Shooter McGavin > Nick The Fuckwit. 
If I acted like Kyrgios, I’d have to kick my own ass!
Just putting this here as a general question, doe anyone have any good advice for how to acclimatise a cat and a dog in the same house?
I’ll be moving with my cat into a place with two dogs. One of the dogs is so self absorbed and won’t even notice, but the other is a big, energetic and curious dog.
My cat has never lived with dogs before and although I’ve previously had dogs and cats that lived together and became great mates, I would like to know if anyone has any tips on how to speed the process along so everyone can enjoy life in a relaxing way.
What breed are the dogs? I feel like that is important.
Kill the cat and move on as a proud dog owner.
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I always thought it’s best to keep them in separate rooms and give them toys played with the other animal for a few days
We learnt a VERY valuable lesson when buying a house. If it’s an older property, always specify that it be professionally cleaned prior to moving in. The kitchen in our new place is just horrendous. There’s an extendable range hood, where pulling the rangehood out, you can feel it sliding through layers of grease. The oven probably has years of grease trapped around it. We knew it was dirty leading into it, but didn’t realise it was THAT bad.
Now tossing up whether we spend $500 to get the oven and rangehood cleaned (we’ve been promised it’ll be “as new”) Or just turf them and spend $2000 on a new combo. We want to renovate, so will probably only have the oven for the next year or so.
The cat will usually put the dogs in their place pretty quickly.
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Send the dogs to the farm where they belong and let the cat have free reign.
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Sold our place at auction over the weekend and actually got a decent price. So much that we’ve learnt during the process though. It’s amazing that the real estate agents don’t really give you a lot of tips in terms of making the process easier. Biggest thing we’ve learnt, is to make sure your conveyancer is available on the day of the auction. We had people questioning contract changes Friday night and then a new buyer came in Saturday morning wanting contract changes as well. Thank god my wife made the extra effort as the new buyer, while not getting the property, drove the price up by at least $60k. We also had the buyers agent that helped us buy a property, swing past and give us huge tips.
Other things we learnt:
- Have a set of sheets ready to chuck onto the beds, so you’re not changing sheets all the time
- Have a few boxes in the garage ready for the random odds and ends that pop up and won’t fit into the cupboards
- Make sure the kids are out of the house
- Have a steady supply of flowers available
- Don’t poop within an hour of an open house
- People are arseholes
The couple that wanted contract changes on the day of, even sent through a list of questions. My favourites being:
How many aircon remotes are there?
How many garage remotes are there?
Do they all work?
Was reading them in disbelief
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I’m moving to be closer to the city after 4 years in Cabramatta (where I bought a townhouse with my wife, and then 2 years later separated, and the townhouse was sold, dumping me back off the property ladder probably forever, then moved into an apartment also in Cabramatta out of necessity). It will be nice to be living closer to all of my work and friends and interests again.
If anyone fancies an old couch, a fridge or a double bed you’re welcome to take them away (Facebook marketplace is a really difficult way to move things on, even for free!)
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Buyer beware, unlike renting where if there is a fixture it has to work. When buying if you buy it and the aircon doesn’t work you’re buying as is.
That is not exactly true, if you say ‘Air-conditioning’ in the advertisement then it has to be in working order when you settle.
I recently bought a mortgagee in possession home, got a great deal but the process was a pain in the neck so I really would caution anyone buying a repossessed home to be very careful.
In our case the tenant wouldn’t move out and completion got delayed several times.
Mate, have you seen your view? I wouldn’t move out either!
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Great that youre happy with the sale. How did the sale go comparative of the messy neighbour?
What matters is in the contract - advertising always has an agents disclaimer. If there isn’t a working order provision in the contract, it’s based on whether it was working on the day of inspection/contract exchange.
If you inspected the property and there were two remotes using the current example, when you went to settle and did the pre-inspection there was only one - you could ask them to rectify.
Just don’t mention the Big Foot in the backyard and you should be sweet.
Our first place was a nice little 2 bed townhouse, and we had it on the market right about the time of the global financial crisis, so when the arse fell out of the economy we took it off the market.
Fast-forward a few years and we tried again, but used the same contracts we already had (why pay a conveyancer for new ones?). Problem was that I stupidly forgot that the inclusions listed our front loader washer/dryer, so idiot me flogs it for $50 on eBay when we realised the new place we bought wouldn’t accommodate it.
The buyers of our place rightly said “where’s our fucking washing machine?”, and I had to give them $500 to make good.
Totally my fault, but yes, if it’s listed as an inclusion, the purchaser will expect it to be there.
So many fucking questions the week before sale. Its how it goes. Are you sure there is no termites? Are you sure there are no solar panels? My wife and I were kinda surprised as we barely questioned anything beyond the building report and it all came out fine both times.
My favourite:
“Is the owner aware of any adverse noise relating to plane movements from sydney airport?”
…in the inner fucking west
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Ha forgot another question:
Is the property in an over 55s zoned facility.
I can sort of understand the question, but we had photos of us around the house and it’s a 4 villa property. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an over 55s complex that was smaller than 50 or so houses.