Thanks everyone for your postings. It’s all been very helpful. Please feel free to continue positing if you have a story to tell.

And if anyone is familiar with the Designcrete product that Cevilia has mentioned, I’d love to hear about it too. Does anyone know where these businesses have started up? I think I saw an ad for these startups a while…[Read more]

David,

In a previous post, you wanted to shoot someone for guessing the state, and now you’ve gone and mentioned the town name! []

Anyway, no, I didn’t buy any. I was just curious about prices and demand. I did purchase one through those auctions earlier in the year. Also purchased one there last year through another agent. These are the…[Read more]

I’ve been considering this myself. I’m on the mailing list for prestigemotorsport.com.au – they send you details of upcoming auctions in Japan.

Had originally been looking at the MR2s and 300ZXs. They can be picked up well below the yard prices. Looking up the price scale through, I think there’s some real dollars to be made. Check the following…[Read more]

Hi Westan,

Is that EP or EG? Can’t see a Gunther St in EP in the street directory.

Anyway, the only EP property was a double – 16&18 Daniel Street if you want to compare it to yours. I didn’t get to look at this one prior to the auction, but the description was “No 16 – 3 bedroom, No 18 – 2 bedroom. Undivided pair in average condition.…[Read more]

Thanks Mel,

I’m thinking that might be the way to go – just need to round up a few other interested investors.

Maybe a good business opportunity for any quantity surveyors out there – do a rural road trip once or twice a year to cater for the needs of outback investors. Sounds like a bit of an untapped market to me.

Cheers,
Mike.

Yeah, I’ve seen the Depro ads. Great if your property on the east cost, but when it’s 400km’s west of Adelaide, the choices of surveyors drop and the costs rise.

Cheers,
Mike.

007,

Are you familiar with the ‘b’ auctions? I noticed today that they have a SAHT land sale listed. Do they normally sell off houses in the same areas too, or just land?

I attended the ‘e’ and ‘jt’ auctions during the week too. The ‘e’ auction was purely to see how much prices and interest had risen since my purchases there earlier in the year.…[Read more]

Hi all,
If there’s a list of people for a potential get-together, please add my email – vivapug@yahoo.com.au .
An option for organising a gathering could be to use http://landlords.meetup.com . Anyone else think it would be a good idea to use this?

Cheers,
Mike

Sure, email me at vivapug@yahoo.com.au . Glad to be of help.

Cheers,
Mike.

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Wow Mike thanks for your input. Im sure it helped even more then u may think[].

Im sure now there will be more compition for these houses now and thats ok, will keep me on my toes .LOL[]

Thanks again Mike.

Regards Bear

PS would u mind if i contacted your…

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Hi Bear & all,

I’ve just stumbled on this site. Looks like a great community and a wealth of knowledge.

Thought I’d provide some details of my experience in the region mentioned.

I own two properties in the Whyalla Norrie 5608 postcode, both ex housing trust semis, which I have purchased in the last 12 months. I’m extremely pleased with the…[Read more]