HOW important? Very important, the last time I checked… So yes, we’re still in a bit of a kerfuffle with our elevation—apparently Celebration Homes isn’t happy with us making changes, even though I recall I was the one who offered to lock in the elevation…
AS of 3.45pm today, the plot on Vanderlin Crescent is officially ours! Let the building begin!
SO as previously mentioned, the elevation that we originally chose looked exactly like our neighbour’s. Of course, that the last thing we wanted and it led to a week of headache as we tried to choose something else that we were as happy with. So…
FINALLY, it’s all coming together! Settlement has been booked for Monday afternoon and I managed to drop off the cheque on Friday for the deposit + fees. Phew! When I handed the cheque over to my settlement agent, he informed me the hole in the…
SETTLEMENT was meant to be yesterday, but because of the extension requested by our lender, it’s all a waiting game right now. My settlement agent is waiting for word from our finance broker who, in turn, is waiting for our lender to come back to…
Well, we’re still waiting for settlement obviously, since it’s been pushed to July 20. But I thought because I was going all the way up to Yanchep yesterday to visit our friends Cat, Harry and their kids in their new house, I’d drop by to snap a few pictures of Vanderlin for this blog.
And lo and behold, there was a “SOLD” sign :
Brilliant! That just gave me that little boost, knowing that soon, we could call it all ours.
I also snapped a couple of other shots in case anyone might be as interested in a big, rectangular patch of sand as I am at the moment.
Side note: apologies for the blurry images—it was sunset and I was down to choosing between using a flash and long exposure. You can guess which one Miss Shaky Hands decided to go with. And I thought I was doing well too…sheesh.
JUST a quick update… So as part of our offer for the Vanderlin plot, the owner accepted the conditions that we would require 30 days for mortgage approval, and 40 days for FIRB approval, and settlement will take place after we received unconditional mortgage approval….
NORM just emailed us with the preliminary plans with the structural changes we have requested. They’re all quite minor because even though there is temptation to chop and change every single part of the house imaginable. We are conscious that this is our first house…
AHEM! Yes, we’ve found another plot of land and upon discovering the low price, I called the agent immediately to put in an offer. During my conversation with the agent, Justin O’ Connell from Century 21 Gold Key Realty, the owner has been trying to…
AFTER a ridiculous amount of to-ing and fro-ing, we found out that our offer was rejected (no surprises there). What we didn’t realise is that our agent, Loma Eldridge, was co-broking the plot with another agent, Gemma Andrews. Loma failed to put in our counter…