Nick & Trish Dorak have their own personal website where they've been nice to post information on the Phase 11 Mooreside Corner townhouse they purchased at Hawthorne Village. Under "See the progress" there's pictures/descriptions of the progress up to date of their new home being constructed (it's a big page though so will take awhile to load depending on your internet speed).

On the topic of our own Phase 12 purchase, our lawyer has reviewed the purchase agreement and so far has advised us to request changes to cap the closing costs, and also delete the forced early closing clause. We also wanted to change where it says we're forced to accept a mirror image/reverse layout if it's required (they can't tell us if it will be) but so far Mattamy won't budge on that :-( So we're just hoping our house won't be required to be a mirror image, we won't really know until closer to the design centre structural upgrade appointment which by then will be too late to backout of the purchase if we were so inclined. So we're just crossing our fingers on that one. Although other people who live in mirror image houses say you get used to it fairly quickly and the only reason it initially seems wierd to us is because we're so used to looking at the un-mirrored floor plans.

Once again, join the Hawthorne Village forums! There's more information there being posted about Hawthorne Village.

This information has already been posted in the Hawthorne Village forums but will recap it here in the Blog.

(1) Toronto Star News article about the June 21-25 Mattamy Hawthorne Village lineup in the July 3rd Saturday edition. You can view the article online here.
(2) New 85 acre park being built near Hawthorne Village. Here's a PDF version of the Park Map. Here's a Milton Champion newspaper article about the future park.
(3) Map showing future location of the Walmart & Canadian Tire being built by James Snow Pky & Steeles Ave.
(4) More Hawthorne Village line-up pictures from June 21-25 provided by Tim & Sandra.
(5) Today Mattamy started to call people who have "reservations" to come in and get their Purchase Agreements. This pertains to people who did reservations earlier because at the time Mattamy didn't have purchase agreements finalized yet. Dave & Laurie (#1's in line) did theirs today.

Also it's interesting to mention that from August 2003 to July 2004, Mattamy has increased the prices of their homes in Hawthorne Village by about 10%. Here's an example using the Tothburg II Elevation C that we've been tracking.

August, 2003	January 19, 2004	June 22-25, 2004	June 26, 2004	June 27, 2004
$376,990	$382,990	$394,990	$404,990	$414,990

It's now July 5th, and the Tothburg 2, along with other 56' lots are sold out. I wonder if Mattamy will increase the prices again this month when they say more 56's will be released? Supply and demand. We're happy that we reserved our lot when we did. But it's still surprising how fast the prices have changed. The others (semis, towns, 36s, 46s, etc..) have had similar price increases around the same range.

The "post comments" section has been changed into a Discussion Forum. It makes it easier to have interaction and multiple messages than the old comment post method did. So please join and post your experiences or questions! I'm using the free open-source software called "phpBB" to do this. Most postings here will now be related to Design Centre/upgrades, information about Hawthorne Village, progress on our house construction, etc. Less about actually "buying" the home since that parts over now for us! But this "Blog" may eventually take a second place to the new "Discussion Forum" as time goes by.