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Yeah – and then let’s split it up into individual strata-titled car parks, sell enough of them off for 45 k each until we’ve recouped what we paid for the building then split the remaining parks up between us! Free parking, just like in Monopoly!
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Minitry these dudes
http://www.leveragefinance.co.nz
it is ‘run by investors for investors’.
Brad Sugars uses them for all his NZ propertygreat web-site.
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MiniHi david U,
>Would you consider adding an additional property to one of >your properties taht has a lot of land.
I wouldn’t personally as I could get another house on more land for less. Without the mucking around let alone time.
> Seems like a great way to get some additional income.
I know, I did like the idea. i think the more the land is worth, the more it would become worthwhile. However where I have been looking land is cheap, houses on 1/4 acre sections are pretty common,>Do you know what is required from a regulatory perspective >(ie council requirements) in order to make this a possibility?
Yes I do actually, thanks to the latest KPImagazine. I have no clue about Australia but imagine it might be similar.
http://www.propertyinvestor.co.nz/default.htmStep 1 -get copy of title of property, council records for hazards and drainage, building and drainage plans, LIM report, survey data. Have meeting with local Land Surveyor.
Step 2 – survey of site is done. topgraphical plan is prepared and then the proposed Scheme Plan (subdivision layout) is developed.
Step 3 -Scheme plan resource consent – shape factor -minimum frontage – lot layout -access -servicing -traffic engineer??? -drainage, water supply, etc etc etc stability, earthworks, vegetation, heritage sites, reserves
(see what I mean? And we’re only at step 3 of 11. OK I’l speed it up a bit.)
You end up with a Resource Consent Application.Step 4
Lodge with council for approval.Step 5 Land transfer survey – place pegs, legal plans drawn up for titling purposes. lodge with council for approval.
Step 6 Council approval of land transfer plans.
Step 7 Lodgement at Land Information NZ for approval.
Step 8 council completion certificate
Step 9 survey approval! (finally!)
Step 10 Apply for new titles and deposit of plans (undertaken by solicitor)
Step 11 New Certificates of title issued.
If you get the mag you can get the details of the company that wrote the article, who offer a free consultation to readers of the mag.
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MiniJust bought 2 tickets to the Sydney event on 2nd July at 6pm, novotel darling harbour.
Anyone wanna come with me for 39.95 let me know.cheers-
Minigood luck westan – I think you’re onto it.
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MiniI’d love to find out the bon-creat mixture recipe. Sounds like a fabulous idea.
Just done a reno and maybe will do another in the next few months….cheers
MiniI do agree that property investing does seem to be flavour of the month, and not just because I actively read and learn about it – I think it’s a worldwide trend to do with a lot of things – 1) people moving away from the stockmarket at the moment because it’s too fickle 1b) managed funds aren’t getting the returns people expected 2) fear of buying a ‘ledger entry’ – people are wanting to have the security of a bricks’n’sticks investment that you can actually touch and has a use
3) people like property because it is an investment you can improve rather than just pray and hope about
4) super funds have been going down not up 5) an ageing population of baby-boomers are starting to worry about their retirement 6) the gradual phasing out of government assistance for retired people means people are having to start thinking about funding their retirement now.to list but a few.
The education wave of Kiyosaki, tony Robbins, jon burley, richmastery, rick otton, reno kings, and lastly our man Steve McKnight is not a coincidence – there is a demand for this knowledge, because people who have traditionally handed over control of their money – money being the conversion of a person’s life-energy – are not getting the results they want from the so-called experts, and now want to take matters into their own hands.As far as how that reflects on properties in previously cheap rural areas…well as far as I can tell, before, traditionally, negative gearing is how most people have done it- buying in areas which are poised to go up up up – location location location, by the sea, capital cities, capital gain. If capital gain is now maybe in doubt (bubbles said to be bursting?) or not able to be guaranteed by Divine decree, then there is going to be a big demand for positive cashflow properties – which people are starting to be aware of now – they’ve heard of them, they like the idea, and they want some.
( personally I reckon it’s investor confidence or lack of which makes a bubble burst – not any actual ‘thing’ that happes. people start talking about “bubbles bursting” out of fear that it might, papers sensationalise it, write big headlines, spread it further, and that makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fear is so contagious!
