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Another ‘fixing’ thing we did whilst we were down at the house that Monday and Tuesday was to see if we could remove the old wooden laundry tub which was leaking and pretty well rotten. We thought that because we’re renting the house out, the poor tenants can’t be expected to put up with a [...]

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July 7th, 2008

We took a flight down on Sunday 29 June as we had to do a pre-settlement inspection, to make sure that the owner hadn’t taken away the dishwasher or the oven, light fittings, etc. Anyway, they hadn’t taken anything so that was all fine. So we got the keys on Monday afternoon and we slept [...]

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July 7th, 2008

Well after five months of looking at houses and thinking about things and trying to decide what is the best thing to do, we now own a house in Tasmania.

 
 
We had been looking at buying a house in Sydney (in the Sutherland shire, 40 minutes south of Sydney), but even out that far we would [...]

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July 4th, 2008