Hi Byronent
To work for $5 is not so bad, considering work placement students are working for free.
In some cases they have to bring money to do work experience. And this is not a crime???
If, in the process a lesson can be learned, and a debt be repaid, as in Jacks story, why not.
I don’t considder this a bad deal.

Regards
Harry

Originally posted by byronent:
Insurance insurance insurance.

It is a beautiful and necessary thing.

Don’t be discouraged. The horror stories are few and far between.

I can also tell you have had one tenant for 7 years and his brother next door in my other property for 6. I have offered to sell them both properties but they are happy renting.…[Read more]

Thanks Byronent
That was very incureging
In the case I talked about they took all appliances, knocked a wall out because they needed a biljard room

Regards

Harry Otter

Hi Duckster
Bad luck with the instant HWS. This is a new regulation by the Office of Gas Safety. If the HWS is fitted in a laundry, it is still OK to leave it there. But commission houses where build with the HWS in the toilet or bathroom.
That now is prohibited. Also check if you buy a property, this is just a minor thing though, that the gas…[Read more]

Hi Rogrecog
If the appliances are properly checked, opened up and checked for specific brand and model flaws, it could cost around the $150 mark.
Most of the time, after purchase of the property, it pays to have them serviced due to carbon monoxide mentioned in an other comment.
All gas appliances can produce this “stuff” and being a rental…[Read more]

I am a maintenance gas fitter in VIC and as such have come accross a lot of gas appliances that have never been looked at.
In a lot of casses people buy without consideration of these appliances and yet a new gas heater can set you back $1500 or more [confused2]

Harry Otter