So back to the investors. There are always going to be more investors with less money….(*self-conscious grin*) so they’re going to look for bargains at the bottom of the market. However there are a kazillion investors living in cities, all looking at investing in these tiniest smallest towns of 5 thousand, that were previously lucky to sell 27 houses a year and now selling that many in a month. Places that used to have houses on the market for, like, 4 years and it’s now 4 days!
To me, it’s not surprising that properties are starting to ‘run out’, or go up in price. Great for those that have already bought there though.Like Steve says, solve peoples’ problems and make money.I guess it’s about a changing climate and how well we all adapt.
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Minihi y’all,
re:
“some tables who had given up in the first half an hour. “
REALLY!!! No way! i didn’t know that! (i probably was too busy playing!)and also
re:“the way you play experiential games is the way you behave in real life. So, if you sat back and watched, think about how you approach things in real life; if you went into fear around the chaos, how can you overcome this in real life; if you rushed into doing something for the sake of doing something without planning, how do you normally handle things in real life?
I kid you not guys – think long and hard about how you played the game, I bet that you will see parallels with how you play the game of life.”I LOVE and adore this quote and yes, i totally agree.
If people are giving up after half an hour, thinking “too hard/too frustrating/too scared/poor me” etc etc and that was just while playing a *game* in a *seminar* (i.e. a safe learning environment) then imagine how much they’re going to be ###ing their pants when they play the game of monopoly/life with real money?I used to think that Kiyosaki was a little overly American psychobabble when talking about how his ‘cashflow’ board game reflected how you were in real life – that was while the only investing I was doing was *playing* cashflow.
Now that I have started *investing* for real, I have realised that it is *totally* true – but you don’t realise it while you’re stuck – when you have excuses i.e. it’s everyone else’s fault/the environment/the market/your luck – but not your own!
I think that until you start taking action in real life it can be hard to see that the game is just a reflection of your reality!
That, finally, (if i sound excited, it’s because I am!)
was my AHA of the weekend – which extends to all parts of life, really – which is, that the game of investing/property is just a game, but using real money, and it’s as much fun as you make it, and what you get out of it is up to you and your actions and decisions, not the market!The market in that room – in the game- was the same for everyone. How come some loved it and others felt frustrated?
How come I love and adore the industry I’m in and the players who shape it, but others are deeply disillusioned, burned, and feel it’s dog eat dog out there? How come I live in a wonderful world filled with amazing incredible people, lots of love, fun, and endless possibilities, surrounded by talent, but others feel stuck, ripped off, angry, and like they have no choices and even if they did there’s no point in anything anyway cause you just get sick and die from all the pollution/war/angst/blah blah hard luck stories?How come two men look out the window, and one sees mud, and one sees stars?
This might be a bit deep for here and now, but to take it back to property investing, I truly believe that you need to believe the world is full of deals before you can go and find any. Cause if you don’t believe there are any deals, you won’t find any, right?
If you think that everyone else has already got all the good deals and there are none left for me, then that’s exactly what you’ll find.
Some other more practical/shallower things I learned from the game (which parallels what i am learning in real life) are
1. Experience is really valuable. having been to the seminar before, I knew there would be queues for buying houses (Tasmania, anybody?) and that not dilly-dallying around would be a good idea.
2. Delgation of your team is important re: leveraging time and skills for maximum achievement.
3. Keep up or be left behind!
4. Disorganisation can cost you time/ the game
5. Even if you think you are doing terribly you might be doing great!!
(we didn’t hand in our card, because we had only completed two deals and thought that we were hopeless. But our deals were possibly just as good !)that’s all for now
Mini
Hey jars, did you see this thread?
https://www.propertyinvesting.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1631
cheers- mini
Hi there,
Verr-ee- interesting point made by those ‘anti-wrapping’ articles.
As an investor who is still sitting on the fence as to whether I want to get involved in wraps and sell houses to people that other lenders would call ‘bad credit risks’ – and notwithstanding that I could be one myself – I had not considered before reading this article that there was any risk from the purchaser’s point of view – I had thought that all the risk was the vendor’s.
Yes – indeed, the purchaser in a wrap should (in the course of doing their due diligence) ask the vendor/wrapper ‘what guarantee do I have that you are actually going to pay off the mortgage with the money I pay you, and that a situation like in this article won’t happen to me?’
I think Steve addressed this question at the masters’, but I can’t actually remember exactly what the answer was, and so I would love to hear what Steve would answer to this.
The other thing, in terms of the family getting evicted because they can’t keep up with the repayments, well …..
even if you don’t wrap but just borrow direct from the bank with a mortgage – and don’t keep up your repayments, the bank will reposess, won’t it? Mortgagee sale?
