Another week and no buyers for the house yet but I do believe that the price is way too high. Craig from the Real Estate sent me a message on Friday to say that we might have to change our selling strategy, this is office speak for reducing the price, which I agree needs to be done. The price tag of half a million dollars is a bit too much me thinks, I mean I wouldn’t buy it for that amount. I think a more realistic offer should be “Offers over $469,000” which I believe will get a few bites and is also enough for me to move onto my next destination.
The garden and retaining wall are still items that need to be fixed up and I started to replace the top plates of the wall today and I have come up with a solution for the collapsed piece of wall at the bottom of the garden which I will work on this week. I will have to go and pick up some long screws to stitch everything together. I do have a box of roofing screws but they are 175 mm long which is way too long.
Next month I plan to go to Sydney for a few days, I’ve been wanting to go there for some time now. I’ve booked the car in for a suspension check, I know the shockies haven’t been changed for a while and I feel at times there is a bit too much travel in the suspension. I’m sure they will find a few issues when they put it up on the ramp, but better to get it fixed before I head south. I’m thinking that maybe the anti roll bar bushes will need to be replaced as well.
The sky has been blue for most of the day and it is set to continue for the rest of the week, which is marvellous. I love it when it is like this and I’m hoping that the fair weather may help with the selling of the house. The solar panels are finally beginning to generate more power which makes for a zero bill; I’ll miss that when I move.
On an international front, I see America as usual does not give a Fuck about the rest of the world. Stupid Nancy went to Taiwan to stir up the hornets’ nest and as many commentators have pointed out she is doing this to help with the upcoming elections in America. They are such a bunch of selfish hypocritical bastards and I just wish that they would fuck right off! Let’s hope the Monkey Pox combined with Covid will remove a large part of the population, preferably the fuckers in government or Trump for that matter who has finally raised his ugly orange heed and is spewing forth the rants of a madman. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, he appears on the scene.