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Thank you Affordable Living Homes
We would like to say thank you to all the lovely staff at affordable living, for taking my phone calls the reception, and all the other lovely staff that has helped us with our lovely home. Thank you to nick, Steve, Andy, Cathy, Maddy and all of the other remaining staff that has helped us along this amazing journey that we will cherish in the future. Thank you and I hope you all have an awesome Christmas and happy new year.
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Vhonani M.Perth, WA
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Home building
The best experience from the start when I met Nick Gleeson. Thank you Nick for my beautiful home. Everything I wanted. I was so excited when I got my keys now I'm scared to move in because I just wanna look at it the way it is. Love it so much.
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highly recommended the company to all friends and family
From the initial fb message I received from nick Gleeson we have had a amazing run throughout our building experience. Everyone was very upfront with everything and nick was very good with us when things got a bit tough and worked with us through it all. As a previous affordable living staff member I can say I was treated extremely well through the process as a client and I highly recommended the company to all friends and family.
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Great experience for us to have Affordable Living homes!
It was a great experience for us to have Affordable Living homes as our builder. The staffs are friendly and helpful with the service through the process and they have a great communication between customers which really help through a lot to make our house come true! I will highly recommend them to help and assist you like they did to us.
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Jade T.Perth, WA
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Very Thankful
From the moment I met Nick Gleeson I knew I was going to be taken care of
First impression is always good for me and I felt comfortable with Nick
Nick explained everything that we needed to know and if we did not understand he always went the extra mile to help us
He said he would stay with us from start to finish and he kept his word
If there was anything that needs to be fixed changed or chased up Nick was always there to sort it out
Im very thankful for the journey we had in building our home
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Fantastic process from start to finish
The whole process has been fantastic from start to finish. Affordable have been extremely professional throughout and the communication has been brilliant. Everyone we have dealt with have been great especially Ryan McWhiter who got out build where it needed to be and we couldnt be happier with the end result. We would highly recommend Affordable Living to anyone.
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christopherPerth, WA
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Our build with affordable living
Nick Gleeson was amazing and helped us through the whole process
Any mishaps in building that we picked up in final inspection were fixed within a week
Pretty happy with the whole process including their website which followed the whole build process and even have family members currently building with them
Costing was pretty on point and we got what was expected
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Alex S.Perth, WA
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Excellent from start to finish.
Nick Gleeson from Affordable Living was absolutely amazing going the extra mile to getting us into our first home. The whole team at Affordable Living were so brilliant and professional. The house actually exceeded our expectations on quality. Most importantly a company that takes pride in providing a great product/service.
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Excellence service and guidance
Excellent service and guidance for us to have our new home. Affordable Living was always available and helpful with all our inquiries and questions from the beginning of application to colour selection then to building our house. THANK YOU Affordable Living Homes for all your help. God bless you all!
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Great people do deal with
Very happy with the build. Had no issues at all. Great people do deal with and even though it was over the Christmas break it was fast and efficient. Thanks to Cale and the team that made it all happen. Now for our journey to begin. It has been an amazing experience.
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Brittany S.Perth, WA
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Amazing building experience!!
We are beyond happy with our first home built by affordable living homes. From the start to the finish we can't actually fault any staff. Nick Gleeson was our sales consultant and he was amazing! From the first initial message I received on fb to the first meeting we had he was very upfront and honest with all information and helped us choose a house that was within our budget and worked with what we wanted for our home. We had a bit of a rough patch with finance and Nick was pretty much my back bone throughout it all and told me not to give u...Read more
p when times got to hard. As a first home owner I had numerous questions that some would call "stupid" nick answered every single one of those questions without hesitation. We then had a issue with our council regarding a fire issue for our block and once again I wanted to throw my hands up and walk away from it all. Steele carter was my savour along side Nick, I was told dw this will be sorted and they were right!!!!! Steel sent me a email and from that day I was no longer stressing out as I knew he had it sorted and soon after that it was all done and we were one step closer to slab down :) fast forward through to our colour selection meeting was ran very smoothly Elisha was amazing! Very welcoming and polite and I was comfortable and at ease straight away. We didn't have many issues in the actual build/ administration process to have to contact but anything we received /sent was all done and we were very happy with it all. Our building supervisor Jared was also amazing! From the initial meet he ran through everything and any questions I had he answered numerous times without getting "sick of me" he always had time and never rushed me at all! Very friendly and approachable :) we had another supervisor fill in for Jared as unfortunately he had to have a operation so he didn't get to do our pci but we were shown through everything once again and we knew exactly what was what and we're very happy. He had any issues or concerns we had all finalised by key hand over with no ongoing dramas. We recently done our key hand over and I want to mention the receptionist. She was bright bubbly and very friendly. Definitely who you would like being the face of the company!!! For the life of me I cant remember the name of the girl who did our key hand over but she was very welcoming and friendly and made the process run very smoothly and went through everything we needed to know in a timely manner and didn't rush us. We wanted to say to all the management and staff at Affordable living homes a huge thank you for Building my family our first home we are very happy with it and look forward to making many memories in it :) Brittany & KevinSimilar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
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Pax DominicPerth, WA
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The Affordable Living Team was Solid
Thank you to the Affordable Living team for helping us escape the rent trap and get into our first home. Linked us to reliable finance consultant and conveyance team. What I found best was how the Team listened our needs and let us have our own fingerprint into their house design. We trusted the process and the team delivered and we felt they were beside us every step of the way. Communication was solid and that is very important. Again thank you and would not hesitate to recommend to friends and family again.
