Pre-inspection rental application completed. I’m really missing the days when you would go to the real estate agent, grab the keys for anything you were interested in to go and have a look, and if you liked it you just showed some basic id & proof of income and the place was yours.
Discussion Thread 🕹 Monday 14 April 2025
Submitted 1 month ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Omg same. It’s awful the hoops you’ve got to jump through now!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
no hoops for landlords or REAs tho, none at all
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m afraid you’re quickly learning how dramatically different it is to 20 years ago. Welcome to what many of us younger ones are dealing with 😭
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yup! Many less hoops to jump through to get the mortgage than deal with a new rental app. Seems they want damn dna samples now, and it’s all in highly insecure third party databases.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
You’ve got to do a pre-inspection rental application?! 😅 It’s been a while for me.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah, some you have to apply for and be accepted onto a shortlist before you get to inspect it. This one sends you the link for the application at the same time as the registration to inspect, I’m not actually sure if you have to do the application first but I figure it can’t hurt.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ol’ boy finally found the piccys from a school trip we did to nepal back in 1999 (I was yr 9 at the time). 200 kids, bunch of teachers, 4 docs who were parents of kids (and went for free lol). And a fuckton of risk, they stopped the trip a year after that as a few kids ran into health troubles. Cheap as shit due to bulk kids.
Was before digital cams so pretty much only the adults had proper cameras. ol’ boy had a nice one and got heaps of shots. They’re all on slides and negatives.
Looks awful for now until I get them properly imaged but fuck me the memories.
Over easter doing a slide show on an old school slide projector from the 70’s that still works down the bellarine w/ the fam. Gonna be lit lol.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
That’s calendar worthy. So pretty.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Everything sounds awesome, the trip, the pics, and your slide show evening 🙂
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Wow!!!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I was unsuccessful in my rental application. ☹️
I’ve booked an inspection of another one which looks ok, but the photos on the website are the same photos it was sold with 7 years ago.
There is another maybe property which looks a bit too good for the price and has been listed for a while, so I am a bit sus about that one. It also has a patch of fake grass in bad condition and a number of very large yuccas.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
the photos are often big lies
it’s best to visit in person
and what might be a catch for someone else is ok for you, so just cheack it
for my new place teh “catch” is it’s in the western suburbs and near a railway station, for a lot of people that’s not acceptable, for me it’s ok
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
That might be the only catch with this one too - maybe walking distance to the scrap metal yard is not a drawcard?
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Better luck next time and beware what looks too good to be true. There’s always a catch.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It might just be location. I’m learning the “poor” areas just by comparing rental prices. But I’d personally rather have an older house with a bit of yard space in a run down area than one of the cookie-cutter grey townhouses that comprise about 80% of the market. They are just not my style.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Beware the yukkas 😹
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I pruned mine on Friday and have the battle scars to show for it.
Wore long sleeves too.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Unfortunately both actually have yuccas, but the other place has less of them, and they are tucked away down the side of the house.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
good luck, gotta just keep trying
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
🤞
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Parma for dinner. Tomorrow nights probs loaded potato wedges that I stole the idea from Aldi. need to get back into miss match meals to use whats in the freezer.
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m craving fried potato :(
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Medical
Well apparently the reason I’ve been feeling so bad is low phosphate levels and it’s apparently urgent to deal with 🙃
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
it’s good to have a name to what you have been feeling and direction to get to being better
hugs, I hope you are feeling better from now on
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Fingers crossed the treatment for that will help you feel a lot better
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Thanks. I really hope so!
I’m so used to having to suck it up and endure that I didn’t realise that wasn’t normal :/
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hope there’s a plan of attack for you, good luck on feeling better!
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yay it’s Monday! Can’t wait to start another week at work 😊🎂🙏🤝🥳
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
At least it is a short week, and next week even shorter.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
#blessed
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
R U OK?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Last week was rough at work 😭
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
it was big, about 30 cm , bluish with pink edges
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Spent most of today learning how to navigate my new org’s SharePoint structure. Nearly 4 years in the same place and shit was embedded in my memory and almost automatic.
I feel like an infant learning how to crawl again.
sarahsquirrel@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Your org has a SharePoint structure? I’m very envious! At our place we have multiple SharePoint archipelagos and no map.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My last job had SharePoint guidelines, which few followed.
This is one is seriously regimented. In saying that, the instructions are - copy the previous folder structure and do not deviate.
