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12 of the most common defects that appear on a building & pest inspection report

Pre-sale checklist (house and text)

When you’re thinking of selling your home, property maintenance is often the first item on the ‘to-do list’.  Addressing anything that might come up in your building and pest report means a better contract on your home.  Why?  Because this removes buyer objections and provides fewer options for price negotiation or inflated ‘cost of repair’ ideas based on perceived defects.

Everything about selling is all in the home presentation,  showing your home at it’s best.  It’s therefore essential to take care of these small and large handyman jobs.  Attention to both interior and exterior details will secure a better price for your property.  Here are the top 12 most common defects that come up in a building and pest reportContinue reading

Jindalee’s First Home

Here’s some local trivia!  This is apparently the first house to be built in Jindalee in 1962.  It was built as a display home for the developers of Centenary Estates which was at the time the largest and most ambitious suburban development undertaken by private enterprise in Australia.

The architects (Hayes and Scott) were asked to showcase modern housing and landscaping and the design was quite unconventional for the time with it’s flat roof in particular seen to be quite daring.

The house apparently still exists and is located in Jindalee Street.

Jindalee housing

(Source: Hayes & Scott: Post War Houses by Andrew Charles Wilson).