Lots of old houses in WA have “sleepouts” too. They almost always are the old verandah that’s been closed in. Usually bloody cold in the winter and bloody hot in the summer… Also they almost always are located in the most inconvenient places in the house. Or they are located on the edge of the edge of the house…

Cheers
Steph.

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Gee Crashy, sounds like a hard thing to put up with. Crap water. COuldn’t think of anything worse.

I like what debtdog said about the water being a health risk. Eveyone has the right to clean water if it is available, and you shouldn’t accept it at the current state.

Your property manager should have fixed that as soon as you requested it. I…[Read more]

Having lived in Uk for a bit, I would definitely recommend carpet in the bedroom. I certainly wouldn’t want cold floorboards during winter! You want nice carpet for your tootsies…

At the opposite end of the scale here in Aus, it was cheaper for us to polish up existing floorboards than to buy even crappy carpet.

Hope it helps.
Steph

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I don;t understand why your broker did know about it. We’ve just signed paperwork with ANZ and as it was a condition of the loan, we had to get it.

Bit confused how broker didn’t know…

I dunno Mandankumars,
I am a permanent aussie resident(as is my husband) and we had trouble getting a loan when we returned form UK. THe biggest thing banks want is a six month employment history and they gernerally don’t accept overseas employment as valid.

Maybe it will be different for you, but just telling you what happened when we got back…[Read more]

Myoung,
We looked at a house with an asbestos roof and made enquiries to how much to get it removed and we had approximations from $5000 – $10 000. And that doesn’t include the colourbond sheeting. THat’s just removal of the asbestos! These are country WA prices.

Needless to say we didn’t buy it, but we bought the house next door…

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This is more a come back than a saying…

“Care factor is zero…”

Michael, how can you compare dismal ol’ england to Sunny Geraldton?? I hated living in UK. It again was our choice, and we learnt lots from it, but we still hated living with the crappy weather.

I think I’ll take 300 days of sun a year over 300 days of gloom anyday… Plus we have inbuilt air conditioners every afternoon which saves us heaps…[Read more]

Supa freak, we used to say,

“Eat more, drink more, sink more piss!”

Maybe that’s what your thinking of.

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

I have to agree. A bloody top spot to buy a house. Wht more would you want. Ocean, river and a highway 1km away on your doorstep. Not to mention the new shopping complex going up down the road. A very cool area.

We loved it when we were renting there so that’s why we chose to look around there for our PPOR when we have kiddies. Wonthella…[Read more]

Oh well, live and learn. Our place we are living in now had a similar problem. The tenant was one of the biggeset drug dealers in Gero and she didn’t want to move because the house was sold. We specifically wanted vacant possession and wrote it as a condition. That way, the lease is totally null and void. Hee hee, the end of our story was…[Read more]

I done all Christmas shopping already! There was big sale at shop up here and I went to town for presents. Cost me about $100 for 6 peoples presents and that was 50% off original price. Awesome!!!

We have started a gift box as well. Each time we see something nice that we think would be good for someone for Christmas or BDay present, we buy…[Read more]

me not public. Me private… School run by nuns, that’s all I’ll say…

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Woohoo! Yeah! Got another star! I need to celebrate! Bought my first IP yesterday and I have my third star today… It is a great week… (Gee you can’t tell it’s close to the end of the school year,can ya?!!!)

And here is 300! I have to go back and chek if I got another star!!!

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Hmmm, well I got one from when I was about 15.

I was a checkout chick at the local wollies store. One day this lady came through and she was fairly young but she had what looked like a pregnant belly. So I foolishly asked “So, when you due?” OOOOOPPPPSSSS!!

“I’m not pregnant…”
Shit! I didn’t say another word to her other than apologising…[Read more]

This one was a favourite one of mine when I was in my late teens early twenties… Needless to say I don’t remeber some of it.

“A life lived sober, is a life half lived.” Hee hee…

My husbands favourite would have to be,

“Go hard or go home!”

Steph.

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Marc it’s a shame you had such a dishonest tenant, but not all us dog owners are so bad. We rented with a little dog and he didn’t do any damage at all, we kept him flea treated and left the house absolutely spotless.

Shame on the property manager for not picking up on the lawn much quicker. At one place, we had a written warning because it was…[Read more]

thanks michael. WE are a little nervous but we going to see accountant now to sort our finances. All very exciting too.
Gotta go!
Steph.[blink]

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

It’s good to hear your wife is following her heart and isn’t letting the paypacket decide what she wants to do. great stuff!

Bit of an update people, Cremin and I have bought our first investment property!! WOohoo!! And a d’oh and well… It is a lot more than we had anticipated but for all intensive purposes, it will become our PPOR in a year…[Read more]