Recently I was asked to write an opinion-piece on renovation hell. I haven’t written it yet, so this isn’t it, but it did start me thinking … what do you think it is??
RENOVATION HELL from RENOVATION SURVIVOR on Vimeo.
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Qs & As
“The renovations sector tends to respond more quickly to lower interest rates than new home building does,” Housing Industry Association Sunshine Coast/Wide Bay branch manager Adrian Langford told the Sunshine Coast Daily.
Langford was commenting on the 1% increase in the value of approvals for alterations and additions on the Sunshine Coast from 2006-07 to [...]
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Government grants, falling rates and economic woes - there are a lot of pitfalls in the property game, writes David Potts on Fairfax’s Business Day.
Potts asks the question many of us might ask in these uncertain times: “If you already own your home and want to upgrade, is renovating or buying the best option?”
“The [...]
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Changes to strengthen consumer protection under the Home Warranty Insurance scheme were passed by the NSW Legislative Council on November 12, “giving consumers an additional trigger to lodge insurance claims for defective or incomplete building work,” Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge said.
Ms Judge said the Amendments represented the Government’s latest reform to home warranty insurance, [...]
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The Rudd Government is gambling that doubling the first-home owners grant for established dwellings, and trebling it for new homes, will tilt the playing field back towards new homes. However this $1.5 billion property market kickstart risks reviving the inner city ahead of the outer suburbs, and the renovations business ahead of new home building, [...]
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In case you haven’t yet been devastated by the weak recommendations of the recently tabled Last Resort Home Builders Warranty Insurance Senate Inquiry report (and my disgust has been outlined in other posts today), here they are:
1. The committee recommends that all parties receive a copy of the insurance certificate, summary of product and dispute [...]
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The Last Resort Home Builders Warranty Insurance Senate Inquiry report fails to recommend the far-reaching makeover of a system that is expensive, mandatory and close to useless.
So what does HOW cover? Not a lot.
In my book The Renovator’s Survival Guide I talk about the farcical nature of our mandatory Home Warranty insurance system, applicable in [...]
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The Last Resort Home Builders Warranty Insurance Senate Inquiry report was tabled this week. It’s helped me see the light. All this time I was thinking that HOW was an expensive impost that helps only a tiny minority of consumers leaving the rest of us without accessible protection. Now I see it will be Sunny [...]
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Finding a good builder isn’t the only thing you need to do to have a great renovation. The best kept secret is that the preparation you do as the client is the key.
You’ve heard the expression ‘failing to prepare is preparing to fail’, right? A renovator must have come up with that! While it’s exciting [...]
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If you’re about to start your do-it-for-me renovation, you may be thinking the disasters that happen to others couldn’t possibly happen to you. If you’ve never renovated before however, think again.
Remember these headlines? In 2003: The Great Australian Nightmare. In 2005: My Renovation Ruined My Marriage. And more recently in 2008: Rubble trouble: how [...]
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