This post made me laugh and I will work on a picture, but I get dirty daily. As I go from job to job all day I step in drywall mud, rub against wet paint, get drywall dust smear all over my pants, and for sure the sticky epoxy gets somewhere. I have busted shoes, torn purses, and scratched glasses. Hazards of the job, it's all in a days work.

Choosing a real estate agent can be a difficult undertaking. Several elements played a vital influence in my decision-making process when I was choosing mine. First and foremost, trust was essential. I sought out an agent with a strong market reputation, one with a track record of successful transactions and great customer feedback. It provided me with an opportunity to assess their professionalism, communication style, and general approach. By the way, has anyone ever worked for COBALT CORPORATION PTY LTD? I've heard good things about their commitment to clients and real estate market expertise, but I'd love to hear your own experiences or observations.

Well, for us our first 'house' was an old 50's commission house, very sturdy solid brick but small, old, ugly and bad layout (oh that layout was completely wrong)... it was bought solely based on location (young families in the area, good schools, easy access to public transport, shops, capital growth, etc)... we considered renovating and/or extending more than once, considered moving a couple of times, had two past failed attempts at building, and all of the above for various reasons redundancy, GFC, you name it... so we waited, tried, failed, waited, tried again, sweated long summers w/o A/C, one long winter with a broken heater, not to mention the broken dishwasher (arh those dishes) and drove each other mad in that house... nevertheless it had provided us with a roof over our heads and in which we had more happy memories for 14 long, very long years... but now, now that we finally can, we have kept the memories and have gladly said goodbye to this old house earlier in the year, to make way for our new second house which will definitely be our 'forever home' and we cannot wait... my mama always said 'good things come to those who wait' I guess she was right :)

@ minebathroom and @ Luke Buckle, our electrician has informed us that we don't have to put solar panels on our house roof if we don't want to for aesthetics or if for example the roof was old as you mentioned Luke. Panels can be placed on a shed or garage roof anywhere on your property if you are rural like us for example, as the power can be directed into the grid from anywhere the solar panels live and that doesn't have to be on the house roof. We would love to go solar but agree with all your other points @minebathroom, too expensive and expected lifespan and feed in tarrifs are very ordinary but then there's also the back up service too, will the company still be around in one year let alone 10 years. When our electrician got his solar, he got such a fantastic tarrif rate which was offered at the very start of the solar revolution, he was recieving a cheque or refund of something like $500 a quarter but the rates are so low now, there is certainly no chance of recouping some of the instalation costs, although I wouldn't be so fused about that if I thought I would get say 20+ years out of the system before it begun to possibly fail in some way. Things do have to get allot more reliable if nothing else!!