Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone could recommend some of their most favourite websites, resources or hints and tricks for the buying their first land through to the building process for the first time. There's a lot of odd advice out there but I'm trying to locate more detailed, indepth guides given my limited time outside of work hours.
Wisdom and painful lessons learnt from your prior forays would be much appreciated. Any builders to avoid (Perth region) or recommend?
Some areas/examples I'm looking for:
1) Tricks and tips i.e. paint yourself, use an external party for air cond and certain building functions to minimise costs and improve quality, landscaping yourself? Keeping in mind I've never done all of this before - so assuming these can be done with relative hard work for a first timer?
2) Any good resources explaining the detailed building process so I know what to monitor, look out for etc.
3) Anything else relevant to improving ones knowledge about designing and maximising investment potential and return from a design.
4) Everything and anything else you wish you knew your first time around. Must knows, mistakes to avoid. Legal or regulatory obligations to note.
5) Happy to cover related processes such as financing need to knows etc.
I've selected a 398 m2 lot already, 15m frontage. Thinking a 4 x 2. Need to have finance sorted by mid June.
Regards,
Saber
Just wondering if anyone could recommend some of their most favourite websites, resources or hints and tricks for the buying their first land through to the building process for the first time. There's a lot of odd advice out there but I'm trying to locate more detailed, indepth guides given my limited time outside of work hours.
Wisdom and painful lessons learnt from your prior forays would be much appreciated. Any builders to avoid (Perth region) or recommend?
Some areas/examples I'm looking for:
1) Tricks and tips i.e. paint yourself, use an external party for air cond and certain building functions to minimise costs and improve quality, landscaping yourself? Keeping in mind I've never done all of this before - so assuming these can be done with relative hard work for a first timer?
2) Any good resources explaining the detailed building process so I know what to monitor, look out for etc.
3) Anything else relevant to improving ones knowledge about designing and maximising investment potential and return from a design.
4) Everything and anything else you wish you knew your first time around. Must knows, mistakes to avoid. Legal or regulatory obligations to note.
5) Happy to cover related processes such as financing need to knows etc.
I've selected a 398 m2 lot already, 15m frontage. Thinking a 4 x 2. Need to have finance sorted by mid June.
Regards,
Saber