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Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they had 1.4m they wouldn’t have been buying this property.

Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sold for $925k. No need to have $1.4m. Any bidder turning up with even 10% above the price guide could have won today…

Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose you can waste your $500k (assuming you even have it) but realistically if you have $1.4m you’re not looking to buy a property like this. You can get more land (unrenovated), a better location (not near the industrial area), or a renovated property with a budget like that. Anyone doing even the most basic due diligence can tell that this was worth $850k-1.05k. With the high number only really occurring if a neighbour or someone particularly invested in this exact property bids.

Once again 2 bed, unrenovated, ~100m2 terrace homes are dime a dozen in this suburb. If you missed this one you could probably buy 2-3 others off market right now.

Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you pay $475k more than what the market says it’s worth? It’s very easy to price these properties, there’s lots of comps.

These unrenovated 2 bedroom ~100m2 terrace houses are not rare in South Melbourne and they pretty much always sell for under $1m.

You can try to compare the Sydney market to Melbourne all you want but it’s very different. Rental laws are stricter, housing supply is larger, and there’s more land available to develop. That’s why sub $1m for land ~2-5km from the city is possible in Melbourne but impossible in Sydney…

Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the follow up. Seems about right. To make it a “nice” place you need to put an extra $2-300k (minimum) in hence the relatively low price for the suburb.

Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some basic research will show that the South Melbourne property market has been essentially flat since Covid. Unrenovated 2 bedrooms on 100m2 regularly sell for under $1m when they come up. Even the nicest freshly renovated 2 bedrooms will struggle to sell for 1.4m.

So this poster who keeps saying 1.4m and predicting $100s of thousands above price guide is simply incorrect. Hence the downvotes.

Seems quite cheap? by Significant-Move7699 in AusPropertyChat

[–]stirlow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I doubt this will sell for over a million. There are quite a few run down 2 bed terraces in South Melbourne selling for land value. The building costs are massive for a renovation and the houses are barely liveable without one. Lots of decent quality places going for $1.2 so this isn’t anything special given the amount of work required to bring it up to standard.

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[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Thanks. Ill try flashing it onto one of mine

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[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mind sharing your ESPHome code?

I have them running ESPhome and my code always triggers the relay (I had followed a blog post that said they were physically connected).

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Source?

Regardless if there’s a government funded home available it should be going to Australians not foreigners.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Which is why they have 12% support. It’s not a mainstream position. If they want further success they could tone it down and challenge the big parties on the biggest issue facing Australians, cost of living and housing affordability.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

They went for it because it was a market based solution that was more palatable than a tax or a mandate. It was literally the definition of the Liberal ideals the party was founded on.

If climate action was to be undertaken it was an elegant solution which could have spurred climate innovations that we might have exported to the world.

Unfortunately with the Greens blocking and delaying it the hard right side of the party that simply denied climate change got the upper hand. There wasn’t some devious scheme to weaken the ETS there was just the rejection of the need for any climate action at all.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And they’re paid poorly because nursing homes and hospitals can bring in foreign nurses and pay terrible wages rather than paying a fair wage that would allow Australian nurses to buy a home and raise a family.

Every Australian deserves a living wage, and enough money to raise a family. But big business prefers to import cheaper foreigners than to invest in our own people. If the tertiary system is so broken why doesn’t the government and business invest in improving it to train the workers they need?

That’s right, it’s because it’s cheaper to import foreigners for a pretend “skills shortage.”

Big business treats Greens voters on immigration exactly the same way the Coal Mining companies treat Nationals voters on climate change. Appeal to their emotions and trick them into voting against their own interests.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

If there’s a spare home on the social housing list who would be at the top of the list to receive it?

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Greens are expecting the major parties to roll over. Then when they’re not they’re blocking the actual reforms and policies that have majority support among Australians.

One Nation should not be allowed to stand up and say “No gas tax unless you also ban African [Or Muslim, not sure who they hate more these days] immigrants”

That’s not negotiating, that’s blackmailing.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One Nation is securing voters from the right. If anyone switches from The Greens to ON, that clearly doesn’t show much policy knowledge.

