Building a new house.

[Psyber]

I know there was a thread on this topic some time ago but I can't find it.
I'm considering building a house to rent out for now, so that later when I get older and want to scale down I already have something I would like where I would like it.
(Even if it would need a little repair and updating by then.)

I have found designs I like, that can be easily modified to suit me when no longer to be used as a rental property, with both Metricon and Rossdale.
Have any of you used these companies and how have you found them?

[Lightning McQueen]

You should build a whole city mate

[Ron Burgundy]

I have only used Metricon's website for interior designs etc.

We are building a house at the moment and it has been good fun to date. Designed the house ourselves and at this stage the wall frames are up, with the roof trusses going on today.

Its expected the house should be built by March-April. It'll have a brick and roof on at Xmas.

Only about 30m from the River so really happy with the location. Its a small block (approx 500m2) and a reasonable sized house (270m2) so not alot of yard, but enough for the dog to have a sh!te.

[The Ash Man]

I know there was a thread on this topic some time ago but I can't find it.
I'm considering building a house to rent out for now, so that later when I get older and want to scale down I already have something I would like where I would like it.
(Even if it would then need a little repair and updating by then.)

I have found designs I like, that can be easily modified to suit me when no longer to be used as a rental property, with both Metricon and Rossdale.
Have any of you used these companies and how have you found them?

My suggestion in the current new home build slump would be to find a design you like and shop it around to different builders.

The market is very tight at the moment (30% down on last year) and all builders are bending over backwards to get new starts.

Metricon are very new in Adelaide but huge interstate. Last I heard (a few months ago) they only had 10-15 homes on the books in Adelaide which is a very hard market to break into. All good reports in their work though

[Dutchy]

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[Squawk]

Psyber - we built with Rossdale. The finished product is generally pretty good, but the journey was not an easy one! More than happy to share my experiences with you offline if you wish.

[gadj1976]

We built at Wallaroo (North Beach) with Rivergum. Pretty good experience to be honest. I'm still having trouble with the developer, the council and ETSA over the electricity STILL not being on even though it was guaranteed to be on in July.

To say there is lots of finger pointing and buck passing would be an understatement.

[Psyber]

http://www.safooty.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4831

Thanks Dutchy.
I'd searched for "Building a House" in "General Discussion" but got everything that mentioned "building" or "house" and couldn't see the wood for the trees.

[Psyber]

Psyber - we built with Rossdale. The finished product is generally pretty good, but the journey was not an easy one! More than happy to share my experiences with you offline if you wish.

Thanks Squawk, and the guys in the industry who PM'd me. I'll keep the offers in mind if I go ahead.

[Tassie Blues]

I was very close to building with metricon in Ballarat. Found a house we liked quote was $320,000. made a few minor changes and once we added a few basic upgrades so it wasnt just a shell and the final cost was about $500,000. We didnt go throught with the build and are now looking at our own design.

The best one on the quote was we were changing an internal wall that had a cut out (about 3mx3m) to just be a solid wall extra cost $1000

[gadj1976]

We built at Wallaroo (North Beach) with Rivergum. Pretty good experience to be honest. I'm still having trouble with the developer, the council and ETSA over the electricity STILL not being on even though it was guaranteed to be on in July.

To say there is lots of finger pointing and buck passing would be an understatement.

News in......we more than likely wont have power till 17 January.

I've spoken to the developer and ETSA and both have said that its out of the their hands. I'm going to spew at the Developer tomorrow for selling sites that don't have power to them.

[Psyber]

I was very close to building with metricon in Ballarat. Found a house we liked quote was $320,000. made a few minor changes and once we added a few basic upgrades so it wasnt just a shell and the final cost was about $500,000. We didnt go throught with the build and are now looking at our own design.

The best one on the quote was we were changing an internal wall that had a cut out (about 3mx3m) to just be a solid wall extra cost $1000

That seems to be Metricon's style. A 2-storey design that appealed to me was listed at $255K, jumped to $268K as soon as you selected a street appearance that wasn't dead ugly.
It finished up at $337K by the time you added the foundation allowance and a few modifications.
I expect I'll walk away.

I'm awaiting figures from Rossdale and Sterling.

[Hefty]

I am in the throws of buying a new house and just wanted to know....

I am dealing with a financial broker who has sorted out my home loan. I am entitled to the First Home Owners Grant ($7000 Federal + $8000 State...i think this is right?) but who applies for the grant? Is this something I need to do or is it the broker/bank/conveyancer who does this?

Any advice would be appreciated.....

[Pag]

I am in the throws of buying a new house and just wanted to know....

I am dealing with a financial broker who has sorted out my home loan. I am entitled to the First Home Owners Grant ($7000 Federal + $8000 State...i think this is right?) but who applies for the grant? Is this something I need to do or is it the broker/bank/conveyancer who does this?

Any advice would be appreciated.....

Broker should do this for you, not sure where you got the two grants from though, I'm fairly sure it's only $7k. The Bonus disappeared over a year ago.

