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Has anyone built one, or looked into building one? How to they compare to traditional building in quality of final product and cost? How did you go getting finance and planning approval? Any tips, tricks or pitfalls I should know of? Thanks :)

Following on from the quotes that inspire and motivate you thread, I thought it might be a fun topic to share the words of wisdom (or just amusing and catchy phrases) uttered by other somersoft members that you consider quote worthy. I could fill this thread with some of Dazzling's pearlers...

We installed our new PPOR kitchen today. To cut a long story short: Before During

Thought some of you might be interested in seeing some the low budget 'value add' we did to our recently purchased dual occupancy. The property is a three bedder (originally a rectangle from the top down) with a bedsit attached to the back, sharing one wall (making the entire building an L...

Hi everyone, We are getting our PPOR pine floorboards stained and polished. Here is a piccy of the test patches done Friday: We would love your opinions as to which colour we should go with... we just can't make our mind up!

My first IP now has a 'sold' sticker out the front... our first offer of $372,000 (on signed contract with 5% deposit cheque) was accepted today. We also bought our PPOR from this agent and I like her alot :D The IP is an approved dual occupancy, 3 bedroom house with bedsit (they share one...

7% yield one bedroom fully furnished apartment which is tenanted with ordinary tenants and has been removed from the serviced apartment scheme. There are other apartments in the building which are still part of the scheme though. Would you buy one? Pros? Cons?

Hi everyone, hoping to find someone else with this strategy, or someone to tell me why it won't work before I go ahead and do it ;) I will have a 50k + costs deposit to purchase IP#1. I have a PPOR but no equity to draw from it yet (currently at 80%LVR, not going to refinance to higher for...

Hi Everyone! I am thinking about buying my first investment property, currently I own a PPOR in Canberra, value conservatively $320k owing $280k. I am due to receive an inheritance soon and after the inevitable naughty spending (wedding, holiday, and house renovations which at the end of the...

We have finally finished the main bedroom to a state that is ready to live in and I thought it would be nice to share some pictures. The reno of this room involed the following: New Carpet Crack fixing (the house is double brick, rendered on the inside) Painting Reattaching roof to beam in...

Well here it is, one of our very first reno projects on our first house, which intended to be our first investment property in the future. We got a fixer upper and are trying to add value as cheaply as possible! One of the first things we have tackled is the 1970s timber veneer feature wall...

Hey guys, the OH and I are renovating our first home, this is our first step into the property market and hopefully will be the first of many properties one day. We picked up some second hand carpet, a real bargain I think at $10 per sqm (including underlay). It is that really thick...

As the name suggests, my partner and I are looking for our first home. We were looking to buy an already renovated home but prices seem to have been bumped up just out of our reach in the 6 months we have been looking :mad: So we have found a 'fixer upper' being sold at auction. It needs an...