Renovate Australia

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 the [...]

queenslander 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 house next to it isn’t so bad…

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 [...]

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 [...]