Recent content by ethereal

Happily living on the south side, minutes to the city centre, airport and Paget (major industrial centre). Maybe traffic is subjective but I dread driving to and from the North side in peak times, tenants applying to rent my houses (also on the south side) moving to get out of the driving. Most...

From the Daily Mercury as above, living here it is obvious things have changed rapidly. Regarding insurance, I just insured a $500k House in Mackay with Suncorp for around $1600pa and thought that was really steep, reading the above posts, apparently not!

A lot of mine jobs gone just recently, the vacancy rate has jumped to 4 % in Mackay very quickly. Rents have dropped massively in surrounding mining towns, though from crazily high prices. I would be careful of units, more likely to be vacant due to decrease in demand from workers leaving town...

We have a signwriting business and are guilty of producing such signs occasionally.

As a mother of boys, I can tell you it is very possible! And for IP's, I always think what those who think landlording is a bit exciting would think to see me scrubbing other peoples pee and indeed removing every hair from a bathroom. Now I specificifially tell professional cleaners to remove...

Just signed a contract to buy privately in Qld, the seller had an advert, no picture, in the local Saturday newspaper. We negotiated verbally and then went to his solicitors to sign and pay deposit. Also glad you found investormentor, they are great.

Congratulations Marc! That is really lovely news. Louise

My daughter had an anaphylactic reaction to a very small amount of peanut about age 2. Her allergy is very severe and we also carry an epipen (adrenaline) everywhere. It has proved to be a big issue when it comes to school/kindy. I have gotten used to shopping/cooking taking into account her...

I hadn't though much about NZ until I met my husband. He was born here but his Dad is maori, one of 19 children and a further 5 half siblings. What I like about my NZ whanau ( family) is that they are much more open, welcoming and accepting than my own, nothing is too much trouble. They have...

Lovely Skater, Even the fact that she took the time to write the letter says a lot. I just rented an IP privately and chose a tenant who was polite and upfront, early for her inspection and bearing references/payslips from the start. She has also just paid 5 months rent upfront ( on a 6...

Congratulations Sue and welcome Katie and Dayton! You've done so well and must be so proud. They are gorgeous little bubbas. What is it with the turning down of epidurals though? I refused to push until they turned mine up with number 1. It is so mean! Louise

Well if they weren't screwed up to begin with, 5 years in jail would make sure they were by the end of it. It isn't as though prisons are free of drugs either.

I have just come through 5 months of hyperemesis (extreme morning sickness 24/7) and I couldn't bear to watch all the junk food adds without a bucket handy. I also noticed, because I was struggling with malnutrition and very serious weight loss, the number of weight loss ads on TV. In the...

It wouldn't be honey or wax, unless they were inside the door itself and it is leaking out. We just had a swarm of bees move ito one of the walls of our house. In 3 days there were several thousand bees (about a 10L bucket full solid) and numerous sheets of beautifully constructed honeycomb...

We hope our kids learn by watching and being actively involved, be that dragged to the engineers, helping to dig sand, weed gardens, go along on inspections, whatever happens to be needing to be done. DD (5) loves to visit open houses. Unlike some previous posters, I would never say that we...