Mad Paperwork Dash

We had a phone call from Chantze (Metricon), she is our new consultant (we have had Max, Sylvia now Chantze). About some papers that needed signing, She emailed them through, I forwarded them to work, printed, signed then sent. Got a phone call from Chantze, she had not received my letter yet and asked if we could get them to her ASAP (this was at 4.05pm) she needed them by 5pm. I had just finished swimming at norlane pool when the call come through (picture this, speedo's,men's change room, talking on phone). dressed, in car calling Mel, to email Janine (world's best sister in Law) documents so that I could meet her at work,sign documents then to email back. Lets just say pressure on. Janine was a star and had documents ready when I got in the carpark of her work, signed them, then Janine emailed them back to Chantze by 4.45pm. Legends.

IT'S all happening

This photo shows all the work happening around our block, we know have both of our neighbours building, we only have 2 neighbours now whoo hoo. the house on the right is greybox and behind us is Metricon.

Bank to the PARTY!

We finally got news from our bank about our loan and valuation, we can look at it in many ways but the end result is we can start, back to the valuation part, not what we wanted, we wanted the block revalued at a more realistic price but unfortunately they did not change the value I believe to stand by there valuer rather then opening up a can of worms knowing that there are other values that we know about that were way off the mark.
It took 3 weeks to get our loan approaval through, so we sent our letter straight through to Metricon. Now comes the time to build (we hope)

Building Plans approved

One Step closer, our plans have been approved from the developer's and also from the Melton shire. We received a letter from Metricon yesterday that all is good with the plans including my hand sketched landscape plans (not bad if I do say myself). All we now wait on is the Bank! We hope to hear today or tomorrow, the bank has said it has gone on to long and should have been settled last week, Hopefully we can get some compensation for our troubles. Our contract states that once all documents are together building must start within 21 days, there could still be hopes for Xmas at Eynesbury.
I drive past last night in the dark to see the status of our neighbours house, I think it has been 2 weeks since we went to the block and only the ground work had been done and we were not sure if the house was going to be 2 storey or not. It is only a single storey house, not that it would have bothered us because it is on our bedroom side of the house. Building work has really moved along with there house as the frame is nearly complete.

As time goes By

I write as time goes By because we are already into June and dirt has not been moved as yet, so Xmas at our house Could be a long shot. I am amazed with our bank at the moment and the processes that we are going through to get this finalised, Valuations have been done for our loan and have come up short, short because of incompetence! The bank's valuer, I believe has not done their job properly and assessed our land value based on sales in our area and not in neighbouring suburbs. We hope to have this sorted shortly as the State Manager has become involved due to our disbelief in the original valuation. Fingers crossed.

We stopped by with the kids at Exford

Looking at Schools

It has been a couple of weeks since our last update but we have been busy with work and also looking at school's for the kids to go to when we move into Eynesbury. Our first school we visited was Exford Primary School, 6 km from our front door or at the end of our street and turn left then right into the carpark. We met the principal and had a good tour around the school and had a look into some of the classes, only a small school of 111 students but very friendly and had a good country feel. We then went into Melton and dropped into St Anthony's for some information about the school. The Principal was standing at reception when we arrived and was more than happy to show us his school and also show us their new Library. Larger school of 240 students with the plans for a lot more students with sub divisions opening up down the road from the school. We had a good day looking at these schools.