Deposite, SC qoute, Tender & Contract

Here is a summery of our journey from when we decided to look for our first home in September 2012. We had a few specific things in mind & visited dozens of displays & finally narrowed it down to PD Waldorf 44 Hoffman 39 or Carlisle Vetra MK2 loved both. Hoffman 39 was brand design at the beginning it was difficult to get information other than from the SC at the display. That meant lots of travelling as it was on  the other side of the city. We started looking for a land that would fit the house plans we loved. After looking around for a few months we kept coming back to one particular lot.  Finally decided to make it our own in December 2012. We loved the location and PD was offering a "NO WORRIES" offer for that particular lot and the Hoffman floor plan fit perfectly. That meant we could stick to our budget for the house and land & we could go for most the upgrades we wanted.

Our sales consultant was exceptional. Was willing to work even after office hours to do any changes we wanted. Once we were happy with  our SC's quote we paid the $1000 deposit just before PD closed for Christmas. In January we were assigned a BC at the beginning it took her ages to get back with information we wanted or get a response. As we had a BC that meant our SC wouldn't help us much either.

Things went from positive experience to negative within few weeks We had a few issues during Tender which we felt wasn't getting sorted. Long story short finally an area manger from PD contacted us and after a lot of mails back and forth mange to sort out some of it. Half way through the process our BC started responding promptly and keeping us updated. It has been good so far.

Our colour, electrical & tile went well. although we ended spending more than we expected in electrical and colour.

We were suppose to have site start in May due to valuation issues and then changing banks etc.. land settlement had to be  pushed back to April. We ended up postponing our contract date that affected our site start date.

We finally had our contract appointment end of April. Our contract presenter was great she picked a few mistakes even before we did . She was so organized and made the whole process easier. We did have to go back and sign the documents on a another day as the draft person was off for the day by the time we finalized everything. 

We were relieved to finally sign the contract and was Finally looking forward to the build.  But we  had unexpected delays cause valuation. It took couple of weeks to sort that. Once that was sorted it took longer to get the contract drawings and then getting the mistakes in the contract drawing fixed and BV sorted. Finally signed the correct drawings in Mid June.

We were thrilled we were able to get a site start date in June. 28th June to be precise. What a relief light at the end of the tunnel.  There were times we wished we had gone with the other builder. overall we are happy how things turned out. Hope the building process would be a much smoother one:) Looking forward to se our dream home been built instead of all the paper work and drawings.


HOFFMAN 39
we choose the alfresco option
princess suite option
shower to powder.

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