Buying land story - Part1

I’ve broken this story up into a few parts as it’s a bit loooong. 

I thought I’d share a little bit about my land buying experience. I try to not let things stress me out as this whole house building process should be fun but buying land was a little bit different than I had expected. I expected to walk in, make my offer, have it accepted, and yay I’m a land owner. Well things didn’t all go according to plan. I’ve not mentioned any names or locations as I’m not trying to slander anyone, I’m only hoping to help other home buyers to be aware that some agents are not to be trusted.

It all begun back in November 2012, after dreaming for so long I decided the time was right, time to move on this dream of mine and buy a block of land. After following the local land sales for years I knew what was available. My budget was tight so there wasn’t a lot to choose from but there was 1 block I had in mind, it was an odd shaped block with no right angles but sat at the end of a cultersack in a new housing estate, it was nice and within budget. I rang the sales rep and asked for a few details, and told her I was interested but I still needed to follow up with my bank and builder etc. The rep said she would put my name next to that block, like a verbal hold. Well when I rang back I was told it had now been sold. I was disappointed, not so much that I had lost that particular block but that the sales rep didn’t tell me that someone else was interested. Oh well, I took it as it wasn’t meant to be. After this I decided to wait a while, I was having mixed feeling about if I was doing the right thing building a house, I think every first home buyer has those jitters.

Fast forward to April 2013, I realised that if I was going to do this, I had to move on it now. What’s the point in delaying my dream?