Real Estate

ok, so my boyfriend and i have broken up. Now i have to find i new house to live. i am unable to come up with a share house as a solution, and i’ve been mainly looking on realestate.com.au which have 2 bedrooms apartments but still not affordable enough. i’,m located in south brisbane and am looking for 1 bedroom/bathroom set up that i can afford!!!! any sites that can make this happen?

look in the newspaper. renting? look for basement apts (cheap and easy). the price decreases as you move farther away from the center of the city/near the city. try the suburbs- new construction is always expensive and landlords who make renovations expect you to pay a ton of more money so be careful.

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As can be seen in this article, the elite are barely getting by.

Gray Wolf says it’s not nice to troll.

I’ve just bought this 18sq m (2 squares) bedsit. It’s basically a broom cupboard, but the location is awesome!

It has it’s own tiny bathroom, which currently has non-opaque glass surrounding, I think i’ll put in a clear glass screen.

I’ve got a bit of money to renovate with, so far tips I’ve gleaned from the internets are:

Light colours, pastel colours, soft colours, cool colours (blues and greens)

Vertical stripes if any

High up features/borders to draw the eye upwards

Mirrors (non fogging, to avoid that ‘closed-in’ feeling

Keep furniture out of walkways

If you can see the floor, the room will look larger

Co-ordinate wall and furniture colours

Well lit: Maybe track lighting aimed up walls, or recessed lighting

Use see-through materials as things behind will seem further off

Glass tabletops

Reflective surfaces

A few large, simple pieces of furniture rather than lots of small cluttered ones

Plain Upholostry

Install lights in cupboards

Use full spectrum light bulbs

I was thinking of making the whole roof a mirror… would that be awful?….

PIC OF THE UNIT:
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-tas-battery+point-107906431

Any advice and tips appreciated

You found good ideas. Did you check out HGTV, they have a show called Small Space, Big Style. It shows what other people have done with their space. It also has commentators, that give the tips and why. Good luck.

in areas heavily controlled by Democrats and big government. Is this because the unemployed and criminals are highly attracted to these areas, or is the Democratic control causing the situation?

check it http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-most-dangerous-cities-2011.html

If we ignore politics and race, and only consider the humanity of all concerned, what is the real cause of this ?

The cultures attracted to cities are less self-disciplined and more inclined to favor the socialist and progressive policies of today’s Democratic Party than the cultures outside cities.

Ok i put up an add on craigslist for needing a job. i got a call 2day and they scheduled me to meet them tomorrow for an interview at a fast food place. they told me the business was a mile from Charleston Southern University (thru email). on the phone he told me its a realestate company. never gave me the name so later i called him back asking the company name. he said Silk Road Ventures….Okay people i looked it up nowhere in Charleston its in China. Then he told me to bring my laptop to this fast food place and i am goin to begin working puting data into excel. Seems sketchy i got a bad gut feeling. Does anyone feel this is a bad idea to go tomorrow. He might try to kill me or something. Bad vibe. SOMEONE HELP ME! IM ACTUALLY KINDA GETTING SCARED ABOUT IT. OPINIONS PLS!

100% scam.

RealEstate Progress will bring up the economy rapidly, but the banks need to corporate,
especially the ones that took buyout. This should be a part of the deal.

I am not sure what your question is, but your statement is far more perceptive than most I see on Y!A. The bailout itself was heavily tilted by the power, wealth, and political influence of its benefactors solely in favor of those benefactors.

The callous greed of these benefactors is evidenced in their obdurate opposition to any contribution on their part to rebuilding our economy. We helped the wrong people.

We would have acted much more prudently had we bailed out most of the people who have lost their homes to foreclosure. The banks and other speculators holding questionable mortgages would have been paid off and thereby avoided bankruptcy without the hundreds of billions we poured directly into their coffers. Millions of homeowners would still have their homes; these houses would not be flooding the market depressing the value of residential estate.

With millions of people able to keep their homes and their equity, personal spending would not have fallen as precipitously as it did. Portfolios would not have lost their value; as a result, the big banks, insurance companies, etc., would have remained solvent and would have been able to keep all (or most of) their employees. With more people able to spend money, fewer businesses would have lost their customers. With more businesses solvent, fewer people would have lot their jobs.

The bailouts accomplished very little beyond quickly restoring to a few ultra-rich speculators and to monopolistic Corporate America the wealth (and much more) that they had lost in the early part of the recession. Now these corporations sit awash in $2 trillion, which they do not invest, their promises to do so notwithstanding.

We can still salvage our economy. Since the greedy elite will not invest this immense treasure without assurance of immediate profit, we should take much of that idle capital through taxation and spend it on rebuilding and modernizing our infrastructure. Doing so would not be MAKING work; it is doing work that is long overdue. In the process, we could put millions of Americans back to work–and back to spending and restarting our economy.

i’m interested in fourplex’s because i figure it could be the best investment I could make. I was thinking at 800square feet per unit for a minimum of 500 dollars a piece rent ought to cover any expense I might have from living in one of the units.

My situation is I suffer from social anxiety disorder and I’m very limited in terms of income. I basically live at home with my mother right now and I’m saving up for the opportunity to own a multiplex. Right now work is very unstable for me but I figure I can one day maintain 10 dollars an hour full time. I have 65k saved up in the bank now and hope to save 10k a year leading up to the purchase. I live in NJ and the prospect of owning a multiplex here especially a new one which I would prefer so that I cut down my maintenence cost, is pretty dismal. I suspect I would be looking to buy a multiplex in Delaware or North Carolina where my parents will most likely be settled down for retirement.

my questions are:

How much should i expect to pay for a down payment on a property i described, being a newly constructed property? And how much extra cash should I have on hand after the down payment?

who could i employ to build me a property of this type?

