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I am interested in what you guys think of my neighbour's property. It is advertised at http://allhomes.com.au/c/ah?a=sp&p=262062 It has been on the market for a while but the agent does not seem to be very proactive. It is a vacant sale (not sure if that is right term) since m neighbours...

can anyone remmeber a really cool awning that was part of a reno on one of the reno TV shows? I don't take an awful lot of notice of those shows but this awning seemed like a good idea for the situation and I am now in similar situation. Any memory of the details of this awning or which show it...

anyone familiar with Rangeway, a suburb of Geraldton? I have heard that it is one of the dodgy suburbs but it doesn't look too bad, although not bril either. Ta v much Ammo

I am buying an IP that has a manually locking roller door. Well actually at the moment there are no keys for the roller door so will have to get it keyed/rekeyed anyway. My question is, what do you thinki it is worth to tennants to have a remote openenr for the garage door instead of having to...

Hi folks, any Cairns-ites here interested in having a get together?

Hi guys An IP I am buying has stained external walls and fences. It is a bit of a mystery to me what the cause is. It is brown and starts at ground level and goes up about 40cm. Has anyone seen this before? any ideas on how to remove (without repainting) and how to prevent? My research so far...

Hi, I bought PIA a few years ago and used it way back then and subsequently uninstalled it. Now I am trying to reinstall on a different machine and the installer seems to work until I come to opening PIA (via icon or through explorer) and it says it can not find the exe file. Has anyone come...

considering all the horror stories you hear about dodgy removalists there has got to be some good ones out there. It is only for a small ammount of stuff - one bed, one coffee table and some spare kitchen items. ta

For those of you who use hire cars frequently, please share where you get the best deal. I recently got a $35 day deal with Hertz for days through a broker. Insurance excess was only $750 too instead of $2500 ish which seems to be the norm in QLD. Except now I was expecting to get the same deal...

I am trying to work out a systematic way of determining whether and how dodgy a roof is ie how soon it might need replacing. To give you some idea what I am dealing with, I am looking at old cheap queenslanders, all of which look (to my extremely unknowledgable eyes when it comes to roofs) like...

does anyone know what the issues are with restumping generally from rotting timber to steel? and also going from lowset to highset? I always thought the higher the better in terms of how it looks aswell as for ventilation. Does anyone have an opinion on whether high set fetch higher prices? ta...

I have been thinking about this question for a while and was wonderibng what others thought. Clearly the effect of the general trend of the market impacts this. After talking to lots of locals in Cairns about buying several IPs there almost all said May-September have the highest prices with...

anyone familiar with Deeral, Greenhill, Liitle Mulgrave, Babinda? they are semi rural areas just south of Cairns, within 20-40 minutes of CBD. I was originally looking at land and houses at Crystal Cascades, 1-2 acre rainforrest cleared blocks at $60-100K for land.

Am urgently looking for a good conveyancer, building inspector and pest inspector in Cairns - has anyone used one they would recommend? I only know of ones that are not recommended! Thanks!

Hi Forum Folks, I have recently been researching real estate sales data for 3 postcodes in Cairns. What I discovered was that there is a lag of at least 3 months!! I understand it takes a while for the change of title registration to occur and then for the data company to get the data from the...

Hello wonderful forum people, I have just discovered the Somersoft forum and have been browsing for 9 odd hours!! I have not seen anything so full of useful and productive conversations and analysis for property investors. Wow and thanks!! Well here's my first post, a question. Has anyone...