Well, the contract checked out, so we signed on the dotted line (well lots of dotted lines actually) and sent it back in the Fedex envelope provided.

The same day, the US mortgage rates went up, thats life!

Found a picture of the site in mid April on the web, looks just like a building site, but apparently they are putting the roads in now, I guess its a month later and a lot can happen in a month. Our house should be on the left of the picture, backing onto those trees.

We are told the build should take about 6 months from the date they start, so if it takes another 5 months to put the roads and services in, puts us on schedule for a April / May 2007 house warming party!

You never know, the roads could be finished sooner, and they could build our house first, so Christmas could happen, but then again the contract allows the builders to take 2 years, so we could be looking at May 2008 just as easily.

Just looking at villas in Cumbrian lakes for our trip over in November, looks like this is one of the closest existing communities to the site along with Terra Verde and a few others.