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Journey to our first home #1

Thought I'd start a blog to chronicle our journey to our first home. This will sort of serve as a diary so we can look back and reminisce the process of obtaining our first home. We started going to display homes at the start of this year. We decided to set our goal which is to buy a house at the end of year. I worked out our finances and told Ralph to save half of our salary to reach that certain amount for the deposit. We first went to Point Cook just to survey the market. For me, point cook is a nice, posh area among all south west suburbs. This place was our first target. I saw an ad on facebook regarding an open house in Featherbrook estate, so we went there clueless of what to expect. Upon talking to a sales rep, we realized how expensive this area is. 400 sqm of land which is our target size, cost $300k plus already in that estate. Since we were told that they are already in their last stages, we decided to move to Upper Point Cook. There we realized that there is no way we can afford that area. In a sense that we won't be able to do what we want to do (travel, eating out) and earn just enough to pay mortgage and daily necessities. We decided to look into Weribee. We still had nothing to pay for a deposit especially that we were scheduled to go to Philippines for vacation. First estate we went to is Alwood. We just gave it a try to be familiar with the process of buying a house. We saw a house and land package under JG King which was offering thr cheapest in that area. We spoke to the sales rep and he referred us to thr builder. We went to see the builder and ended up doing a quote. It was a total of 467k with 20k discount due to the 'promo'. It has all the things we want in the house and moat importantly within our budget. It's just that we didn't have the funds at the time. They tried convincing us in all sorts of ways but failed. We didn't close the deal but atleast we have an idea of the process now. We went for a nice 3 week vacation in the Philippines and came back. We were sort of sad that we found a house that fits the budget but we didn't have the means to buy it. I started browsing thru real estate website looking for cheaper established homes in the area only to find out they get sold easily which was disappointing especially when u find a house that you like. Went to a point that we stopped looking since it's useless because we can't do anything if we find something due to lack of funds. Fast forward to today, and we finally put in a deposit on the land and our chosen builder. How did we end up here? Alot of f push pull, come and go. Since we cannot afford Point Cook anymore, we decided to look for an established house in Geelong which is where we both work. But shit happened and we went looking again in Melbourne. Thinking we can't afford Weribee anymore, we decided to look into Rockbank. Turns out prices are the same as Weribee. We went as further as South Melton where land is cheap and whole package is well within our budget. Though we knew the reputation of this burb is not good, we still put in a security deposit on the land. We were persuaded by the reps saying that it's a nice new estate which is buing develop by the same company who developed Caroline Springs. We had 7 days to pull out or our many will go to waste. Did our research regarding the area and overall concensus wasn't good. We cancelled our purchase and went back to Weribee. We even returned to the previous estate and builder reps to check if this area is still within the budget. Turns out, land in Weribee is actually selling out fast. To the point that they need to use a ballot system. You need to be drawn for you to buy the land. We knew there's a land release 2 Saturdays ago. We weren't keen because we knew it's a ballot system and we weren't in a hurry. But then our previous builder called informing us the they got a land available that will fit our budget. And that the previous client pulled out. We ask if he can put a hold on the land and that we will drop by at the land office before 5. Knowing that this estate has the same developer as our previous ones, i ask if they can transfer the security deposit to this estate. They agreed and gave us a week to pay the 5% deposit. Spent the whole week looking for builder and weighing out which offer the best deal which fallls within our price range. It was a tie between Orion who has good reviews based on the estates FB group, JG King who secured our current land and Mimosa home. We considered Metricon as well but overall reviews both online and from friends aren't good. On the other hand Carlisle had the best floor plan but comes with a steep price. As well as Fairhaven whose not willing to do a price match. In the end, it's between JG king who agreed on making some changes to accomodate the floor plan that I like and still within our budget but had negative feedback online or Mimosa with smaller floor plan but comes with good reviews. After weighing pros and cons, we decided to pursue Mimosa homes due to good feedback and standard inclusions that's just within pur budget. Contract signing day came and we encountered another problem. We didn't have 10% deposit. Meaning we had to secure a builder first within the estate inborder for us to pay just 5%. We we're given ultimatum til 4:30 to find a builder or pAy the 10%. We went to Mimosa, did another quote, this time with the upgrades that we want. Was more than satisfied with the outcome plus we got a discount for being nice customers. He agreed on the floor plan that i like without extra cost, upgraded kitchen island to waterfalls (1500) and undermount sink (450), high ceiling 2900mm (2500) and door upgrades (managers discount). The reason why we chose Mimosa as well is because of their inclusions which are fly screen, concrete drive way, alfresco, remote control for garage, and still end up within our desired price range. Whereas if you check with other builder, those are considered upgrades. There's alot of good feedback as well that you can find online. We paid 2k for builders deposit and finally got a receipt from them to show to land sales rep so we can pay 5% for the land and sign the contract. It took about 40 minutes of signing and explaining the agreement. Then finally, putting a sold sticker on our lot to make it official. It was an exciting day for us to finally found our future house. We felt blessed and decided to go straight to church for an anticipated mass to give thanks for this wonderful chapter in out adult life. Now we just have to wait til our land titles. For the mean time, we need to book an appointmet to the builder for a tour in their display gallery and choose our preferences for the house and to the broker as well to look into our finances. Thank you Lord for letting us reach our goal.