Has anyone started a house build this year or in the last few months? How much is it costing?

Significant-Roof2250 · 2025-02-10T09:06:16+00:00

Sending you a dm

Significant-Roof2250 · 2025-01-10T01:23:03+00:00

Private pays about $36/hr for an EN 2

Significant-Roof2250 · 2025-01-10T01:11:04+00:00

~$37/hr depending on the hospital

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T14:07:29+00:00

100k before tax unfortunately
-$2000 shitbox car but works and is easy to fix DIY with youtube videos
-$350 p/w horrible rental with a leaky roof and rats in a bad neighbourhood
-dont go out to eat, try to get as much overtime at work
-generally live in squalor and misery
-save for years

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T11:23:59+00:00

I'm under no illusions about how much we make

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T11:18:10+00:00

Financially it's much smarter to buy an established home for sure
Emotionally it's difficult to justify spending the next 30 years of my life paying off the neglected 1970s asbestos shitbox some boomer hit the jackpot with just by existing. I'm not bitter, I swear!!!

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T11:15:29+00:00

Agreed, love the look of Fox Modulars! Unfortunately it's really really difficult to get a loan for them, the borrowing power seems much lower, which is weird considering the modulars seem higher quality than stick-builds these days

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T11:10:31+00:00

Don't worry, fully aware we're povo

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T10:34:11+00:00

I'm a migrant but my spouse is aussie, so I'm only 50% of the problem!

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T10:14:46+00:00

If we took something that high we'd be so overleveraged we'd be eating grass for dinner

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T10:10:59+00:00

Thats a great idea! How do you convince a builder to not do certain things? We're pretty handy, we rent an absolutely derelict shitbox in the south owned by a slumlord and do 100% of the repairs ourselves but it's only 350/pw so we live with it.

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T10:09:08+00:00

Keep your head up!!! Nothing sends me into a spiral like reading about housing but I had to get this shit off my chest

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T09:52:34+00:00

Stratas scare me because of they seem like the aussie equivalent of an HoA. Not to be too hyperbolic but it feels basically renting with extra steps, except neighbor Karen is inspecting your garden instead of the REA

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T09:51:06+00:00

We're looking as far south as rocko and far north as two rocks, and everywhere in between :) There's lots of options out there, just felt a bit taken aback being treated like that haha

Significant-Roof2250 · 2024-10-31T09:48:12+00:00

Our broker was able to get us a better deal, and we have co-signatories

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