From: Adam Randall
Hello I received this email from a Colin Mills regarding the renovation topic listed a couple of weeks ago.
"What the hell are you talking about??? My post was designed to discourage people from thinking that renovating property was "easy" money. Which it is not. How could you describe that as crap? The interesting thing is that you sound like the typical clown who I was trying to warn.
You will get ripped BADLY! You come across as being "wet behind the ears" - all talk and very limited experience. Your silly example about the plumber is laughable.
Well don't listen to me - you go out and renovate all you like - in fact I insist. A fool like you will run out of money very quickly in the big nasty jungle of the building game. The builders,the tradesmen will eat you up and spit you out - they can spot a mug a mile away!"
In answer to this. Compared to a lot of people on this site (Michael Croft, Gee Cee Cee, Geoff Doidge etc) yes I would have to say I am very wet behind the ears, and have a lot still to learn. Considering I am 27 years old this is to be expected. However I control nearly $700,000 worth of property (I did it on my own). I have renovated a bathroom and a Kitchen (supposedly the hardest rooms to renovate), and while I have no proof really I think they are a success. This includes full rewiring, Tiling etc (I am a restricted B class electrician), and your insinuation that all tradesmen are predatory creatures waiting to prey on the unsuspecting is rubbish, also explain to me why my example of the plumber is silly, it happened, and it highlighted the fact even though I knew nothing about plumbing I could tell when I was being taken for a ride even though I am an "ordinary white collar worker" as you put it waiting to be eaten up by all those evil tradesmen out there. Maybe I shouldn't get out of bed in the morning for fear of all these nasty people.
Hello I received this email from a Colin Mills regarding the renovation topic listed a couple of weeks ago.
"What the hell are you talking about??? My post was designed to discourage people from thinking that renovating property was "easy" money. Which it is not. How could you describe that as crap? The interesting thing is that you sound like the typical clown who I was trying to warn.
You will get ripped BADLY! You come across as being "wet behind the ears" - all talk and very limited experience. Your silly example about the plumber is laughable.
Well don't listen to me - you go out and renovate all you like - in fact I insist. A fool like you will run out of money very quickly in the big nasty jungle of the building game. The builders,the tradesmen will eat you up and spit you out - they can spot a mug a mile away!"
In answer to this. Compared to a lot of people on this site (Michael Croft, Gee Cee Cee, Geoff Doidge etc) yes I would have to say I am very wet behind the ears, and have a lot still to learn. Considering I am 27 years old this is to be expected. However I control nearly $700,000 worth of property (I did it on my own). I have renovated a bathroom and a Kitchen (supposedly the hardest rooms to renovate), and while I have no proof really I think they are a success. This includes full rewiring, Tiling etc (I am a restricted B class electrician), and your insinuation that all tradesmen are predatory creatures waiting to prey on the unsuspecting is rubbish, also explain to me why my example of the plumber is silly, it happened, and it highlighted the fact even though I knew nothing about plumbing I could tell when I was being taken for a ride even though I am an "ordinary white collar worker" as you put it waiting to be eaten up by all those evil tradesmen out there. Maybe I shouldn't get out of bed in the morning for fear of all these nasty people.
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