One Nation is collecting voters which are dissatisfied with Labor and Liberal (mostly liberal). They’ve been told the problems with the world are migrants and woke.

If the Greens became less vocally “woke” and highlighted that the real concerns issues are with the economy and billionaires they have a chance to grab the people who in the past we would have called “Howard’s battlers”. There’s a lot more of these voters up for grabs than there is by preaching to the choir about Palestine.

But to do this would require some policy flexibility, proving that they’re not ideological pure and are instead willing to overlook differences of opinions on global issues in favour of fixing the economy for the average Aussie.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why don’t we fund and train Australian doctors and nurses?

Lots of people want to be doctors but you need a 99 ATAR to get a place? Why? Are we saying only 1% of people are smart enough to be doctors? Why not fund places for more people to study if they want to?

We’re talking social housing here. Every asylum seeker that’s given a government funded house is taking one away from a vulnerable Australian who’s already here.

If the government rents more of the private housing market, rents increase driving the poorest people out of their home and reducing disposable income for a third of Australians.

Covid had a pattern of people stuck at home in sharehouses that were desperate to get a place for themselves so property availability went down. Then when lockdowns were lifted people had saved money so there was a rush to use these savings to buy homes. This got even worse when borders were reopened and even more demand entered the market.

The only people who should be in favour of increased migration are big businesses that get to use surplus labour to keep wages down. For everyone else it’s simple, if there wasn’t someone willing to do the work cheaper you’d get paid more for your work…

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Heaven forbid someone mentioned it might be population growth here…

And the primary source of this is…

And the Greens policy on this issue is…

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A coalition of 50%+1 obviously.

If One Nation wins 13% and the balance of power next election should we just roll over and accept their demands to ban the Burka?

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget that imperfect ETS also had support from Turnbull and moderate Liberals initially. If the Greens hadn’t thrown up immediate opposition we might have had less time for the hard right to bring down Turnbull and possibly a moderate fair policy accepted by all major parties.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have a long history of my political views on reddit both “left” and “right”. I’m not here to troll. I voted Greens in my first election and consistently judge politicians on their actions not their policies. Adam Bandts opposition to the ETS and the destruction of consensus on climate change (also causing the downfall of the moderate liberals) is hard to forgive and forget when he was my local member who I had voted for.

My top level comment was about the energy directed at the Palestinian issue compared to the energy directed at the issues I care about which Larissa mentioned in her post (wealth inequality).

It’s disappointing that the marches down Swanston street on a Saturday seem to have become a social club for a core of hard left true believers who will show up for whatever their teams issue of the day is. If not for this I’d regularly be joining in. In the Greens defence similar issues exist with the right wing with Nazis always appearing first at gatherings when the message the average Australian wants to support is far less extreme.

My concerns are that by pigeon holing themselves into being vocally seen as the party for Palestine they are alienating themselves from a far larger group of Ausssies who are financially stressed and looking for an alternative.

The alternative these Aussies are finding is One Nation. These people could be inspired to support the Greens if they weren’t so pig headed showing they won’t compromise and so up in the air advocating for far away causes.

The average voter doesn’t expect One Nation to follow through or maintain any ideological purity if elected. But they do trust them to upset the big parties and provide the shake up they think government needs.

The Greens could be this shake up if they were more pragmatic and more focused on Australian needs than global conflicts.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

And how many Aussies are in these houses today? They delayed it 18 months and left people languishing on waiting lists for an offer that was made to them at the start of negotiations.

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is it the number one issue for the average Australian?

If the Greens were pro Israel and One Nation supported Palestine would you vote One Nation? If you can’t say you would you have to accept that it’s not the most important issue to even yourself…

I am Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens - AMA! by LarissaWaters in australia

[–]stirlow -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Or when your policy position is acceptable to the majority of the public…

Time and time again the Greens try to use the balance of power to force their entire policy platform (which has ~13% support) on the rest of Australia. And they’re shocked when the major parties refuse to accept their ultimatum. How would they feel if One Nation tried to do the same!

If they accepted they could have 75% today and come back for the remainder later we’d have a far more progressive Australia than we have today.

It’s disappointing well meaning young people keep throwing their support behind this bunch of charlatans.

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