Our story started earlier this year, when my partner and I saw a house and land package advertised online at a great price in Pakenham. That weekend we went down to Yarrabank homes to view their display and talk about the package. Being the impulsive people we are, we put down a deposit on the land in an estate called Somerset. There were some stuff ups to begin with, the sales guy from Yarrabank put the wrong block on hold first, a smaller block that wouldn't fit the house. It took a week or so to get this corrected.
Anyway to cut a long story short, a few weeks later we signed the land contract with Pinnacle and excitement started to set in. The next day I receive a call from the sales person we signed the land contract with, and there has been a huge stuff up, and the land we just signed for had actually been sold months ago. Apparently their spreadsheet had not been updated. Devastated!
Now this was a very small 'boutique' estate, and there were no other blocks available that could possibly fit the house that Yarrabank had advertised. In fact it was a tight squeeze anyway, one that, looking back on, I don't think would have been allowed.
Layout of the original plan. Very cheap, very small.
Maybe a good thing it didn't pan out!?
Anyway, as they say, everything happens for a reason. We decided to up our budget a bit and keep looking. We came across a house and land package advertised by Porter Davis in Pakenham, in a Devine estate called Edenbrook. An email and a phone call later, and we had a meeting arranged at a Porter Davis display in Officer that weekend!
The sales rep we met, Shaun, had everything prepared. A layout of the house on the block, lists of inclusions, maps of the estate. All things that took 3-4 weeks to get from Yarrabank, and some we still had not received! Now it was more expensive, but it was a bigger, flatter block, in a much nicer estate, with a much nicer house. So, I mentioned we were impulsive, and before we walked out of the meeting, we had already put down a deposit on the package with Porter Davis! Perhaps we were influenced by losing the land earlier, and not wanting the same thing to happen again, but really I think we just get excited easily!
Montrose 19 with Grand Alresco
Porter Davis Access
Porter Davis Access
It's a small house compared to most of the Porter Davis blogs I've read, but it's our first house, and plenty big enough for us to start off with.
The rest, as they say, is history. From here we have been to view display homes, signed land contracts, been to Hopetoun a number of times, signed off on a tender and said goodbye to our sales rep (sadly, he was great to deal with) been assigned a building coordinator and hence annoyed the building coordinator to no ends!
I will post about our Hopetoun selections and things soon.
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