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Sorry with delay getting back (have been unwell). Here are some answers to some of the questions. 1. Tenant called electrician out 2. Electrician knew they were a tenant and says that they tried calling the PM "some time on the weekend" but PM has no missed call or message (I know the PM...

We have a duplex and a great (elderly) tenant. Last Saturday night his power went out and he organised a local electrician to come and do repairs. He didn't contact our PM and did this on his own. Some done on the sat night and the rest on the Monday morning. Bill was $770 which the tenant...

We are also considering a pool after moving from a house with one to one without (in the middle of summer)!!! The kids are currently mounting their case. Have heard some good things about the vinyl pools too and from memory they are more reasonably priced.... Has anyone had experience...

A few whys for me...... 1. Every day on the walk to and from to work - I walk past a number of homeless people and whilst I know everyone is only one or two bad decisions away from this - I take a lot of comfort knowing that I currently have a certain level of financial security and therefore...

After you clear it all will there be any trees etc left? What about mulch the total area and plant natives - eg kangaroo paw, grevillea etc? We have done this at our own home and at one of our IP's. They look really effective when they are planted in groups or in a pattern as such...

Great area!! I used to live in the mt pleasant/ardross areas and keen to get back in there soon!!! Anyway - hard to tell what your personal circumstances are but I would be going for a old/old home on some land for those dollars..... And rent it out. That is a great part of Mt Pleasant...

We have an old (1970's) duplex (IP) that we are looking to knock over and build new on. Probably will use it as our PPOR. But we are holding off because whilst in many other parts of the suburb there are loads of redevelopment - in this particular street there has only been a few...

Hey Paulie!! Thanks so much - my husband and I love your thinking!! You have helped us view this opportunity in a whole new light. We have still been doing our number crunching - which pleasingly was quite close to yours in terms of costs. But we were close to almost giving up because it...

Another thing to consider is does it have a gas outlet (for heating)? If not it is another reason to go for the reverse cycle.

We recently just put in a stacker door to open up the access from our living area to alfresco and they have been great. They were significantly cheaper than the bifolds too!! But we did have lots of flies come into the house this summer. It may have been a bad year for flies though?

Thanks for all of your great responses!! I really do appreciate the feedback and suggestions. End goal is for our block to be 900m2 so that we can eventually subdivide ours into two lots of 450m2. We are very close (within 1km) to Murdoch train station, Murdoch uni and new Fiona Stanley...

Our neighbours block is currenlty 773m2. Our local council is City of Melville Our block is almost rectangular (21m frontage) and I think 20.5m at the back. Next doors is angular on one side (the one that doesn't contact ours) - 20m frontage goes to 18m at the back. Not sure if...

Hi Everyone I have been reading these boards over the last year as we have started by dipping our toes into property investment. Our PPOR is on a good size block (829). If we were to purchase enough land off of our neighbour, we could then be in a position to have a subdividable block...