Week 18- We have the keys!!

Handover went well and we were back at office within the hour getting our keys. The pace has been FAST ever since with many hours at the new house coordinating all the tradies and late nights packing at the old house with 0% energy.

Crazy couple of days with electrician fitting all our LED down lights, appliances installed and fridge and TVs delivered. 

Loving every minute though even if I have had to make 3 trips out to the house in one day and got a blister giving the house a vacuum to get ride of all that plaster dust!! 

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.

Land is Settled - The Ball is Rolling!

Everything went through smoothly for land settlement, and we received notification by 3pm that day.

Now for our finance company to order another property valuation as the first came back $40k less than what it's costing us. If it comes in too low again.. we'll have no choice other than to pay Lender's Mortgage Insurance which we were really hoping to avoid. Somehow I don't think the odds are in our favour with Cranbourne East typically being a budget suburb. If only the suburb had been renamed to Casey Fields already, we would have had a better chance!

Land Settlement

Land Settlement has been brought forward to this Friday 14th March. YAY!