An email alert came this morning in regarding a cheap house in Kalgoorlie.
Clicking on the link gave me a picture:
http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=103294342
Sure it's asbestos, but the asking price ($55k) is about half what I'd have expected. It's on a good size block and rent could have been $120-150pw.
But then I wondered - where's John Street? I don't know a John Street.
And the local map doesn't know about it either:
http://www.arta.com.au/wamaps/kalgoorlie/
So I clicked on the agents site. That's weird; LJ Hooker went out of business in Kal 2 years ago and now they're back.
Anyway it turns out (assuming the agent's site is more reliable than realestate.com.au) the property is in Johns Street, Norseman.
http://www.ljhooker.com.au/property_listing.php?id=1583434&type=residential&category=buy
Norseman is a 2-horse town on the edge of the nullarbor a couple of hours down the road from Kal. It's had a declining population for years. You could once get a house for $15-30k, but it looks as if the property boom has happened even there.
So what would have been a bargain in Kal turns out to be a hovel with little prospects out in the sticks!
Has anyone actually bought a house over the internet and only realised later it was in the wrong town?
Peter
Clicking on the link gave me a picture:
http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=103294342
Sure it's asbestos, but the asking price ($55k) is about half what I'd have expected. It's on a good size block and rent could have been $120-150pw.
But then I wondered - where's John Street? I don't know a John Street.
And the local map doesn't know about it either:
http://www.arta.com.au/wamaps/kalgoorlie/
So I clicked on the agents site. That's weird; LJ Hooker went out of business in Kal 2 years ago and now they're back.
Anyway it turns out (assuming the agent's site is more reliable than realestate.com.au) the property is in Johns Street, Norseman.
http://www.ljhooker.com.au/property_listing.php?id=1583434&type=residential&category=buy
Norseman is a 2-horse town on the edge of the nullarbor a couple of hours down the road from Kal. It's had a declining population for years. You could once get a house for $15-30k, but it looks as if the property boom has happened even there.
So what would have been a bargain in Kal turns out to be a hovel with little prospects out in the sticks!
Has anyone actually bought a house over the internet and only realised later it was in the wrong town?
Peter