Securing land

To be able to build the Lumino, we needed a block of land. As mentioned before, at the Aurora estate, builders have "pre-allocated" blocks of land. So they would tell customers which block of land they need to secure in order to build their desired home. Simonds told us we only had 2 choices left in Stage 13 if we wanted to build with them, as the rest had either been sold, allocated to other builders or were unsuitable. Lot 1366 ended up being our final choice as it was a north facing, rectangular block, and it measured 18m x 30m (540m2) slightly bigger than the other block of land that was on offer which measured 16m x 30m (480m2). It meant we would have a slightly bigger outdoor area, every centimeter counts you know!

However, choosing lot 1366 came with a price, of nearly $10k more which bumped the total cost of the house and land package closer to the $400k mark. We went away for 30mins thinking through it, as we were considering waiting for future land release in the coming months just to give us more options. But due to the government's deadline on the FHOG incentive, we risk losing thousands of dollars in incentives. Land in future realeases were also going to be priced higher so from a budget standpoint we would be worse off, plus having to wait longer before we get a house to live in. We finally made up our minds and returned to drop a deposit on lot 1366.
Just can't expect to get everything can we!

Funny thing is if we had taken another 15mins to decide, we would have missed out on lot1366 as that same afternoon 2 more couples expressed interest only to find that it has been taken.



*A pic of lot 1366 below if you can see it! Sorry about the poor quality.. :p