If any of this is familiar to you and Bramwell/Cornerstone has done this or similar to you, please contact me as I have been in contact with legal council email me at bramwellcase @ gmail.com
Signed a fix priced duplex house and land after consulting with Effie and Cameron from Cornerstone Wealth Management who has "access" to builder and land not listed for sale blah blah.
Cornerstone is just the sales agents For Bramwell homes and will tell you whatever you want to hear, dont believe a word they say.
We signed for the fixed house and land package in August/September '21 and told with out any hesitation we would be complete and have tenants in buy end of January '22.
When we asked Effie and Cameron directly, clearly and without any room for misinterpretation what happens if the site needs piering, hit rock, needs cut or file due to the lay of the land etc what happens, without any hesitation we were told and i quote "it's the builders' problem not yours, it's a fixed price house and land package" this was confirmed at least twice. They told us Bramwell build in the area, Tamworth, and know the land and would only purchase land they know they can build on without problems.
Awesome sounds great, they offered to do our taxes, manage our finances, have our main house and the investment paid off in 8 years, signed contracts and never heard from Effie or Cameron again, zero follow up, zero contact whatsoever.
Chasing Effie and Cameron about the build from about November as we had heard zero about start date, or council application etc, got ignored, then when finally contact another member of cornerstone got given Bramwells Client Manager, Tricia.
Chased Tricia up from then on, ask simple direct questions via email, e.g. has the building application been put into council, only to be given generic run around answers. after 6 or 7 emails with the same generic response and zero actual answers, Tricia never got on the phone once or even had the balls to answer my calls leaving the reception to make excuses. then get a call from another member of Bramwell, James who is the new client relations manager, this is in late December. Still zero application filed with council, and we were promised a finish date by end Jan '22.
James offered a generic apology, made excuses that we were never going to be complete by end Jan '22 and blamed Cornerstone for saying that, Remember Cornerstone is Bramwells sales agents, and they work all together in the same office so they know what each other is doing.
Again still chasing 6 months later to be finally told the block is in bushfire zone, but they are are playing with the design to make it work, ok why not tell us this 8 months ago seeing you claim to know the land and the build, zero response just generic blame game.
Finally get Bramwells managing director, as well as Effie and 2 others on the phone in June '22. Clearly asked what the hold up is and why we have been told nothing, to get a generic apology as per usual.
Ask what the story is as we were supposed to be complete 6 months ago at this stage and yet the building application hasnt even been put to council, to be finally be given the actual answer. The block not only is in a fire zone -- rating unknown, the block now is at a bad gradient which now requires the slab being piered, the duplex design now to be split level, more surverying needs to be done etc etc, and it will take another 18 months ooh yeah and another minimum of $350k!!!!.
Remember this is a block Bramwell/Cornerstone knew and sold for the house and land package, and it's fixed price dont forget.
Effie from cornerstone, when ask straight out, this is a fixed priced package you sold us, how is this our problem? didnt even answer the question just blatantly ignored it and talking about something else and gave excuses ask to why she never contacted us again even after numerous emails.
If a builder puts this in their building contract, do not go anywhere near them, and i quote from the last page "The owners shall not make, in any shape, form or manner, an announcement, blog, public statement or article for publication in relation to or connected with the builder or
the work under this contract without the builder's prior written consent" Lucky for me Bramwell void the contract so i can post the truth.
contact me if this has happened to you
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