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I have an offer in for a property that is, to be polite, a steaming pile of *****. It is weatherboard, probably partly clad internally and externally with asbestos, might be generic fibro sheeting but lets just assume its asbestos because it probably is. The balance of the cladding internal is...

My doorframe is eaten out by termites, I gave it a little shove yesterday and it sort of dissolved into matchsticks. Landlord has known about this for a while, still hasn't sent out pest control people or a carpenter. So how I have this house and I can't keep out visitors, random cats, the...

4 bed 2 bath house Rented at $225pw to a tenant that wants to stay longterm, through an agent Rates $1400pa House is < 2 years old, have a depreciation schedule prepared Bank valuation of $230k, can refer you to the broker I was using. Will take $220-230k. Private sale, share solicitor to...

My rather ... interesting ... move to Sydney has ended. I start a new full-time job today! 3 months till I'm off probation, then I can refinance the house and actually move forward instead of this stupid holding pattern I've been in for too long. Then see how long it takes me to buy a...

So I was offered a fulltime job in Sydney and I took it. I am breaking up with my partner. The joint house we own is going to be an investment property. I should have just bought out my partner half of the house and had it as an investment property myself. But no, my boss hasn't...

Silly question ... but I was asked to bring in a money order made out to the bond people in NSW and can't find the bit of paper it was written on. Who do you make such a thing out to? Google tells me NSW Fair Trading, but I thought I'd ask here. REA has an extremely strong accent so I'm...

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-newtown-110947443 An 11 roomed brothel! How cool! If I was made of money I'd buy that just so I could say I own it :D

No point actually asking for formal financial advice on here :) And there's nobody local. I'm moving to Sydney in a few weeks so I'm fine with an in-person advisor there. The basic stuff: Have a house with a small loan that is joint owned, need to decide if it is better to sell, buy...

We're currently spending $lots on overnight hotels in Adelaide, just to get near people, events etc. So why not go the whole hog and move to Sydney? Catch is I don't know Sydney at all and have seriously no idea where to even start looking. In an ideal world it would be great to have a...

We're finding ourselves in Adelaide separately a lot lately. And I wanted a unit for the kids to use as student accommodation years coming up. So considering buying one of these for personal use until the kids are older. http://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-sa-adelaide-107186178...

We just got a contract. Its the kind of contract that could pay out our mortgage in < a year. However, it pays super and my partner doesn't have a super account having never worked, so wondering if anyone has any recommendations? Myself, I have a commonwealth super fund I can't touch...

Got ours today (a whole $500 off a $4000 device, since we weren't replacing an existing one). Thing is, we bought the HWS in August 2011. Almost forgot about it ... oh well, goes straight into the mortgage ...

Silly question, but is there any legislation on those? I mean the proper hidden room dealio that you get into through a push-to-open style latch under a dado panel (so the door to get in wouldn't be legal height) or the sort you get into through a bookshelf. Just wondering if you still...

So, I need a new car. I've owned one car in my entire life, really only driven one car. Its white, it goes from A to B very nicely, and I can't fit all the kids in it. Other than that I have no opinion on cars per se. This is quite possibly the worst place to be in when you want to make an...

So I've had a long running saga with the CBA. Latest installment - when we refinanced our smaller loan to Homestart in July I got a phonecall from the CBA saying a clear title for <the house we sold in 2010> had crossed their desk. I said we sold that ages ago. The woman hung up on me. Our...

Had someone visit yesterday who wanted to see the house. Lost count of how many times they said 'lucky'. Oooh, this is a nice house, you're so lucky! Its not a big block but you've got it laid out really well, that's so lucky! What a lovely hedge you have growing there, you're so...

Oh and oztion too, or whatever its called now :) So every now and again I want 'something' and I go to one of these sites to try and get it. Ebay is the best of course, not so good for sellers though because of the fees. Anyway, I'm in the country. So trying to post a 'wanted' ad you...

Hello gardeners :D I'm looking for some cuttings (established plants are a bit hard to post) of these two old fashioned cottage garden plants: http://www.gccv.org.uk/gccv_buddleia.html pretty common purple flowering shrub thing that seems to be in all the old lady's backyards in Adelaide...

So we have this nice new house, very pretty and all that, well and truly still under builder's warranty and they'll be back in about 6 weeks to fix up any issues. But the blasted towel rails keep falling off. You put em back on, they fall off. Put em on upside down, they fall off. Put...

How would you do it? We were supposed to have the power connected last week, the contractor got called away on some other job and didn't turn up so now we have to wait till August 25th. Unfortunately we are booked to move out this weekend and tenants move in as we move out. Really do...