They’re selling at the same time. So their auction is on Saturday this week. They had to go through and do some quick renovations plus repainting etc. So it worked in our favour as we were worried to properties selling at the same time could be seen as a bit suss. They have the same company selling, but a different agent. Apparently he’s not being making a huge marketing effort as he’s been basing the fact that whoever doesn’t buy our property, would be interested in theirs.
The only thing is that their renovations are basic compared to ours. So we calculated you’d sink about $100k to get it similar to ours. We obviously didn’t spend that money as the FIL is a builder, my dad is an electrical engineers and we did a lot of the work in demo, levelling the floor, garden, slight internal changes and painting ourselves.
Without spamming the thread too much more, if anyone is moving/selling, we’d definitely be happy to share our experiences and learnings from the process.
Currently terrified with my FIL. We’re planning on living in the new place for year, during which we’ll hire an architect to make plans. He’s already making plans himself, where he wants to dig out the front yard to make extra room for parking and then rip out rooms under the house, to also make space for parking. His way, I could park about 10 cars on the property… He’s also making plans for how the house will look post renovation. We’re pushing back and telling him it’ll come down to the architect, but he’s telling us we need to tell the architect were the rooms are going to go etc. Sort of defeats part of the purpose…
The big one though, is he wants to to the build with subbies. We want to hire a proper builder and let the FIL supervise him to make sure it’s being done, definitely don’t want the FIL to do it himself. Should be fun now…
Used to do civil construction and we’re doing internal changes so most likely wont need council approval. He did a load of work for us in our first place. Which saved us heaps of money, but hes a difficult person when he wants to be, despite the fact that we get along really well.
As an example, hes arguing with us at the momwnt as i want to hire a giant van for the move. He has a ute and wants us to just use that, despite my explaining it would take 50 trips to move everything. Hes arguing it’s a waste of money
