Oh...we've finally decided to get a house and sell the apartment. Yay!! My wife is looking forward to a bit of dirt to garden. We'll be switching suburbs as well since Campsie houses are a bit rich for our budget and we're looking for better schools for our little girl who is going to school next year. OMIGOD! We've picked another suburb which will remain nameless for reasons which will become obvious. It has:
a) nicer, friendlier people
b) it is one of those rare pockets of Sydney that still has a village feel
c) everyone seems to know everyone else
d) pretty good schools
e) nice wide streets with tall trees
f) kids riding bicycles on footpaths
g) close to water and a national park
h) houses on 600sqm for less than $600K
Anyway, we've decided to sell-rent-buy is less stressful than sell-buy at the same time mostly because
a) We need to secure a place to live in the school catchment area by November
b) selling and buying before November is risky in this market
c) if we want to rent as a fallback, we need to get a place before the rental market dries up in December/January ( I think)
d) I haven't cleaned the apartment up for selling yet. LOL
e) I'm also going back to work in November after a year's parental leave and my wife is only cutting back to three days a week.
f) Moving, selling, getting the younger one settled into family day care while resettling into a old job is more stress than I want all at once.
Anyway, it should be good fun and it will be great buying for ourselves next year with the mean streak acquired from a bit of property investing. Heh heh.
Now don't you all go off tracking down this suburb and drive up property prices while we rent for a year, y'hear!
Yay!
a) nicer, friendlier people
b) it is one of those rare pockets of Sydney that still has a village feel
c) everyone seems to know everyone else
d) pretty good schools
e) nice wide streets with tall trees
f) kids riding bicycles on footpaths
g) close to water and a national park
h) houses on 600sqm for less than $600K
Anyway, we've decided to sell-rent-buy is less stressful than sell-buy at the same time mostly because
a) We need to secure a place to live in the school catchment area by November
b) selling and buying before November is risky in this market
c) if we want to rent as a fallback, we need to get a place before the rental market dries up in December/January ( I think)
d) I haven't cleaned the apartment up for selling yet. LOL
e) I'm also going back to work in November after a year's parental leave and my wife is only cutting back to three days a week.
f) Moving, selling, getting the younger one settled into family day care while resettling into a old job is more stress than I want all at once.
Anyway, it should be good fun and it will be great buying for ourselves next year with the mean streak acquired from a bit of property investing. Heh heh.
Now don't you all go off tracking down this suburb and drive up property prices while we rent for a year, y'hear!
Yay!