One knows that when one enters into the contract, doesn’t one? Difference is, a person who can get ‘regular’ finance is more likely to have had a record of ‘respecting money’ , i.e. a clean credit record.Families and entities entering into vendor-finance may not have had such a happy relationship with money – spending more than they earn, buying doodads on hire-purchase, etc.
I know the odd person that has a terrible time with money, is totally addicted to hire purchase, is always borrowing from peter to pay paul, and as soon as one HP is paid off, thinks ‘oh good, now we have X amount per week to buy something else on HP’.
If those kind of people default on an HP (paying often horrendous amounts of interest, like 17 percent or even more)
then the company comes and reposesses the thing. That’s just what happens and people know that up front. people wouldn’t get any sympathy writing in sob-stories to a current affair about that kind of thing. People would just say to them ‘you shouldn’t have bought it if you couldn’t afford it’.i think with wraps, vendors are getting a bad rap considering they are offering people a whole HOUSE on hire purchase, on a HEAPS better deal than the average hire-purchase.
If potential wrappers were properly educated, i.e. Don’t enter into a wrap if you don’t understand it, don’t think you could commit long term, or don’t understand what will happen when you default or don’t honour your part of the bargain under a hire-purchase – then the potential wrappees of the world might realise no-one is forcing a wrap upon them, and that they are welcome to continue to rent for the rest of their lives if they wish – and if they think the risk of wrapping outweighs the possible benefits.
I have heard that defaults on wraps often actually end up win-win if the house is sold after a period where there has been capital gain, with the proceeds being split between the vendor and the wrappee. (????)
This also makes me think of the philosophical mind-set that many have, which is that if someone is making money, someone else is being ripped off. I disagree with that, because I think any market is driven by what people are prepared to pay. A bit overly simplistic, i know, but I am too tired to philosophise further right now. Maybe later. But this is an interesting topic
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MiniI once said ‘I know what the list price is but what is the real price?” to an agent.
(Nowadays I always say that!)Anyway, the first time, RE agent said ‘I know the vendor wants at least
X amount (naming a figure which was 35 percent below the list price).
AHA! i thought!! Amazing the discount you can get just by asking.The next day I phoned in my offer, except to a different real estate agent (this time the senior one. i.e. a REAL estate agent, haha geddit) Told him my offer was very close to what i was told the vendor wanted by the junior RE agent. Senior RE agent was aghast that junior RE agent had told me that.
I’m sure Junior was telling the truth, but I suddenly twigged at why Senior was so bummed – it was because junior had not added RE commission on. Senior’s silence told me I had hit the nail on the head.
Added on commission and – after some to-ing/ fro-ing/me walking away for a few days, Senior called me back and said ‘congratulations’!!cheers-
MiniYeah, a heaps interesting thread this one.
Firstly – yeah i remember on my Dolf de Roos tapes, he specifically warns people off Tasmania and Invercargill in NZ because of their declining population. However if 99 percent of people are running a mile from something and the house prices sink so cheap that someone says ….hey we can trade in our one bedroom unit for a palace…let’s do it….and then suddenly – a trend starts, that becomes a trickle and a current….then you get a situation like what’s happened in the last three months alone in Tasmania – 1000 people have moved there! Yep – and it’s the first turnaround after 12 years of decline if i remember the article correctly. I read this in the mebourne paper, it was a feature many pages long, “TAsmania is HOT!!!” , the same weekend as the Masters’ weekend. So I bet the stampede went nuts after that.Re buying houses off the internet, just make sure you get a builder’s report, and better still one that includes checking out the plumbing and wiring. Don’t make your offer too high. Hard to get offer back down if you still want the house but you sudden’y found out you need to do this and that and the other urgently.
Basically make the builder’s report person your new best friend.!
that’s all for now
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MiniI looked into it a while back because I was thinking about it – not only is relocating very expensive for what you get, but subdivision is no bagatelle either.
it was cheaper to just buy another property on a larger piece of land, and let it sit there (or fence it if tenants don’t want to mow, or lend to the neighbourhood teenager with pony, etc etc )
Here’s a chain of relocation house-yards in NZ where you can go and see a whole bunch of them in one place…
the price you see includes relocating and piling it onto the site plus wiring it up. i think. mains and water. However a lot of these houses are not ‘ready to go’ for that price – they need new kitchens etc. Although there are some cute villas if you are into that kind of thing.