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Brilliant and incredibly
Affordable has been brilliant and incredibly helpful from the very beginning. Nothing has been too much and every question we have had has been answered with no hesitation etc. Thank you for everything Affordable, you are all amazing.
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DeeOPerth, WA
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Stress-free, impeccable build!
Moved into our home built by Affordable Living in April 2018. Since then, there have been no issues. The selection, pre-start and building process has been stress free. It has been built with the highest degree of care and workmanship, and the quality of our first home is second to none. I would like to especially thank our supervisor, Adam. At any meetings we had with Adam, he was happy to answer all our questions and was very thorough during the PCI meeting. Also, thank you Cathy for promptly answering our queries and being readily available to discuss anything about our build.
I would not hesitate to build through Affordable Living again in the future. Thanks again to the team for making the process stress-free and enjoyable!
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Reynaldo AtienzaPerth, WA
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AFFORDABLE LIVING are highly recommended special mention to ADAM STRAUCH a very kind man...JOB WELL DONE !!!
Amazing experience with affordable living, they informed every detail, every step of the way .Thank you so much affordable living to achieve our dream of building our home. Affordable living are highly recommend.
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everyone from Affordable Living Homes was so helpful
Thank you so much for our first real home everyone involved was so helpful we just can’t believe how fast our home was completed our kids are so happy we will be moving into our new home soon me and Violet are so happy for the way we monitored the progress through the tracker and inspections were great thank you every one involved in Affordable living.
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The best experience!
We had the best experience with Affordable Living, thank you for your patience and professionalism. Thank you for giving us opportunity to have our dream house. Thank you and God bless. We will be happy to tell our mates our marvellous experience with Affordable Living.
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amazing deal with affordable living
It has been amazing dealing with affordable living. They were very helpful when we had any inquiries and have made building our house so easy. Will definitely recommend to our family and friends Thanks a lot.
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exceptional service and guidance
I was very happy with the process with Affordable Living. Each stage was meet with exceptional service and guidance with all their consultants and supervisors. All questions were answered quickly and friendly. Would highly recommend them to friends and family.
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Dreams fulfilled
Thank you very much for all your help to fulfil my dream to have my own house. Especial thank you to Adam Strauch for helping me... You’re a legend mate.
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Questions & Answers
wanderer23asked
Hi guys, how much deposit you gave to affordable living? Is it 2,500? 1,500 for house and 1,000 for land? And if ever the loan didn't approved will we able to refund the deposit that we gave?
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Hi. Yes $1500 for plans. $1000 for land deposit. Pretty sure that if finance fell that we would only get the $1000 from land back but not the building plan deposit.
$1500 for home deposit, $2000 land you cant get refund on the home deposit but the land you can!
My question is why would you want to get a refund for the building plan?
chloe09asked
can anyone tell me the rough build time for affordable living? saw some recent coments of a year from when titles are released i was hoping around 9 months?
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been told 27 weeks give or take so whatever that works out to in months
No chance. My house, they said 9 months. Their contract is 260 working days, which is 12 months.
That is after taking the building permit, which they keep right to 45 working days.
At the moment, I am stuck without being able to get council approval. Because, they did not refer to DAP before signing my building contract. They are not honest or reliable.
If you have not sign a contract with them, stay away from them
Singo88asked
Hi guys, this is my first time building and I just can't decide who to go with. I've done the rounds but I can't decide between Homestart and Affordable Living. Now I've read reviews on all of them and I can see both has their fair share of negative feedback, however I also understand that most people who have had a good experience tend not to share it, you know the old sales anecdote when you make a customer happy they tell one person, piss them off they tell 10. I know there are potentially better companies out there however they are not able to offer me as much due to my budget. To be honest with you both the reps at these companies have gone above and beyond to help me, I know they want the commission but they seem to be very upfront (one even talking me out of spending more money!). I already have a block, I just need to work out who to build with.. The designs themselves are pretty similar and around the same price. Any advise?
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Hi,
I think most poor reviews and experiences are because expectations are not set properly.
The first thing people need to realise is that when you visit a display home, it includes all the trimming - the most you can pay for the house. When you sign up, you're paying for the bare minimum, so make sure you are aware of this.
The second thing I will tell you is that the process of building a home involves many different people - the sales person will promise you the World, but usually can't deliver on a few of those things - make sure you have any promises written down. Then you meet your pre-start (or start-up) person to discuss your furnishings and any additions - make sure you do your homework on what extras you may want beforehand because these meetings are long and overwhelming. It is the only opportunity you get to customize your house without having to pay for the 'change'. Any other changes you need to pay a fee.
...tbc...
Then you have your account manager who sits in an office all day and has no idea about the building process and is generally useless or unhelpful - their job is to maximise the money they make on your house and minimise your contact with the site supervisor - I've heard of some building companies who refuse to let you meet your site supervisor (Celebrations, for example) - this is not good. Then you finish up with your site supervisor - this is the person you want to be your best friend. Most good ones will do what they can for you, but in the end they can only do what is on the house plans - they are your 'bible'. If they do something extra for you, get them a carton of beer - they'll look after you all the time from that point on!
…tbc…
We built with Affordable Living and were happy with the process - our expectations had to be adjusted a few times, and you learn a lot when you build for the first time.
Remember - these building companies are the entry-level builders, you're buying a Chery branded house, not a Rolls Royce!
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