Life in the new house!!!

So here I am confessing again that its been a long time between blog posts.

So now I have so so much to tell, but most importantly we have moved into our new but very old home.

You can check out my previous post full of the real estate pics here

The real estate wrapped our front door in a bow, it was so nice to turn up with our keys for the first time & be greeted like this.

Thank you Ray White Maitland.

They also left a lovely gift basket full of goodies but the kids raided it before I could snap a pic.

We only have a single garage here so have temporarily put a shipping container in the back yard until my dream Guy can build his man cave.

We  have a narrow driveway so the crane driver lifted this big thing over the roof of our house.

I'm pretty happy he is good at what he does, no damage any where...pheww!!!

We used Tom Lawler Cranes for this job & I highly recommend them. Tom is a precision driver that's for sure.

Our lovely old home needs re peering, the floors slope off in all different directions.

As you can see by the above photo of just one of the peers, they are in a pretty bad way, this all all that is left of this one, it should be almost a metre long but has been eaten out by termites.

The termite damage is old & there are no active termites in the house now.

All of this is being replaced by adjustable steel peers, we only have to do about 48 of them....eeek!!!!

We knew this when we purchased the home.

Do you like how I say we... I don't really get my hands very dirty, I feed the worker, help with the clean up, sometimes I have to assist when it comes to lifting heavy things & most importantly take photos.

Doesn't everyone keep a wheel barrow in the laundry.

So the renovating has begun.

We are just taking it one step at a time but this part of the re peering process will allow us to build a much needed ensuite & set up the plumbing for a new main bath & laundry.

We currently have no water tanks for that all important water catchment from the roof to run the toilets & washing machine from & the way the house is set up at the moment it runs off two electric hot water systems , so it is a bit of a priority to address these issues as we go along, so we can be a little more energy & water efficient.

Its also a huge pain, if you flush the toilet while someone is showering as they lose their water & you cant run the washing machine & any other taps at the same time for the same reason.

Its time to make this 108 year old home a little more efficient!!

Stay tuned for my next installment, I have so much more to tell!!

CHEERS

Trish xx

Building the dream house, an update

Hi- Dee-Ho peeps!!

 

I know I have certainly been absent from my blog of late.

My excuse.....

 

Well aside from this new 45hr a week job eating up all of my time, my laptop was hi jacked by a

 Mal ware virus, it literally was a virus that hijacked my start up menu, no fun!!

 

 

 

Any way our fabulous tech guy, Gary, put us onto a FREE scan to download.

Its called Mal ware bytes.

 

www.malwarebytes.org

 

I highly recommend you get this one on your computer ASAP, you run it alongside your normal virus scan, it picks up the things your usual scan misses.

 

 

 

 

 

Now onto the good gossip.

The dream house is back on....YAAA HOOOO!!

 

As you know, we couldn't build until we sold our 4 investment properties in The Blue Mountains & after having them listed with the same real estate agent for 3.5 years & not selling a single thing we really gave up hope.

Well, decided to give it one last shot & changed Realtors.

 

 

 

Our new agent sold the first property within a week, we are now 7 weeks into it & have 2 bidders vying for another property & an interested party looking at a the 3rd one. We still have one home to list, it has a good tenant & we had considered keeping it but what the heck, lets list it & see what happens.

 

 

This new guy has shown more people thru our houses in 7 weeks than the old agent did in all those years, I think its time for him to find a new day job, he is a little slack at this one.

 

 

 

So we will start building in 2013.

We will be owner builders,the dream guy is very clever at building things & has done alot of project management in his job as well.

 Its going to be a slow but steady pace & will give me plenty of time to seek your advice along the way.

 

 

 

I'm very very excited!!!!

 

Have a fabulous week bloggers :)))

 

CHEERS

Trish xxx

A change is well overdue

Source BHG

I don't know about you, but even though the Zebra rug has been done to death over the past couple of years, I still love it!!!

I think by the time I get my dream house the trend will have well & truly passed me by & I will miss out on having one for myself,

BUMMER!!!

I'm sure there will be an equally divine new trend to sooth my decorating soul!!

 After 2yrs of having 4 properties listed for sale in the one town, all with good tenants and priced competitively for the local market, you would think at least something would have sold by now.

But we haven't managed to sell a single house.....

I think we need to change our real estate agent.

 Property data tells us that the average time a house is on the market in Lithgow is FIVE MONTHS. Its a small town & we have had FOUR on the market for TWO years.

WHAT THE.......

What do you think, are we trusting fools that should have swapped agents at least a year ago?

CHEERS

Trish xxx