I could never live in a house without built in robes.

Actually in our current house I have the whole walk in robe in the master bedroom to myself and my bf uses in BIR in the spare bedroom. In the last house, the BIR in the master wasn't big enough so I turned our 3rd bedroom into my walk-in wardrobe

Wow, thanks for posting the link.

I’ve always wondered about the quality of work on these renovation shows with the time and budget pressures of delivering for on screen reveals.

This one is a shocker though.

I’m surprise that CB would leave it in that state and risk her reputation like that. After all she is Australia’s Queen Bee renovator. There as got to be more to the story.

Hi Greg,

I just got my construction loan approved two weeks ago. They valued the land and house separately. The value of the house/building was the construction cost that the builder put down in the contract (so basically what it cost me to build the house). I had to send the bank/valuer the building contract, council approved plans, all the specifications and the inclusion list.

So if your houses were going to cost $200K each to build, the bank's valuer is not going to value the building more than that.  You should check how much these blocks of land are really worth.  If you are paying $210K with a house on it now, once you knock the house down (which is not cheap by the way) the bank might value the land only at a lower price?

Before I buy anything I always get an independent valuation done. It costs $440 (including GST) but well worth it in my opinion. It gives me more confidence that I am doing the right thing (but that's because I don't know a lot about the property market).

Good luck

Hi Jack,

Here's a few you might be interested in.

http://www.bookshopworld.com.au/property/property_renovation.html

I'm thinking of buying Renovating for profit by Michael Holmes. I wonder if it comes as an iBook.

All that for $45K. That's impressive. What's next for you?

Angel

The renderer just finished our house the week before last. I've taken two weeks of annual leave to paint it. We've almost finished the first coat (with a roller) and OMG my body hurts from head to toe.

Unfortunately the greys are looking blue in certain lights so we're going to have to change the colours

P.S. Jamie, I found this forum through the link on your website. Thanks heaps!

I had Lasik last year through Vista Eyes and it was money very well spent. The cost was $5,300 for both eyes and their service was fantastic. It was an interesting experience too, the actual surgery part took less than 5 minutes.

Angel