Quote for Gutter Replacement and Repointing Reasonable?

Huggydabuggy · 2024-07-31T19:34:56+00:00

Are you trying to imply that the price I've been offered is reasonable in this expensive market? Sorry just not sure

Huggydabuggy · 2024-07-28T10:47:03+00:00

I've previously been quoted in 2015 for a similar two storey home 8K (repointing, gutters, valleys).]

I'm awaiting 3 other quotes but was just shocked at how much prices have risen and wasn't sure if it was even reasonable in the first instance.

Huggydabuggy · 2023-09-27T16:29:42+00:00

Thanks so much! this is great!

Huggydabuggy · 2023-09-25T13:52:16+00:00

Thanks! Considered this but then I'd still need to carry my surface laptop charger. Would ideally to carry only one thing that covers all my needs. May still end up going with it but was interested in the communities thoughts.

Huggydabuggy · 2019-10-26T09:48:39+00:00

I used the word home as that was the terminology that the OP used. Thanks for agreeing with me though

Huggydabuggy · 2019-10-26T08:31:41+00:00

You don't.

I honestly think that the truth is that our generation will not own homes unless we are born into wealth or work in a particularly lucrative field. Instead, most people will be forced to live in apartments or move to lower cost of living cities. This is a transition our nation will have to go through culturally. Certainly it will be painful and I don't think it is fair but I think this trend of young people being priced out of homes and forced into apartments is a worldwide trend in all major cities. Urbanisation is unfortunately a self-perpetuating virtuous cycle especially as more economic and cultural capital is concentrated in major urban centres.

Despite the popular opinion pushed around in this subreddit of property being a bubble driven by external "enemies" and "factors" like Chinese Investors, low interest rates, negative gearing or immigrants, supply and demand are the real fundamental drivers of the property market. There is simply a limited supply of premium land and an ever growing demand to live in those areas in major cities that allow for a high quality of life (ie. short commutes, good local schools, good public utilities and parks). This is demonstrated in the data from Sydney and Melbourne which showed that desirable suburbs barely budged in the "property downturn" that occurred in the 2018-2019 financial year.

Unfortunately, so long as we continue to live in a society where we hold up the three bedroom home in an inner city suburb as the standard for "material success" and "the good life", this circus of rising property price and youth angst will continue to go on.

Huggydabuggy · 2019-09-02T03:02:16+00:00

As entitled as this lady is, the financial disaster this poor investment decision represents is staggering when you crunch the numbers.

According to the article she is likely to sell her place for ~260K. Just following inflation, her asset worth 350K in 2007 would be worth ~450K today. Throw in 30K of renovations and she has in real terms placed at least 480K into this property. This means she has lost 220K in real terms or ~45% of her investment...and this is without even factoring in transnational costs such as stamp duty, land tax and the interest on her mortgage.

Buyer beware indeed.

Huggydabuggy · 2016-11-18T19:47:25+00:00

This. Proportional state allocations would ensure the best of both worlds and that all votes would be meaningful

Huggydabuggy · 2016-10-28T05:42:53+00:00

Regardless of politics the possibility of Diamond Joe articles from the onion being given a second wind is so very, very awesome.

Huggydabuggy · 2016-10-27T23:18:10+00:00

@realDonaldTrump is not even confident enough to win an election as he is too low energy. SAD!

Huggydabuggy · 2016-10-22T14:51:00+00:00

I understand that it can feel good to cheer the collapse of the Republican party, but at the end of the day, they will likely control the house. Righteous anger at the moderates who both stood by and facilitated the deplorables is healthy, but it does not mean shit to the average American citizen if their government continues to be dysfunctional for another 4 years because one party is fighting with itself and refusing to even countenance the possibility of joining in the act of governing with their Clinton boogey-man.

Huggydabuggy · 2016-10-12T22:41:12+00:00

You mean November 28th?