Basically although it might be only just cheaper than building new it might not be better, ….basically you still just have an old house…..
Sorry if I am being negative, it’s just that i looked into it and in the end made the decision not to go for it. My Dad’s friend did it once and said it was a nightmare. ($$$$). Whereas – another couple I met and stayed with moved a house onto their property as a guesthouse and had no problems at all.
If you can get a house for free to remove, first check out whether you’d want to remove it. Some of them are shot.
Kitset new homes aren’t that much more. (that is, the horrible ones like the lowest priced no-frills version.)
but guess what I discovered in my quest, bit more expensive than a prefab granny flat but you gotta take a look, they are these amazing super-stylee baches, you can either buy the plan or the whole kit, bit of a tiresome flash site but it’s worth it – look at the stills because the VR tour isn’t up yet – ) now this kind of thing gets me excited!
,,,,,,Now if you could only get full-size stylish kitset homes like this.
For less than relocating one, that would be a cool thing.
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MiniHi David,
I agree with them but the reason I stood up for them is the original question was to find a buyer’s agent, and i think they would be a good option for NZ property because you can look what they have with no obligation. Re: valuation, I realise it is a very grey area, the thing you can check though to make sure the deal is a good one is the ration of GV to actual purchase price in each area. Some areas sell on GV, others below, others above. I have been buying in areas that sell either on GV or 10 – 20 percent below. So you know that if they have tied a deal up for 30 percent below GV in a 20 percent below area you probably will end up ahead even after the commission.
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Minire: richmastery, one of the properties they’d tied up recently and were offering as a deal (for 2-3 K I think finder’s fee) was in NZ in a place called Putaruru. It was a unit, maybe a one-bedroom, but one of those low maintenance ones rented for somewhere around $100 per week. I think they had tied it up for $23K. I mean – it seemed like a good deal to me and it was one of the lowest-priced properties they had for sale. Then i had a squiz and managed to find it (or, an identical one) on realenz.co.nz.
I emailed the RE agent and enquired about the property. they said it was currently under offer. I told them to let me know if the deal fell over.So perhaps richmastery are legitimately finding cashflow positive properties, negotiating to buy them for a good price (? it seems?) and passing them on – so that even plus 2 or 3 K (I think they charge 5K finder’s fee if it’s a more expensive property) it’s still a good deal for someone with no time to look. However they don’t necessarily do all the due diligence for you i.e LIM report, builder’s report.
What I am trying to say here is that I think they really valid/legit.
it might be worth checking out what they consider to be good deals, by looking on their site
http://www.richmastery.co.nzeven if you don’t need a buyer’s agent, just to make you feel like you can find deals as good as theirs on your own.
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Mini.Hi Steve, did you consider selling the tapes of the seminar with the notes as a stand-alone substitute for not having been able to make it, to offer people that missed out on the ‘live’ event?
I reckon you might have some takers i.e Jars’s postcheers-
MiniHi Sooshie and DavudU,
>64% increase in value on your reno!!! WOW!
yeah but like I said that was basically just adding the capital sunk into the renos into the purchasing price and adding 2K.
So really it sounds better than it is….but stilll…it feels real good….!!>Those massages are great aren’t they!
Yeah – i think it was the world’s oldest masseuse complete with chinese lampshade hat and missing teeth, but she was terrific!>Hi Barbara
hi david!!!>In theory if you could sell at the price quoted by the RE agent, >you could buy 2 more at the same price; then do the reno >thing all over again; sell those 2 and buy 4 more, etc etc!!!!
>You may have just discovered another fulltime career!!!wwwwahhhh! I don’t want another full time career! i like being a muso!!! heheheh! but yeah! i def. want to finance them in about six months and hopefully get more finance than I paid in the first place if possible, in order to fund more properties.
I’ve pretty much noticed that overly cheap purchase price = work to do, but if that means I can buy more property for my money, I’m willing to do that for now just to build equity faster.
ESPECIALLY if i can turn a reno over in four days. (possible because we hired labour.)Anyway, the reno’s I have done to this one, apart from the floors and paint and the visible prettying up stuff, a lot of them are the invisible kind that valuers and purchasers don’t necessarily see, but ones that i have done because i am intending to hold long term and i want the house to be good and sturdy and the problems not get worse and then cost more later.
>I’m going to London in August
yay. perfect time to visit.
have fun.
