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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -I don't understand why where I live I'm surrounded by properties kept vacant by retirees / semi-retired who own them as investments or holiday homes and refuse to rent them out. I don't get why they can't be put to use at least as rentals. Few even seem to have kids who visit the place.
I don't get why they want them when all they seem to do is roll up on weekends and spend 2 days cleaning and gardening only to feck off Sunday night back to their city apartment. And if they don't roll up they are paying some local gardener or handyman to do it for them.
When they do arrive down for the weekend, they spend 48hrs moaning that the local region has no amenities, it's the council's fault apparently, because the shops, cafes and restaurants can't survive on their weekly 48 hrs of patronage. Some of them don't even bring the patronage, they roll up with supplies brought with them from the weekday local favourites, and they still complain.
They complain about council plans to bring in parking fees, abhorrent, apparently owning the property means they have the right to park the Tesla freely wherever they like, after driving down the freeway without paying a cent towards the upkeep of the roads. Don't mention the fact that when they return they probably park in a spot leased of Wilson Parking, which the probably sub-let at weekends to the footy or cricket crowd.
All of this to save some tax, in fact anything to save some tax it seems, at least they'll die wealthy though!
It's a financial win but an existence loss, they might as well sell the property and get back the 28% of their time that they have lost, 28% of your life seems a cheap buy at the tax rate!
