be one of the first ones built... I will make sure to double check the inclusions and what's on the tender. I am disappointed at the level of flooring inclusions, both the tiles and carpet are pretty average. I am looking at doing vinyl flooring both upstairs and down stairs, the range of vinyl at Image Carpet and Blinds at Emu Plains is quite good - Interested to see how much extra this will be. Neel quoted 18k extra!! If that's the case I will consider getting the flooring done externally then through BBH. Also most builders include the ensuite as floor to ceiling tiles, however BBH does not. You have to pay extra directly to Colortile. I wonder how much that will be? Re: Better Built Homes 60Dec 14, 2016 6:02 pm james82 Thanks Krusade. That kind of makes me worried that it could be one of the first ones built... I will make sure to double check the inclusions and what's on the tender. I am disappointed at the level of flooring inclusions, both the tiles and carpet are pretty average. I am looking at doing vinyl flooring both upstairs and down stairs, the range of vinyl at Image Carpet and Blinds at Emu Plains is quite good - Interested to see how much extra this will be. Neel quoted 18k extra!! If that's the case I will consider getting the flooring done externally then through BBH. Also most builders include the ensuite as floor to ceiling tiles, however BBH does not. You have to pay extra directly to Colortile. I wonder how much that will be? Yeah we decided to do our own flooring and 18k was the quote we got from a separate flooring company. I agree with the flooring. Colortile has bad selections and equally bad service. Floor to ceiling in each bathroom is roughly 2.5 to 3k per bathroom. If you want rectified tiles extra. If you want anything outside the selection it is extra again of course. I will let you know how we go with our final selections brokers will also be in a position to get you a better rate than the advertised rate most times. 6 7558 wondering anyone built with omaxe homes and care to share their experiences. thanks 0 13821 First time poster long story short we are planning knocking down rebuilding a house in Wavell Heights We are thinking to go with Omni built homes as they are but flexible… 0 16266 |