Tandaland

I actually didn’t think it would be that hard to find a cartoon of an octopus wearing pants! Anyway… wasn’t really worth the effort… WORST PUN EVER!!

WOW!

Ok, well anyway…. we have on Occupancy Permit!! WOOT! This means our house is officially suitable for living in! Now all we need is the bank to go look at it and give it a rubber stamp, and then our second inspection, and then settlement and then move in!!

I reckon 2 weeks from now and we’ll be in! Fingers crossed!! We’ll be going by the block tonight to see our completed fence Yay!

We decided to swing by our land last night to see what (if anything) was going on. As far as we know, we’re still waiting on permits and a start date…but I think someone forgot to pass on that message to the builders!
It appears that they’ve started prepping the site for construction!!

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The block has been leveled, a recess has been dug out where the garage will eventually be, and the site has stakes pegged around the boundary of the slab area. Given that they have nails in the top of them, I’m guessing they will use these to put strings on to work out where to dig trenches for the waffle slab.

I think perhaps we are lucky that Urbanedge are building two other houses in the estate (one two doors down, and the other around the corner in the next street). It appears that all three blocks are in the same state, suggesting that it’s easier for them to just do all three preps at once.. even if we don’t have all the relevant permits finalised.

One thing is for sure, they’re definitely getting serious… and the best way to tell that is when a portaloo turns up! (this is actually on one of the other Urbanedge sites)

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So all the tick boxes are ticked, all the papers are signed, all the money has been paid…. no we’re just waiting for the phone call to tell us when we’re building. Urbanedge Homes have been great so far (in fact we love them at the moment), and we’ve really got no reason to complain… but man I wish they’d hurry up and get the permits and stuff done! It may well be that our plans are sitting out the Council’s office, or with the estate awaiting someone to rumber stamp our house…. but ugggh! The way I see it, the land titled on the 2nd, so if it takes four weeks to get the rest of the paperwar sorted out, we should be starting in the next fortnight. But still no word….maybe I’ll give them a call and see what’s happening.