A review of the unfinished projects meant I had no time to sit around, after Al died, I had to get stuck in and start taking action, as every week that went by was lost money.
We had a vacant house in Watsonia that I had said I would paint, while Al retiled the bathroom. So the situation was that we had bare walls in the bathroom, but had bought the tiles, so I got a tiler immediately and got them laid and they look great. I then got stuck in and painted the 3 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, bathroom and laundry, and put some paving paint on the back steps.
It was a good distraction. There was a lot of anger went into painting those walls!!
Having received a few phone calls late at night from tenants in the other places re dripping taps etc., I decided to bite the bullet and hand over all the Vic properties to a local agent, including the Watsonia one. So far so good, I appear to have been fortunate in finding a good property manager. Watsonia house appears to be let already to a tenant with good refs.
The other problem was that our first house was in urgent need of a major renovation, we had moved the tenant into one of our other places, as she was such a good tenant and we had started to pull the house apart ready to get the builder in to lift the house and put a new concrete floor in.
Consequently, I had to work out which was the best way to go, so went through it with a local agent, whether to renovate, develop, etc and we decided that for me the best way was to sell it as is and thats what I am doing - it is for tender for 4 weeks. We already have some builders interested:
http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bi...0&p=10&t=res&ty=&snf=rbs&ag=&cu=&fmt=&header=
I have been there for days cutting grass, painting walls, putting cupboards and wardrobes back together.
I have never been so tired!! but then I don't have to think, so its been good therapy.
I will let you know how I go
Chris
We had a vacant house in Watsonia that I had said I would paint, while Al retiled the bathroom. So the situation was that we had bare walls in the bathroom, but had bought the tiles, so I got a tiler immediately and got them laid and they look great. I then got stuck in and painted the 3 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, bathroom and laundry, and put some paving paint on the back steps.
It was a good distraction. There was a lot of anger went into painting those walls!!
Having received a few phone calls late at night from tenants in the other places re dripping taps etc., I decided to bite the bullet and hand over all the Vic properties to a local agent, including the Watsonia one. So far so good, I appear to have been fortunate in finding a good property manager. Watsonia house appears to be let already to a tenant with good refs.
The other problem was that our first house was in urgent need of a major renovation, we had moved the tenant into one of our other places, as she was such a good tenant and we had started to pull the house apart ready to get the builder in to lift the house and put a new concrete floor in.
Consequently, I had to work out which was the best way to go, so went through it with a local agent, whether to renovate, develop, etc and we decided that for me the best way was to sell it as is and thats what I am doing - it is for tender for 4 weeks. We already have some builders interested:
http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bi...0&p=10&t=res&ty=&snf=rbs&ag=&cu=&fmt=&header=
I have been there for days cutting grass, painting walls, putting cupboards and wardrobes back together.
I have never been so tired!! but then I don't have to think, so its been good therapy.
I will let you know how I go
Chris
it is nice to have something like that to be able to chuckle over ...
