Laying Idle

Hello again blog! It has been a while - just on three months actually!

Since last time there has been some movement in the right direction! We now have quotes from Town Planners (RiskSMART) and we are currently looking at these to see who can achieve what we want for the smallest fee!

The geo-engineer report came back and for that $800 we found out that YES we can build, apparently Metricon know what they are doing when they propose a dwelling be build on a slope - Go Figure!

Our block is being re-valued as a way to allow refinancing to occur and therefore allowing us to apply for a construction loan. My parents have visited and have done an amazing job of clearing out a heap of lantana - Thanks a heap Dad & Jo!! The place still looks amazing.

FROM METRICON - we have plans on a contour map to which we made a couple of little tweaks to. Our sales assistant was away this last week (getting married) so that has stalled us getting the Preliminary Contract signed, handing over $1000 and then moving to Contract. If the planets align, the valuer will be kind and give us what we want/deserve; the Town Planner gets things happening quickly and we can progress with the build!

What Metricon has done to get the Denver to fit on our site looks amazing, especially considering the extent of the cut and fill - the back verandah looks amazing! I just hope everything else runs smoothly too.

Who's That?

Driving home from work today, I saw a ute parked on the road up near our top gate. It was the surveyor coming to plot our land, hopefully to make sure it's possible to build here.

In our contract there is an allowance for 500mm over the building site included in the cost. If there is any more angle to the block then we need to pay for it (cut and fill costs). Apparently anything up to a metre isn't too bad - PROBLEM - our fall is at least 5 metres from front to back! Due to the size of the cut and fill, we now need to have a geo-engineer's report to ensure we can still build.

We're still waiting on the Real Estate Agent to get back to us regarding the sale of one of our investment properties (will post a link once it is listed). I am sure I'll have a heap to say about the Selling process - real estate agents are not my favourite people to deal with!