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WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?! :eek:

um... take this advice was more of a 2nd hand reference than personal knowledge :) Pavilion Homes - >http://www.pavilionhomes.com.au/ (their house building is much better than their website building :D ) They built a luxury house for a family friend a few years... very nicely finished and...

1. 29 2. Academic (ex-IT web/DB monkey) 3. $70-80k 4. Married with a 1yo daughter 5. 3 IPs... first in 2003 EDIT: forgot the SWMBO :D 1. em... looking younger everyday ;) 2. project management stuff 3. $70k-ish 4. Married to me and mother of that troublesome 1yo girl 5. Equal partner in all...

I did something similar.... not hard provided you work hard and keep track of where the money goes :) Though ppl often say that family and money doesn't mix well.... perhaps approach your parent's offer as more of a business offer where they come in as equal partner's for the purchase. Work...

I would agree with geoffw... sleepy country towns are nice places to retire where you can get enough land to do just about anything.

one agent gave us a blue LED keyring light and a fridge magnet with their logo on it... supposedly an "upmarket" agency as well - needless to say I didn't bother to complete the customer satisfaction survey that was included :p My 1yo daughter enjoys the keyring though. The agent I prefer...

my daughter is too young to cook... prefers to bang cans together and then roll then across the floor. I got a digital camera "from her".... think the missus just wants to send me to open houses with it so she can relax :p

guessing a FHOG purchase? geoffw is right about the suburb... thankfully a drive by will give you a good indicator of the immediate neighbourhood :cool: Watch for the mattresses in the front yard and various rusting car bodies. If and when the remainder of the suburb gets cleaned up, it...

a pay TV dish doesn't need to be mounted externally on a building and/or in public view :cool: depending where the house is... you might have coverage of other wireless ISPs. That also means VOIP for phone duties.

my experience is that they just sell cheap.... older listings go for 10-20% under market value due to the limitations of the lease and difficulty in allowing prospective buyers access. Negotiating the price will be difficult unless the vendor has a pressing reason to sell. With a year left on...

google "server monitor" you will need to be careful with the firewalls. The basic monitors just ping like you want, but better firewalls will just silently drop incoming ICMP packets by default. the better server monitors have some form of client app running on each PC that can be assigned...

milko? don't even think such a thing exists down here in Canberra. When my sister and I were living with our parents in Rocky, there was a milko as we went though 2L a day of milk. My sister also is the only one in the family who doesn't have black hair as well ;)

I'm guessing they are asking whether to have cash flow +ve straight off the bat or have a -ve CF and hope for CG.

I agree with the others.... if sign says "please remove shoes before entering", then I do so. I tend to wear comfy sneakers anyways, so slip on and off just by standing on the heel. I used to live in China and what softmonkey said applies to ALL big dumb people, not just westerners.

ah ok... I didn't realise it was fake bricks... I was thinking just a nonstructural layer of real bricks but up in front of the existing wall to hide it. fake brick panels sounds rather dodgy :p