Potential Meeting with Designer

It's amazing how things move quickly when you get closer to certainty. In our case, the amount of funds we can obtain are becoming more established so: 

• our choice is becoming limited and a clearer picture of what we can and cannot get is starting to appear 
• potential for negotiations with builders and other contractors are more defined and both sides of the table become more confident 

We spotted a build that will be happening in one of the areas we are interested. The area is called Mulgoa Rise and it is part of Penrith city to the South of an area called Glenmore Park (also south of the M4). From what we have been told, it will appear to be a house and land package. The package is on offer from a builder, relatively new to the Sydney market, named Adenbrook Homes. 

We have always looked upon Adenbrook Homes favourably ever since we met with Heidi from Adenbrook in Jordan Springs (another area we are interested in). This was when we first started looking for places in 2011. The build is very appealing and it also has some of our preferred inclusions. 

The property we found is at the peak of our budget and we would very much like it to be reduced for us to be able to add on our own inclusions. For example, there was not provision for solar power at all on the plans provided to us so far. We have classified this as one of our needs for the new house so this needs to be included in our budget. Another example is carpet, as all my kids are allergic to dust mites, which we will always remove from any inclusion list that we will encounter. 

Our meeting with the designer will look at the current inclusions to the internals of the house. We will look into what things can be un-included which we can live without or perhaps put in later on. Hopefully, this will bring down the price to something that we are comfortable with, to be able to proceed with the purchase. 

We are restricted to non-structural inclusions only because the property has already been submitted to the local council. There is a loss of flexibility because of this, however, we are quite happy (aside from a few clarifications with the designer) with the structure of the house and external inclusions (e.g., termite protection, fence borders, BASIX, etc.) 

We need to look at all the plans again and bring these questions to the meeting. This is so we can cover as much ground as we can and bring more things into certainty.