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Old lead roofing nails....
Builders report recommends replacing blah bl;ah blah as they rust from the inside out and start the roof rusting away from around nail holes....
At current place have replaced the old loose roof nail over years. Is this a real issue or a case of if its not broke dont fix it just leave it and give roof good paint.
Roof in good condiction apart from minor amounts of rust on some flashings.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
Hardcore Biker
The plural of anecdote is not always data, but:Originally Posted by R650R
My two bike sheds are actually turn-of-the-century stables. Corrugated iron roofing fitted with the lead nails which has done exactly as described to you, = rusted and rotted away where it's been nailed to the beams, with the nails as Rust Focus Central. And a few times a year I pick up the lead nail heads which have come adrift and fallen down onto the parking area.
Reroofing them sheds is a plan for this year; the buckets are filling up too quickly with rain :-)
"channellling the Pleideans"
we have 56 different bodies who are involved with supplying town water, monitoring its quality, and prosecuting any breaches. so why be surprised if every council sets its own priorities.
Personally I dont think we need local government at all. I am a fascist (in the classical sense) though.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
"channellling the Pleideans"
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/mone...ans-to-parents
faaaaaaaaark. Hope the lawyers made a lot of money.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Forum whore
What a miserable cunt.
When considering the parents age, Nigel is the one really getting the shaft.
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Updated, now gone unconditional.....
Point 1, add to that, record the MoFo real estate agent and their vague description of things.
Put any important questions and issues in writing, get slightly slower response but more accurate as its in writing. Also CC into the conversation your lawyer and the Manager of reale sate too gets results.
Builders report paid for itself, discovered a slow exisiting shower leak between mixer and wall common to that type. Agent and vendor effected a $300 repair on their part.
Also handy having the builder report as everthing documented in one place with photos and with them doing it all the time they look at things you might forget about yourself. Could have had abuilde rmate look at it but feel money well spent anyway. Used these guys as the only place that had example downloads of their reports to see what they show you.
http://www.thehabit.co.nz/our-reports
Also dont muck about getting everything sorted during conditions period. I have good broker firend so assumed insurance wouldnt be an issue for me. A few technical issue meant some major stress and things going right down to the wire at the end of my 10 day period.
Dont spend too much before you get the place. Even though i set out a budget to start with lots of extra little bits add up and very fast, cashflow becomes an issue quickley.
Another month till settlement /possesion so an update then....
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
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Well woohoo took possession Friday, got a very good locksmith to pick keys up from rela estate while I was at work and met him at house changing locks.
All very good except for tenant after doing very good job cleaning inside of house and property came back and dumped their couch and some rubbish on grass verge outside at 6am on possession day.
Kicked up a stink with agent and my lawyer jew and their all kinda washing their hands of it and I guess its not the actual vendor at fault and it is technically public land on the verge....
Dragged it into corne rof driveway out of respect to my very good new neighbours and disposed of rubbish. But you'd think rela estate would have ahnady man or someone to take care of issues like this, cant be the first time.
Bank lived up to their promise of $1700 cash towards lawyerjew fees even tho strabgely it wasn't documented apart from if I switch banks withen three years I may have to return it.
Good thing about a crappy tenant having been in their is neighbours welcoming me a normal person with open arms. Have four possibly five very good neighbours.
Being a corner section ive measure my fencing needs at a whopping 48m!!! plus 6 m gate for double width driveway.....
Busy times ahead.....
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
Mr. Responsible
Congrats.
You started looking at houses in December, 8 months after I put an offer on the house I'm buying. And you've taken possession (assuming settled as well?). I'm still not paying rent/mortgage, living in the house for 11 1/2 months without settling yet.
Funny thing is, since I've had this offer accepted, both of my brothers and my parents have all bought a house each and settled. None of them were even looking at houses when I put the offer in on this house.
Hardcore Biker
If anyone is interest in my progress:
We went unconditional on a 6 year old town house on Friday. The conditional process wasn't too hard, the broker and the bank made it pretty easy to sort the insurance and finance through Housing NZ.
The hard parts was getting the kiwisaver put in time for the deposit and getting hold of the solicitor who would never answer their phone.
It's worth reiterating that you shouldn't fuck around once the offer is accepted. Our kiwisaver came through on the 10th day and the vendor had received an offer $10k higher than ours after ours was accepted so it would have been unlikely that we would have been able to extend the conditional period.
Settlement is in 6 weeks which can't come soon enough
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Cheers. Yeah I've seen houses that I was looking at several months ago freshly on the market popping up on homes co nz as sold withen about 2 months. Some remarkably above expected prices.
Modern low maintainance townhouses in good street and 2 bedromm houses and units seem to sell very fast. And if its family friendly whoosh its sold.....
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
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Congrats... yeah plus one on that conditional period, its the moment you wield the most power. During that time the agent will return your calls very fast and get stuff done. I made mistake of assuming insurance would be easy having a broker friend but some technical issues saw that going down to the wire.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
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So an update, after getting fobbed off by agent the owner of real estate company has come to the party, instantly paying my invoice for window latches soon as I emailed him copy and even extra stuff on there that I bought so $50 up on the deal. He is also have the feral trashes couch taken away tomorrow.
Taking all of the ferals mail straight to NZ post return to sender does not live here marked.....
Now in process of clean and refurbish before moving in.....
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
Embracing mediocrity
Best thing you can do, make the agent do the running around while sorting the conditions, and leave the lawyers out of it until it's actually time to confirm.
I'm still getting mail for the people before the people before the people we bought our house from, all of it gets marked return to sender, no forwarding address and dropped in the nearest post box. I'm sure those letters from WINZ and suchlike aren't important.
I've always found when you move in the house is a lot filthier than it looks when you walk through, best time to clean is before you spread your stuff around the place, then again I might just be a fussy prick after being in the forces.
Hopefully I'll find some time to ring the insurance company tomorrow, and see how the land lies in churchur these days for buying a house, good thing is if it doesn't happen I waste some people's time and walk away giving zero fucks.
Riding cheap crappy old bikes badly since 1987
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BMW Motorrad
Hey all it's my turn to ask questions now.
What are your opinions on RV and neg prices? Seems quite of sum of houses in Christchurch are currently being sold under RV figures (2016).
I know RV doesn't necessarily represent market value but is it an optimistic figure?
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
Embracing mediocrity
Yep, I think the 2016 RV's were influenced by the peak of after earthquake house buying frenzy, things have settled a bit now and I've seen quite a few for sale and sold 5-10% less than current RV. I suspect there could be a few people that were desperate and paid over the odds who could end up taking a bit of a hit if they sell now.
As always offer stupid low, but not so low to be insulting, and see if you end up somewhere acceptable. homes.co.nz is a good start to see how much the last buyer paid for the place....
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