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Shh Aussie Rogue… yOu’re not suppose to encourage people to come to WA for holidays… Things get too busy then… I kinda like that WA is underrated as a holiday destination. Personally, I’d love to keep it that way. We selfish in WA. We like the fact you can drive four hours and still not be anywhere near where you are wanting to be.
Steph.I’m in Geraldton and I am about to get in contact with my REA. I’ll find out for you. Out of curiosity, who did you use?
Steph.Bump!
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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
HI all, funny this happens to be on the site when I just happen to go to a thingo on it last night. It certainly seems to be an interesting concept with the market opening up for it.
They have very competitive pricing and the question in my mind is how they can sustain such cheap prices? then I thought about it. People are encouraged to sign up by people they know. Yes it may step over the friend/family business barrier, but their aim is to help people save money. They don’t spend millions on advertising and thus pass the savings on to customers.
I am actually wondering if perhaps this will shake things up a bit within the telco universe. Then again, in the time I worked for T, the biggest concern many people had was not saving money, but reliable service. It will be interesting to see if they can offer both.
My 2c.
Steph.Hi John.
Personally i would sell, firstly because you have owned the property for over a year you are entitled to the 50% CGT reduction. Unless it is your ppor, then you pay zip.
Then i would divide the profit into say three equal deposits and buy three smaller +ve geared properties. Therefore boosting your net worth from about 170K to (rough guess) 450K and now you have a passive income from three seperate properties without all the hassle of re-developing and building yourself two (more than likely) -ve geared properties. Plus any capital gain accumulating on three properties rather than two.
Anyway thats just my opinion.
Good luck.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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I saw the doco when living in UK about a year and a half ago. THose men are seriously sick puppies.But I s’pose it could be considered a medical condition or an obsessive compulsive disorder. I just feel a little sorry for the women who are with men like that. They end up having no option as the man has mentally abused her to the point she feels obligated to eat.
YEs.. a rather sad look at some peoples reality. As much as it can be frowned upon, we need those docos to keep informed about situations like that as they are real and out there.
Steph.[crying]
Here here Wallflower… There are many a bargain to be had at an op shop. I was in an op shop in Perth just the other week and we were looking for a wardrobe to go in our spare room. I stumbled across an entertainment unit (which we also needed but weren’t really looking for) and it was… get this… Jarrah. Yes Jarrah! Well Jarrah veneer but it still weighed a bloody tonne!
And we bought it all for the bargain price of $125. Hubby (a cabinetmaker) couldn’t make the unit for that price and considering Jarrah is no longer being logged… we will make money on it if we wanna get rid of it!
I also think Anita Bell has something to offer with ehr first book. We found it to be a good stepping stone with budgeting. We sacrificed a few things for 6 months and saved $26,000. Needless to say we don’t scrimp so much these days.
My main expense is water polo each week.
$4.00 x 3= $12 week.
But the good side to that is my butt is shrinking a little….
Hee hee…THANK GOD FOR THAT!!![lmao]Cheers
Steph.ohhh… polished boards please…. We have just done ours by ourselves and they look fabulous! When we looked at it, we’ve really saved ourselves several thousands of dollars by not carpeting. We are going to buy some nice mats and go with that. You can’t beat floorboards…
Gorgeous…
Oh, um, stainless steel is lovely and I probably prefer it as white can stain and scratch easily and look yucky pretty quickly. Whereas stainless can just really scratch.
Cheers
Steph.Purplekiss, you said it right mate.
Doubling the time you think it will take is a great way to budget. Plus, guarantee yourself there is going to be some nightmare lurking somehwere ready to jump out at you. Our nightmare was that the timbers in the walls are no where near plumb so we have rather warped walls even though we’ve replaced the gyprock and all. Oh well. That’s what you get with an old house… AND OURS IS ONLY 35/40 years old!
The key to remember your doing it up for a tenant. Not yourself. When shopping, ask yourself what you would like to start with, so you get it out of the way, then go and look at cheaper alternatives. Renters don’t want seriously flash things. Just clean and reasonably nice looking.
Good luck and don’t get disheartened if you do decide to take it on.
Scremin
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oh… I’ve taught at Clarkson Primary… If that’s anything to go by, I wouldn’t buy or live there even if it was given to me! Feral, red-necked hicks…[evil5][evil4]
scremin.WHat do they say about women with big feet then???[cigar]
All 11 1/2 inches of them… Sigh..Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Aww Deano… Surely there’s more to it than she’d have you… Come on, spill your guts.
