it’s actually been interesting looking at stuff. There were some places that the sellers should have been shot for their asking price - talking cracks to the outside you could fit a small child into, rampant mould, fire hazards. Then there were the places that were basically “set and forget” and obviously hadn’t been updated since the owners got their retirement payout. Our place is old, but the hot water was replaced with instant at some point, the kitchen hasn’t been done since the 80’s except the stovetop and oven, which are models from the early 2000’s. The ducted heater died, but we were expecting that, it was from 1979 and we were replacing it with reverse cycle to give us aircon. It lasted our first winter, so win there.
Meanwhile a place we rented for 16 years literally had the side rotting off in something we’d been warning the owner about since 2008. Cunt.
…no? And our house was built in 1962. Also getting a landlord to fix anything is increasingly an exercise in futility
You got lucky by the sounds of it, almost all of my mates had a similar experience spread out in the outer east/southeast.
Moorabbin here, so stolidly SE
Guessing they bought new builds? We deliberately avoided those for very good reasons
Mine’s early 2000’s. A mates was 80’s I think. Another was 90’s.
it’s actually been interesting looking at stuff. There were some places that the sellers should have been shot for their asking price - talking cracks to the outside you could fit a small child into, rampant mould, fire hazards. Then there were the places that were basically “set and forget” and obviously hadn’t been updated since the owners got their retirement payout. Our place is old, but the hot water was replaced with instant at some point, the kitchen hasn’t been done since the 80’s except the stovetop and oven, which are models from the early 2000’s. The ducted heater died, but we were expecting that, it was from 1979 and we were replacing it with reverse cycle to give us aircon. It lasted our first winter, so win there.
Meanwhile a place we rented for 16 years literally had the side rotting off in something we’d been warning the owner about since 2008. Cunt.