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Big shop changes in the longer term...
John Hill:
I am facing some pretty big changes in the longer term. Having well and truly entered the ranks of Ye Olde Pharts the income is not what it once was and tired old bones do not cope well with stairs and steep streets so we will be selling our home in Wellington and moving to "The Mainland" (South Island) to my home town of Ashburton (population 16K) http://www.ashburtondistrict.co.nz/.
A considerable down grade in housing will release enough capital to keep bread and water on the table for some time and allow for some shed time.
Ashburton is a town of generous sized residential secitons but many sections have been sub-divided the result being that the choices are old houses with plenty of space or newer houses with less space. The challenge will be to find an acceptable place with either existing workshop space or space to build. If we can keep our expectactions down to something like this one....
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=245749072
... we will have about the same disposable cash flow as we have how which would be nice.
Other choices are places like this one...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-me-property/Residential-property/Houses-for-sale/auction-248213152.htm
...look at all that space to build on to the back to the triple garage!
Or by stretching the budget a little, this one...
...which has four car garaging and still appears to have enough room to park the odd derilect Vauxhall!
Bernd:
There are some nice looking homes down there.
Looks like the last pic you show there is a guy into restoring cars. Pic in the upper right shows a blue tarp over, what I assume, is an old car. Probably not the kind of niegbor you'd want. would probably keep bugging you to make parts fro him. :lol:
Just checked out the prices. Ouch. Didn't know they cost that much down there. I'd probably get close to a 7 figure amount for mine, if I ever get it finished. What the heck are gas prices down there?
Bernd
Darren:
They all look nice John. You are very fortunate to have such choices :clap:
I notice they all have good sized overhanging roofs, is that for sun shade .... :(
John Hill:
--- Quote from: Darren on November 04, 2009, 07:53:29 PM ---They all look nice John. You are very fortunate to have such choices :clap:
I notice they all have good sized overhanging roofs, is that for sun shade .... :(
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That town is about 44 degrees south, equivalent to about Portugal, so yes they are sun shades.
John Hill:
--- Quote from: Bernd on November 04, 2009, 07:51:00 PM ---There are some nice looking homes down there.
Looks like the last pic you show there is a guy into restoring cars. Pic in the upper right shows a blue tarp over, what I assume, is an old car. Probably not the kind of niegbor you'd want. would probably keep bugging you to make parts fro him. :lol:
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I guess that is on the property that is for sale so I expect that will be going with them. It is a Vauxhall from about 1948.
--- Quote ---Just checked out the prices. Ouch. Didn't know they cost that much down there. I'd probably get close to a 7 figure amount for mine, if I ever get it finished. What the heck are gas prices down there?
Bernd
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Houses in that town are a lot cheaper than were we are now. I do not think you can easily make a direct comparison and dont forget those are NZ dollars (though yours has been so wonky lately they may soon be the same.) Petrol is expensive, about NZ$1.65 per litre.
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