Clarendons 180 day tender period.

We looked at the 180 day tender expiry period and thought its too good to be true. But soon found why its 180 days. They take too long to go from one stage to another, maybe because they have too much work load. If you are impatient or already paying rent somewhere and also mortgaging for the land, you could have a hard time.

We are renting with my relative and can wait a bit.

Initial drawing by Clarendon no good

When we received the drawings from their architect, they had lot of issues, a few of the changes that we had asked for didn't make it to the drawings. Passed this onto the sales rep who said that she would herself go the the main office and make the corrections. On 24 Oct 2011 got our initial tender presented to us after much waiting.

The plans had errors all over the place even though we had tried to make sure that all the changes were included. Shot an email back copying the sales rep as well that the plans are not even close to what we had discussed. A day after got a call for head office and ended up explaining all the changes over the phone. They had interpreted The Ponds articulation guideline wrong and instead of asking us the changes their architects decided to do whatever they felt like. However another email later and a couple of phone call later got the drawings amended to what we wanted.