Steph.[blink][biggrin]
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Aw Mini, you said it all.
Some funny stories. I didn’t really explain how I met my hubby.
I was friends with his friends in Perth and he lived in Albany, 400km south of Perth. His mates had a huge party one weekend which I was at and we met. BUT, it certainly wasn’t love at first sight. I loved his car (A red SLR5000 Torana V8) but that was it.
That was Mid November. Fast forward to new years eve to another party he thought I would be at. But I wasn’t. I chose to work that night coz there wasn’t much happening. I had planned to go to this big rock concert but had now one to go with. Cremin had tickets to but he sold them to go to the party he thought I’d be at. Well, it was a close call coz 8 years later, I found out from a mate that her friend was keen on him and was gonna make a move! Lucky I turned up at the party just in time…
Still nothing happened though. I did become slightly interested. Fast forward to February and a mates 21st. Cremin came up for the weekend, tried getting me drunk, it didn’t work as I held my alcohol really well and we only smutted.
Bloody hell I hear you say? Well yes, fast forward again to April and finally on his 21st did we get it together. From then on, we had such a physical and emotional bond we have been practically inseparateable since. Mind you, I do enjoy my week away here and there alone sometimes. And so does he…
Sigh, Love…where would the world be without it…Plus all the bloody trips up and down from ALbany to PErth, Perth to Albany…. etc etc. Racked up a lot of milage those few months and a tonne of phone calls…
Scremin.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Oh here is nasty customer service… I HAVE TO ADD THIS ONE!!!
Same shop and job and I had a really annoying customer who wanted all the accessories free blah blah blah… We didn’t giive the accessories free but for him my boss made an exception.
All he wanted really was the PHF for his new mobile. I excused myself as it was in the stock out the black and went and bitched to one of the othe sales rep while I got it. Just before I went back out on the floor, he said..
“steph, I’ll show you a trick that gets revenge and gives them what they want…”“umm.. ok”.
He grabbed the phf, put the little fuzzy bit on it and shoved it down the back of his pants. He farted on it and um… I leave the rest for your imagination…. Actually, I have just realised that this is seriously demented….. ANyway…
He placed it back in the packaging and off I went to sell the phone. Well, I nearly got the customer out of the store when just as it was going through the till, he opened the package and felt the spongy bit.“Awww, nice and squishy….”
I nearly wet myself trying not ot laugh. A soon as he left the store I went out the back and we all killed ourselves with laughter.It was a seriously gross thing to do and we never did it again, but take it as a warning to not sh*t off a good sales rep or they will somehow Sh*t on you….
Oh geez… Cremin and I have a doozy of a story… Well actually I have a couple…
The first one was when we were living in London a couple of years ago.
We were in the vacinity of the Victorian tube station when we felt the urge to go and have some dinner. It was after 6pm you see. So off we toddled to an indian joint after looking at the prices and working out exasctly what we could order as we onlyhad so much money, we ordered it. Now maybe our mistake was the assumption that rice came with the meal.. but the bloke asked us if we wanted rice and naan bread with our curry.
Because of our assumption, we just said yes and looked at each other in a strange way. Well, we had dinner (which was absolutely delicious!) and got the bill as we were meant to be somewhere…. and we were horrified to see that it was going to cost us £28!!! We only had 15 quid on us and we asked tos ee what the break down was. £9 was for the rice and naan bread!!! We were horrified and angry.
We spoke to the waiter who told us it was on the menu (It was miniscule writing) but I refuersd to pay any more than we had planned. He started yelling and I yelled back that they were theiving bastards. In the meanwhile, cremin looked in his wallet and saw that he had £20 he didn’t know he had. So he whispered in my ear we had enough money but I was so riled up I slammed the £18 we had planned our meal to cost and we strode out the door.
THe waiter came running after us yelling indian obscenities and we bolted with tears of laughter running down our cheeks….. Sigh..[blink]
[evil4]The next was me being the one to give the customer service. Now, I used to work for the very big telco selling mobile phones and occassionally a couple came back for legitimate repairs. One day, I was serving and a lady came up to me with her phone in a plastic bag and she asked about getting it fixed under warranty.
