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Don't know if anyone else has been sent this email by friends but I received it yesterday & thought it hit the mark pretty well. I grew up in the 40s/50s with practical parents. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original...

Went to my Son's footy presentation yesterday and watched with pride how the kids embraced the day. It didn't matter where they came for the year, or how many tries were scored, or the for/against total etc. The were just so happy to have been given the opportunity to play. Now my son isn't the...

Hi Team, I was just after your thoughts on the upkeep of gardens on your IP's. I'll fill you in on where I'm at. One of my properties is in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast, and I had a tenant (self managed) in there for several years who looked after inside OK but was a bit lapse in looking after...

Hi Team, It's not that often that I start threads but thought I'd kick one off. Don't know where the mods will move this to but I'll leave it up to them. For a few years now I've collected quotes from people famous and not-so-famous. Some of them inspire me, some motivate me & some just get me...

Hi gang, Just returned home from a hasty weekend visit to my old stomping ground, the Gold Coast. When I was a kid growing up there, it was pretty well considered that the Gold Coast started at Labrador and finished at Coolangatta. Then the Helensvale estate was developed and considered part of...

Hi all, After reading an article in the Sunday Mail 30/05/04 about some of their "hotspots", Bribie Island being number 1, I thought about the future capital growth of the area. http://www.somersoft.com/forums/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=901 Bribie is probably in a slightly different...

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack? Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy...

Hey everyone, I know most people are busy with their lives, businesses, jobs, careers, portfolios, cars ,holidays, hobbies, etc etc etc, but would it be possible for people to take a few moments to utilise the photo gallery a little more. I really look forward to logging in, only to find that...

Hi folks, Playing around with the digi camera so thought I'd have a go at making an avatar of my scone. If my rough melon offends anyone to the point of illness, just let me know & I'll change it. Maybe others could have a go at putting theirs on, gotta be an improvement on mine. Just...

Hi all, A few of us are trying to get sunshine coast and surrounding areas property investors together for regular chats on IP's, market forecasts or basically anything at all you wish to talk about. Basically, it's a way of getting together with people with same goals, dreams, aims as...

Don't know if anyone saw this article in the weekend's Brissy paper but I can't get over this price for an un-renovated house in Brisbane. The next post will have a scanned pic of the article. Sorry about the quality but I had the thing folded up in my pocket. JIM

Don't know if there are any Neil Young fans on the forum but if there are, I built a web site a couple of years ago just to see if I could. (Read Microsoft Frontpage) Was quite pleased with how it turned out. Probably get approx. 3 emails per day worldwide with questions about Neil Young stuff...

Pisspoor Journalism This has nothing to do with Property but I thought I would relate this story to you. Earlier this week, a friend of mine's son was seriously injured in an accident. He was on the road and was struck by a car driven by a mate. He is in a serious condition in a hospital in...

Was wondering if anyone could tell me what the rate per kilometre is this year for a vehicle over 2.6 litre. I claimed 59.9 cents per kilometre for any travel to my IP's last year but have heard it's gone up. Is this true. JIM

Well folks, I have been up at my Maryborough IP doing a fair bit of hard yakka but it's paid off. My tenants moved out on the weekend so I managed to get a week's work (with my normal job) on afternoon shift up in Maryborough so this left my days free to do work on the house. I took up a ute...

You may well ask, What was Jimmyjamjars doing on the Qld Queens birthday holiday. Kicking back under a palm tree drinking cocktails perhaps. Noooooo!!! Have a look here. http://www.somersoft.com/forums/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=212 They keep telling me, It'll all be worth it in the long...

Hi Forum, I'm wondering if it is worth getting a depreciation schedule done by a quantity surveyor on my Kings Beach unit. It was built in 1981 so construction cost write-off is out of the question. The reason I'm asking is that when the previous owners turned it into a rental, I think they've...

Hi All, I am in the process of taking over the management of my 3 (so far) properties and have done up this first draft of my special conditions form. I was wondering if the forum could read it and give me any tips on : 1. Have I left any important ones out 2. Are any of mine unreasonable...

Hi All, I am about to put mains powered (with battery backup) smoke alarms throughout my IP's. Are you allowed to wire the circuit off the unswitched active of a lighting circuit or does it need to have its own designated circuit. Jimbo