Project Regent

Well today was an exciting day.  We received the call saying that handover has been booked in for Friday December 11.  This is right on (our) schedule, so in 11 days we’ll have the keys to our new home!

I spent a bit of time on the phone today booking in fences, blind and shutter installation and a cat door for Hamish.  We’ve also found a landscaper we like and we’re meeting him on the weekend to finalise the plans and book everything in.  Before we move in we’ll have the driveway and fences done.  We should also have a good start on the landscaping before Christmas.  Tomorrow I’ll be onto the water tank people to get that sorted.

Removalists were booked last week for the 19th.  Now we just have to tackle the packing here!!!

We’ve also got some photos we took the other day to put up so stay tuned for them!

Well we signed and delivered our final mortgage documents today.  Settlement for the land is still on track for Monday!

I also had to drop off some paperwork to Porter Davis today and had a chat with our administrator.  Our current official start date is the 28th August .  They are going to push for an earlier start seeing that our file is complete (28th July would be fab!).  Fingers crossed!

You may be wondering why we haven’t posted for a little while. Well the answer is simple. We’re playing the waiting waiting waiting game. The things we’re waiting for are (in order):

1. Land to title (about 3 weeks)
2. Final mortgage documents to sign (the bank won’t issue them till the land titles)
3. Settle on the land (mortgage payments start!!!)
4. Get start date
5. Start building!

With a bit of luck all will happen quickly, especially the land settlement! We may have to put a rocket up BankWest for that…

Oh, and we’re STILL waiting for PD to get back to us with our contract variations.  Its been 5 1/2 weeks since we signed the construction contract.  Seriously, does it really take that long???  grrrrrr!!!!!

Yes thats right, the bank has given us formal approval.  Its only been 8 weeks since we submitted our mortgage application, but we finally have the money to make our house a reality!  It’s just too exciting for words…

Land is expected to title mid-June so all is on track for us to spend Christmas 2009 at Wylie Way!!!

Thought I’d do a quick update as we’re getting closer to the final tick of approval from the bank.  On Monday we’re signing the construction contact with PD which will then goto the bank so they can do their valuation and give us formal approval!  That will aparently still take them 2 weeks but at least now we have some kind of timeframe.

Also, I went past the block today.  The fence is still up so we can’t actually step foot on our land, but it looks pretty much ready for building.  All the blocks in our release have now been flattened off.  They’ve also painted the markings on the road, put those little reflective things on the road and have started to build the little fence on the nature strip that divides Wylie Way from Sneydes Road.

I also popped into the land sales office to see how the sales of release 19b were going.  19b went on sale last weekend.  Strangely enough there are still about half the blocks available. When we put the deposit on our land it was a week after 19a went on sale and there were only about 4 blocks left.  I wonder if it is because the people who build in stage 19b will miss the deadline for getting the $26K from K Rudd (unless they extend it).