I grew up in the southern suburbs of Perth and moved to Sydney in December 1999. Sydney has been kind to me. While I’ve been living in Sydney I managed to save a large house deposit and I managed to start my own company which has also been helpful in terms of saving for the [...]

As fate would have it, last Thursday we were given a notice by our landlord that they wanted to re-take possession in 60 days. We’re thinking that the elderly mother has died and that the middle-aged children now wanting to sell the house for a tidy sum (probably $700K plus). So since we were given [...]

So far renting out our lovely Tasmanian house has proven surprisingly frustrating. As I mentioned in my previous posts we don’t intend to live in the house right now so we have gone through a real estate agent (the same agent that we purchased the house from) to rent the house out. We dropped in to see [...]

As I mentioned previously, I’m a Document Production Operator at a law firm. I work the evening shift (from 5pm to 10pm). There are 9 of us on the evening shift. Basically the job involves amending Word documents, preparing new documents and court documents, transcribing letters, memos, file notes, even court transcripts sometimes. They recently [...]

When we eventually move into our Tasmanian house, we want to have several things done to make the house liveable and nice. These are the immediate renovations that need to be done to the house.
Necessities (things that need doing immediately):

Re-wire the entire house.
Knock down old barn style shed and attached room and patio and build [...]