6th August 2013
We were so happy to hear of
our plans being approved by council on 6th August, it only took 3 weeks. We
were stoked and also relieved at the same time as our plans needed to be
approved by 8th August (only 2 days grace) before were went over our 150 days
of the contract price. If we went over this, we would then have to pay a fine
to MJH. Thank god we got it approved in the nick of time.
Then we were told all we
needed is the construction certificate and we would be placed on the
construction list! I contacted the bank frantically trying to get our
construction certificate. It took about a week to come through. so now I thought, thats it were done! I
contacted the CLO, to confirm all this and she advised that they had already
had the construction certificate and it was the loan approval document they
had been waiting on for the last week. I was fuming! I had already provided the loan approval document months ago as I had had it since February. The
whole time I was talking to the CLO and referring to the 'construction
certificate', she never once corrected me to inform me it was the 'loan approval' they needed. When I challenged her on this, she simply stated, ' Oh I just
thought you were calling it the wrong thing'. I was calling it the
'construction certificate' because thats what you told me. Again, my partner
was livid and telling me that I was being played! I was quite upset
that we had just lost another week, but we were so close now I didn't want to
kick up a fuss and have things delayed further. Within 2 minutes I sent through
the loan approval document, and voila`, we were placed on the construction
list! I was so excited, and then found out that the construction list meant MJH
had 20 working days (4 weeks) to commence, all of which would be used :(
