Selections done

Finished selections this week, hell of a process. I'm kicking myself a little as I should have done more homework prior to the meeting. However we are happy with our choice of brick and I think the roof tile should will work in. Lighting was where I should have put in more thought as I was caught off gaurd and it was the one thing I really wanted to get right. We still have not signed off on anything yet so maybe a few things will be revisited over the next week. Choosing front of house colouring and trying to picture what it is all going to look like has been my biggest struggle so far.

On another front the demolition started this week, the cladding has been removed and now we wait for the heavy mech division to roll in and clear the block.

Wooot !!!! April the 1st

Well after a couple of months waiting things are really starting to happen, had a phone call from the builder today to arrange selections and get things sorted. The process is starting to get exiting.

March update

Waiting, waiting, waiting, all of March has been waiting game. Waiting for council, waiting for banks, builders, banks, council, back to the banks. But finally something actually happened, the BANK gave the OK to demolish. Believe it or not the council actually beat the bank. So now the real game is back on and we are booked in for the 12th of April for demo. I've had word from the builder that our plans have been rubber stamped by the councils planning dept. so fingers crossed developement approval should be sorted soon. I've got the site prep guy ready to roll and hopefully the builder will be on site sometime in May.

Feb 2010 update

Well it's been one month since my last post, in this time we have sorting out our respective financial messes and fingers crossed by next week I will have something to take to the bank. Homestead lodged our plans with council last week and today I finally lodged the demolition application. We had the power disconnected by ETSA this week, I only placed the requisition for disconnect two weeks ago, very fast. Hopefully the council will come back with a fast approval for demo as the demo guys are chaffing at the bit.

It's official, we've signed up

After an extended break and some weeks of soul searching we actually signed up to Homestead tonight. There really wasn't that much soul searching, just the Xmas break and some bloody hot Adelaide weather. We received notification tonight that our tenant is moving out this weekend so the next step is to get the services disconnected and the demo guys in. Bank finance is the next hurdle, not a biggy but an important one to get right. 2010 is going to be a busy year.

Final draft plans

Merry Xmas

Just want to say Merry Xmas everyone, I hope all those who read this had a wonderful day.

Our plans are still on track, we have the contract sitting on our coffee table, our house plans have gone from white to yellow and as soon as everyone gets back after Xmas it will go to council. We have engaged a demolition company for the end of February, 2010 should be a big year.