Hi All,Rent the damn thing out for flips sake. Over summer you will bring in some good $$$$
here is a long spiel on what happened when we tried to rent it out to freinds...
Have given the house out quite a number of times to those friends that wanted to buy the house, and even have let their 19 & 22 year olds have the place over New Years for nothing for the past 3 years. Damn why do friends make it so hard ?
Renting it out sounds good but not as easy for me as it sounds.
From what my sources tell me I can't rent the thing out as it will hurt Helens invalid pension even more, it's like what you get with one hand you give out with the other. No better off.
Rent it out for cash to people I know for holidays.
That was the end of 3 x 20+ year friendships.
How's this for a scam by some of our now so called friends.
Same thing, friends saying I should rent it out as I need the money, and they are willing to rent it. More than happy to pay going rates
It was a number of years ago and they wanted it for 2 weeks in early January. They will pay what the rates are.
I said to them you know what its costing down here in summer ? Sure they say, $1500-$2000 per week. And I said yes but Helen & I would be happy to give it to you for half, saying $750, less than $110 per day.
They of course jumped at it as they normally leave their 3 dogs in a boarding kennel at $55 per day each = $165 per day. Stupid me didn't realise how much they paid for boarding until they told us later, as we ( Helen & I ) let them take their dogs as we are dog lovers anyway and at the time had 2 of our own but we never boarded them.
Well the same night just after they rang to book, another friend rang and said that she just spoke to P&P ( their names ) and it all sounds great and could she rent it the week before. We actually wanted it that week, but the thought of getting some extra cash was the clincher.
Forward to the 30th December and we meet ( lets call her, JJ ) JJ and her 2 dogs at the house to give her the keys. She's another one that normally boards her dogs at the same place as P&P when she goes away, but she has brought them with her. We speak, give her the keys and all is good in the world.
Yeah right. :doh1:
Unknown to us until the end of her time, when Helen & I go down to see how JJ & her 2 dogs have gone and pick up the keys, we find that she has had P&P & their 3 dogs & 2 rabbits with her since the second day.
Now we were slightly miffed at that, but I didn't tell Helen till much later that she refused to pay the $750 for the week as there was only 1 of her, and I was renting out the house to P&P for $750 the following day. Why should she pay $750 when the others are a couple.
Hang on now JJ, you rang us and told us that you wanted the house and also you have invited others into our house to stay for 6 days without telling us, we knew nothing about this and would not have allowed it as its only a small beach house that we just had finished renovating and didn't need a house full of people plus 5 dogs & 2 rabbits living in the house !
JJ for f#&ks sake do you think that is fair ? She replies, well if she rented a car she wouldn't be told who she can drive around in it with. That was her opinion and she is sticking to it.
I say bugger it then JJ, just pay us 1/2 as our friendship is worth more than that...
So I actually got $350 from her as she only had $50 notes and no one had change. So we missed out again there.
Now it gets worse,
we collect the keys from JJ and give them to P&P who have already been there 6 days, for their 2 weeks. JJ was packing as Helen and I left. Or so we thought.
2 weeks go by and we once again go down to the holiday house, but when we get there we go to see next door 1st to say hello. Carlo, the next door neighbour tells me its been wild at our house for the past 3 weeks, and theres been a stack of people staying. Grrr
So we go to our house to find JJ and her dogs still there,
plus so much rubbish, heaps of old food, cardboard & beer & wine bottles in the front & backyard (it took me 3 trips to the tip with the station wagon & trailer to clean it up), dog crap everywhere and blood from a couple of dog fights on the couches, rug and walls plus dog spew stains on the new carpet in our bedroom. The carpet was only installed the month before.
Then P&P, or more so one P took me aside and said its not fair that they should pay $750 per week when JJ only paid $350 :Blah:
After much talking, I just said f^%k it, pay what ever you want to pay and lets just clean it up.
They paid a total of $700, not the $1500 we had agreed on and left us without helping to clean anything.
It took me 3+ full days to clean it all up, Helen was wondering why I was so upset. So I told her about how the 3 of them had taken us for a ride.
We vowed never to rent it out again. The next year P&P wanted to rent it again, I told them it was booked out. They asked in later years several times more to rent it off us, then they finally got the hint.
But things change and times change.
Yes I need to get some $$ out of that house, it could certainly make us money rather than stay empty. Problem is what other $$ do we lose while making these $$.
Trying to get by on Social Security is a ***** I can attain to that, everything we have is classed as an asset ( except the house I live in ), furniture, cars, would you believe fishing rods & reels, even the boat is still an asset and I don't even have it ! Bloody Centrelink just doesn't want to accept that I don't have it as there is no police report.
So if anyone here wants to rent a small neat & tidy fully furnished & air conditioned 3 bedroom house about 650mtrs from the beach & 1k from the boat ramp at Tootgarook & 5ks away from Gunnamatta for cash then please let me know. I trust this sites members to look after it better than my so called friends
It won't be free, as I just have had enough of people taking everything from me. But it will be good discount.
cheers
Nick