I opened the bag and nearly vomited. She had been on the toot to do a number two when her phone slipped out of her pocket and into the offending material. She had pulled it out of the loo and brought it in the be fixed…. ahem… ahem… “Unfortunately, your phone won’t be fixed under warranty.”
“Why not? It wasn’t my fault it fell in.”
“Maybe not, but there is not clear manufacturer defect for it to be fixed under warranty.”
“Well, the defect was it doesn’t stay in people’s pockets!”
“Um… No. We aren’t taking that in for repair. If you please remove it from our counter….”
The lady left the shop very angry and I promptly got out hte disinfectent and wiped down the counter…. Geez, the gall of some people! And that’s only a little hint of what I used to put up with….
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Steph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
certainly sounds like some very dedicated parents out there which is very uplifting to hear. MOnopoly, I would have died if my mum did that!!!!
Richmond, my Nan was also a single mum not form choice as my grandfather chose to leave her and move to Adelainde only to get depressed and commit suicide by driving into a tree!!! Nanna didn’t have any choice and there wasn’t any family benefits in those days so she had to battle it out with three kids and work too. I take my hat off to her and I absolutely love her to bits.
She wouldn’t be the person she is now and at the place in her life that she is either. Good luck to all those single parents doing the right thing. I don’t think anyone means to put you down, everyone seems frustrated that there are a select few who make wrong choices and don’t realise the consequences of them.
Ho hum. THat’s life…
STeph.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Thanks all. The land under the house is slightly lower than all the surrounding land suggesting a natural inking for it to collect under the house. I shall look into the aggi pipe and let you know what we decided to do.
Cheers all!
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
wow!!! It has taken me a good 15 minutes to read the whole she-bang! So many opinion… Maybe this is in the wrong area…
I agree MA that dole bludgers get WAY too much money and the off-spring certainly aren’t the ones who will be looking after the generation above them. BUT, coming from a family of four children, with parents who were hard working and paid their taxes and we didn’t see hardly a hint of government support at all when perhaps we should have. Not that I had a bad childhood coz I had a very happy one!
I do not mind that my taxes are going to people like my friends who have two children and job share so that they can both get the most joy out of watching their children growing up.
I also think that there needs to be a system or a way for the government to check up on how these “bludgers” manage to get through the system without a second thought.
Anyway, I don’t have children but I would appreciate a little extra help like the $600 bonus every now and then. Should I be excluded from it even though I have been working hte past 10 years, paid my taxes and not had any handouts what-so-ever even though I was unemployed for a 6 month period? I should hope not.
Yes, it is a choice to have children and we should hope that these days it would be an informed choice, but it doesn’t matter what society you look at around the world, you will always have a sector of people who believe they are owed something and believe they don’t need to do a thing to get it.
My 2c.
Steph.P.S I think it is about my beddie bye time… Night.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Was just wondering who had heard about the cheeky bastards up in Norway or some scandinavian country that has already created the technology for water fuelled cars? My dad (a mechanic) was telling me months ago that they have already created the technology but because BP or some other big oil company paid squillions for the patent, it won;t be released for commercial use for many years coz it then makes petrol obsolete.
THat would then mean the price of oil would have no real effect on the main consumers and push their share prices down. I don’t know the full aspects of it all, perhaps when I’m in PErth more and I see my daddy, I’ll find out more.
Let’s hope to see that car very very shortly….
Steph.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Geez Russ… You make it sound like GEro is a total and utter dump!!! What a crock of Sh*T!!!! I’ll take Geraldton over Perth any day mate… Coming from someone who has lived in the city her whole life…
Yes there are some issues, but if you bothered to look on the local council website you will see that there are some really good long term plans being implemented. I managed to have a bit of time with teh Mayor when I first arrived as she was welcoming the new teaching staff to GEraldton. (Very nice of her…)
Things are happening here and I can tell you what, what other town or city do you get three major resources happening? Mining, fishing and farming!!??? Plus we have just scored the contract to send iron ore to china.
Don’t under-estimate the coastal city. I agree, I thought gero was a dump and just a place to “pass through to get to Kalbarri”, but my thoughts have very much changed since living here.
I’ve lived in Harlesden in London which has the worst instance of gun crime in the whole of the UK, so Geraldton is not that bad… As to Kenny Cres… I still don’t like that area… Bad vibes…
Steph.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
