A young couple who put $97,000 towards their dream home have been left with just a concrete slab after a major building company suddenly collapsed – leaving hundreds of customers in limbo.
Bethany McLaughlin, 27, and her fiancé Joel Patty, 29, from melbourne/index.html” id=”mol-4402c0e0-d1cf-11ed-806e-4598e55139e4″ target=”_self”>Melbourne, bought a block of land in Lara, north-east of Geelong, in September 2018.
In January 2020, the couple put down a deposit on a home that they were told would be ready to begin construction in June of that year.
They signed a contract with Victorian building company Porter Davis, and during the Covid lockdowns, designed the house they were expecting to soon call home.
Delays in securing the title to the land meant construction didn’t start until September last year – two years after they signed the original contract.
The couple were then told they could move in August this year.
But on Friday, Porter Davis went into liquidation, leaving Ms McLaughlin, Mr Patty and more than 1,500 other clients in housing limbo.
Bethany McLaughlin, 27, and her fiancé Joel Patty, 29, from Melbourne, bought a block of land in Lara, north-east of Geelong, in September 2018. With the collapse of building company Porter Davis, they’ve now been left in the lurch
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