cheers Mike, the reports you sent me were very informative. and talk about a quick, free service…….hope i can repay the favour one day…….

i've just read what i wrote, $30-50 is probably way to much, if you're only doing cosmetic work then you could probably say $25-35, but this all depends on location for what the tradies charge…………….

first things first, do the painting yourself, anyone can do it, shout  your mates to a bbq with free beer and food and it'll cost tou $500-750 ………..if you have a decent go you'll be able to do a pro job yourself at 1/4 of the price…………..polishing boards? well depends on the area to be done & your location, unfortunately tradeies in…[Read more]

we're just starting out with our first ip but we've decided to do it ourselves. the reasons being are that we have a good gut feeling about or tennant and it was hard to find an agent (and i had a fair dig) that i felt would do a good enough job to justify paying them about $1300 a year………..but in saying that, the property is not that far…[Read more]

Hi Vicky,Installing from inside may be an option…….the links you're after are http://www.thermilate.com.au/ and http://www.insulationsuperstore.com.au/Products/InsulatingPaints/Insultec%20Commercial.php they make for pretty interesting reading, if the products actually work as well as they claim then they may be well worth using.I wonder if K…[Read more]

mate, go for the big block with chance of a subdiv later….find out everything you can first, ie if you actually can subdiv it or not…if you can go for it!build 3 or 4, sell enough to cover most of (or all) of your costs, keep the rest and enjoy the + cash flow, you could work less and go fishing or play golf or whatever you wanna do…….i…[Read more]