Loaded ute with paint and tools then with misses, father in law and a German backpacker named Karl I found off gumtree. Drove 12 hours to Whyalla and spent 5 days rennovating.
Karl wanted to leave as soon as we got there but he worked out it wasn't easy getting home from there or cheap.... Anyway he pulled through in the end and managed to cobble together 50 metres of fencing (previous iron fence had blown over)
Or not as funny but a bit silly
Purchased a house of the public trustee in birkdale qld. Because it was the weekend when we were up there we couldn't inspect the house. We decided to buy it anyway as it was a 1400sqm block for 370k in a good suburb. The house ended up being an old fibro that the old bloke who lived there had just bricked around. He also had done an extension covering over their old porch/ balcony and had built the new wall using the iron railing as structural support...!
The power points were hard wired with extension leads - thrifty!
Anyway after owing that for 14 months and putting about 50k into it and a lot of our own time (about 10 flights to Brisbane) it's getting revalued on Thursday
I bet you the new redlands city plan coming out early next year renders all that hard work useless (higher density?) Would be a nice problem to have I guess
Karl wanted to leave as soon as we got there but he worked out it wasn't easy getting home from there or cheap.... Anyway he pulled through in the end and managed to cobble together 50 metres of fencing (previous iron fence had blown over)
Or not as funny but a bit silly
Purchased a house of the public trustee in birkdale qld. Because it was the weekend when we were up there we couldn't inspect the house. We decided to buy it anyway as it was a 1400sqm block for 370k in a good suburb. The house ended up being an old fibro that the old bloke who lived there had just bricked around. He also had done an extension covering over their old porch/ balcony and had built the new wall using the iron railing as structural support...!
The power points were hard wired with extension leads - thrifty!
Anyway after owing that for 14 months and putting about 50k into it and a lot of our own time (about 10 flights to Brisbane) it's getting revalued on Thursday
I bet you the new redlands city plan coming out early next year renders all that hard work useless (higher density?) Would be a nice problem to have I guess