Somewhere For the Bunch!

Did I say we were renting?

Yep, we are renting a great 5 bedroom house but with so many kids we needed to make a decision about our ongoing living arrangements. Paying off someone's mortgage is definitely not my long-term cup of tea!

With a need for multiple living areas and 6 bedrooms, it came down to the two choices that many of us homeowners face...buy or build.

We have lived in the area for more than a decade and our children are more than settled into the community and school routine. Looking outside of Point Cook was not an option for us, so we hit the usual online real estate websites and talked to the local agents.

After looking around our area for a while and discovering that 6 bedroom houses don't grow on trees, my partner-in-crime and I decided that the real estate gods just didn't love us. This was despite the promises from the estate agents that something would turn up (and the occasional sacrificial offering to appease the gods in our quest). Nothing that met our requirements eventuated.

Goodbye established house hunt and hello land.

With the house hunting at a dead end, we turned to the usual suspects again, this time for land. After a few quick setting adjustments for minimum land size, we were off and gazing at the local land for sale. 

The land gods were obviously happy with us because we found an amazing block of land almost instantly.

It was big by land standards in Point Cook today - 750 square metres and within the confines of the amazing Alamanda Estate.

To be honest we were amazed the block was on the market. We soon discovered it was an old block from one of the initial stages that was surplus to the needs of a big volume builder. They had sat on this block for a number of years. They were now off-loading it and several others in the same street. 

We were convinced we had hit the jackpot with its close proximity to the Alamanda Resident's Centre, complete with heated pool and gym. Having fibre optic broadband deployed in Alamanda Estate was another massive bonus, not to mention the amazing parks through-out the estate. We knew the kids would be wrapped with this location, the amenities and the super fast internet.

We were quickly on the phone to the agent who had listed the block (we were well aware that others would be circling) and within a day we were inside his office paying the deposit.

About 10 days later we were back in the agents office to sign the contract. It was such a quick and easy experience. Within two weeks we had found and secured our dream block of land!

NOW WHAT TO BUILD ON OUR DREAM BLOCK OF LAND?