Tuesday, October 18

House for sale




95 Nelson Road is officially on the market. The house never looked that good when we lived in it but it looks okay in the photos. Dom has just finished a uni essay on how photography isn't exactly the "truth" and these images prove it. See more on the following link!
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-box+hill+north-108316011
If you have a spare half-hour, Adam, can you make that link live?
Julia and I have spent the last couple of weeks at a friend's house in Castlemaine looking after his 18 year-old dog while he and his boys are overseas. It's given us a chance to have a look at a few places but it hasn't been particularly relaxing as the dog is always about 20 minutes away from death. I don't want it to happen on my watch.
Here's the plan: sell Box Hill and pay off the mortgage, move into the surrounding bush (the Castlemaine area is only an hour-and-a-half from Melbourne) and buy a house we can actually own with a bit of money left over for the hard times ahead.
Naturally, we've kept the family in mind and are only looking at places that can accommodate 60 at a time. We've found a place we like but it's more expensive that I anticipated. I was thinking maybe a nice house on 20 acres for $250,000 but, apparently, I'm living in the past. The best place we've seen is around $600,000 which means we need to get close to a million for Box Hill.
It probably won't happen but who knows? If we can't get what we want for Box Hill, we're both happy to stay there so plan B is fine as well. All it will cost is the auction to see where we're at.
Note in the bedroom picture above the Phantom candle Joe Roff gave me as a Christmas present some years ago. I still haven't put a match to it.
Note also the bottle of sparkling Rose in the pool picture - it's the only alcohol in the house I haven't drunk. Even I have standards.
Gossip is that Stuart and Marianne's place in New Lambton is also for sale but I can't find it on realestate.com. There's some gypsy blood in the Roff line...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

We have a 25 metre pool?!

Annika

Anonymous said...

What is it with Baby Boomers? So selfish.

damian said...

Despite Grant's plea for respect, Im prepared to bet if you opened the Rose, you would find watered down red cordial that had been re-corked, and i am not pointing the finger at Dom, Nick or Anika. On a more serious note, if you move, can you take some of the Chinese restaurants with you? Nick if your there, I have been studying post modern condiments and Nandos Extra Hot Perri Perri is currently the top of my list.

Ash & Cathie said...

Wow, are you guys crazy to sell this resort for some crazy "back-of-Bourke", global communication, baby-boomer downsizing scheme? Good luck.

Rowan said...

Castlemania sounds pretty good.