Wednesday, August 26, 2009

anyone for $70k 133m, and 102m Loft design house

I am actively looking for a builder to see if anyone can do a C3 design Loft design house for $60,000 to $80,000...Ground floor is 133m square, second floor is 102m square...Hope to buy the official plans soon...Have block options in the metro around the $130,000-$145000 mark...

Have an advert for builders to quote on this @ HERE...so please any builders out there let us know if you can do this...

Go! Go! Go! if we are to use the government grants ($14,000-$21,000...probably too late for $21,000 now) this year, and reduce our weekly rent payment of $355 a week to a mortgage payment of less than $200 a week by 2010...
If of course we can find a builder to build for $60,000-80,000...
Otherwise the only other options are to try a block in the country, (lots of travel for me to work unless I make it big on the stock market,) or try the banks again next year which I suspect will mean higher land costs, and the same or similiar loan amount, maybe even less or no loan amount at all...
So I am thinking now is the time to try and go for it if it is still possible...

here is the text from my ad on serviceseeking which is HERE;


-Brick house 3-4 bedrooms
-A-frame style roof, 2 storey house.
-needs to comfortably fit on a 280m square block
i.e. about 133m square for ground floor,
102m square for the second floor
-I have a detailed sketch of plans, and am about to buy official plans from an architect.
-build for $60000- $75,000
-location will be near kwinana in an established home estate
-need work to start asap, by November 2009 at the latest
-completion date asap, but flexible with that so long as it is finished some time in 2010.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

dirt cheap or wait awhile seems to be the options

Well we have made some progress in the loan approval stakes.
We have got a finance figure from a lender. It is wayyyyyy! too low...unless I wanna buy as block in Beverley for $35,000, or Mullewa for $19,000 or Northampton for $60,000...
Or we could always goto Yarloop for $62,000 right next door to the Alcoa Wagerup refinery that Erin Brockovich has come out from USA to see...Free blood noses diahorrea and headaches, cancer etc come with this land package...
Or if I can somehow find someone to build a house for $60,000 to $80,000 (Peter Lees design maybe, perhaps a very understanding builder...then maybe one of the $141,000 blocks that have been released this week (a bit small at 287m square but might do the job)...
Basically feeling a bit discouraged...so we have a few months to try and work with what we have so far, or try and save $15,000 to $40,000 (very hard to impossible) and/or try and find another lender that will give us a better go...
Be very easy to just crawl under a rock and carry on renting but I can't afford to throw in the towel just yet...