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G’day monopoly,
It’s all about interpretation I guess…
He wrote: “Well its important to me know who is going because they are part of the team or really parting with their money because they feel passionate about it. I can evaluate your posts in a different light now.”
To me it seems yack might have thought there was more to it than a simple invite…
Just my two cents, not right or wrong…
cheers
rI’ll be there (invited by Steve) doing a bit of crowd control, so look out!
yack, it’s just a thank-you from steve, nothing sinister….
cheers
rI reckon Yack’s on the right course, name your price Yack… I’m mates with one of the board members, perhaps I could put you two in touch…
rI’d like to see Mark Harvey (Ess assistant coach) come over… might instill some toughness into the toothless Tigers…
Saturday arvos? Well, I’m often here in the 9 newsroom trying to put a bullein together… otherwise it’s something footy related…
cheers
rWe’ve just accepted an offer for 330k for a place we bought for 170k almost 3 yrs ago… we were just about ready to take it off market… great result since we’d told the agent we wanted between 320k and 340k… cheers
r
I smoked for 15 years, tried a lot of times to give up, then the wife said she wanted me to quit so we could have healthy babies… that was 5 weeks ago, haven’t had one and haven’t felt like having one… still early days, but all going well.
cheers
rI hear you Yack,
A slightly edited quote from a PM I sent to another forum member a month ago, letting him know the direction I felt the forum was taking… it’s also why I’ve barely posted recently :
“I’m not looking for a love in… If I want to feel loved I’ll give my grandma a call… to be honest I couldn’t give a toss about whether people here piss in each others pockets or not…I used to enjoy coming to these boards because the discussions were worthwhile and I learned off them…
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy heated debate… I just don’t like the personal petty crap that comes up, and I’m sure if you weighed up the worthwhile posts v the pointless ones in the last few months, the latter would outnumber the former quite considerably.”
Cheers all
The only post of yours I’ve ever deleted is one where I thought you unfairly abused Westan. In fact, that’s the only post I’ve deleted in months. Not that I have to justify myself to you anyway. The condescending tone of many of your posts is offensive quite a lot of time to quite a lot of the forum members, so no apology of any description is warranted.
r
It’s called “reading the paper” Gatsby… not that hard, as I’m sure Kay would agree.
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rI’ve been avoiding posting in this thread, but, Mortgage Adviser, I find your disgraceful generalisations about single mothers very insulting.
You see, my mum was single, and on welfare (at times), and yes, she may even have been on medication for depression. She and my father CHOSE to have two kids… the problem was that he died in a plane crash two months before I was born, leaving my mum on her own with me in her tummy and my 2 year old brother. She CHOSE to stay at home and look after her boys, because child care wasn’t an option, and her family lived far away. I’m sure she had male company from time to time, and I don’t begrudge her that for a second. I cannot even begin to comprehend how she managed to deal with such a tragedy. That she managed to raise 2 boys who are now both doing very well in life is a massive achievement, in my mind much bigger than anyone’s huge property portfolio, and one of my investment goals is to make sure she doesn’t go without anything as she gets older. (I’m 30, she’s 57 this year)
You cannot make rash generalisations and claim you’re coming from an educated standpoint, the two do not go together. It is impossible to judge someone without knowing the full story, and often there’s a fair bit more to it than your own blinkered “populist” views on single mums. Perhaps you’ve been watching too many of the Today Tonight ACA type shows that enjoy getting stuck into “bludgers” of various descriptions.
We share common ground in agreeing that public money can often be wasted, but I don’t think a small bonus for families is a waste for one second. If anything, the family unit needs to be fostered even more, because it’s one of the most important things in a society such as ours. In fact one of the things that used to be good about Australia was that we didn’t begrudge helping each other out, especially those less fortunate than ourselves. I’m no Christian, but I don’t sneer at people who are doing it tough either. Do you really think most people are really happy if they’re living in housing commission, trying to feed a tribe of kids on bugger all money? Your answer will be just “get a job” but it’s not always that simple.
There’s little doubt that some of the $600 per child bonus will be wasted, but I don’t believe most of it will. I think it’ll be gratefully accepted and put to good use.
You also seem to selectively ignore the recently annouced large tax cuts that favoured higher income earners as opposed to those on less than 50 grand. This equates to much more than $600 in these people’s pockets, and it doesn’t matter whether they’ve got kids or not. Fair enough too I say, since higher tax thresholds kicked in far too early.
Words on a screen don’t usually make me annoyed either, but in this case several of your comments did.
My point is that while people choose to have children, they don’t all choose the circumstance they find themselves in and to randomly criticise the masses from your office in Darlinghurst is repugnant in the extreme, and clearly ill-informed.
That’s all I’ve got to say.
r
Hi
We have a place on the market at Blairgowrie (Mornington Peninsula) near Melbourne… having done our research, wife and I thought 340k would be great, but 320k would be fine too… agent put it on at 365k, no bites, came back to 340k, no bites, now down to 320k+, hopefully some bites this weekend. Mind you, winter’s probably not the best time of year to be selling a place near the beach in Vic… ah well.
We wanted to sell it to cash in some great CG and clear PPOR debt so we could crank up again in a year or two.
The agent’s authority runs out on July 5, so he’ll be trying to screw us down on price, but we won’t be doing that… Instead, we’ll be renting it out full time, having used it as a holiday house/holiday rental for 3 years. The rent we’re likely to get will be around 7% on purchase price. We might revisit selling again in a few years.
I would think that some of the stories about people who bought 6-9 months ago now finding themselves with negative equity are very true. Think about it, places that were getting 350k 9 months ago are now selling for 315k… especially down at Blairgowrie (which is the market I’m clearly interested in)… that’s a 10% drop. Fortunately we bought over 3 years ago in which time the property has doubled…
We’ll be able to hang on quite comfortably, a lot however, cannot.
Cheers
rps Yack + Monopoly, what are your thoughts on the Mitcham Frankston Freeway and it’s likely impact on prices down the Peninsula/Frankston neck of the woods?
re: be cautious, couldn’t agree more
Yack,
Not everything beyond Melbourne’s city limits is “the sticks”… Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Shepparton etc are just 4 places in Vic that are established regional cities… but we’ve had this discussion before.
Cheers
rWell, I for one will be very interested to see Kay’s response to such a blatantly sexist post from bruce
For what it’s worth I don’t have a problem with the ABC being a little more to the left, since MOST of the media in this country leans to the right… so maybe it restores a bit of balance overall?
cheers
rWhat’s all this regarding “about to peak”?? It’s already peaked here in Melbourne
Cheers
rThere’s a search function on this site… learn to use it and you’ll find a number of areas that have been discussed ad nauseum.
Cheers
rThere’s a search function on this site… learn to use it and you’ll find a number of area
Robo,
Depends… some of us locked in for 5 years not long ago for 5.99% or 6.29 %…
Id like to take a sledge hammer to poker machines. They should outlaw them. Who cares if it affects govt revenue?
r
Oh how I long for the days when visiting this forum didn’t involve wading through posts where people tell each other off…
Cheers
r
