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House hunting continues!
I was on the Ipad training course again today, and my interest was flailing. The students that I am teaching will be way lower than the ability that this course is pitched at. Don’t get me wrong, I am...
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House move: my own four walls at last
This was the major event this weekend. I was originally going to rent a furnished house, which in fact are hard to come by and cost a lot of money. The staff at work insisted that I didn’t do that, and...
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Open homes: the garage sales of house buying!
We decided to have a little look at what houses were about, and how the house buying thing works here in New Zealand. They seem to go for the open homes idea, where each house that is for sale is open...
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House comparison: UK v NZ
Before we left the UK, I did a video walk around of our house. Mark asked what the devil I was doing. I clearly remember saying ‘well, houses in New Zealand won’t look like this, will they?! No, they...
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Pesky Landlords!
Today was meant to be a good day. I was meant to be getting all the answers to my queries, signing a lease and finally getting a house. Not so. The trouble with a university town is that it has...
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At long last…
Yesterday I lost the will to live. I felt fed up. Fed up with constantly arguing with letting agencies and landlords, fed up of looking at student shacks, fed up of trying to sort out novopay, fed up...
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I think we bought a house!
Yes, after a stressful few weeks, in many ways, I think we are not ALMOST the proud owners of a house, at last! Buying houses in New Zealand is quite different to how its done in the UK. In fact...
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The (final?) big move
House empty, only 1/2 the job! Here we are again. I feel like we have lived our lives out of boxes lately. In fact, we probably have. We didn’t bother unpacking everything that arrived out of our...
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