Just worked out why the City of Sydney is just discovering all the boarding houses that it has not checked out over the past 10 years, and have now been converted, changed, family houses etc...
You have to pay them 20,000$ per room, to get your own home back.
In my case that would be $160,000...
The Doomesday book
Back in the 60s when I was a kid, in the UK, there was a survey of the DD book to modern property, My grandfather's farm (1000 acres of arable pototoes) was a 'swamp with 3 pigs and 1 churl' some brainiac worked out the value had doubled every 9 years on average since 1086...
I have a Former boarding house, deregistered by the dept of Fair Trading, my home for 27 years, it is divided into 3 units, completely separate, has been for 10 years, have paid land tax. In barge 2 City of Sydney Building inspectors who insist it is a boarding house and that I have to do a...