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    State of Australian housing market

    All I know is that I'm getting a heap more real estate alerts about Brisbane property for sale than I did 6 months ago. Also the houses for sale Brisbane northside seem to be sticking, one in our street has been sitting vacant for at least 6 months, they dropped the price by $50k about 3...
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    Recs for property manager inner Brisbane

    Thanks Wylie and Jacque We have decided to use Jeff Jones at Coorparoo. They are providing us 3 months free management, commission is 7.5% + GST (we were paying 8.0% plus GST), reletting fee is $100 (we were paying 1/2 weeks rent). I was a bit concerned that going with a smaller agency...
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    Recs for property manager inner Brisbane

    Prorentals are shutting up shop, sold their rent roll, so we are looking for another agency to manage our IP. Bugger cos we were pretty happy with them. Can anyone recommend a good property manager, or at least tell me who not to use? :D Thanks Scouter
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    Advice for my father.

    Hi Andrew This info is prob a bit late and you've probably seen an adviser who may point your dad in the way of an allocated pension... I work in a pensions area. Is your dad getting Age Pension / service pension? these are means tested pensions and yes having an extra $180k will...
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    Crazy loon neighbour axed our IP door - what now?

    Yes a police report was filed at the time. I hadn't thought too much about the tenants but you're prob right they might leave once there lease ends in Dec to get away from the crazy man.
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    Crazy loon neighbour axed our IP door - what now?

    We got a call over the weekend from our PM saying the neighbour down from our IP decided to take an axe and smash the front sliding glass door of the IP. We think he didn't like the noise from the tenants party :rolleyes: but don't have all the details. This neighbour is known in the street...
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    Draftsman Brisbane North recommendations plse

    We would like to raise our Qld'r house this year and put a slab down, eventually would like to build in underneath but a bit out of our price range at the moment. Our block is slightly sloping so will have to excavate a bit. It's such a mess under our house, I've hit my hit too many times...
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    Alderley or Morningside

    I lived at Morningside for a couple of years and have been living in Alderley for about 8 years now. Both are good suburbs and I don’t think you could go wrong with either really. I think it’s great you are looking at buying near a train station, to me that’s essential, people want the...
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    Do You Use Shopper Dockets?

    I always check the back of my docket for any specials but have never used any as they don't seem very special...
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    Raising a house - Brisbane Northside

    Thanks for your comments CSC and Wylie. Does anyone else have experience with raising a house?
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    Raising a house - Brisbane Northside

    We are looking into raising our Queenslander (10m x 10m) and putting a slab under. Not looking at building under at this point, much as I would like to. The block is slightly sloping and we may need to excavate as well as raise the house. It would be nice to dig up the back yard so we have a...
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    List of Quality Service People with (Mates Rates)

    sounds good to me...does anyone know a gas fitter in Brissie, need to fit a gas stove top?
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    Review - ProRentals vs Rental Express

    We're used Prorentals for about 18 months now and found them to be very good although there has been a turnover of 3 property managers during this time. The only thing that concerned me was their suggestion of a $5 pw increase in rent when the tenants were resigning for another 12 months, we...
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    Is our accountant ripping us off?

    Hi Re: Accountant fees for completing 2007 ITR's (company & 2 personal ITR's) I'm not sure what accountant fees are reasonable these days so thought I would lay it out here and get a bit of feedback. But I have to say I think we are being taken for a ride. My hubby is a contractor and...
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