The developer, Cedar Woods, invited us to a street party to celebrate the completion of ‘Stage 12’, which sounds like a milestone in the Nazi Party’s master plan for the human race, or perhaps another step on the path to Nirvana. Oh Nevermind. The real reason was to welcome us to our sand, and to…
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Quiet Celebration of Settlement
I know it sounds a bit corny but I wanted to pop a cork over our newly acquired piece of sand. I didn’t think anyone would mind, especially not the government, who had just that morning charged us over ten grand to send us a copy of a piece of paper via email. Still, I…
Titles, Settlement
The land vendors (Cedar woods Properties) had a special on settlement agencies at the time we put the deposit down. It seemed a good deal, and we hade previously used Vicki Philipoff settlement before when we sold an investment property a few years ago. They were good then, so we went with the deal. They…
A Visit Amongst the Christmas lull
Nothing much has been happening lately. The Christmas Grinch has stolen all the work that is being done on our new house. No design is being done, no work on titles or settlement is being done. We are looking at different doors but that’s about it. I wonder if I’ll be writing a similar post…
First Videos of the block
I took a trip up to the block, hoping to polish up my drone flying skills and get some videos. Yes, I was very rusty and I’d forgotten some of the finer points of videoing, but hey these don’t look too bad. I’ll try a few more formats soon. I’m not sure – but I…