Anyone who has ever gone camping will be able to tell you the basics of cross-ventilation – opening up opposite windows (or tent flaps) to allow the air to flow from one side to another.
It’s the same thing that you would do if you have to sit in your car on a hot day. One window is simply not enough, but one open on each side of the car does the trick. Now apply this to your home and you’ll find substantial reductions in your energy costs for cooling. Continue reading Simplifying cross ventilation
Category Archives: Tips & Advice
How to get a good return on your investment property
When you buy an investment property, you’re investing a lot of money in your future.
So you want to make sure you do everything you can to ensure you achieve a good return on your investment. Continue reading How to get a good return on your investment property
Home Staging Advice – Room by Room
Are you looking to sell your home? If so, you might be considering professional staging to help present your home in the best light possible. You can save a bit of money by doing some staging on your own. Read on for some tips that can help you present each room in your house in the best light possible, increasing the chance of selling your home fast and getting the sort of offer you’re hoping for. Continue reading Home Staging Advice – Room by Room
5 Tips To Get The Best Price When Selling Your Property
For whatever reason, if you have to sell your property as soon as possible, don’t panic!
It’s easy to be overwhelmed but the best way forward is to set out a plan for selling and work through it step by step. Don’t be deterred if the word on the street is that ‘it’s a bad time to sell'; just keep the following tips in mind and selling your property quickly, and for a good price, will be achievable. Continue reading 5 Tips To Get The Best Price When Selling Your Property
Ready, Set, Object! It’s land tax time again.
Valuation notices from the Valuer Generals office have been issued in NSW over the past few weeks. These valuations are used to calculate council rates and land tax and in many cases the valuation may be excessive.
Unfortunately, it’s an all too common occurrence where you hear of overvalued land resulting in excessive Land Tax Assessments. Continue reading Ready, Set, Object! It’s land tax time again.
Co-ownership – Could you? Would you?
Property co-ownership offers an innovative home ownership solution that cuts the costs of buying a home in half (or even less) depending on the number of people involved.
What is property co-ownership? Continue reading Co-ownership – Could you? Would you?
Seven tips to get the sale away
OK; so we didn’t get the rate cut like we’d all hoped. However, there’s one certainty. Regardless of market ups and downs, we all still need somewhere to live, and sales will continue regardless.
Last year’s interest rate cuts might have given some buyers a bit more confidence. However, if we look at how consumers have generally been treating their cash – keeping it in their pockets, paying off their loans, or stashing it in savings – that would indicate people remain very cautious regardless. Buyers are still well and truly in the negotiation seat, so Sellers: there’s no room for complacency. Continue reading Seven tips to get the sale away
Reverse mortgage can be a burden
Borrowing money against your house can be risky, check all your options.
For cash-strapped retirees whose wealth was decimated by the global financial crisis, a reverse mortgage may seem like an easy solution. But the loan product can balloon over time and wipe out much of the equity in their home. Continue reading Reverse mortgage can be a burden
Tips to cool down the house
It’s taking a while but summer will arrive in all its hot gusto. Summer where it’s so hot you can’t sleep at night, and the flies are beating at your back door trying to find a cooler place to muck in.
Hot summer days might be great beach weather but if it’s turning your place into an oven, it’s time to cool things down.
Here’s ten ideas that could help. Continue reading Tips to cool down the house
What happens when goods are left behind in a rental property?
Goods left behind in a rental property are a problem for the landlord, who can’t rent it out until the previous tenant’s things have been removed. It can also prove costly to tenants.
Between July and September 2011, Consumer Affairs Victoria dealt with over 900 cases of goods left behind in rental properties. Continue reading What happens when goods are left behind in a rental property?