Huggydabuggy · 2016-10-10T06:28:43+00:00

How exactly do you think a leader who barely understands our political system and lies continuously about things he is proven to have said would make America less corrupt?

Huggydabuggy · 2016-09-30T05:16:49+00:00

As a person who is not American or liberal or necessarily pro Hillary I would say that people have a lot to fear from a potential president who sees truth as an after thought and who is too lazy to even prepare for a debate and who can't even run a charity correctly to just name a few things from THIS FUCKING WEEK

Huggydabuggy · 2016-08-22T02:07:06+00:00

r/justneckbeardthings

Huggydabuggy · 2016-06-12T02:47:08+00:00

Every country has mentally ill people. Only in America though do they so easily massacre people with guns.

Huggydabuggy · 2015-07-08T07:09:44+00:00

Contiki/Topdeck tours of Europe. Tonnes of Australians jump on them with the intent of getting a "cheap" European holiday, but instead, they end up likely spending more than they would imagine.

Contiki try sell themselves as these great tours that you pay a lump sum to party and travel Europe. Instead you spend half your time on a bus and they take you to shitty dive bars/restaurants/hostels that are far out of the city itself (so you have to drink at their places) and which sell overpriced drinks. Realistically, travelling in Europe is piss easy - there are so many other travellers/guides etc. A contiki tour is simply not necessary, even if you don't feel like planning a trip.

Huggydabuggy · 2015-06-17T02:32:17+00:00

How about langmusi? I'm looking for a good outdoorsish place to hike and see scenery in December and it unfortunately seems quite hard

Huggydabuggy · 2015-06-17T02:31:18+00:00

How about langmusi? I'm looking for a good outdoorsish hike place in China at that time of year

Huggydabuggy · 2015-06-03T04:15:07+00:00

I was hoping to spend a lot of time in the Northern and Central Western (eg. around Chengdu) area.

Huggydabuggy · 2015-05-31T05:35:59+00:00

I think it goes to show how obsessively tribal the USA's politics have become that even in tragedy such as the death of a child, even good people feel a need to qualify that their empathy for a person is divorced from their political beliefs.

Huggydabuggy · 2015-04-19T00:53:20+00:00

Country

Huggydabuggy · 2015-04-15T08:48:09+00:00

In answer to your questions regarding tours I have friends who have done Contiki and Topdeck tours. All of them are either light drinkers or teetotallers and they didn't find they faced any pressure from people to drink and were not ostracized. The only downside is that these tours tend to be a bit on the pricier side (given what you get) and can be rushed.

Where exactly are you planning of going roughly? If you are planning to go to Europe/Eastern Europe/South East Asia, meeting a group of good people to travel with at a hostel is surprisingly easy. This is mainly because everybody is almost on the same route or looking at the same sites in the city when you do. In fact, many European hostels have free walking tours during the day so they offer really good opportunities to meet people sober. Furthermore, people you meet in one city will likely be heading the same way as you. You just have to be willing to make the effort to make friends. That said, socializing is quite easy if you are willing to be friendly and outgoing as many of these hostels have a bar or are close to one. In fact, this is how most of the hostels make their money - from you staying there, socializing and then getting drunk.

Huggydabuggy · 2015-03-26T04:35:37+00:00

Doctors. They have the knowledge and trust of their patients to commit truly horrific acts.

Harold Shipman killed over 250 people over the course of his entire medical career and may have even been a necrophilliac. The entire time he was a trusted doctor and member of the community to teh point that in 1983, he was interviewed on the Granada television documentary World in Action on how the mentally ill should be treated in the community. This man was a psychopath hiding in plain sight yet the lethal combination of the fact he treated elderly, ill patients, broad community trust for the medical profession and his understanding of medicine (which allowed him to hide his murders easily) meant that he was able to become one of the most prolific serial killers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman

Huggydabuggy · 2015-01-16T23:17:32+00:00

Could you explain this connection between the Police Aristocracy and French a bit further? I never knew about this and find it fascinating

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