what would you do different
Mar 13th 2007 | 9:34 pm
#61
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From: Ilukapool. WA
Mar 13th 2007 | 11:13 pm
#62
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Re: what would you do different
I wish that I'd shipped more toiletries and make up instead of skipping stuff (it's loads more expensive here)
I wish that I had come over on a PR sponsored instead of 457 visa (happening soon but 457 is soooo risky and unsettling)
I wish I'd booked longer in Hong Kong - and used my trip there to buy cheap long sleeve cotton tops (Ozzies are partic fond on synthetic clothing)
I wish that I hadn't flown QANTAS (super crap) but didn't have a choice and that I'd made sure that I had a 'special meal request' on the plane
I wish that we'd shipped our car (only a Vauxhall Zafira but we were ripped off for it as we left it too long to sell it) - Cars are v expensive here.
I wish I'd come over 15 years ago when I had loadsa points
I wish that I had come over on a PR sponsored instead of 457 visa (happening soon but 457 is soooo risky and unsettling)
I wish I'd booked longer in Hong Kong - and used my trip there to buy cheap long sleeve cotton tops (Ozzies are partic fond on synthetic clothing)
I wish that I hadn't flown QANTAS (super crap) but didn't have a choice and that I'd made sure that I had a 'special meal request' on the plane
I wish that we'd shipped our car (only a Vauxhall Zafira but we were ripped off for it as we left it too long to sell it) - Cars are v expensive here.
I wish I'd come over 15 years ago when I had loadsa points
Mar 13th 2007 | 11:18 pm
#63
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Re: what would you do different
Mar 16th 2007 | 4:21 am
#64
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From: Dubai / Hervey Bay
Re: what would you do different
Oh yes, another instance when tenants had left during the winter. During a very cold period a piece of pipe the builders hadn't lagged in the loft burst, water poured through all the upstairs ceilings and brought them down in two. It was only noticed by our neighbours when the water was pouring out under the eaves.
Not to mention the tenants who did a moonlight flit, owing us 3 months rent.
Never, never again would we ever rent out a property.
Mar 16th 2007 | 6:15 am
#65
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Re: what would you do different
Not came back when we were feeling low !
Mar 19th 2007 | 3:26 am
#66
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From: Melbourne
Re: what would you do different
My first tenant - He moved in to the house with his girlfriend and their pets, he told me it was 2 cats. I think he forgot about the other 7!!. I didn't mind them having pets, but 9 of them!!!
He left 6 months later, owing me 2 months rent, he'd run up a bill with Sky for both TV and telephone, he didn't pay his electricity bills so they cut it off (probably why he left!), he also owed British Gas nearly £150. When I found out he had done a bunk, I had to get all the locks changed because he'd buggered off with the keys, also I had to get Pest control in because the house was crawling with fleas. After 3 lots of spraying by Pest control we finally managed to get rid of them. This took months, and all the time I couldn't let anyone live there.
Second Tenant - Well he was Ok at first, paid his rent on time etc. Then after 8 months I stopped getting them. So I went straight down there to see what was going on. When I got there some guy I'd never seen before answered the door, I asked to speak to Mr X and was told 'Oh he moved out 3 months ago'. I asked him who are you then? he said that Mr X was renting him his house for £120 a week ( I was charging Mr X £80 a week). The cheeky so-and-so had gone down to WHSmiths and bought one of them DIY tenancy things and told this guy it was his house!.
I told this guy, look I own the house not him and the rent is £80 a week. I showed him lots of ID and proof etc and he stopped his payments to Mr X and started paying me. He moved out at the end of his lease (the false one) leaving ALL his junk behind and I had to get someone in to empty the house.
I sold it after that, I'd had enough and it cost me more to rent it out in the end than I ever got in income.
He left 6 months later, owing me 2 months rent, he'd run up a bill with Sky for both TV and telephone, he didn't pay his electricity bills so they cut it off (probably why he left!), he also owed British Gas nearly £150. When I found out he had done a bunk, I had to get all the locks changed because he'd buggered off with the keys, also I had to get Pest control in because the house was crawling with fleas. After 3 lots of spraying by Pest control we finally managed to get rid of them. This took months, and all the time I couldn't let anyone live there.
Second Tenant - Well he was Ok at first, paid his rent on time etc. Then after 8 months I stopped getting them. So I went straight down there to see what was going on. When I got there some guy I'd never seen before answered the door, I asked to speak to Mr X and was told 'Oh he moved out 3 months ago'. I asked him who are you then? he said that Mr X was renting him his house for £120 a week ( I was charging Mr X £80 a week). The cheeky so-and-so had gone down to WHSmiths and bought one of them DIY tenancy things and told this guy it was his house!.
I told this guy, look I own the house not him and the rent is £80 a week. I showed him lots of ID and proof etc and he stopped his payments to Mr X and started paying me. He moved out at the end of his lease (the false one) leaving ALL his junk behind and I had to get someone in to empty the house.
I sold it after that, I'd had enough and it cost me more to rent it out in the end than I ever got in income.
