My GF and I had like 6 house queued up to look at on saturday, and we had an open house in springwood at 12, we arrived there and found out it was actually at 12:30

My parents were with us since dad is a builder and can give us a quick run down structurally of the houses, and he suggested we go look at one of the 3 garages sales we passed just down the road while we wait for the 12:30 open house to start

We went to one, had a look around and were about to leave, when the woman there goes "is there anything in particular you're looking for?" and my dad says jokingly "a house", she says "oh you can have ours, do you want to have a look?" After a minute we thought screw it, why not went through and had a look at this awesome house with pool and new bathroom and fairly new kitchen, it was great, so we rang them back the next day and made them an offer and after a little negotiating they accepted!

So yeah, I bought a house at a garage sale. We've just gotta sign the contract and get the place checked for building properly and pest/finance and we're set! Great price (compared to the crap we've seen around the same area for the same price) great location, and no agents so the sellers don't need to take a huge chunk of a loss in commission

And here's some photos :) http://photos.potatoz.net/thumbnails.php?album=5

great house dude nice work!

Looks like a nice place Wet. Pool is awesome.

Now you and Fiona just need some pesky kids to go with it.

8-)

nice work dude,

today with a friend from work i thought ... hmm what to do, so i decided to go and have a steak and two schooners of tooheys new at the pub!

excellent.

What suburb? how many bedrooms?

wanna sell it? give you cash deal.

springwood, 3 bedrooms, $400k cash


But because it's you, I'll need it in advance

The house that was ment to be :)

funny how things can work out

That's great mate.

The inside looks really nice, looks like a nice house for the price you paid.

Nice work! Looks awesome.

Are you sure she owns the house? She might of sold you someone elses house :O

ROFL

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Heh nice work.

400K? In Woodridge? Have i missed something, or have i been away from Brisbane too long? wtf?

Houses in coorparoo can sell for $1.13M, so $400k in woodridge isn't bad.

eh? nobody said woodridge.

springwood, 3 bedrooms, $400k cash


But because it's you, I'll need it in advance

also nice house dude grats!

springwood is close to woodridge...

GO THE DRIDGE... 4114..

AYE DER YOU STOELE MA ROO DER KUDDIN

also, I didn't pay 400k for the house, it's 330k, I just said I'd sell it for 400k :)

real estate prices are only half insane here. you should see the prices in sydney.

nice find mr wired! just finding a nice place without the intervention of greedy real estate fukrs is awesomeness itself!

Nice find. $330K for that looks like you got a good deal. Well done. Not having to deal with real estate f*****s is a huge plus too.

If you see my gunmetal s13 scooting around rochedale/springwood/underwood/etc say hi :)

That house is really gorgeous you must be so pleased!

Congrats!

Man what a s*** house.






Just kidding! Nice house mate, good work - look like it's meant to be. Pretty reasonable price too. Lets hope the building inspections turned out ok for you.

Is it just me or does the kitchen look a bit small and confined? Apart from that I love the outside area. So this is your first one Wet?

Nice work dude. My mum has the same oven as that.

Seriously, in reality I think you kinda ripped them off with that price! Still, neither of you had to deal with real estate assnuggets so +goodness.

Nice work son :)

the kitchen is pretty big, it's got a lot of bench space as they're fairly deep, there's only one entrance though from around the side which makes it seem a bit tighter since you're almost surrounded on all sides

Pools are a long term hole in your pocket though :(

yeah pools are annoying, I've had many problems with mine :(

So when's the housewarming? Nice find btw :)

my house owns you

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why does my house look more like a penis then a house

awesome man!

it sure was frustrating looking at houses in brisbane
soooo many over priced

feel good when you find a house that just grabs you

we are totally loving our new place at salisbury
seems like a really nice neighbourhood, nice and quiet, not too far away from all the important things

time to settle down and get stuck into the mortgage!

spook: that was what we found when looking at annerley. Little hovels for $400K. People whack new paint and stainless steel appliances in and think they've added $100K to the value, yet underneath there's so much maintenance work that's just been covered up.

Then we found our awesome modern house over in Rochedale South and bought it in a snap.

yer, we have friends at rochdale south and they desparately wanted us to buy there as well

nice houses, and definately much better value for money (their place is awesome)

but i just couldnt face commuting on the freeway in traffic each day

i had pretty much given up finding a house at the price we wanted in any suburb we liked until we found our current place, and even then i was a bit nervous

but now we are in, i totally love it

salisbury is awesome, even though its KKK territory (kaos kar klub)
only 15/20 minutes to work, none of it sitting at a standstill, which drives me mental

dude, f***ing well done, to be able to find a place at a garage sale, that rocks!

it looks like they've maintained the place really well too

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Hi Grunt!

I think you'll find his name is duck.

ISWYDT

LAN at Wetwireds place@!!

be wickard, could chuck all the stinky f***ers in the pool

Awww :( Everyones buying houses!
Im still living at home :(

I WANT A HOUSE!
Anyone wanna buy me one? (A real one, not a dolls house)

^^ I'll lend you 20grand @50% interest for 1 year.. sound good :)

did the garage come with the house or did you have to pay extra?

What if they don't actually own it? Did you do a bit of research into the title? Did you end up looking at the other house?

well I'm pretty sure that our solicitors will find that out if they don't when they do their title searches.

and yeah we went to the other house, it was s***

I didn't see a reference to title searches so that's why I had to ask. I hope everything goes well for you.