How long should I wait on a project given the bleek outlook on the economy and there being a depression for the next few years?

Would I have to live in or within close proximity to the multiplex or can this be done from out of state?

should I consider more than one investor?

Is there a better way to invest my money considering all the vacant realestate out there already?

You are asking a compilcated questions which is hard to answer in a few lines.
1. Is it the best way to invest my money? The only way to figure this out is to figure out the capilization rate (CAP RATE%). When you have the cap rate for your investment you can compare it to other investments. The CAP rate is the (NOI) net operating income divided by the pruchase price. Check the web for more detills. If you want to know how much a building is worth divide the CAP (%) rate by the NOI.
It takes a lot of work to gather the information. But it is worth doing so you don’t end up with a building that only pays you 1|% income when you can get a treasurary bill for 5% with no work.

2. A four plex is not the best investment. If one unit is vacant you loose 25% of you income. Very High! Try and find investors and build more units. The more units the cheaper it is for the expenses.

3. Get you self a well knowen contractor with experience in smaller buldings. Make sure they are well financed so they do not go broke in the middle of building . Get several rough extimates so you can start a plan.

4. It may be easier to build closer to you to but the disatvantage is that you may not be living in an uptrending market with good job creation and workers comming to town to rent. Good jobs with good income mean good rents.
Get a Realtor and see what your area is like for income properties.Maybe one of your partners can be a realtor. All partners should have some expertise.

Again this question is just to compicated to answer in a few lines. Get expertise in your area and get all the facts together on paper to make a business plan. If it dosn’t work on paper it won’t work for real.

I vacationed down there, and loved it…made alot of friends and was approached by alot of warm folks….
Now being from NYC and italian , i decieded to relocate and set up a biz…
I called up and went to realestate agents there (about 4 already) and the didnt return my calls, missed my appointments, showed me no info for homes or websites,,,and seem very distant while i am asking info its like pulling teeth with them . They are very disinterested in making a sale to me.

Is this how these people are down here? The civil war is over…..

Being from nc some do because the way they act and say stupid yorkers or dumb ass italians not everybody but more than just the jack ass rednecks

Okay, Im 19 yrs old, 7weeks pregnant and I work as a receptionist at a realestate.

My boss is very strick and manipulative, she is always in the office in her backroom private office, everyday 9am -5pm expect mondays ( they are her days off ) She and her husband privately own the particular realestate I work for.

She is very controlling, more so than any other boss I have ever worked for. She has a T.V her private office that she shares with her husband and a camera out in the front of the realestate where I and the sales consultants work. And she has is on all the time listening into our conversations, even when she says that she only puts in on incase someone comes it. She will listen in on private conversations in the office and then ask personal questions to myself and other people in the office, regarding the conversations she was just listening in on. She also goes onto all the computers and looks up browsing history, any files we have on the computers and through our work emails. BUT she also has a program that allows her to access whatever passwords we type to get onto our private emails and facebook ect, ( which she has expressed she doesnt mind if we use them ) and she will go into our private emails and facebook and follow conversations on the chat. She also goes onto the main printer and does a history print up of EVERYTHING that anybody prints off. Which i find is a bit extreme. She will even go through our rubbish bins! She constantly asks everyone for information on other employees which I don’t appreciate in the slightest. She is also very tight with money for anything from adverts to go into the newspaper to updating realestate programs online.

She and her husband also smoke in their office, so I have been limiting myself from going in there to often, because she keep all the doors shut and they are very heavy smokers, but I still have to go in there at least 5 times a day.

She is a very VERY smart woman and is very controlling, so I know that when I tell her I’m pregnant she won’t fire me on the spot, but she will nit pick on everything I do, that wont have bothered her in the past and I’m scared I will eventually be let go.

My partner has a full time job, but I am only on 3days a week, and I’m scared at how much we will struggle if i do get let go.

My mother who used to work as a sales consultant in the same realestate office was once asked if I was pregnant, and when she respond no, my boss said, ‘ good, because I wont have anyone who is pregnant working here’. (this was a good 6mnths ago. ) Ive only been working here since early Feb this year. My mum got so fed up with their behavour that she left last month and they still havnt paid her for a fortnight of work, annual leave or her sick pay. So I’m scared that I wont get any paid maternity leave, and also if they fire me I wont be able to claim paid maternity leave from the government, and my partner wont be able to support myself, our baby and everything on just his pay alone.

My mum says that as soon as my boss finds out, I will be on borrowed time.

Please I don’t know what to do!

She can’t fire you. That’s discrimination. You can sue her for that.
You can get more than maternity leave once you sue and win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKEznvdRdio&sns=em

Does the fact that white people have used violence in the past makes this action equal? Are black people capable of perceiving realty?
Sorry but I don’t believe in racism.

To the best of my knowledge, the video did not mention the perpetrators were black and did mention anything abut Columbine, Daimler or Hitler; nor did I hear anything like this in the media. I don’t see the correlation between Columbine, Hitler and Dahmer, except that the leader or perpatrators were all deranged.

Congrats on trying to deny your racism.