Waiting..Waiting for Site Start

We had a brief meeting at the Porter Davis office on Tuesday afternoon. We were in and out within 20 mins after running through a new building variation. It outlined some minor changes that have come about now that we are so close to construction. e.g. slight change in roof pitch, porch set back, removal of sarking (as we're no longer in a bushfire zone) and our nominated colour for our evap cooling unit. All of these minor changes thankfully resulted in no extra cost for us. The soil test results that they had ordered also gave us good news that our original site costs were correct and no need to pay extra...phhhheew

We expressed our frustration with the fact that our site start has not occurred during April (as
promised), and we were told that by early next week we will receive confirmation of our site start date...and can begin counting down our 120 days (build time) from the moment site scrape occurs.

So waiting..waiting.. we are so close now. Bring on the site scrape, portaloo and all the other things that suggest a new house is coming!

Fingers crossed we can move in end August or start Sept (would be a nice birthday present!)

Construction Loan - Paperwork all done!

The construction loan was all finalised this week. The huge amount of paperwork was all signed off, and our bank confirmed that it's all been received. For whatever reason our bank had settlement booked in for today 11th April, however at my request it will now be 16th April so the repayments coincide with my monthly pay date. So of course we didn't get out of paying LMI, but we're happy things are moving along in the right direction.

During the week we had an email from Porter Davis advising that we now have another buiding co-ordinator, Hayley. Sad to say goodbye to Jaymee-Lee, as she did all the hard work with our contract.
I'm yet to hear from her - looking forward to making contact as we should be receiving the site start date in the next week or two. They have ordered a new soil test some time ago now and submitted our house plan with the facade tiling to the developer to meet the 'your facade must have 2 materials' requirement.

So now waiting..waiting ... as Porter Davis have us in for an April start date.. no doubt that means end April with Easter and Anzac Day coming up.