Hi

You will need to find out first whether your unit is on a building format plan or survey plan – that's important for determining where the common property boundary is.

Water leaks and water proofing are big issues in body corporates in qld. From your description I would argue that the body corporate i.e. strata are liable for the leaking roof…[Read more]

Have you read the book?

Theres only one example of how he bought the house for a dollar.
I'd like to know how he keeps the cash flow going?

Hi Corie,

I did mine myself.

I got all the instructions from the paint company and one of them even offered free spray hire with the paint.

I also hired a decent Gerni.  My domestic one simply took to long.

The two lessons I learnt quicky was : Water makes your tiles slippery, use caution/ fall arresting…[Read more]

That Mt View estate is in the newer section.  It runs from the back of redbank plains across whites hill towards swanbank. Swanbank currently has a coal powered power station in it.  I work for the local power authority and we have just done a large upgrade on the substation that provides electricity to that area.

From those upgrade maps I can…[Read more]

Hi Brokota,

Saying Redbank plains is a fairly vague statement. There are a number of good and bad areas within Redbank Plains. Do you have a specific place you are looking?

Redbank Plains has been a suburb that I was formally looking at..  I live about 20kms from the suburb.  In my research I found the older areas are predominantly low socio…[Read more]

what do they offer Steve?

Hi property beginner,

I notice that you haven't provided any evidence to support the 20% claim.
You cant base you decision on someone's Claim/opinion.

Have you also been given a break down on the costs of running the business?
20% is a big claim, and I understand your interest, but no one I know makes anywhere near that profit margin.

Another…[Read more]

Hi Ppls,

Does anyone else think that we should we should be pushing our tenants to be paying the entire water bill?  ie the water usage as well as the connection fee?

I get that the landlord needs to maintain the connection but everybody has to poop why is it the landlord that has to pay the connection fee? We dont pay for their telephone…[Read more]

Thank you everyone,

I'm in Brisbane.  I can tell you that my carpentry and painting is certainly improving, not so much because I want it to but simply because I cant get the help..

The reason I got the painting quote this time was simply speed, Time is a bit precious atm.

Hi Everybody,Thank you for all the posts, its interestin to see what everybody is up to and how they are doing it.My question is in relation to building networks, How is everyone doing with this?I often ring carpenters etc for quotes and they dont show or give amazing high quotes (in my opinion),Whats the going rate for basic things like…[Read more]