Good News!!

I just received a call from my conveyancer telling me that she has received a fax advising her that she should be contacted very soon for registration on our stage :) This is great news, never no may settle late Feb!!

Update on the Overlay

Since last time i posted, other then going a little Crazy, not much has happened in moving forward with this planning permit because..

1. The block is not yet in our name (as we haven't titled) just makes it a little harder to apply for the planning permit, I had to get in contact with The Avenue about getting them to sign the permit paper work to say the block is in there name atm, (Which they didn't seem to want to do at all) I spoke with Jill at the Avenue and after a few days of waiting she got back to me and told me that they would not be tittling stage 12 unless they were able to get a release on the overlay from Melbourne water for the whole estate(meaning we wouldn't be in need of a permit), I'm guessing this is because it runs right through every block in stage 12, and she advised that this should be happening any day now and that i should not bother lodging my own application because it would be pointless, but after getting this information i decided i would speak to the Casey council to see what there advise would be for me, as i wasn't sure what Jill was telling me was right, and they told me that they would have no idea when the overruling would come through and either would the Avenue, it could be anytime in the next 6 months (although and am starting to get a feeling that the council tends to exaggerate time periods), they advised me to lodge the application anyway and if it was cleared when the land titled i would be safe either way.

2. Metricon were now in the process of getting my new plans drawn up for me, to include the overlay but because you have to have the level surveys on the land done for the permit application plans, they had to send the surveyor's out to the block to do this, which they then did but because the land isn't completely subdivided yet, and there are no pegs in also the land hasn't be completely cleared yet (we have a huge pile of dirt right on our block) the surveys were unable to do the levels, Kate(CSC) sent me through an email saying that subdivision should be finished in the next 2 weeks (hmmm...) and then they will be able to do the levels and get the plans drawn up.

3. I had my conveyancer get the updated title ( needed to be in the last 30 days)  for the Avenue because that is what i will need to apply for my permit, which she was able to do so i guess i have one thing done.

Basically i am just playing a waiting game now, hoping that the Avenue get this overrule for  the whole estate but if i not i will be doing my permit application as soon as the subdivision is finished, just to stay on the safe side.

Also we have been told that we should be titling in Feb now (pushed out another month) but oh well Feb isn't to bad, I have my fingers crossed for a March start.

Picture of our crossover and the pile of dirt sitting right on our land.

Overlay, Overload

About a month ago our fellow Avenuer Reinsey let us know that our block was also being effected by this "overlay" that is apparently in relation to a flood/water related issue, i contacted my CSC about it to find out what would be the process and weather it would effect our block and this morning i received my answer, It was a big fat YES, Not only do we know have to apply for a planning overlay through the council we will also occur cost and could have a 12-16 week wait till we can build :( which to make it 10 times worse it also means that we will go over our time that we have to start building with Metricon and will occur cost there too.
Reinsey what was the process for you guys and are you going to have to wait this 12-16 week period???

Little by little

Not much to report back on!! We went down to the block last weekend and we now have a footpath and a crossover :) Very exciting to see something to define where our block is! Stage 12 (first half) just missed out on getting our land title because of the Christmas break, but we are planned to settle before the end of January now, hoping this will mean a Feb site start!! I can not believe how quickly Christmas has come around, this year has flown by :) 
Merry Christmas and Happy and Safe New year to everyone!!!

TILES AGAIN!!!

We went back into Beaumont tiles today and had another apt as we have decided to go through metricon for our tiles (just easier in  the end). We had a different lady today her name was Tracey and she was amazing, very helpful and thorough. We picked the same tiles as last time but just modified them, so it was less expensive, all in all we had a better experience compared to the last time and left quite happy! 

We also made a trip out to the Avenue today and found that we had Street signs and the roads are finished!!!

APPROVALS!!!

We received our developers approval on Tuesday!!! And Our full approval on our Finance today!!! Once we fix our floor issues, We will be completely ready for our land to title and Settlement!!!! :)

TILES!!!!

We had our tile apt yesterday at Beaumont, the apt was at 9am so we arrived at  8:50am, we already new along the lines of what we wanted, when we walked in the manager greeted us and told us that our lady would be right out, but after 20mins of waiting, someone else sore us waiting and asked if we were waiting for someone, she then went and told our lady and she finally came, (at this point i wasn't annoyed really i just assumed our apt would run a lil late) then she took us into her office and went through our plans with us, which were wrong as since signing our contract we have had all our variations done and we have taken the carpet out of the hallway and replaced them with tiles, she then became very rude toward us and informed us that it might have been a waste of time coming out today because the plans aren't right and we might not be able to do the selections, ahhhhh i was annoyed to say the least then she left us in her office waiting as she went to see if we would be able to still go through with the apt, when she finally came back 10mins later she told us that we would be able to do it but it wouldn't be complete because there estimating system was not working properly and we would have to return to sign off the final quote anyway.. arrrggg so anyway we went out to the floor to finally start our apt 45mins later then we were suppose to!! We new that through the main part of the house we wanted 600x600 whitish tiles so we picked them out quite quickly then for the bathroom we had seen a tile in one of the displays homes in the Cranbourne display centre the fairhaven display ( As we had been told to look through the displays to get ideas) so we asked if she could tell us which ones they were and if they still had them in stock she then told us that if we did not no the exact lot number that she can not tell us what tile it was, but left us to see if she could find out what tile we were talking about, when she finally returned to us she told us she couldn't find it and that she didn't think we were prepared enough for our apt and that she thought we should just come back another time, well to put it nicely i sore red!!!! I then told her that we had arrived at our appointment on time and waited around 20 Min's before she even attended to us and then because our plans were not exactly right and there estimating system was down that wasted another 20mins, and she is telling us WE WEREN'T prepared enough because we asked if she could tell us if they had a tile that was in one of displays, and i asked if she was joking?? Then also asked for her manager, after explaining what had happened, the manager asked her when her next apt was and SHE SAID 1:30, at this point the manager made a face at the lady and told her to take as much time as we needed and if we went over the allotted 90min time slot that it did not matter!!!! She also asked us which display it was? and went out the back for a couple of Min's and came back with all of the information for the fairhaven and was able to tell us that the tile we liked was not in stock anymore(At least she gave us answers) AHHHH i was so angry at this lady and I was not in the mood for picking out tiles with this obnoxious lady, anyway Tristan and i decided at this point we would  take as much time as we needed and make sure we were happy with our decisions!!! In the end we did get through our apt finally and waited for our quote (of course excluding our hallway) Which was a whopping $8500,(excluding the $5000 we are already paying in our contract for Cat 1 tiles) ahhh so much money (we plan to see if it would be anywhere near this price if we were to get it done ourselves)!! So of course we didn't sign anything yesterday, and now we have to wait for the revised quote and decided if we wont to go with these tiles and that price, we may have to now go back in and do our apt again anyway to get the paper all signed and everything!! I can truly say that it was the most horrible/worst experience i have ever had and i will be telling Kate (CSC) exactly that and if we do have to go back we will defiantly be requesting to not be doing our apt with that rude lady!!
Jay i do remember reading that you also had a bad apt with these people (maybe the same lady)! I just can not believe how rude she actually was!!