I’m down with that approach honestly.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I didn’t realise I had the same bug as the rest of the family until I finished my coffee in the office. I managed to get home alright without any problems. Another plus to the location of this place, the last thing you’d want is an hour long train trip after realising you’re sick
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It’s just not fun till it’s firing out both ends hey
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’ve only had one out the front so far. It seems like I’ve moved on to just more mild stomach aches now
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
If you could afford to employ one full time staffers who would it be? Gardener, pool boy, administrator, butler etc.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Personal Polynesian. Just a massive dude that hangs out and occasionally helps out with things.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Japanese house boy. No contest.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
A cleaner, absolutely hands down. Especially the bathroom. Everything else I can somehow handle but the #1 very first kind of help I would get if I had money is a cleaner. Then maybe an admin person (even just to make phone calls, I hate phone calls). Then maaaaybe a cook but I would be very very picky about what they make and how.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I also want a personal assistant and it was a close toss up between that and a cleaner
but I’m thinking with a full time cleaner my mind and time would be freer to do my own admin and I don’t care how awkward I am and how long things would take as I wouldn’t be under any pressure from other tasks
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I reckon a chef (who also cleans the kitchen one done), delicious meals prepared for me and time saved cooking / cleaning would transform my life.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cat trainer lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
full time cleaner and laundry , including cat care
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Last night I learned that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked with each other, so Charon appears to not move in Pluto’s sky.
Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn’t tidally locked with it.
Mind blown 🤯
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
gotta say the velvet’ed beef was incredible. Absolute game changer.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Today is definitely a two-coffee, suffer-no-fools kind of day. Even my colleagues are keeping their distance from my DON’T DISTURB ME vibe. Good.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Just did another botched job of reversing into a parking space. I’m really stuffing up the initial angle. I’m sure I’ll get better eventually, but at the moment it is pretty nerve wracking.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Forgot to take the compost bin down last night, woke up to enterprising felines flinging lamb chop bones to the floor. The mishcat is untethered and her craves know no bounds
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I chased a moth around the room, gave it an almighty lob with the fly swatter and now I don’t know where it’s gone.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
it’s taking so long to unpack and set up house as it’s a house of 4 adults and 2 cats including the young Seagoons, this is their base here in Australia and where they keep their things.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
yay, pakige
coathangers and shoe organisers , so excitement
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ahhh 3 hours more sleep yay!
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Great googly moogly I've solved the kodi conundrum
Issue: Kodi has Very Specific Naming Conventions. So do I . We do not share these conventions. I refuse to bow to the machine. Solution: Symlinks Issue: I have a remote fileserver, you cannot UNC hard symlinks Resolution: Kodi does fine with soft symlinks Issue: Symlinks in windows are very different to linux, where they’re more like shortcuts as windows has them hard coded to the kernel. Every single machine running kodi - currently two, lounge and bedroom, possibly a third with the brewery - will need its own symbolic link of every. single. file. on my file server named correct in order to scrape them and show them. My fileserver has 12tb on it. Solution: Script written that will ask for a share name in UNC, then drill down every subdirectory and replicate the whole tree symlink form on local machine in directory of choice. Issue: Still not in kodi naming convention Solution: filebot portable, which is free. Rename symlinks to match TVDB. Original files untouched. Issue: faults will occur if source files are moved or renamed Solution: I just wrote another friggin’ script that will go through every single symlink and subdirectory and list all that do not resolve in a txt file called broken_links.txt. Run that once a month or so and update as required and I’m dancing. Then it’s just upkeep with new symlinks as files/folders added and double checking it scrapes ok.
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Brewed coffee, maybe one spoon isn’t enough for the stovetop coffee, not as strong obviously but lacking some body to it.
Also in other news the price of the PS5 is to set to increase due to whatever reasoning Sony has given.
Increase of 70 dollars, makes me wonder if the rest of the tech industry will up their prices as well.
bacon@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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early cat breakfast sorted
1st breakfast done
time for second sleep
busy day ahead after that
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Good night guys. Sweet dreams. 😘
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I have an assignment to finish by later tonight, but I just want to sit and play guitar. That will be my reward (tomorrow)
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
At this hour there is a perfect sunbathing spot on the stairs
black cat with sun halo
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Just makin’ sure it’s level.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
One is quite markedly not
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
You even got a wave.