> then off to inspect some >properties in Christchurch
yay – good luck! Re Chch, the Kiwi Property Investor mag, it says that a suburb called New Brighton is gonna go nuts.cheers-
MiniPS Did i tell you i bought 21 curtains – enough for the whole house – in Bali for the equivalent of $130 AUD? Took an hour of negotation though! however the current spotlight sale has curtains from 11 bucks each too. I needed to put curtains in because otherwise tenants just stick nails and sheets up, ya know….
minimogul here,
wonderful to meet you all. I have just started in property investing and am purchasing in NZ as it’s where i grew up, and i can’t afford Aussie yet, though I live in Sydney (I’m renting someone else’s negatively geared house in Paddington.! it’s a lovely light-filled cottage with a little garden area and i work at home so I am glad it is a nice place.)
I’m a muso from wayback – ex classical, through jazz into session work and from there ended up in pop and rock -.
I am signed to Sony/ATV as a writer/producer which basically means I work on a bunch of different projects at any one time,
which can be anything from screen composing, artist development and management, music production, and touring.I also have an agency for sessions singers, here:
http://www.vocalbureau.comI live with my spunky Swedish hunk boyfriend of seven years who is a bachelor of medical science and studying further towards a bachelor of sports and health sciences. We met on tour with kd lang when he was a sound engineer.
My boyfriend’s son who has just turned 12 lives with us too, and is very sporty as well as happily thriving at a catholic private school we moved him to recently – the state school he started the year at was sh######t. His mum lives in Sydney too but has MS hence he’s with us, but he sees her lots too.
I have two IPs and am about to purchase a third. I have still got a lot to learn but am enjoying myself immensely. I couldn’t have done it without having gone to the Australian Property Masters, as I don’t have any people in my circle of friends that are doing what i am doing – positive cashflow investing is something that few have heard of or even believe is possible.
it all feels a little like a game, but played with real money. My strategy is buy and hold, and I want to try to be as risk-free as possible, even if that means I might move a little slower than others. Risk doesn’t make me happy and i’m all about happy and being able to sleep well and peacefully at night.
I’m feeling good about buy and holds combined with some renovations, as you make something better than it was before and stimulate the local economy in the process.cheers-
MiniHi Everybody,
!!!back from Bali, wow what an amazing place.
’twas my first visit. Absolute paradise.David – re:
>What does the RE agent think your reno did in terms of >increased valuation?
Well…hehe….I said ‘what do you think it would sell for if I put it on the market tomorrow? and he named a figure which was 64 percent higher than what i paid for it.
heheheheheBUT the real truth to that is that the house was so cheap and the renovations around 7-8 K that it was only about 2K more than i would have spent. however i am not really concerned about cap. gain – just cashflow. I mean, capital gain is fantastic and I am sure that even in this town, it will happen eventually in the future, but this is a real buy and hold as far as I am concerned which is why I am doing the renovations and maintenance properly.
> Where did you buy and what LVR did the bank do in a little >town and what bank did you use?
Hey Bobbie, I bought in the central north island in an area called the King country. 3 hours from Auckland.
I have no finance yet as i have purchased on equity. I am planning to tackle the finance issue in about 6 months when I hopefully will have 2-3 properties rented and going well.
I am a NZ citizen and my money is there. I will be using Stoneman Financial Services in wanganui when I try for finance – they are a mortgage and insurance broker and I have only used them for insurance so far.
Bradley Sturzaker is the insurance dude. I am using them because they are somewhat local to both my IPs.
I’ve heard that BNZ don’t use brokers any more and you should apply to them direct. I’ve also heard that Kiwibank is the hot young choice offering some of the most competitive rates.
I would recommend subscribing to KPI (Kiwi property investor magazine) – I have only read one issue – the latest one – but there is so much info in it that I think it;s a must if you are looking at investing in NZ.
link to the mag here…
http://www.propertyinvestor.co.nzHi Susie,!!
>Well done Mini, I’m really impressed and can say that I know >”that” feeling as well. My partner is a Kiwi & we are investing >in N.Z. as well.
yay!>Hi Mini,
>Have fun in Bali… Nusa Dua will be great relax for you, but I >think you’ll go bored! Try out the local Japanese resturant in >the Nusa Dua Tragia (Matsuri – I think).
Hi Sooshie, I sooooo wasn’t bored. It was completely lovely.
