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A home improvement blog about renovating our Queenslander house in Townsville, Australia

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Entries from July 2006

Selling a House with Google Adwords

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments

I came across an interesting ad on my web-site the other day. Someone was actually using Google AdSense to sell a house.
I think that this is an interesting way to sell a house and I wonder if the person was successful in selling it. There probably wasn’t much use showing it to me, since I [...]

Tags: Buying & Selling

Not All Real Estate Agents are Bad

July 24th, 2006 · No Comments

If you have been reading this site for a while you probably would have read about some of the things that we went through while purchasing and then selling our old house. If you haven’t read it here is a link to the article, Young and Naive, I’ll wait until you’ve had a chance to [...]

Tags: Buying & Selling

The $100,000 Tree House!!!

July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

As we have been getting closer to finally knowing what to do with the development of our own house (will tell you more later) my thoughts have sometimes wandered to the back corners of our yard and the tree or cubby house that I want to build for Caleb down the track.
I found what I [...]

Tags: Gardening

Broadband Internet in Townsville - Finally!

July 14th, 2006 · No Comments

In the beginning of the year I signed up for ADSL2+ for our home. ADSL2+ can theoretically give us 20Mbit download and 1Mbit upload. Up till now we have been using dialup, which is a bit painful.
We got a phone call yesterday telling us that they had finally set-up the telephone exchange to handle ADSL2+ [...]

Tags: General