Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to reply! I forgot I had posted this and just got the email notification. I wrote it January last year …

How's everyone going? Haven't Been on this forum for a while.
Took us a nice quick 5.5 months from start to handover. Extremely happy with our build!! We've been in our…

oh no! Thats a pain about a different door. I really hope we dont have to come across things like this. We were lucky we noticed the windows were the…

That's incredibly frustrating shannaLK, So sorry to hear. I can understand if things are progressing slowly, but to have nothing done for days at a time is just a pain.…

Sorry, been a while since I've popped into these forums! How is everyone going with their builds?
We have started on the bricks now. Had a few delays due to bad…

How did you go? Have you found a builder you are confident with?

We are currently building with Hotondo, although central NSW.
We have nothing bad to say of our experience to date! We enquired with a couple project home builders, as well as…

How is everyones progress going?
We finally have land (i.e settled)! Hotondo are putting in council paperwork soon. I really can't wait to see the house start growing!

I am hoping some wonderful people on these forums may be able to offer some advice please.
We have signed up with a builder, and besides a few minor additions we…

Congratulations to you both! Glad to hear of some progress.
We finally have things moving for us too. The land is registered and will settle early June. Has been a long…

How exciting for you KD84! Glad to hear of another fellow Hotondo client. We love the look of the illawarra, its a gorgeous plan and sounds like your additions are…

1) when do i need to get my finances sorted? like speak to the mortgage department in a bank.
Its better to speak to your bank as early as possible. We…

We are building through a project builder so have picked our kitchen layout, door styles and benchtop etc. We have left some things to do ourselves once we move in…

Id probably question it further with the builder, and maybe even get a solicitor/conveyancer to look over it before signing anything.
We have recently signed up with Hotondo Homes (although not…

Forgot to add that we have everything sorted with a builder so they're ready to build as soon as we say so. We don't have as high figures as you…

The above have already answered, we are in the same predicament.
What we've ended up doing is extending on our current mortgage so we can purchase the land and at least…

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Oh wow sarahl86, that is definitely a long wait for the land to settle! must be hard waiting when you just want to get things going.
I do really like that…

Happy to share how we go! We too liked the Jamison and also didn't mind the Birchgrove but ended up deciding on the Erskine.

Oh of course, we also upgraded to tiling in the hall and living areas so that was an extra $5300 or so
Your kitchen upgrade sounds…

Thanks so much for sharing your blog! I'll be following it.
How long did your land take to settle?
I'm so impatient. We exchanged contracts on our land last December and settlement…

That's fantastic news! You'll have to share some photos of the progress !

Thanks for your replies
We are going with hotondo. We enquired with a few other builders in this region but hotondo had a lot more inclusions…

Thank you! This is great.

Ive tried searching the forums but cant seem to find anything yet. So hoping someone might be able to help please.
We are currently selecting bricks, roof etc for our new…

Wow looks fantastic! Youve done it for a pretty good price too. My very small bathroom reno cost me $10 000! But it was gutted completely.

We are leaning towards building with Hotondo and quite like the Erskine range.
Has anyone built with Hotondo, or even better built the Erskine and would like to share (or pm/email)…

Wanted to cover all bases! Would love to avoid renting if we could, but do accept it may be the way things have to be..

We do have a broker involved, shes looking at options for us as we speak. We had a valuation done recently too through our bank.

Thanks for answering! I might look into the bridging loan options, or even refinancing. hmmm