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Spa Bath for Sale

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

You probably have a week if you want to purchase our old spa bath. You can have the pump too, but it needs new seals in the spa bath pump as it leaks right now when you turn it on.

It’s a 1400 x 1400 cream coloured spa bath, which matching cream taps. Because I [...]

Tags: Bathroom · Buying & Selling

A Photo or a Drawing of Your House?

October 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

When we were down in Adelaide visiting Tamara’s family I had a look through the real estate section of their newspaper and I thought that it was very interesting how they advertised some of the houses. Instead of having actual photos of the house they instead used an artists rendition of the house (like [...]

Tags: Buying & Selling

Old Queenslander in a “Nice Neighbourhood”

September 28th, 2006 · No Comments

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Originally uploaded by cringe.

Here is a great example for my last post about What the Real Estate Ads Really Mean.
This is the sort of house that would be advertised as a “fixer upper with character” in a “nice neighbourhood”, as you can see that the [...]

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What the Real Estate Ads Really Mean

September 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment

We’ve all read the ads that say “Needs a little TLC” and “A Great Fixer Upper”. If we’ve been looking at houses for a while we know that really means “Floors, walls and all wet areas need renovating” and “May need significant structural work to avoid being condemned”. That may be a slight exageration, but [...]

Tags: Buying & Selling