Got a letter on Friday saying that our land is due to title on Wednesday next week(19th)! Exciting! And today we has our contract signing! Wow there are a lot of pages to sign and initial.
In the end it went well. We were upset to find out we couldn't have our tiled niches something to do with the location of the showers and the plumbing. We also couldn't have overhead cupboards around the rangehood due to space. A little annoying that they left it until the contract signing to tell us this. But I guess there is nothing we can do about it now.
Hopetoun told us we couldn't have the overhead cupboards but when I asked my BC in sept she said that we can and they just haven't been drawn on the plans yet. And nobody mentioned anything about the niches being a problem until we asked why they weren't on the plan. Now we are told we can no longer make any changes. So I guess we better work out other ways of storing soap and shampoo etc in our showers.
Plus side is we came in under budget. We were even $3000 under our original quote and since then we added concrete to the alfresco and 3 brick piers and upgraded our electricals. At first I was worried the contract might be missing something but we went through and couldn't see any problems other than our missing niches and they were only cheap.
Oh how we will miss the niches :(
Good stuff guys! I'm impressed you came in under budget... ! From our recent experience, your land won't be long with the Titles Office, and you'll be up for settlement before you know it! Best of luck!
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