Tue 2 August 2005 - House
I just bought one.
It’s walking distance to a zone 1 station and a great shopping strip (supermarket, library, coffee shops).
There’s ways to improve it, but it’s really lovely and very liveable even as-is. It’s art-deco style, 1930-ish.
Two words: central heating / dish washer. Argh wait, is that four words?
It’s on a subdivided block, but with a reasonable amount of garden left both at the front and back. So I won’t slave over it every weekend, and it was affordable for me.
Moving day will be in October.
August 2nd, 2005 at 6:50pm
Oh wow! A house in Zone One! (People unfamiliar with Melbourne probably won’t realise how good this is - but believe me, it’s good!) Congratulations! Living one station into Zone Two has made me further appreciate my old Zone One address.
August 2nd, 2005 at 6:55pm
Congratulations! It sounds ideal. I just hope you didn’t have to sell your soul to the devil to afford the mortgage!
Which map of the Melways are you on now?
August 2nd, 2005 at 8:01pm
Well done, I hope it is everything you want.
August 2nd, 2005 at 9:24pm
Great news Daniel. Congratulations.
August 2nd, 2005 at 9:34pm
Congratulations Daniel!
August 2nd, 2005 at 11:23pm
Brilliant! Zone one, central heating & dishwasher. Is that the three most important checkboxes checked? Congrats!
August 2nd, 2005 at 11:26pm
Congrats!
August 3rd, 2005 at 12:31am
Sounds like quite a find. Hope there aren’t any nasty surprises in store. Good luck with it.
August 3rd, 2005 at 3:24am
Congratulations Daniel! Move-in in October? Can you have a celebration now and a housewarming then?
August 3rd, 2005 at 4:00am
Congrats and looking forward to seeing pix of it! Enjoy.
August 3rd, 2005 at 7:50am
Here I am doing “extensive” legwork for a blog post about dear Australia, and wouldn’t you know you come up pretty highly in the search standings.
Congrats on the house - I am such a nerd, but I absolutely love moving, especially the packing and unpacking!
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:52am
Excellent! Wonderful news! Congrats!!!
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:59am
Where about’s in zone one? Congrats and let us know when the “Open Day for everyone who reads my blog” is!
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:37am
Congrats!!!
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:51am
MrLefty’s going to be jealous of the zone one aspect.
Congratulations.
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:57am
Congratulations Daniel. I am house hunting too and know what you have been through. Trust it is well worth all the effort.
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:33am
Well done. Perseverence has paid off!
Les: It’s in a great location, but regrettably it slid off ‘our page’ by about >||
August 3rd, 2005 at 3:41pm
Congratulations.
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:42pm
Congrats!
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:22pm
Well done. So which map are you on now? Is it out past the tram tracks?
August 4th, 2005 at 1:02pm
Congrats Daniel. I know you’ve been looking for ages!
August 4th, 2005 at 7:03pm
Welcome to the wonderful world of house ownership. Hope it’s everything you wanted.
You kept that very quiet this time, worried talking on your diary might jinx the deal?
August 4th, 2005 at 7:16pm
What zone 1 station are you near?
August 5th, 2005 at 6:05pm
Thanks all. I’ll post more details soon.
August 9th, 2005 at 1:05am
Congratulations Daniel!!!!! I know you have been looking a long time, and now you finally have your own place, way cool!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:41am
well done and about time too!
where’s the pictures of it then?
August 9th, 2005 at 8:30am
Good on you Daniel. As someone who has read for it seems like years your attempts to get into the housing market, it is pleasing to see you finally get to have a huge mortgage! I agree on the comment above about keeping it quiet - probably the best way to do it.
Congratulations!
August 9th, 2005 at 1:39pm
Cant wait to see piccies of your Dishwasher - have been in my own home for 3 years and am dying for a dishwasher. PS congrats on finding a place that you can settle down in and get your free time back from the endless round of searching.
August 9th, 2005 at 2:02pm
GREAT!!! So where are the pictures??? It sounds good and I know you’ve been looking a long time…
Dave
August 9th, 2005 at 2:03pm
Ditto everyone else!! (is this the most comments ever?)
I think you should keep track of every time you do a drive/walk-by between now and settlement - it seems you can never do it too much
August 10th, 2005 at 10:49am
I’m just catching up …
YAY!!! Congrats! - v. pleased for you that you’ve finally found a place to eventually call your own.
August 11th, 2005 at 11:29am
Congrats Daniel - well done!!
August 17th, 2005 at 9:42pm
Oh, wow! Throw as much stuff away as you can now, all the better for moving…