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Anytime, it's an open offer ;) This is also why I stuff myself with all things delicious now, while I can. My father can no longer eat prawns etc (cholesterol) and stuff like that, and so I made it my mission to mash as much of that goodness into my face as often as possible. It's working...

You're that broke? You can come have some leftovers at my place if you like - but you gotta wash the dishes after ;)

Ikea kitchens are great and have a 25 year guarintee anyway. They also give you blank cover sheets in case their standard kitchen doesn't fit perfectly and you can cover up empty areas. Worst case scenario, a decent cabinet maker can modify one of their cabinets to make it fit. If you're...

You're right, I didn't mean to hijack, it just kind of happened. Apologies. I'll agree with that, but will add one more thing - before contracting anyone to do anything, try to find out about their business a little bit. If they're flat out, expect a lower quality of work, more delays, poorer...

I've done a lot of renovations and "aided" people in owner builder stuff, but I havn't contracted myself out as a builder, no. I will likely be building a very large building shortly, but that's a bit complicated with an unrestricted builder signing off on a newly created company which then...

I think that some elements of commercial would make his case more compelling personally. Call the building board in your state and have a chat. They're a bunch of bludgers anyway. Call more than once, too - they're a bit like council - some tell you one thing, others tell you something else...

I grew up on building sites and most of my family/friends are either tradesmen or builders. Whilst I respect good tradesmen, there are some excellent tradesmen out there that are not at all suited to running projects. They're excellent at their specific trade, but there's a world of difference...

I'll share what I know, but please be aware that some of my info may be incorrect chinese whisper style stuff from the other 15 buffoons in the course cracking ribald jokes with me :D and I am in another state (NT) Starting at the beginning, and working my way up: So, in some parts of the...

Not really. I simply have a lot of faith in myself (perhaps overstated :D) and believe that I can do anything that I so choose if I bend my big brain towards figuring it out, plus or minus some heavy lifting. My competition are in fear of me presently because they enter projects as big as mine...

Australia is in the final stages of putting in a national builders registration scheme, and until they tie it up, it is not required that you have a trade in order to be a builder. If you wait another year or 2, you will find that that prerequisite will come in, and not only might you have to...

Well, if you would like to enter the property market at an affordable level, I have a suggestion for you - rather than wait for other people to do something about it and for you to benefit passively, why don't you go and do a building course (cost: $1200-$3800, one weekend a month for 6 months...

In all seriousness, if the government really wanted to look at making homes more affordable they should do it by reducing the cost of construction, by importing more skilled labour. Darwin is a relatively small economy (100 000 people) and we've had a recent influx of interstate labour that...

Looks like they use their IPs as growhouses imo. Gotta be on drugs to have a care factor that high

That really isn't true. The reason people here are going off is because they're investing in properties under an existing tax/pricing structure, and now that they're up to their eyeballs in debt, holding properties that they obtained in a completely reasonable, fair manner, are having their...

I agree with this line of thinking. I was renting a top quality inner city apartment in Adelaide where the owner had banked on massive capital appreciation. I worked it out, and they were paying something like $900pw (This was when interest rates were 11%) including a whopping $125pw body...

I think what you're doing is great - I'm a huge fan of something that Gerald Celente says when he rants about people having a front lawn, saying that it is the most useless stuff out there - it's hard to maintain, you can't eat it, and you can't smoke it either - so rip it out and grow some...

here you go, Y Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51JRTjoI1A

add to that this ridiculous 6 star energy rating crap they're trying to cram down our throats, which are going to pump up build prices by another 5-10% and not just that, none of the formulas they use to guage the efficacy of the designs have been proven to work - so they can DEFINITELY tell you...

The government can certainly do something about housing prices - they can stop paying ridiculous things like first home owners grants, that do nothing but inflate prices and benefit sellers. They can also stop charging stupid fees like stamp duty and GST on houses, which in themselves pump up...