We've been delayed again! We have now been given a settlement time of mid-may. I am not positive about it because it has all been for nothing every other month. It definitley looks like we will be charged extra for going over our contract time, so for every additional month after June 8, we pay $1000 on top of what we already owe.
I probably wouldnt care so much about the delays if they hadn't given us false hope every month! It is ridiculous that they have been telling us since September that it will be next month, next month, next month. It's a joke and a real flaw of the developer. Yes, we are excited to be part of the community, but we're losing money because they can't get their act together.
Are my posts getting progressively hostile???
I'm annoyed at our builder (CLO) at the moment. After seeing the display homes down here, we've realised the wardrobes in Beds 2, 3 and 4 are far too small! I want the kids to have room to play- not a room full of drawers and storage cubes. So I asked for our robes to be extended- I was told NO. I asked Matt to question their 'NO'... so I composed an email for Matt to send to the CLO. He replied and said that perhaps we can make the change.... however the builder reserves the right to refuse any variations after contract signing. Anyway, I called him to see what size robes we could get and if there were standard sizes. I also said that we wanted sliding doors. I was told that even extending to robes was a big ask, no way were we going to get sliding doors as well. Can you believe this? No one I have spoken to can believe that they're not willing to make this change (not even our original sales rep and his offsider)...
We are this week waiting to hear from the Operations Manager, who according to our CLO, is the person who will make the call on our wardrobe change. If he doesn't say yes, yes and yes, I will be furious.
We have been tossing up leaving the builder... but when we close our eyes we picture our MJH house and it seems weird to potentially not have that.
Anyway, fingers crossed it all works out.
In other news, we have decided (haha, so I say now) to build again! We haven't even started our first build yet... and I'm making these ridiculous claims, BUT we're not getting everything we dreamed of in this home. So, we'll do this build, hopefully the house will increase in value and we can start all over again. We're thinking of buying a couple of acres and building the real dream... possibly owner/builder... Stay tuned... I'll probably have news of another delay in a month ;)
