Recent content by Tony3008

Thanks Ian & Jan, Sim and everyone else who's made SS what it is.

Yes, used to happen in UK: use or lose it. My first job was as a council maintenance surveyor and near year end we were under pressure to spend up. Key reasons: if you ended the year with money left unspent you'd get no marks from the spending committee, and you put yourself at risk of having...

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Perhaps the most notable case in Australia is Hungry Jacks: When Burger King moved to expand its operations into Australia, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide...

Homes with bowling alleys strike the market Domain April 29, 2015 - 6:30AM http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/homes-with-bowling-alleys-strike-the-market-20150428-1m689h.html ... Newly listed by Ray White, a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom home in Queensland's Hamilton has an...

A few car park spaces in my Docklands tower have changed hands over the years, around $40-50K I believe. They rent for $50 a week, so around 5% yield with minimal outgoings.

Sorry, losing the plot here too so will have to miss this one. Have a good evening.

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But if their strategy works, it's not 'forever'. Kill off all the weaker competition and then pick up where you left off (hopefully).

Old report but try http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/dmpp/pdf/energy_peak_multi.pdf. The results of this multi-unit residential energy study point to general trends and instances of great variability in multi-unit residential buildings. When expressed as annual greenhouse emissions per occupant...

Your chances of negotiating a change are probably little more than nil, but there's no reason why the development could not have been structured with multiple BCs so as to apportion the expenses more fairly. My home (Melb Dockland tower) is part of a larger development which has five OCs, one...

My S3 has been great. S6 goes on sale next week, I think, if you're after the latest or possibly a great deal on the superseded model.

Write (relatively) simple structural engineering software - been doing this for 26 years. Rather wonderful to be able to sit in my bedroom and play computers all day while people send me money!

Your $20 for other costs sounds optimistic to me. I've got a near-new 2-bed unit in Frankston South and last year paid $500 insurance, $435 water, $1300 rates, $295 LL insurance, total $2530 or around $50p.w. (+$1300 maintenance which shouldn't apply on a brand new unit)

Three ways: you forgot 'grow the economy' - tax income rises and benefit payments fall. I went on a Toyota factory tour last week: building 400 Camrys a day, most exported to the middle east. Contrast - according to 774 this morning - Ford selling 500 Falcons a month. The latter is obviously a...