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Thanks. Yeah, it's not too bad when you look at it in those percentage figures. The upside is that we still managed to walk away with 'effectively' a $50k profit, which amazed me as we had totally overcapitalized with the fit-out of the place and we'd only been in it a year and a month when...

I retrospect, if I'd known the settlement was miles away I'd have called on the morning to ensure the docs arrived, and if they hadn't I'd have high-tailed it down there in time to settle with a fresh set. It did go against every grain to let them in prior to settlement, how many times have I...

We had 3 different RE valuations at the outset. $680k $650k $625k We knew $680k was ridiculous, we thought $650k was very optimistic and we thought $625k was pretty much on the money and was what we thought the minimum we would achieve would be. The bank also valued it at $625k We...

HI, Sorry, I forgot all about this thread. The house sold not long after my last post. An older couple had just sold there house and were due to settle around the same time we were to settle on our new place. They had about 5 houses to go and see through our agent and loved ours. They...

Oh, it certainly is still on RE.com - just with a different agent so the first link won't work. We have sold it 3 times so far, not to mention the amount of times people have gone to the bank before making a formal offer to be told they can't borrow enough, the third sale fell over two weeks...

Donners - can't comment on the Rowville/Berwick thing, I know nothing about Rowville. Guys Hill & Upper Beaconsfield should see you an on acre+ for that sort of money. Upper Beaconsfield is only 7 mins drive to Beaconsfield Station, direct line into the city from there. We looked at a cracking...

The Donners:- Although Berwick may seem a long way out of the city, I'd ave to disagree about being over priced. My partner works on St Kilda Road, we used to rent a house in North Balwyn. When we lived in North Balwyn it would take Emma 40 minutes to get to work and an 1:15 to get home. That...

Oi! Get your own desperate house sale thread! Good luck with yours too.

Bigtone - sorry mate, I didn't mean to come across arsey, I'd just read your post as reading as though we'd built it for investment. I agree with all that have said put a price on. We originally had it listed as "suit buyers over $650", after 3 open days the agent suggested making it offers...

Bigtone – it’s wasn't a house and land package and wasn't for investment, we built what we wanted at the time, for us, not for anyone else. We just didn’t reckon on moving on so soon, so it’s a perfect example of your first point – wanting a big new home to live in. Dazz - the 'what will be...

The contract is subject to finance with our bank, our bank will only finance on the sale of our house. If our house doesn't sell before the finance clause runs out, there's no finance.

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I know what you are say about owner/occupier emotions - yes, I'm defiantly guilty of that, sorry. As I said though, our house is a little out of the ordinary. There are only two of them on the entire estate - one is ours, the other one is the one that sold 6 months ago. There isn't the option...

Thanks Scott - based on that, it would be approx $2400 plus the cost of one internal door, plus the cost of the carpet to be taken up and re-laid to suit. Window, lights and power are already sorted. Alexlee - That's a fair comment, but at the end of the day, unless you build yourself, what's...

Yes, but would you buy a house just because it had 4 bedrooms? Our house is a little bit different from the norm, if it were me, faced with a 4 bed house that was so/so but had the required 4th bedroom or a house I loved but was a bedroom shy, but knew the bedroom could easily be added, I'd go...

depreciator - we did briefly consider adding the 4th bedroom back in, but decided against it as it truly would be detrimental to the feel of the house. We figured, (rightly or wrongly), that the kind of people looking at this style of house would be more like us and favor the open space and...

Y-man - You're dead right, we totally over capitalized. The problem is, we built for us and not someone else, we never expected to be selling so soon. In hindsight, we'd have omitted a lot of the upgrades. We realized when we built it that the value of what we were adding would not necessarily...

Player – Build cost was a gnats whisker off $350k. Carpet and window furnishings were another $20k on top, so $370 for final finished house – excluding external items, landscaping etc. The $15k figure was from a depreciator company, but as an estimate based on the build cost, not from a detailed...

Hi all…. Shameless plug time I’m afraid. Is anyone looking for something $625k+ range in outer south east Melbourne? We’re selling up as we’ve bought some acreage. Unfortunatly, we’re on a tight time line with the acreage contract and we can’t afford to keep out house and purchase the...