Horror Story of the month

Hi Jessica

My heart and thoughts go out to you!

I wont bore you with details about some of my experiences, especially as they are not Real estate related.

However I will say we all do have hard luck stories and I am sure many of us can feel and relate to your bad experiences.

All I can say is sometimes it takes a bad experience to turn our life around into a better direction for our higher good. I know it’s a hard pill to swallow but a wise man once told me “The lowest points in our life’s are our greatest gifts”

It may be hard to relate to that comment right now but I’m sure one day with your determination you will be a very successful person in your own right. Sometimes Karma works in mysterious ways.

Please hang in there!

Kindest Regards Bear

U want a story Jessica!

I recently bought a villa in Bathurst, very nice inside, new paint and carpets, paved rear yard. so i thought it was a matter of just moving a tenant straight in!. nup lol

If i buy a place vacant i always try and “live” in it for a few days to make sure everything is ok… so i did.. i got to the property at 11 pm after driving for over 2 hours only to find that the power was disconnected and there was a huge lock on the power box, so no heater, no lights. i was freezing lol.

Next day i woke up, called power company to get it re connected., then heard a dripping noise from the cupboard where the HWS was kept… the release valve had busted. so again on the fone to get a plunber to fix it. after about 8 ppl i finally got 1 that was free THAT day all these calls were on my mobile as well mind you.

ok power is now on, HWS is fixed and warming up.. time for shower.. walk into bath room, notice some taps r leaking pretty bad.. no matter ill get to those later i thought.. take shower, watch as the grout washes away in front of my eyes.. the person must have used flour and water to get it to pass the final inspection!… i was stepping in a pile of white mush!.. ok so now i got to scrape out all the crap and re grout with the proper stuff.

Time to change washers..pull of tap head, get to plastic hex looking thinggo that connects to the tap shaft.no worries ill just use my trusty multi grips to yank it off as it stuck on there tight.. break the plastic thinggo, and another on washing machine taps…drive to bunnings get new taps..get home, wrong type,, by now bunnings is closed.

start to grout shower reccess..decide to try and repair the rest of the taps.. remove wash tub tap, the tap is deep in the wall cavity, and im all out of washers.. no matter mains water is off rite? and that little drip that drops every 10 seconds into the cavity behind the tiles could not possibly do any damage right?

wrong lol… eventually fell asleep, left taps “as is” wake up to find bedroom carpet saturated, i now learn that the mains tap washer is worn as well.. the hard way…call carpet drying guy, comes out and dries carpet, drive to bunnings, get correct taps, washers and everthing else.

time to inspect external areas..good the security bars were installed as agreed to prior to sale.. hang on! no dyna bolts!!! the security bars were just belted into place..bloody hell! drive to bunnings, buy dyna bolts and masonary drill bit, try with all my strength to remove the bars. they were belted in real hard..managed to get 1 corner sticking out while the opposite corner went inwards.. well i guess 2 bolts were better then none.. so drilled the holes, re aligned (with a huge hammer) the security bars and put just the 2 bolts in…

ok time to grind off the exposed bolt thread… out comes the grinder… start griding till there was just a bit of bolt steel holding it on… go to remove it with my fingers… got a lovely sizzle noise and a burn mark of bolt thread on my 2 fingers… thats gonna hurt im thinking lol..

well anyway… i ended up making about 5 trips to bunnings in 3 days, but finally got the place up to scratch…

I drove home abit peeved off, cut, burnt, light of cash and tired, but i guess it was worth it! tenant hasn’t complained (yet)

all the best!

Jason

Hi Jess,

My thoughts go out to you.
I too have been through my fair share of relationship, financial and family problems in recent times. I would say that the last 6 months on most accounts has been the toughest of my life.
The 2 post important things that have kept me going are 1.Friends and 2. Communication. No matter how you feel, don’t be affraid to talk to someone and share what you are going through with you family and friends. You might feel as I did that you don’t want to burden people with your problems however you will soon discover who your REAL friends are,those that will stick by you and listen to you. By communicating (as you have done using this forum) you will most certainly find that people have already been through or are going through very similar problems as yourself and you can use that knowledge to help yourself. Hang in there, stay focused on what you are wanting achieve and you will be a success….keep your chin up you’ll be fine.
Kind Regards
Troy

Hi Jessica,
people can be real …xs*&^ holes. I agree with some of the others here, if you can stay o/night in the place, it helps – otherwise invest in a van, and load up stuff into it to go home each night. I have done both in the past.

One place – in Brisbane mind you you think it would be warm!! – I stayed in for two weeks – thousands of dollars of powertools and stuff in the house – it was so cold I ended up sleeping with coke bottles full of hot water!!! had no running water or electricity for two weeks, really like camping.

I find that sleeping at the house as it gets closer to completion – new kitchen carpet etc is the best deterrent to opportunistic x#$%^& people who would steal from you all of your hard work and effort.

Thoughts with you …. stay positive and get past this…
Cheers
Lisa R

Freind of mine used to keep an old clapped out car worth about $200, still with plates, in the driveway and always left a low powered light on some where in the house. Never got robbed when he wasn’t there.