The first visit

Today I went to our new house for the first time since we bought it. Eric and Sophie wanted to have a look.

The "SOLD" sticker had been stuck onto the Real Estate board. It was such a great feeling - seeing that sticker meant quite a lot to me - it kinda made the whole thing real. I took a photo of it for posterity.

Currently there is an ugly Telstra substation directly across the road from our house.. We were horrified when we first saw it and thought "well we're not buying THIS house" It's funny how a lot of houses look great in the ad but some feature external to the house (council rubbish truck depot/huge factory/major highway.. etc) kills the deal in an instant. Fortunately the place is up for sale and has had it's zoning changed from "ugly government industrial building" to "Residential 1" - this is great as it means that we're buying our house while the street still has this huge ugly building in it, and hopefully by the time we get back from Europe - the street will have a few attractive new dwellings in it. You'd think that this can only be good for our property's value in the long run.

A friend of mine works for a property development company which is thinking of buying the land and turn it into houses/villa units..etc. Small world isn't it? I guess if they do buy it I will have all the inside goss as to what is going to be built there.