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7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Hey all, saw this today! Pretty much what we were expecting! 😐

Lakeland Pakenham
7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
My build with HomeBuyers Centre - Willow 25, Arcadia, Office

Hey i *think* willow25 was around 200k for base :)

7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Yea its so hard to tell when we're going to title. Looked last week and they've pegged out the roads etc so moving along :)

7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

yes its quite frustrating as we bought or block back in November haha. expecting to be titled on time. we are over the reserve/oval side. they built us up awhile…

7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

hi there! you are in the same stage as us. have you had a look recently? its so flooded :(. ive been emailing every couple months…

7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

hi! we are still awaiting title but we have already spoken to darbecca. we're getting frame (which includes slab), waterproof and final. we emailed HBC - the lady we had…

7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
My build with HomeBuyers Centre - Willow 25, Arcadia, Office

We are building willow25 in Pakenham! Title keeps getting pushed back though. Was supposed to be May/June then August now down for September.
we did similar upgrades -
extended garage to make…

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7 years7 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

hey chris! hows it all going with stage 4 and 5? any changes? its looking good but muddy!
we've been told september now! more time to save up i guess

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Oh wow that sucks. My parents have acerage which is already titled but council has had their plans awhile. So maybe just council being slow?
There's a huge puddle in stage…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Dammit post ran away hahaha.
We wanted as big as possible and ended up with 448 - 16x30m. Maybe just have a look at blocks and figure out the size you…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

What i did was looked at all the estates in the area - i was picky as i wanted a court or rd so not many people would be driving…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Yes we had to go unconditional a month after we signed (Bought block in Nov 2016). Our conveyancer read contract and said it just meant if we couldn't get a…

Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?
8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Hey everyone, we have darbecca doing a few inspections. So you basically refuse to sign until it's done? Is that what darbecca recommend? Does darbecca come back out to check…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

I hadn't even thought of using a private inspector but a lot of people in this thread mentioned Darbecca. Not as expensive as i thought! Definitely think its worth it…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Hey how's it all going? Have you had any news about title?
We've been checking once a week and can see the fwy barrier is getting there!

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Third time lucky??? (Written this twice and its failed on me.)
We have been really happy with HBC. Our driveway was included and the only issue we had was 3 different…

Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?
8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Went out to have a look yesterday. Was actually able to stand on our block :) its all been flattened and drainage etc put in

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Awww that sucks. We are right near fwy so hopefully that will get done soon

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

When were you expected to title?
Just had a look back and stage 4 was already sold so wasnt on the pricelist i was sent. We are stage 6 -…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Hey how are the titles going for other stages? Haven't really gone down that way for awhile but from nothing to this was really exciting!

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Tap package was around $360 i think - definitely under $400. They are more square and boxey so i preferred it. We just upgraded taps and electric stuff at this…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Did you choose the themes or custom? We had a good idea at what we wanted so made decisions quite quickly - bethany actually commented on how quick we were…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

We had our colours today with Bethany who was awesome! I memorized the themes and i think some have changed (not the ones we were looking at). We were thinking…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Yep we are :). We are building willow25. We extended it 1.4m as even though our block is 16m wide we have estate guidelines so needed…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

Oh no :(. We were supposed to title in May/June this year (stage 6). Hopefully its not put too far back. We can't even get anywhere…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Hi everyone! We are building the Willow25 in Pakenham. I posted a few pages ago. Today we went to Werribee/west side to look at some themes in person. After looking…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

Thanks for that :). We chose the Zara facade and my mind jumps between the last 3 external themes! Marble (but apparently metal roof is white),…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Anyone building with Homebuyers Centre in VICTORIA?

So we have signed up with homebuyers as of Tues last week! Our friends built with them and then i read this post (only about halfway through all the posts…

8 years8 yearsCorgiloverCorgilover posted:
Lakeland Pakenham

So i realise this thread is a bit old! But we have bought a block in stage 6 of Lakeland. So excited. We are first homeowners :)

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