Contacted "D" @ Underground Water Storage today who we met out at the HIA Home Show.
http://www.undergroundwaterstorage.com.au/
He's meeting me out at the block on Friday to talk about their system, and so I can show him where we want our underground storage set up. At the moment we're thinking the front yard. I'm sure he'll give me the best advice on where it will suit. Aaron will be working, so I hope I'll be able to answer all the man questions he may ask me!!
He'll then give us a quote so we can give to the bank with our building contract etc.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
The road (update)...
We have progress... a bit of a storm water drain, and some unenthused looking men working in the cold! May not register on some people's excitement levels... but for us it's pretty up there!!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The site costs...
Called S @ Henley today to check on the progress of our contract.
She has requested the contracts by 7th May so she has a week to review them before we go in to sign them on the 14th May.
I queried the fixed price site costs, as we have no idea what they are. She said our sales consultant R should have given these to us. She reviewed our file and said she'd have to look into it for me and advise in the next few days.
After visiting our block and seeing piles and piles of rock dug up from near where the road will be built, we were a bit concerned about being hit up for huge rock removal costs. S assured that we have a fix priced site costs - she'll contact us in the next few days to confirm what it is.
Where's the "Dummies guide to building a house"??
She has requested the contracts by 7th May so she has a week to review them before we go in to sign them on the 14th May.
I queried the fixed price site costs, as we have no idea what they are. She said our sales consultant R should have given these to us. She reviewed our file and said she'd have to look into it for me and advise in the next few days.
After visiting our block and seeing piles and piles of rock dug up from near where the road will be built, we were a bit concerned about being hit up for huge rock removal costs. S assured that we have a fix priced site costs - she'll contact us in the next few days to confirm what it is.
Where's the "Dummies guide to building a house"??
The FHOG (end of)...
From today's AGE:
First home-owner deadline looms: Rudd
April 23, 2009 - 1:06PM
The boost to the first home owners grant will not be extended beyond June 30, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has suggested.
"The first home owner's boost, as you know, we have indicated that will conclude within a very fixed and finite time frame," he told reporters in Perth.
"It's had strong useful results so far, but I have got to say all good things must come to an end."
The grant was raised from $7000 to $14,000 for existing dwellings and from $14,000 to $21,000 for new homes as part of the government's $10.4 billion stimulus package last year.
Mr Rudd said the Government was still measuring the full effects of the boost but it was important the community understood deadlines were imposed for a particular purpose.
Withdrawing the grant could hit some families hard.
Today, Treasurer Wayne Swan said he could not guarantee that the jobless rate won't hit double digits after a ''bleak'' report form the International Monetary Fund on the global economy.
Releasing its latest World Economic Outlook late overnight, the IMF forecast Australian growth would contract by 1.4% in 2009, before growing by 0.6% in 2010.
The IMF now expects world growth to decline by 1.3% in 2009, a hefty 1.8% reduction from what it predicted at the start of the year, while developed economies are expected to contract by 3.8%.
''It's the worst set of global forecasts the IMF has yet bought down because it now believes that the recession will be deeper and longer than previously forecast,'' Mr Swan said.
''And of course this has made an Australian recession inevitable.''
The IMF expects Australian jobless rate to be 7.8% in 2010, compared to its current level of 5.7%.
In February the Government had forecast a jobless rate of 7% by mid-2010, although Mr Swan has already indicated that unemployment will be higher than that because declining growth, and new forecasts will be included in the May 12 budget.
Mr Swan was asked if he could guarantee that the jobless rate wouldn't hit the double digit levels seen in the early 1990s.
''There are no guarantees when you are amidst the most savage global recession since the Great Depression,'' Mr Swan said.
''The Government will do everything we possibly can by way of economic stimulus to support jobs now ... and to put in place the building blocks for recovery so that we can maximise the employment opportunities that will flow from the global recovery when it comes.''
He said the pace of economic recovery will depend on the rest of the world.
''I myself personally am a little bit optimistic about China, and that's a good thing,'' Mr Swan said.
First home-owner deadline looms: Rudd
April 23, 2009 - 1:06PM
The boost to the first home owners grant will not be extended beyond June 30, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has suggested.
"The first home owner's boost, as you know, we have indicated that will conclude within a very fixed and finite time frame," he told reporters in Perth.
"It's had strong useful results so far, but I have got to say all good things must come to an end."
The grant was raised from $7000 to $14,000 for existing dwellings and from $14,000 to $21,000 for new homes as part of the government's $10.4 billion stimulus package last year.
Mr Rudd said the Government was still measuring the full effects of the boost but it was important the community understood deadlines were imposed for a particular purpose.
Withdrawing the grant could hit some families hard.
Today, Treasurer Wayne Swan said he could not guarantee that the jobless rate won't hit double digits after a ''bleak'' report form the International Monetary Fund on the global economy.
Releasing its latest World Economic Outlook late overnight, the IMF forecast Australian growth would contract by 1.4% in 2009, before growing by 0.6% in 2010.
The IMF now expects world growth to decline by 1.3% in 2009, a hefty 1.8% reduction from what it predicted at the start of the year, while developed economies are expected to contract by 3.8%.
''It's the worst set of global forecasts the IMF has yet bought down because it now believes that the recession will be deeper and longer than previously forecast,'' Mr Swan said.
''And of course this has made an Australian recession inevitable.''
The IMF expects Australian jobless rate to be 7.8% in 2010, compared to its current level of 5.7%.
In February the Government had forecast a jobless rate of 7% by mid-2010, although Mr Swan has already indicated that unemployment will be higher than that because declining growth, and new forecasts will be included in the May 12 budget.
Mr Swan was asked if he could guarantee that the jobless rate wouldn't hit the double digit levels seen in the early 1990s.
''There are no guarantees when you are amidst the most savage global recession since the Great Depression,'' Mr Swan said.
''The Government will do everything we possibly can by way of economic stimulus to support jobs now ... and to put in place the building blocks for recovery so that we can maximise the employment opportunities that will flow from the global recovery when it comes.''
He said the pace of economic recovery will depend on the rest of the world.
''I myself personally am a little bit optimistic about China, and that's a good thing,'' Mr Swan said.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The road...
Aaron did a drive by of the block today. There were guys working on the storm water and the road... should be finished in approx 3 weeks! So we may be able to park our cars on road soon and not dirt! Very exciting!!
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