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New home at West Beach

September 16, 2011 at 5:41 pm Leave a Comment
West Beach House

We have moved house again, this time to West Beach, 10km from Adelaide. I know, we have moved many times and must be used to it, but this was probably the hardest shift we have made. We really liked the house at Mile End. It was close to the CBD, Juliet’s work and son Michael’s soccer, tennis and work. The twins were also within walking distance to Cowandilla School. However, with Kathleen coming home at the end of this year, the house was just too small. We had a spare room for her, which doubled as the study, but it was small and had no cupboards.

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Adelaide rental prices

June 16, 2011 at 10:00 pm Leave a Comment
Adelaide rental home

I keep an eye on rental prices in our Adelaide suburb and the surrounding area … that’s Torrensville, Thebarton, Mile End, Hilton and Richmond. Our small three-bedroom house isn’t cheap to rent, but it’s ideally located from our perspective. I can walk to work and son Michael is close to his soccer and tennis interests. We might have found somewhere bigger for a lower price further from the city, but we traded space for convenience. There might be a tipping point though, especially if rental prices continue to rise.

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Rent increase

April 17, 2011 at 4:09 pm Leave a Comment

I received a letter from the real estate agent this week regarding the house we rent in Mile End. It was to advise that we have to pay an extra $43.55 per month from August, after the expiry of our original one-year lease. That’s an increase of 2.5 percent. Should be happy with that, I [...]

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A house for the price of a car

November 7, 2010 at 6:54 pm Leave a Comment
Lyndon, Vermont

There’s an in the Adelaide paper today about houses in America selling for the price of a car. Some Aussie investors “are cashing in on a combination of a rising Australian dollar and a depressed US property market, which has seen recently built five-bedroom houses in cities such as Atlanta, Georgia, selling for as little as $35,000, or the price of a new Holden Commodore”. My first random searches to verify this proved fruitless. Four-bedroom houses in Vermont, Colorado and Washington State were all equivalent to Australian values.

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The key to success

September 28, 2010 at 8:57 pm 2 Comments
key

I haven’t had much luck with keys at our new home. After signing the lease I was given 14 keys, all of which were dutifully photocopied for me to sign that I had taken possession. I assumed they were window keys, because I knew the house only had three doors. As it turned out, I have no idea what most of those keys were for. Only two of them worked, one for the front screen door and one for the back door. I had no front door key that worked.

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