Initial Deposit for Providence 24 MkII

After spending a few weekends looking at display homes all over Sydney we felt the Providence 24 MkII from Wisdom Homes on display at The Ponds was the best home for us. The idea of the sunken home theatre room and the layout of the kitchen, dining and living rooms really suits our life style and what we want from our house. The size of the house is also well suited to our land so it was a some what easy decision on selecting the Providence. After an initial budget cost we were comfortable that the house would be within our budget so we went in on Saturday afternoon and paid our initial deposit for a fixed price tender.

TV Super Stars

Well where do we start... Dawn and I were out today at HomeWorld in Kellyville looking at display homes. We were there for only maybe 10 minutes, looking at the AVJennings Homes when we walked out of a home and noticed a camera man and reporter out the front. We looked at each other and said "what's going on there" and as we walked past they asked if they could ask us a few questions and before you know it we are chatting away answering a load of questions. The questions were all to do with the First Home Buyer Grant and the housing market, all something we really didn't know much about at the time. So after finishing off the interview we both looked at each other and said "Oh my goodness, we are going to be on TV." The first thing Dawn does is call her mum to let her know she is famous and to make sure she watches channel 7 news tonight. Stardom had hit maybe 2 mins after when we were like, 'I'm so glad I had make up on today, I'm so glad I had my new shirt on and my hair was done'. It was quite surreal, all we could focus on was being on TV.

So there we are at home on a Saturday night eagerly awaiting the start of channel 7 news when before you know it, 2nd story in and there we are our faces on the news. Dawn had the speaking role, for which I am still being heckled about by my brothers for not speaking. Within a minute both our mobiles were going off with people seeing us on the TV. It's a tough life being a TV Super Star...To be continued.

Land Contract Signed

Our appointment with the solicitors was yesterday to sign our land contract. It started out with 'April' our legal expert, explaining all the scary stuff to us. The contract side of it seemed all straight forward. An hour and a half later of chit chat, ink went to paper and the land was officially ours. Well technically not yet, it had to be signed by Landcom as well. So Dawn and I signed our names ("Pete make sure to leave room for me") and handed over the cheque with our 5% deposit.

We marked the day with a celebration dinner at a fine Italian restaurant in Parramatta. We went all out with champagne and wine and enjoyed an Italian feast. We thought we would treat ourselves as now we have to make sure to save the $$ so that we can build our 'Dream home at The Ponds'.

Land Purchase

It was a cold, foggy morning in front of The Ponds display village when we arrived at 7:00am. We were eleventh on the list and with 28 blocks to be released that morning at 10am we were a little unsure if the blocks we were interested in would be available. What was surprising was that people had been camping out for 3 days/nights to be the first ones on the list, now that's dedication.

So with time approaching the price list was made available and to our surprise the prices for the blocks were a little higher than previous releases in The Ponds. We had our eye on a few blocks we were interested in that were within our budget. The slow process of calling in the people off the list wasn't as nerve racking as we thought it would of been. The blocks were slowly being crossed off that had been purchased before us and luckily for us the ones we were looking at were still available. Next we are called in to the office and select Lot No. 5222. Within 5 minutes we have purchased our block of land. Let the adventure begin...

Welcome to our blog

Hi,

My partner and I are new to the blogging scene, we hope that our blog "Peter and Dawns Dream Home" is interesting for all to enjoy. Our aim for the blog is to document our progress in building our dream home, and share with others the experience. So here we go...