The house we almost bought!

Well as most of you probably know, Paul and I are looking to buy a house here in Brisbane. The market is going mad and will soon make Wellington property look cheap! So the sooner we buy a place the sooner we make money - wahoo! Plus we can tell our useless landlord to f off! He has just put our rent up another $10 p/w! That's a $40 p/w increase in 3 months! And he has done nothing to fix up the house for any of that money! Grr to useless landlords! But hey, it's extra motivation aye!

Anyway - so Paul and I almost bought a property in Brighton last week! We were under contract and everything! Unfortunately when we had our building & pest inspection done on Saturday the guy found that about 85% of the piles needed to be replaced. He also found live termites! And the damage they had done was categorised as "extensive"! So in the end, after a lot of thinking, weighing up options etc, we decided to pull out of the contract! And considering (a) how relieved we felt afterwards and (b) how surprisingly little money we lost (due to convenient little things), it was definitely the right thing to do.
However it is still sad as the location of the property was really nice! It was right next to a park at the end of a cul-du-sac and therefore only had neighbours on one side and across the road!

Here are some pictures of the Brighton place though :-)

The view of the house from the driveway

The raised deck out the back! It was really nice out there!

What would have been our neighbour :-) Just a nice park! There was trees et next to the house and then 2 soccer pitches behind the property - and they weren't used in summer either!!

Stay tuned for more news though - who knows when we'll find a place :-)