We just had our roof done – pressure cleaned, 5 broken tiles replaced (and 7 new spares left with us), repointed with flexible pointing, 1 coat of sealer, 2 coats of colour, gutter cleaned & all covered with 10yr warranty $1999 for 182m2 – on the Gold Coast.CheersStella

We are on the Gold Coast too & have Pebblecrete around the pool & on the driveway. Just had a quote to spray over it & stencil – around $3k for the driveway which is really not much over the length of an everage family sized car!  Somehow managed to quoted around $3500 to do the same out the back in a much bigger area though – 3x8m pergola & a 1m…[Read more]

Makes my holdings in MOO (Monto Minerals) at around 0.19 & SML (Synergy Metals Ltd) at around 0.03 look miniscule!Oh well – both specs & fingers crossed they mirror MAK soon!CheersStella

Anyone have any updates on this area?Cheersstella

Hi AnthonyYou asked "Jungling on whether to go ahead on the Raceview purchase. A number ofhomes are sold there through DHA. Most selling around $390K and $320pwk(before management fee deducted).Are you familiar with Annas Drive in racview opposite Edwards St? Is thisa good spot as described in your post?"I'm not familiar with that street however…[Read more]

We purchased in Raceview in August after many months of research. Although we found some streets that have houses that look rundown and uncared for, these streets tended to be in groups and easily avoided. On the whole the suburb looked ok to us. It is close to Ipswich CBD, there is a decent little shopping center, Westfield Booval is just up th…[Read more]

foundation wrote:
TODAY Toight viewers were misled

OMG you mean everything on TT isn't TRUE??????????????

Hi Renee,Our place was built sometime in the 80's (apparently no one can tell me what year which I find strange but anyway..) and we had Deppro do a ds for us. Cost around $500 and the ds shows depreciation starting in yr1 at around $6.5k and going down from there.So although not huge depreciation, it is still better than nothing, the ds itself i…[Read more]

My son who lives in Sydney (27) was married 2 yrs ago to a lovely Maltese girl (23). Her parents gave them $20k & refused to take any contribution from us (although we did at least convince them to let us pay for suit hire for all the men & gave them cash a wedding present). The couple were told to spend as much as they wanted of the $20k but…[Read more]

Jon Chown wrote:
in Queensland it would be illegal to advise a customer that there was another offer if there was not and heafty penalties would apply.   Jon

How do you get to find out there wasnt really another offer though?CheersStella

Dumb girl question – Any solicitor can set this up?  What we we need to tell them we ned the trust to do or will they know that already?CheersStella

bardon wrote:
Stella, wouldn't worry to much I have  property in Ashgrove that is going great and its not even on the list neither is Murarrie which has had very high growth in the last year 30% according to REIQ nd 40% according to Domain might be less than that but its moving

Thanks but I'm not worried – just surprised after the research I d…[Read more]

Just my luck lol – looked at 4 of those suburbs but purchased somewhere else! Oh well lets see how we go anyway ……

Cheers
Stella

L.A Aussie wrote:
If it is a rental property, and you have around $5k to spend (or even less) you can get a perfectly ok brand-new kitchen from IKEA or Bunnings.It is a deprecaible item and they look great, and are very customised.

How hard are these to install? Can an 'average' handyperson manage the job or is it best left to professional…[Read more]

v8ghia wrote:
As a sidepoint what is wrong with a street named after alcohol? I reckon 'Jim Beam Boulevarde' would have a great ring to it……Cheers

We agreed & looked with great enthusiasm at those streets (there is a whole estate of these names) but unfortunately it appeared the residents all suffered from a 'condition', possibly brought…[Read more]

We looked at Toowoomba a few months ago. At that time there were heaps of vacancies around so we moved onto another area.Friends in Toowoomba told us East Toowoomba is one of the better along with Eastern Heights, Centenary Heights, Kearney Spring & around that area, basically anywhere east of the park (Queens Park I think it was called?) and E…[Read more]

Thanks Morty – any photos?

Will do Jason, although that job has just been put on hold – have to replace a back fence first..If you do it yourself I'd like to hear the details too?CheersStella

We looked at a couple of properties in the Ipswich area which had mining thingy? on them (cant recall what they were actually called). Agent told us 3 contracts had fallen through because of this even though tthe rights dated back to late 1800's – early 1900s. Apparently this is common in the  Ipswich area. We didnt go with that property as it…[Read more]

barney2803 wrote:
One of my mates is building 350 homes in Ipswich. Its a pretty safe bet i reckon too.

Won't that hammer the price of existing homes there ?CheersStella