Our Little Piece of Australia

Hi everyone!

Well, it has been decided by Kir and I that we would start a blog to keep all of you, our close friends and family, updated as we endeavour to construct our brand spanking new home.

This is how the story starts..

Earlier this year, after much debate and procrastination, Kir and I finally decided to commit to purchasing a piece of land. It wasnt an easy decision to make, but we weighed up the pros and the cons of buying land and building versus buying a place that was already established, and buying somewhere that was further out versus somewhere closer to the CBD, and the pros far out-weighed the cons for buying and building somewhere a little further out.

So, on April 27th 2008, with much trepidation, we put a deposit down on a fairly decent sized block of land (16 x 32 M) in Craigieburn. Contract signed with the land developers, we headed off to see a mortgage broker to see if the bank would give us poor, unfortunate people some money to make our dream a reality.

After many phone calls and a ton of paperwork, our loan was finalised and we became proud owners of Lot 4245 in Craigieburn.

Now the fun part begins.. building the house! We have decided on the Heywood28 by Porter Davis. It's pretty much exactly what we want.. spacious but still cosy enough for the both of us.. for now.. :)

We had our variation appointment about two weeks ago, but we couldnt get the quote that night due to their system being down. We had to wait about 5 days before we got a copy, and even then, we had to chase them up for it!! Not only that, they had our paperwork sent to their East office instead of their North office.. great start guys.. but things are fixed now. The north office has our paperwork and we have been contacted by their manager.

Anyway, we are now currently waiting for one of their Customer Service Consultants from the North office to contact us so we can book our colour and tile appointments as well as a date for tender.

So that's as far as we are at the moment. Hopefully you can tune in occasionally and join us on our journey to becoming brand new home owners!