When we purchased the land back on the 1st October 2016, we were told that our land is due for registration in February 2017.
Early February, we received an email from Stockland to say that "we are still on track for an early March registration". I was a little confused as we were told February and we have heard nothing since, only this email that states early February. We thought maybe we heard the dates wrong originally and whilst a bit bummed, we excepted it and eagerly awaiting early Feb.
Come mid Feb, we received an email again from Stockland now stating "we are still on track for end of February registration". I called Stockland to find out what was going on and they told me on the phone that they are waiting for some final sign offs and would keep me posted.
Come 24th February, I open my email from Stockland titled "An important update on your land", Yahooo its finally time....NOT! yet another "We are still anticipating registration to occur in Mid-March."
Now we are wondering if this is actually ver going to happen.
By now we are just going with the flow, as Dan points out, we are not yet paying mortgage repayments so lets just leave and not push the situation.
Finally 29th March 6 months after we signed the contracts to a piece of dirt, we get the email "Your lot has registered".
We quickly cal the builder to let them know it has registered and we hear from our Solicitors to let us know that settlement has been booked in for 12th April 2016. Attached to this email is a breakdown of final costings that the solicitors will be paying on settlement day. I check it al off and notice that our part of the final payment is 3K more than we were originally told by our finance. This is 3K that we should have in our bank as our remaining deposit. We are 3K short!
I call Rams who are our finance and after much back and forward it seems there were extra things that were not added on in the initial costing breakdown. Soooo, yep we need to come up with 3K within 2 days before settlement. We did not have this so needed to extend settlement by 2 weeks so we could get this extra together.
We finally get this outstanding amount together from our pays and we settled on on 19th April at 4:00pm. Yay, that piece of Sunshine Coast dirt officially belongs to us.
We get a letter from Rams to say our first mortgage repayment will be on the 1st May. Things are serious now and we couldn't be happier.
Here are some pics of our land and our street from the footpath in front of our soon to be home.
Also Dan and I and our youngest having a celebration.
