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.

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Stella

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!

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Stella

Hi Anthony
You asked "Jungling on whether to go ahead on the Raceview purchase. A number of
homes 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 this
a good spot as described in your post?"

I'm not familiar with that street however someone else on here may be?
You also mentioned DHA properties – personally I wouldn't buy one of these – IMHO there are better purchases to be made, without the high fees & what I consider to be over priced properties.

We purchased 3 bed highset for $270 & rent for $270 – not brilliant but better than DHA returns IMO.
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Stella

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 anything they didnt spend would be theirs to keep. They organised a fantastic wedding for 140 people but still managed to keep something just over $10k to go towards their deposit. They had a weekend away but waited 3 months for their 'real' honeymoon of 2 weeks in Fiji which they paid cash for.

It was great to see them come out of it without a huge debt and they purchased their PPOR just short of their first wedding anniversary.

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?

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Stella

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

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Stella

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……
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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 about by alcohol….

Obviously I am generalising here & have no wish to offend anyone. There may well be many people not affected by these street names who are wonderful people.

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Stella

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 was also subject to flooding. We were looking in early July & it has only recently been listed as under contract on re.com in the last week or so – everything else around has sold awhile ago so I guess that also tells a story?
According to the agent the mining right can be removed from the title but it costs a couple of $k.

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Stella