Took a couple of sightseeing trips to Uluwatu temple (clifftop amazing special place with sacred monkeys that eat from your hand!) and also this place called Ubud where the rice terraces are. That was a place i could have spent a week at!!!Kuta was fun, in a crazy way – at one point we were surrounded by about 12 women who knew us all by name (they’re so good at hawking!) – doing my nails, feet, and massaging me all at one – not to mention doing Mats and Oskar’s nails and henna tattoos on them -. i think business has been real quiet for them since the bombing so they seemed extra-desperate. We spent a million down there….rupiah that is….hahahahah!!!
>Did you take pictures of your reno?
Sure did!
> I’d love to see them.
I’ll figure out how to do that. Maybe I can create a link.
hmmmmmm!!!!>When you get back, I’ll be off to Fiji on a scuba holiday for 2 >weeks. I’m going to do my advanced open water. Yeah!
wicked! go girl!>Look foward to hearing about your next reno (the one your >boyfriend doesn’t know about yet ) when I get back.
yeah – the RE agent REALLY wants me to buy the one across the road! Maybe I will!
cheers to all –
BarbHi Sooshie, i can’t believe it but the gig is putting us up at the Intercontinental in Nusa Dua so I will be hanging with the
geriatrics! Seeing as I am stiff and sore all over after our four day miracle makeover I reckon I will fit right in….NOT!!!!!!!!About the reno, gosh, it went really well. Almost like it was blessed. Problems were solved quickly i.e. here’s just one anecdote of so many….
the stove didn’t work…a switch burst into flames when i turned it on. (thought I’d test it before i cleaned it!) However the floor sander’s wife said she had a spare one in the garage…and for $150 they would bring it down, take away the old one back to the tip for me, and Ray would wire in the new one for me. Best of all the new one was clean so I didn’t have to clean the old one – which was beyond filthy….!!!!!!
Another contractor bought us in a heater because he thought we might be cold. Went home speciallly to get it at the end of the day and brought it back.
then there was the builder who said he’d leave he trailer there all week for us and just to fill it up and he’d tip it for us later. Every single one of the locals was fantastic, and workers superb and cheap. Shy, sweet, strong, proud local Maori chaps.
The joinery for the window that had to be replaced ($90) was so perfectly made and so tightly fitting that it had to be seen to be believed.
I overspent – but hey what’s new!! – and anyway, how was i to know that under that grotty carpet and lino was the most beautiful and desirable heart Matai floorboards? it would have been a crime to carpet and lino over them – so am getting the whole house sanded and polished. Brilliant – meant we could slop around as much as we wanted without bothering about putting sheets down when we painted. the old carpet and lino became the built-in paint sheets.The rent was $90 before but will rent for $125 now. it will attract a better tenant too. Close to the hospital so perhaps a worker. High demand for rental properties in the area – the real estate agent had zero (!!!!!!) houses for rent and had been advertising on the radio for properties. !!! That day, two people had been turned away that wanted to rent houses. Doesn’t sound like many, but there are only 5000 or so people in this town.
Time is what we didn’t have I reckon I could write a book full of stories about how interesting and fun it was – and we were only there for four days! daze! I overpaid people – the builder, I managed to get for a couple of hours on a Sunday and i said I’d give him $35 and hour instead of the usual $25
for short notice and it being a weekend. Little did I know there was more like two eight hour days of work, not two hours. (and he was going fast!!!) However because I was overpaying him, he cancelled his other work so he could be available Monday and Tuesday for me. So I think in one way it was worth doing it although my boyfriend thought I was being a bit too generous…I don’t though…For example when we went to the local Mitre 10 to get supplies they said ‘how did you manage to get Robert on a Sunday? He’s the best builder in town’. Lucky, lucky, lucky. My key man actually was the builder’s report guy who gave me everyone’s numbers and the best ones to call and in which order- plus gave me his name to drop which came in very handy. he dropped in every day to make sure everything was cool as ‘project manage’ and would instruct the builder as to what to do according to my general brief.
Another great moment was when the real estate agent who sold me the place came to inspect it after the renovation (who is also the property manager) – he just about had tears in his eyes and kept patting me and saying ‘well done, well done girl!
i can’t believe it, who’d have thought,’ and things like that.
it really felt like one little spot in the world was a better place than it had been four days before and that felt good. So what if I not only overpaid the bros and bought them lunch. They’ll be my team when I do the one across the road, which I’m already planning…don’t tell my boyfriend though….he’s sooo tired….I think i will do the next one with my mum and Dad!!
g’night
off to Bali in a few hours, YAY!!!Mini
