The couple lost their house to fire in October 2020 and Hotondo Homes Horsham began rebuilding it in March this year. But the company's collapse last month has left their new home half finished.
Hotondo Horsham owes more than $1.5 million to creditors including tradespeople and material suppliers."Our insurance covered rent for a year but we are now coming up towards two years afterwards, so we have had to pay a year's rent along with repayments on the house," he said."I just want to get home," Mrs Beltz said.
"The house that burned down, we lived there for nearly 20 years and it was home. We'll get there one day."She said the roof was set to go on the week the firm went under. "I was in a meeting that [the franchise owner] was at and I said to him, 'I can't wait to give you a big payment', because we knew lock up would be fairly soon after the roof went on, and he said, 'I can't wait to get it'."We assumed there would be cashflow issues because we assumed everyone in the building industry was having them as well.
"A lot of the delays we were putting down to the climate for building, because it is a bit of a rollercoaster at the moment. "Every job gets held back a little bit so all those payments get held back a little bit too. [Hotondo] were probably building the houses at a loss."
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