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    • BobB
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      I have found it most revealing to talk with not the last landlord, but the two previous landlords to that. The most recent landlord is sometimes trying to get rid of them (their current tenant) and a glowing reference is a step toward that.

      @TrickHell:

      I feel like references are the easiest part about getting an apartment. I mean, seriously, how will they know your last "landlord" is really just your mate talking about how great of a tenant you were?

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      • GilesG
        Giles
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        I've had enough and sorry if you are a proper Pole, but we are being hit continually by Polish spambots, or at least spambots with the .pl TLD

        I got radical, if you try and register and you email addy has a TLD of .pl , you will be denied access…

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        • SeulS
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          A shame - I love poles…

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            Snowy
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            ^My mate's Mrs is a school teacher and pole dancer :o

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              Maynard Friedman
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              Are pole dancers in Poland simply known as 'dancers'?

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              • SeulS
                Seul
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                P(r)o-lasses.

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                • JCMx800J
                  JCMx800
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                  @Seul:

                  Prolapse.

                  You little piggy.

                  Les Paul -> ProCo Rat -> Super HardOn -> JCM800 Low Input
                  XXX

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                  • redchrisR
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                    Fucking Parcelfarce.

                    Took the day off to wait in for the boots Jordan23 has sent me in lightning fast time, should have come today.

                    But no, the tracking shows them stuck in Newcastle ?

                    Why? Well apparently the postcode hasn't been written on correctly, SR8, not SK8

                    Well, mate, i am looking at a photo of the Parcel that was kindly forwarded by Jordan and it clearly says SK8 , notwithstanding the rest of the address has been written on perfectly, don't blame your incompetence on someone else.

                    Dickheads

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                    • Jordan23J
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                      Sry to hear man. It's a shame!

                      Enjoy ya addiction!

                      AE

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                      • GilesG
                        Giles
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                        @Giles:

                        I've had enough and sorry if you are a proper Pole, but we are being hit continually by Polish spambots, or at least spambots with the .pl TLD

                        I got radical, if you try and register and you email addy has a TLD of .pl , you will be denied access…

                        I've had enough and sorry if you are a proper Equatorial Guinean, but we are being hit continually by Equatorial Guinean spambots, or at least spambots with the .eq TLD

                        I got radical, if you try and register and you email addy has a TLD of .eq, you will be denied access…

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • steelworkerS
                          steelworker
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                          The number of shit for brains texting and driving betrays ignorance of basic physics as in your shit box trying to enter 😠 space already occupied by another shit box.

                          Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                          Well, I have others.

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                          • GraemeG
                            Graeme
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                            I took a look at a place in a new development in Yarraville a fortnight ago. I posted a shot of the view from the roof terrace elsewhere.

                            I went along today for a second viewing, and the landlords have decided to put up prices by 20% or more because of demand. They're releasing properties onto the market in stages.

                            I'm a bit annoyed, as it felt like a good deal before, but now feels too expensive. So I'm out. I'm not the only one as a couple who were there were similarly annoyed.

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                            • BobB
                              Bob
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                              ^ Keep fighting the good fight. It can be a marathon vs a sprint. I had my family in a tiny hotel room for six weeks here before we found a place to rent. It was that "one more phone call" that proved the winner.

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                              • GraemeG
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                                Thanks @Bob.

                                The property market in Australia is messed up by a combination of factors:

                                • Negative Gearing allows landlords to run a loss on a property, and deduct it against their overall income tax. Then there's a 50% discount on capital gains. The net result is that property investment becomes a speculative business that drives up real estate costs.

                                • There's a lot of (dodgy) money coming in from overseas, looking for a safe parking place. So the centre of Melbourne is full of dog box apartments built for this market. There was an outcry the other day when the government suggested putting minimal standards in place. (Such as one bedroom units being more than 50 m2 / 500 square feet, and having access to natural light.)

                                • That foreign money helps drive up prices too…

                                • On top of which valuations are north of where they were in the Dublin property bubble…

                                • And low interest rates encourage speculation, which feeds into property investment. Nearly half of all mortgages in Sydney are for rental properties!

                                The net result is that you've got the older generation who've benefited from a tripling of prices since the late nineties, and they're out-competing their children in buying up what would be starter homes.

                                Plus the tax system doesn't provide incentives for updating properties, so you see places with kitchens that look like they've been untouched since the seventies or eighties! :o

                                Overall, I'm not having fun!

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                                  Mate it's giving me the shits too. I don't want to be the sucker buying at the top of the bubble, so get stuck playing pass-the-parcel in the rent game paying off some other chump's loan, whilst he's negative gearing it on the way through… Can't win in the current market.

                                  Prices near my parents have DOUBLED in less than 10 years. DOUBLED. AND CPI is less than 3%! WHACKY!

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                                  • GraemeG
                                    Graeme
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                                    @Snowy I'm in Melbourne, which is about 70% as mad as Sydney. Whilst I like it up there, the rents terrify me.

                                    I don't know what the right answer is. Only whatever I chose is the wrong one, and I'm an official Doom and Gloomer! :o

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                                    • GraemeG
                                      Graeme
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                                      I want to complain about the IH Autumn / Winter 2015 collection. @Giles is going to bankrupt far too many people who have better more important other stuff to spend their life savings on!

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                                      • FinksterF
                                        Finkster
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                                        so true!  ::)  🙂

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                                        • louisboscoL
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                                          asics sneaker quality is way far off new balance…

                                          "Loyalty is a two way street. If i'm asking for it from you, then you're getting it from me."

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                                            Omega Man
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                                            Even the "Made in USA" New Balance?

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