Jon's Deep and Meaningful

Moving House in Sydney
This coming Wednesday we are moving from our rented unit to a renovated townhouse just down the street in Miranda. Wow, what an adventure it has been! Getting the sums to add up and break into the Sydney real estate scene. For comparison, we sold our 3 BR 2 bath courtyard new town house in Carrum Downs for 235,100 and have bought a renovated 30 year old 3 BR 1 bath with almost no outside sitting for 392,000.

However, we like Miranda and I can walk to work, train and shops so it's worth doing and there is a brand new park opposite for outside fun. Of course, going to India while it was all going through was perhaps a mistake, and several important letters went astray in the mail, causing further delays, but in spite of all that settlement is only 1 day late! We have half killed ourselves financially but it seems we will just get over the finishing line intact!!

Lessons I have learned from this:
Don't buy in Sydney until you already have the dough from Melbourne.
Don't go overseas in the middle of a sale.
If you must go os, take yourmobile and keep in touch.
Don't trust anyone, and do nothing without proof.
Don't use a broker who is new to the game.
Try applying to your own bank where they kind of know you.
Don't stay with Optus, who can't organize to transfer DSL for at least a week and can't keep the same phone number even in the same street!
OR
Ignore all the above and trust God anyway!