[Ron Burgundy]

I am in the throws of buying a new house and just wanted to know....

I am dealing with a financial broker who has sorted out my home loan. I am entitled to the First Home Owners Grant ($7000 Federal + $8000 State...i think this is right?) but who applies for the grant? Is this something I need to do or is it the broker/bank/conveyancer who does this?

Any advice would be appreciated.....

Broker should do this for you, not sure where you got the two grants from though, I'm fairly sure it's only $7k. The Bonus disappeared over a year ago.

The broker sorted this out for us. We were entitled to a $15K grant and applied in september and received the cheque last week, so im certain you are still entitled to $15K if building.

The 8K grant bonus goes down to $4k @ 1 july 2012 and is abolished the following year i believe. So get onto it!!

[Pag]

I am in the throws of buying a new house and just wanted to know....

I am dealing with a financial broker who has sorted out my home loan. I am entitled to the First Home Owners Grant ($7000 Federal + $8000 State...i think this is right?) but who applies for the grant? Is this something I need to do or is it the broker/bank/conveyancer who does this?

Any advice would be appreciated.....

Broker should do this for you, not sure where you got the two grants from though, I'm fairly sure it's only $7k. The Bonus disappeared over a year ago.

The broker sorted this out for us. We were entitled to a $15K grant and applied in september and received the cheque last week, so im certain you are still entitled to $15K if building.

The 8K grant bonus goes down to $4k @ 1 july 2012 and is abolished the following year i believe. So get onto it!!

Oh yeah, you're building.

Don't mind my stupidity.

[Hefty]

I am in the throws of buying a new house and just wanted to know....

I am dealing with a financial broker who has sorted out my home loan. I am entitled to the First Home Owners Grant ($7000 Federal + $8000 State...i think this is right?) but who applies for the grant? Is this something I need to do or is it the broker/bank/conveyancer who does this?

Any advice would be appreciated.....

Broker should do this for you, not sure where you got the two grants from though, I'm fairly sure it's only $7k. The Bonus disappeared over a year ago.

The broker sorted this out for us. We were entitled to a $15K grant and applied in september and received the cheque last week, so im certain you are still entitled to $15K if building.

The 8K grant bonus goes down to $4k @ 1 july 2012 and is abolished the following year i believe. So get onto it!!

Cheers RB and Pag. I am catching up with my broker today to sign loan document. Will hit him up re: grant application as well....yeah building so 15K as RB said.

[gadj1976]

Ok, so on the 16th of June last year our first connection request got knocked back by AGL. We have a new house, built in a new estate at North Beach Wallaroo. Our Lot no is Lot 9. AGL's rejection notification was that the meter was already on site. When quizzed further, they'd assessed Number 9 Woodforde Drive, despite one iota of further analysis realising that Lands Titles had a Lot 9 clearly visible by the new development.

I rang them today after our latest rejection (cos of the same reason) and they said "sorry you already have a meter on site". I said "mate, if I had a meter, why would I be ringing firstly, do you think I collect the things?". My barrage continued "if I've got a meter on site, then tell me the following - when was the meter installed? What was my last meter read? What was my last consumption? Who is the bill being sent to (given that I own LOT 9)?"

They were unable to tell me any of the above. Clueless.

[heater31]

Ok, so on the 16th of June last year our first connection request got knocked back by AGL. We have a new house, built in a new estate at North Beach Wallaroo. Our Lot no is Lot 9. AGL's rejection notification was that the meter was already on site. When quizzed further, they'd assessed Number 9 Woodforde Drive, despite one iota of further analysis realising that Lands Titles had a Lot 9 clearly visible by the new development.

I rang them today after our latest rejection (cos of the same reason) and they said "sorry you already have a meter on site". I said "mate, if I had a meter, why would I be ringing firstly, do you think I collect the things?". My barrage continued "if I've got a meter on site, then tell me the following - when was the meter installed? What was my last meter read? What was my last consumption? Who is the bill being sent to (given that I own LOT 9)?"

They were unable to tell me any of the above. Clueless.

Your builder didn't arrange the connection

[gadj1976]

Ok, so on the 16th of June last year our first connection request got knocked back by AGL. We have a new house, built in a new estate at North Beach Wallaroo. Our Lot no is Lot 9. AGL's rejection notification was that the meter was already on site. When quizzed further, they'd assessed Number 9 Woodforde Drive, despite one iota of further analysis realising that Lands Titles had a Lot 9 clearly visible by the new development.

I rang them today after our latest rejection (cos of the same reason) and they said "sorry you already have a meter on site". I said "mate, if I had a meter, why would I be ringing firstly, do you think I collect the things?". My barrage continued "if I've got a meter on site, then tell me the following - when was the meter installed? What was my last meter read? What was my last consumption? Who is the bill being sent to (given that I own LOT 9)?"

They were unable to tell me any of the above. Clueless.

Your builder didn't arrange the connection

They did, several times. They applied with ETSA and AGL and got knocked back. Ultimately it's my responsibility to ensure it's connected BEFORE building commences.