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Thanks for that duckster, the info looks like what I need. Why Terryw? Well, the current owner is moving because of problems with the neighbors and the neighbors arent' the problem.
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Does the song "House of the Rising Sun" give a clue?
!o! Cheers and thanks guys
suavemechanic wrote:so how did you go ?No good I'm afraid. I made one bid after a pause in the bidding but it ended up shooting past our limit (470k) and ended up selling for 501k. I was a lot more nervous than I thought I'd be, but I know that if I ever bid again, I wouldn't be so nervous. An asian guy and a lebanese couple fought each other at the end with the asian winning out at 501k. My fiance is reluctant to go to any more auctions now as we spent money on building inspection, but at least we didn't waste money on pest report, survey report and final bank loan approval (low risk because we have a more than reasonable deposit) which would have cost us a lot more. My tip on bidding is to wait until the hammer is about to fall, then go in for the kill. But it didn't work for us because two others had more in the tank than us in the end. We are now looking at buying a house or maybe townhouse in Belmore area (roughly) Sydney (non-auction). The auction was in Belmore also. I don't really think too much of the area but my fiance wants to be as close as affordable to the inner west and still have good transport options.
Thanks guys
I went to a few auctions last saturday to 'get a feel for it' and one thing I noticed was that the realestate agents approach the bidders and hassle them to try to get them to increase their bid. This seems unethical to me. My fiance said that if they approach us she will tell them to go away and then use stronger language after that. Bless her heart. !o! Wish me luck this saturday. Also it seems prudent to not offer the first bid and wait till the bidding slows down then go for it (as long as it's still under your maximum at that point).Thanks Guys. Yes, I think I'll have to get a chequebook in order to pay them the 10% on the day (hope that works but will confirm proir). And thanks for the info about registering (upto auction time). Wish me luck as there is a lot of interest in this particular house. Is there a more auction info thread here, I did a search but it didn't appear to be so. I did find an interesting thread entitled "stupid auctions" which was interesting. I wish to be as informed as possible about auctions before I go.
CheersHi Craigous. I am new here and this is my first post. I am a bit of an OpenSource fan (and IT Guru wannabe) and I know of and have used (briefly) a program called Sweet Home 3D. It is OpenSource and therefore totally free and transparent (the source code being available gives confidence that there are no viruses, etc). See below for link and info from the site.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/
"Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and
placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a final 3D preview."I plan on using this software a lot when I actually need it will should be in a few months. Hope this helps you. Also note that you will need to have Java installed. The latest for Windows is "jre-6u11-windows-i586-p-s" (Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from Sun Microsystems).
Let me know what you think and if it was of use.
Cheers
David
