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thanks to those who have carried the can so far. good way to manage it, hopefully the new place works out well, i like the independent nature of this place.

sorry didn't read it properly. just to keen to complain about my tree (in case it wasn't clear enough)

our current development (first we are seeing through) had what we like to refer to as a $3,000 shrub. It was a scrappy little POS that could have been a chance seedling and it had never had a drink in its life. However it was directly where we needed a cross over with out major expense...

next odd thing, is i got my first email back from a large volume builder, and well the prices are 240k to 270k for a single story unit and 270 to 370k for a double story. I was expecting the volume builders to be cheaper? Our smaller vendor is doing 3 bed, 1 bath, 2 story places (small...

we are in the process of doing a custom build but if we can knock 15+% off putting a standard design down then that is a big margin improvement. It is an average area finished value will be ~450.

We have a battle axe and wouldn't mind putting a project/volume build as its a cheaper area. However most appear built for rectangle and while they go from wide to narrow none seem to go to square. Block is 16.8m wide and there is 21m from the back of the house to the fence, it would be...

We are looking at starting a family trust, we are looking to purchase properties, getting plans and permits, and either building or selling. During holding period they will be rented and if we build they will be retained and rented. I am concerned that given we plan to have ~ 5 properties...

price is set based on what the market will tolerate. While cost and return come into it long term typically when assessing the business you look at cost and sell independently to see if it is viable. Unfortunately I don't have a helpful answer on how to get around it, although perhaps if...

I do ours ourself. Make sure there is one near each bedroom door, new battery every year, manufactured less than 10 years ago, and i take them off the wall and test over a jiffy fire lighter. I also quickly do a visual inspection of any gas appliance, clean any accessable filters, and run a...

appliances i would consider, anything else i just can't see it being worth the run around.

yer i wouldn't settle for it not in writing. Although saying that don't expect it to be anything more than the minimum. We lived in a place with both. Pool, once a month check pump was ok, checked levels, skimmed, empty filter. It didn't have a creepy and they didn't brush it, they...

how big is the block? when i sold my PPOR in thornbury we chose not to put up a 2 car side by side garage off the ROW as while it would appeal to some it would also deter some given it would take up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the backyard. I ended up selling the kit i had purchased and just putting a...

i always assumed they threw in a high vendor bid for the monday phone calls, e.g. someone not at he auction rings up to check on the property only to be told it got passed in at $1.35m so they should start at this level for negotiating.

going to have to disagree, i have a couple of PMs on our role at sub 7% and they do an ok job, i have also had above 7% who have been rubbish.

our only city revalue we have done was a success, we prepped a file with; Before photos to show why the purchase price was so low A brief of works carried out and costs Comp sales and on the key ones a brief with what it did or didn't have over ours. a valuer needs reasons to justify there...

i rented in southbank for a couple of years. we rented through micm, they did a rather average job for both us and the landlord, always slow with maintenance, the condition report was rubbish when we moved in (they clearly had not been there), and they didn't even really know what the...

use oil based gloss, the 5 minutes of clean up at the end of the day is worth it for a paint that doesn't go on like PVA glue.

haven't purchased any toys in a long time, however we have been on a couple of rather decent holidays, I am thrilled to say i have traveled business class :)

what suburb, i am rather happy with my sparky at the moment and he has an extra ticket to let him do the splits, his missus works at a good guys so can help out with buying too. He is in the north (reservoir) but he just did a job out in wantirna for me.

my wife and I were so disappointing at the price, we had 'earmarked' about 750 to 1k for this and even then it would have been a huge stretch for us but at about 1.6k by the time you put in drinks there is no way we can justify it.