Frustrations!!

We have had a few 'issues' with our CSR from PD today. We have found him incredibly frustrating. Today they informed us of our start date of April 11th (yay), but me, being a woman have changed my mind regarding the colour of the qq benchtop. Our CSR has informed my husband that this means we wont be able to start until May (!) and we will be charged the house price increase which is about to occur - thousands of dollars. After a few tears on my behalf - my husband called back our CSR and asked that they make the change. 'D' our CSR has informed my Anthony (husband) that he will not approve our request as he does not want to go to his Supervisor and explain the change of start date. Not approve a change we want!!?? What .... It is a colour change - not a structural variation - a change in colour. It does not even change the price - both are category 1 selections. We are buying this house and I feel that we should be able to have the colours that we want... albeit a late change - I know, but due to fairly lax communication - I didn't know when we were commencing - it could have been the 30th April giving plenty of time to raise a new post contract variation....

Hopefully this will be resolved. Anthony is waiting to speak to 'D's' supervisor.

ARGGHHH!!! And we haven't even started building..

It's ours!!!

The park and BBQ facilities directly across the road

Our block from across the road

Introductions.....

Hi, we are a newly married couple building our first home. We are moving from a 2 bedroom apartment in an inner city suburb to an estate in the northern region of Melbourne. We are building a Porter Davis home - Cremorne 34. I have been inspired by reading the Homeone forum to put together this blog ... yes another Cremorne to add to the list!! We are building the 34 square home, which we feel will be big enough for us.

We have been through the process of sales, tender, colour selection, contract, tile selection and are now just waiting to start building. It has been frustrating at times and I have had empathy for the others that have expressed this aswell. We have a starting month of April - yes it is April now - yet we still have not been given a start date - I guess it will be sometime in the next 28 days......

I hope to get the hang of this blog thing and add to it regularly throughout the next 9 months (or so).