Reading Time: 4 Minutes How good is the end of the year eh, can’t help but feel relaxed as we wind it all down. Hope we all had a wonderful Christmas with our loved ones. Feels like this year especially, everyone’s been doing our darndest to bring a bit of cheer to others. Good for you Sydney! We’ve been trying to get into the Christmas spirit as well, nothing like the intenseness of some houses mind you: Anyhow, you didn’t come here to read about Christmas and cheer and all that goodwill. Bah humbug! You came here to read about our house-buying journey didn’t ya? And so it continues… The…
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We Bought A House! (Part 2: More Renos), Oh And Merry Christmas!
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Merry Christmas everyone! Been a while since my last post. Apologies been AWOL recently as renovating the new home, moving places and wrapping up what has been a crazy year of work – meant that literally, I had zero time to even respond back to friend’s messages. Yes Steve, would love to have dinner with you and Pam on the 21st… WHEW, a huge sigh of relief because the renos are practically done. I had blogged in my latest post (read here) how MrsFrugalSamurai and I had become landowners this month. Man alive, is there a lot of work involved! But y’know, I can’t help feel…
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We Bought A House! (Part 1: Renos)
Reading Time: 1 Minute Please welcome the latest entrants to The Great Australian Dream…. it’s TheFrugalSamurai and his dashing young wife, MrsFrugalSamurai! Hooray to us! Haha, as the name suggests, we are bona fide land owners now. Suffice to say, this has been months in the making – but finally, after what must have been dozens of property inspections, we’re proud to call a place home. But not so fast, because although settlement day was earlier this week, we can’t move in yet because it’s a bit chokers with renovations at the moment. Renovations like… And And And And oh so much more! See that’s the biggest culture shock for…
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Passive Income Streams Using High Yield Property & Active Shares – The Frugal Samurai
Reading Time: 3 Minutes What’s up everyone! The tables are turned today with the focus on yours truly. At the risk of tooting my own horn “toot, toot” I wanted to share with you my answers to a questionnaire sent by Aussie Doc from Aussie Doc Freedom. You might remember her, because I asked her story only recently! Feel free to read about it here. Ah, the good ol collab… But I digress, because today’s post is about me, myself and I, three of my favourite people. If you want to read the original post, or check out some of Aussie Doc’s other works – you can do so here. The…
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New Zealand Properties Running Red Hot – Is Australia Next?
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up everyone! Hope we’re all having a great weekend. I know I did, because we were social to the MAX. Felt good to break up the weekend routine of staying indoors for once. Although that doesn’t stop me posting quality and titillating content on this quality and titillating blog. As you might have seen with the headline, but property values in New Zealand are SCORCHING. Residential property prices have surged by a whopping 20% compared to last year, pushing the median price of a house in Auckland, New Zealand’s most populous city, above NZ$1m (AUD $950k) for the first time. And that’s not all, take…
