A while ago Mat and I and our friends Kat and Nick all decided it would be a good idea to move in together.
Mat’s dad is visiting in March and hopefully my bro and my dad will be coming out at some point as well, and with only a one bedroom flat we won’t have much room for visitors. Nick and Kat both fancied finding somewhere a bit bigger as well and the consensus was that if we club our budgets together we could afford a much bigger place if we shared. Both Mat and I have had house shares in the past which worked really well so I think it should be a good move for all of us.
We have had a couple of Saturday’s now where we have gone round looking at places. The Australian’s have a strange system where instead of organising appointments with Estate Agents to suit you all properties, for rent or sale, have specified viewing times on Wednesday’s and Saturday’s. It’s called “open house” and each one is normally “open” for fifteen to twenty minutes. You have to draw up a schedule of all the places you want to see and hope you can get to them all in time. We were lucky with ours, none clashed and although it involved a lot of driving up and down the peninsular, we managed to see everything on our list.
Some were good and some were not worth the money but after a non-successful application for a really big posh place last week Kat spotted this advertisement:
We weren’t sure what the actual house would be like before we went as the advert concentrated on the amazing views. When we got there, last Saturday, we discovered (more…)
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