Recent content by kinga4610

Is the granny flat and the house seperated by fencing? I think these dogs are very friendly and tend to jump up on people because they are so happy to see them. Unfortunately only an owner can love their dogs the way they do. If it was a house on its own, I probably would allow. But the...

I ripped up the carpet on Sunday and sprayed the cement underneath with a concoction of water, vinegar, dishwashing detergent and hydrogen peroxide. I then left a number of bicarb dishes in the offending rooms and left a few windows open to the first key locking position. I had the carpet...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. The inspections were done, but interestingly every inspection that the RE did, there was always inscents burning. (Lesson learned) The bond is not being returned to the tenant, however, the RE did say if the tenant wanted to take it further she would probably...

Having just gone to an vacancy final inspection today of one of our rental properties I have reconsidered my thoughts on allowing pets. The tenant had outside dogs, a couple of cats and goldfish. The carpet has been cleaned and deoderised and the place has been sprayed for pests. My rental...

Siva As an owner of a rural property along with resi properties, I would like to put another spin on your question. Have you thought how many resi properties you could purchase with your 40% you are prepared to put to this rural property? $160,000 which is 40% of $400,000 that is a lot...

Don't know if it still applies but anything under $50 you didn't need to have a tax invoice. Kinga

Kimanand I use my treadmill generally during winter and on wet days. When I purchased ours we also went for a wider running deck for running. Our deck is 142 x 51cm but alot are only 40cm wide. I mainly walk on mine, but my husband runs on it occasionally. We paid around $2000 for...

When I started work in the early 80's, superannuation was not paid for women. It wasn't until 1986 that women had the option of superannuation being paid at the company I worked for. I am not sure if this was the case in all professions or not. I was originally employed as a receptionist...

Redsquash Most of what you want to do you can do with a pressure cleaner (Karcher or Gerni). Wouldn't use one for any of your internal gear though. We use ours for cleaning the cars, trucks, tractors, concrete, house cleaning etc. Go over your leather couch with a sponge and some warm...

Further to my previous post, I have spoken to Ergon Energy and this tenant moved in 19th March but only had the power put on in May. Then the penny dropped, I was asked by the PM with regard to getting an electrician to the property in May because the power kept going off and Ergon said an...

I am in a situation where I don’t know if one of my tenants has done a runner or not. Furniture (the little bit she had) and clothes etc are still in the unit. Form 11 followed by Form 12 have all happened and she should have moved out from midnight last night. (I think Lifeline set her up...

Above Average I can answer some of your questions but first I need to ask - what is your reason for buying the property? As an investment for future capital growth? To eventually build and live on yourself? As a lifestyle block – one that you could visit and run around on motorbikes on...

Humpz I would be talking to the Council. Find out what the plan is as far as laying the sewerage pipe and also connecting ratepayers to it. They may be doing a bulk deal on connecting everyone to the system. Anyway that would be my first port of call. Kinga

I'm in Qld. I go to the local council and ask for the sewerage plan. This costs nothing. It shows when the sewerage was first connected. Kinga

Skater Fair enough! That now makes sense. Kinga