Random Rants
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Scum…..
At 112 years old, the oldest person in the USA, and the oldest living American WW2 veteran, has become a victim of identity theft, and his bank accounts have been emptied....
There aren't many details but Bank of America restored his funds:
Mr. Overton lives very close to me but I haven't had a chance to ever meet him yet. He's a bit of a local celebrity, he still smokes cigars and drinks whiskey regularly based on the last interview I read.
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i'm not sure how i feel about this. shifting the onus to retailers is pretty much the same as shifting the blame. i'm all for local retailers as they're the bread and butter of the industry and i'm known to prefer that personal touch shopping in physical stores but there's gotta be a better way around this whole issue..
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Rental inspections suck.
Firstly, it's quite intrusive having someone come into your home to poke around.
Secondly, the agency gave me a time window of between 9:30 am and 5 pm, and asked me to be around if possible. Couldn't you be a bit more specific?
Tell them to go fk themselves. That’s a 9 hour window.
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I probably should, but as a tenant in Australia you have very few rights.
I'd like to buy somewhere, but Melbourne (where I currently live) and Sydney (where I'm considering moving to for work) are up there with London or Silicon Valley for housing costs. For example, a two bedroom wreck in a desirable part of town sold for $1.9 million (about $1.4 million US) at the weekend.
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@Graeme The Situation is not Funny at all but the Link is hilarious, to go to such great lengths to take Photographs of that Shite Hole is really funny to me. If the Price wasnt that insane that would actually be a great House, I love those patio Houses, they can, if done right, be a Gem in the middle of the City for you own. In Frankfurt and Offenbach are in some Parts of the Town 20 or 30 of them clusterd up, some are really great design wise.
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@Steffen the sales agents go to great lengths to photograph houses in Australia. The Guardian published a story about it.
Sometimes it doesn't work. This million dollar dump in Sydney looks more like a horror movie than a dream home.
I agree that the place I posted could be fantastic with a lot of money and a good architect, and the price was a bit of a one-off. The suburb it's in, Middle Park, is probably the most expensive part of Melbourne on a per square metre basis. Plus there are a lot of downsizing retirees whose big homes are now worth $2 or $3 million, want something more central, and are willing to pay over the odds to secure it.
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The Article is hilarious @Graeme , here in Germany the quality of the property usually matches the quality of the Photo, that goes that far that some cheap Rentals don´t even have Photos or at max one of the Door
That is correct and that is what brakes these propertys for people who are not insane, a view Million to buy and another view to revamp is a bit hefty, I usually tell my Customers that they should go for either or, that works most times. Cheap Bulding expensive renovation is of course better for us because of the way we get paid as architects in germany.
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@Steffen the problem with Australia is that house prices have been decoupled from incomes for a long time. The Economist has been calling it a bubble since 2004. It's been driven by a mixture of low interest rates, generous tax breaks to investors, overseas money and immigration, and general momentum.
That said, prices are starting to drop. Sydney's average house is now around $1.1 million, down from $1.2 million last year. But there's a widespread belief that the government will step in if falls become too big.
With prices so high, real estate agents have been upping the ante with presenting properties. Hence the arty shots of derelict houses.
I agree that spending one fortune on a place, and then another on rebuilding it doesn't make sense. But pretty much any older house in prime Sydney or Melbourne will have comments along the lines of "renovate and extend, or replace with your new dream home". In fact, heritage listed properties sell at a discount because they can't be demolished.
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@Steffen the problem with Australia is that house prices have been decoupled from incomes for a long time. The Economist has been calling it a bubble since 2004. It's been driven by a mixture of low interest rates, generous tax breaks to investors, overseas money and immigration, and general momentum.
That said, prices are starting to drop. Sydney's average house is now around $1.1 million, down from $1.2 million last year. But there's a widespread belief that the government will step in if falls become too big.
With prices so high, real estate agents have been upping the ante with presenting properties. Hence the arty shots of derelict houses.
I agree that spending one fortune on a place, and then another on rebuilding it doesn't make sense. But pretty much any older house in prime Sydney or Melbourne will have comments along the lines of "renovate and extend, or replace with your new dream home". In fact, heritage listed properties sell at a discount because they can't be demolished.
Jeez. For that kinda money you could buy 3 houses here.
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Jeez. For that kinda money you could buy 3 houses here.
Or the whole of Gosport…..
With the exception of those MOD owned beauties behind IHUK [emoji31]
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Here in the finest German Backcountry a normal House costs 140.000-200.000€ so you could, similar to Gosport, buy the whole Village I am in now
What does MOD mean ?
@Graeme Frankfurt is almost as expensive as Sidney but the Obects are generally in a way better Shape, I dont know a West German City that has that much worn out Buildings in a Prime Area of the Town.
1.2 Mio Australian Beer Tokens (Around 750k Euro) get you something like this in the City: https://www.engelvoelkers.com/de-de/exposes/familienfreundliches-wohnen-3602604.1267007_exp/
4-8 Mio. AUD would be a baillin Budget at the Moment, but lets wait and see what Brexit brings us: https://www.engelvoelkers.com/de-de/exposes/perfekte-familienwohnung-in-exklusiver-lage-3852534.1249509_exp/
Luckily most City here expect Berlin, Munich and Hamburg are quite small so that you could easily live in a small Town where Houses are way Cheaper and only have to drive 30-40 Minutes to work.
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Or the whole of Gosport…..
Unless the houses are built with handmade bricks. I've heard rumors that they're a bit spendy.
And all this discussion of million dollar houses makes me realize (again) how relatively cheap San Antonio is.
