Gold.Thank you.A

duckster wrote:
contact council see if you can renew the DA  application

Cheers Duckster. What do you think my options are to get copies of the plans? A

Hi Solomon10.I'm researching the same right now and early results are showing that people are asking $100 – $150 per square metre more than equivalent non DA'd land. Like I said, early signs. I will need to look at other similar suburbs and collate more data ….A

I would have thought that we're moving further and further away from being a cash based society…Anyway,The only way to make money from these that I can see is to say in the case of a pub, disallow credit card or eftpos transactions over the bar (Some busy pubs in Melbourne have this) and politely direct people toward the atm in the hall, which…[Read more]

Great info from both of you. Thanks for sharing ….

xdrew wrote:
Here is one for when you get professional.I have an old lockup shop that I purchased many moons ago for a pittance.Its no longer any real value as a shop .. since the area has a proper mall nearby. So i got it as a commercial space .. for a couple of bucks instead of a heap of bucks.It has residential upstairs, so that has got…[Read more]

wisepearl wrote:
just thought i'd update this… seeing as job was finished some time ago. ended up going with my sparky mentioned above, as i found him so decent to talk to, and the time he took to walk through the house to get a thorough understanding of the job and his ideas gave me confidence in him. He hired in apprentice between when he…[Read more]

JacM wrote:
Keep in mind that tradies have rather physical jobs, which takes a toll on the body.  As such they will have to retire from the profession far earlier than someone with desk job.  With that in mind, it makes sense that they need to charge accordingly..

I'm not really sure how that line of reasoning stands up to justifying hourly r…[Read more]

Hi investors, this is my first post.I am a sparky so this thread caught my interest.I believe $85/hour is a reasonable price for a good domestic electrician.My retail rate is $110/hour with my day rate coming down to $90/hour.In my experiance with electricians you ordinarily seem to get what you pay for.Remember you are paying for a licenced trade…[Read more]