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Sometimes I get super stressed about buying a house, as in I never will. But then I read about people getting their deposits scammed away and I'm kinda okay with being relatively poor lol
I'd feel so so bad if I got scammed out of a $500k deposit, so I'm just gonna enjoy the little things I have that bring me happiness haha
The thing no one tells you is if you buy an established house, everything breaks within the first 12 months. Oven, heater, hot water, itβs a never ending money pit. Being a renter sucks no doubt, but you can always breach a landlord if they refuse to fix shit.
...no? And our house was built in 1962. Also getting a landlord to fix anything is increasingly an exercise in futility
The other thing they don't mention is that even if you buy a new house or do a full renovation, all the big things like kitchen and bathroom renovations and replacing decks, roofs etc - they all need doing about the time you want to retire. So just planning to pay off your house before then is not enough, you need to plan to also have enough to do some major work on it.
The timing is something that worked fine when you could buy a house by 30 and take 20 years to pay it off, you had plenty of time to then pay for extra work on the house etc. after the mortgage was paid, but when you push back the age you can purchase and extend the loan period it makes it a lot more difficult.
I would make it my life's work to get justice/revenge/money back
sky pretty
first beautiful delicate blues of dawn now tinged with purples and pinks,
For your reading pleasure, I present mole rats (with a squick alert):
Happy Tuesday Morningβ¦ π
Well, that was a read π
...look exactly like they were sewn together from the hand skin of a very old person.
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is it just me or does everyone put faces of people they know on the moles
what nasty horrible creatures
Ugh, up early gang. Was going to make myself sleep, but dropping back into my sleep cycle will only feel worse when the alarm goes off.
These Winter afternoons have been gorgeous. I am looking forward to this one.
I travel into Melbourne for work. About an hour and a half drive.
I used to come in via Sunbury Rd near the airport but that route has shit itself getting in or out since roadwork is increasing. So Iβve started using the Calder and Ring Road near Keilor.
I thought the Sunbury Rd area was dangerous. Jesus Christ, if you decide to ever drive on the Ring Road youβre really just hoping you donβt die. Just the short stretch to get back on the freeway out of Melbourne is basically a suicide run.
Has it always been like this?
It feels like just trying to get anywhere in melbourne completely sucks. I'd say for the last 10 years but probably longer
Yes. Clogged with tailgating trucks, aggressive drivers, people who donβt know indicators exist, debris on the road, short on ramps, etc. The roads north and west of Melbourne are the Mad Max zones. Source: commuted on these roads for many years, glad I donβt have to do it any more.
They are also quite terrifying when you don't drive them very often - there are a bunch of intersections that are pretty much impossible to navigate if you are not familiar with them. You get in the wrong lane and end up on a freeway going in completely the wrong direction.
The ring road is hell. All roads leading into Melbourne actually lead to hell.
I kind of feel Melbourneβs endless roadworks has made that inevitable.
Can't sleep, so watching good ol' SVU.
