Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year 2010!

Now this is what pisses me off - I spent 5 minutes writing a rant about how the government is wasting $1,350,000,000 of taxpayers money on a rubbish ticketing system that doesn't work, and it disappeared from my screen! Believe me, it was a well written and very pointed piece about corruption in Australian politics, but I can't recreate it now. Bah. Google, fix Blogger!!

Anyway, the point was, Happy New Year or something like that; and because this blog is about building houses not bitching about politicians (they rise to the top, like a decomposing body after a week in a stream), here's a couple of Metricon Nolan related posts for your continued enjoyment.

Remember this Nolan I was writing about, in Dec 09?



I was reading through the Section32s (which I had ingeniously photographed using my iPhone), and the build permit for this Nolan was only approved in mid-April 2009. And seeing as it was all wrapped up and sold by December 19, that puts the build time at approximately 8 months, which is a lot better than our quoted 370 days! Now I'm not trying to get our hopes up - if our Nolan could be done in 8 months (ie Aug 2010) that would be beyond awesome! But like I said before, not getting our hopes up.

To finish off this New Years' Day blog post, I found that someone put a video on Youtube walking through the original Nolan display home in Point Cook, which shut down I think end of 2008? This is the ugly Nolan that features on the M website, complete with moose head and horrible green walls everywhere. Anyway, we didn't get to walk through this Nolan (there's a new big Nolon display house in Point Cook, but it's one that has the usual $200,000 worth of options including ensuites to every room). Click on the vid below - enjoy!

T&T


4 comments:

  1. Happy New Year. I am in full agreement with you about the WASTED Taxpayers money on MYKI, and your comments on politicians. Bitch on my friend. No complaints here. Enjoying the blog.

    Kim

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  2. Happy New Year Tim and Tina.

    Good luck with the build.

    Michelle

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  3. Hi Tim and Tina, was funny to see the you tube video - the colours look worse than the photos on their website which is hard to believe that is possible. But my husband and I love the Nolan. If you are ever in sydney there is a great Nolan 45 on display at The Ponds / Kellyville Ridge. It has great colours, very similar layout with the ensuites everywhere. I think they have a few shots of it on the website now when you go to NSW website. Our block just didn't suit the shape of the house unfortunately. Hopefully they will be a lot quicker than 370 days. In Sydney for new areas you have an 8 mth contract time, but a lot of the 2 storey ones are being built in 4 1/2 months. Some in our area started in August and were completed so people could move in by Christmas. Good luck. Sarah.

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  4. Sarah V,

    I wished Victoria could have the 4 1/2 month build. Jealous
    B&T

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