its now ours! yay!

We just the got keys delivered finally with a folder of all the stuff we need and a gift basket of some bath and hand towels!

now time to start packing and organising the flooring to be done! photos to be up shortly.

Finally the final!

Final payment was made on Monday yay! now trying to organise the handover meeting with the builder. Yesterday we went to look at the state of the backyard which is now a jungle after almost a year of no maintenance. We struggled with some yardwork but I've since come to the conclusion it will be worth paying someone else to do it hehehehe. The kikuyo grass is almost waist high in some areas and the ground is not level and there are bits of rocks and pipes and mesh buried here and there. Since we want to turf, and it looks like the only want to clear it is to do it manually with a matic, then i think its worth paying someone to do the backbreaking work.

getting quotes now...

signing off...

Well, we have finally signed off that all items are complete two weeks ago. Finally! Although at the time there were outstanding items (the painter came back 3 times!), these were completed the following day. We have also received the interim occupation certificate last week, 1 month after we sent all the paperwork to the certifier so that took two weeks longer than expected. Currently the bank is now doing its valuation to check that all work has been completed before the final payment can be release. We're expecting this to be done this week provided all is satisfactory. Then we should be able to get the keys!!!

We've visited the house again, there is a lot of cleaning up work in the garden as the grass is knee high and we will have to landscape every inch of the place but I'll be happy when we can finally say it is completely ours to landscape!