Yes Rumin, I have also contacted the tech people, and got the same reply as you did.

Thanks, Phefford, for your great tip![thumbsupanim]

Celivia

THe link doesn’t seem to work, the.j, all I get are symbols. Can’t remember where I found the info and picture of the cars, but if I do find them, I’ll paste the link in a post here.

Celivia

Hehe, funny!
Do you think that if he got a good price he’d do it again?

Celivia

I use EXEL. How’s that new program working for you, Redwing, is it better than EXEL?

I have a binder with dividers for each category, e.g. tenants, inspection reports, insurance policy.
All this info for each property could be kept in their own binder.

For tax purposes I have manilla folders, in where I store (after entering the details into…[Read more]

Originally posted by rickotton:
We asked the selling agent to get it painted for 3k then a mortgage broker bought us a buyer who could get a loan with RAMS but did not wish to pay the mortgage insurers fees.

How much do buyers cost these days, Rick?

[upsidedown]Couldn’t help myself![upsidedown]

Celivia

Wouldn’t it be mainly the vendor’s solicitor’s fees going up?

I was going to ask the same thing, Munjy.

If I bought a house through a private sale, why should *I* have to pay extra solicitors fees?

Shouldn’t the contract be made up before listing or advertising the house for sale?
I thought it was the vendor’s responsibility to come up with a…[Read more]

C@34, yeah, the first load of Chinese cars have been exported to European countries already- first The Netherlands, from there they’re going to bring them into France, Belgium, Spain, I believe. Apparently they think that they’re gonna be very populair- they’re cheap cheap cheap, small (call it compact :+) ), light cars, but I’m not sure about…[Read more]

I caught a glimpse of a story on TT in where they were talking about a serious “man drought”, and they even named some suburbs where the most single men hang around…hehe perhaps ya can look around there for a man with big pockets, Dutchess [biggrin].
He’d probably ask ya to sign a pre nup though [blink]- before ya go any further…[buz2]

PS…[Read more]

If I were happily in love [inlove] and my partner asked me for a Pre Nup I’d:
*a- be hurt [crying] because asking me to sign a Pre Nup is like saying: I don’t trust you- you’ll run off with my money, OR
*b-perhaps snap out of love [puke].

The fact that they wouldn’t trust me would either mean that they don’t know me well enough- or they would…[Read more]

Yes, I agree that safety is extremely important.
I wouldn’t want my tenants to live in a house that I wouldn’t feel safe living in myself.

We do have a security system, hard wire smoke alarms, deadlocks on all doors and safe windows. Better protected than our own home!

I would really hate the thought to have bars in front of the lovely old-style…[Read more]

Well, quotes can differ a lot for the exact kind of job (tell me about plumbers’ quotes!)
So what is the cheapest quote for the cheaper job, and the cheapest quote for the nice job?

I am just curious to know how much difference in price there is between the crap job and the nice job.

Celivia

No, it’s not just you, rumin- I have the same problem.
I think I’ll let the administrator know as well because it has been like this for weeks.
Hehe I always tend to wait till things get fixed by themselves, miraculously… [biggrin]

Celivia

It’s a scarey thought, Wylie!

I can imagine that a negligent landlord could be sued- e.g. if the tenant asked for locks on windows because they find that they are easy to open from the outside, and the landlord wouldn’t act within a reasonable time. Perhaps this was the case?

I am curious to find out what the RTA told you.

Celivia

Interesting topic, Giddo.
Even though I am far from being a homo-economus, I will post my view here.

“Rising petrol prices are not good for the economy”, so Costello said, I remember reading last month.

Ands experts said that every 2 cents increase in the price of petrol adds 0.05% to inflation.

I do not know what to believe- but I can imagine…[Read more]

Simon, this is a little off topic but do the rooms you rent out separately all have their own phone/internet connection?

I can imagine that it would be hard to find tenants without a ph/internet connection in every room?

Are the different rooms then billed separately, or is it one combined bill and do the tenants work all that out for…[Read more]

“Depend if I do it nicely or cheaply. I can cut through the concrete, move the pipes, reconcrete again, quite expensive, couple of grand. Or I can run a pipe from the new location to the old, but make them of different level, ie lower part in the old location, and higher in the new, so the water runs down.
It won’t look as good – it’s right next…[Read more]

I’m surprised that it is all gonna take this long!
About the plumbing… is it a big job to have it moved to the new kitchen area?

Celivia

Dazzling, your problem is that you are too tidy!
We don’t have a RC door in our own home (our garage is so full of my husband’s [smash]”indispensabilities”[smash] that our cars don’t fit in there anyway), but our IP has one.

It is very popular with tenants, but last year the motor broke and it would have cost over $400 to repair. I opted for a…[Read more]

Awww Maruco, congratulations on your purchase. [biggrin]

I’m glad that you were able to borrow 80% [buz2], and 46 m2 is a quite a nice size for a one bedroom unit!

You have inspected it, liked it, liked the location, was happy with the price and the rental return and then went with your gut-feelings.
Good on you!

Celivia

Hmmm, interesting, I found this:

“The phrase “Corpy th’ ‘signment” is patented by Doctor Robert McQuillan, a tutor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. It is illegal for anyone except Robert McQuillan to use this phrase without first paying homeage to the great man by sending him at least one corpy of th’ “Hellooooo Wurrrlld”…[Read more]