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We are going through this at the moment, have to say I'm sick of three hour meetings with the builder lol. And we haven't even turned any dirt yet.

We got turned off the big project home builders pretty quick, we went for a builder that does it all in house, has all his own builders, sparkies plumbers etc on staff. No subbies.

We get key for the site straight away, and we are encouraged to pop in whenever we want to check progress. Once we sign final contracts next week then the price is fixed, can't go up, can't go down. Lawyers already ok'ed the deal.

We were trying to do everything for 400k, so far it's looking like it's gonna be 10k over that, plus we have another 30k of extra stuff to get done if an inheritance comes through on time lol.

Land prices here are getting stupid fast. We were looking at having to pay 200k for a 420ish sq metre block, but we ended up finding one a bit further out of all the new subdivisions, 175k for 820sq.