We have accepted an offer on our house and the people that are buying our place have asked to buy anything that we want to leave (2nd home for them!). We are tempted to sell our white goods as we intend to rent for a good year on arriving in Brissie (hopefully in Feb) but need to know how much fridge/freezers, dishwashers, washing machines are out there. What makes can you buy? Our stuff is roughly 3 years old - Phillips Whirlpool and in relatively good nick but would have to be stored in Aus.

I have read on this site that the washing machines available are mainly twin tubs - is this true? Is it possible to buy front loaders - are they more expensive? I couldn't survive without my front loader as I am not given to manual domesticity - tend to get things wrong and dye/stretch stuff etc.

Thanks for any advice you can give

Amanda

WMs are toploaders, they will strecth and ruin your clothes in time. Sell your dishwasher as you will get one in a rental property, bring your FF and WM, it is cheaper to ship than buy.

Try this for brands/prices:

http://www.retravision.com.au/

Jayr, while at face value I agree with you, when you think about it more it could work out better to sell in the UK & rebuy over here. If you sell for example a fridge/freeer in the UK, depending on the brand & age of course , you will get $x. Say that figure is 200 pounds. You then pay the shipping on those white goods & lets face it, the fridge, freezer, washing machine, dishwasher etc take up quite a bit of room in a container. So you have to work out how much cheaper to send a smaller amount of stuff, say even if its only 200-300 pounds cheaper, thats an extra 50+ pounds per item (remember Im just guessing figures). Then in Amandas case she will be storing her stuff for 12 months when she gets here ... um I really have no idea & it depends on how much stuff there is, but I doubt if it would be less than $2000, so $180/month. Once again, alot of the space is probably white goods, so a smaller space to rent would save you money there.

So if you add it all up for example the fridge as we started with, theres 200 pounds = $500 + 50 pounds ($120) + a small amount per item for storage (say $20), then you have about $650. So for an extra $200 (or 80 pounds) you can get a brand new fridge here that has the right plugs, (minor I know, but its still a hassle) AND it has full factory warranty. An $800-900 fridge isnt huge but its certainly not tiny either. All those figures would have to be worked out for each individual person & even each item, but its well worth thinking about. A lot of it depends on how much you can sell it for in the UK.

Yes front loaders are alot more expensive here, most sold here are top loaders as jayr has mentioned. Thats one thing that working out the sums may come out in favour of shipping, ours cost us $1100 2 years ago & you could buy a comparable top loader for about $800.

BTW, the prices on that Retravision site are :scared: , Retravision are usually extremely good on their pricing, read the same print that says RRP, prices are a guide only. If you buy on special & go into the store & ask for their best price after shopping around you can get a hell of a lot cheaper prices than those .

With rental properties the only thing you are guaranteed is a cooker, the rest you might get depending on what you rent. I'm with jayr on this and bring it all (maybe not the dishwasher if it's pumbed in as some properties won't have space for it or already fitted). Rental properties here are mainly unfurnished or pay twice as much for furnished rental if you can find them.

I have a question why does renting mean that the white goods will be in storage. We rented and every house rental we went to see had a dishwasher, but none had washing machines or fridges, is this different to apartments? We sold our white goods or gave them away in the UK based on advice we had at the time and I still regret this. We got very little for them and they cost a lot of money to replace all in one go, for lesser quality I think.

Regards

Yeah, sorry guys, I misread the original post , for some reason I thought Amanda said she was putting stuff in storage (actually Im going senile ). But I still think that depending on the goods, it could be better to sell them in the UK if you can get a decent price & then pay a bit out of pocket over here to get brand new stuff. You need to work it out for yourself I guess based on your things.

PS. Im only talking about whitegoods too, not general furniture.

Amanda did say she was putting stuff in storage - that was why I was asking the question about the rental - does Amanda know the place she is renting has all this stuff already.

See?? I am going senile LOL.

Not sure Sandra, but as you & Paul pointed out, very very few houses here are rented furnished or even partly furnished, unlike in the UK. I think I will shutup now, just ignore me .

It costs approx 5 times more to replace than ship, so take it with you, storage in Perth by the main shippers is relativly cheap, maybe Mr mover can advise you on costs of storage.