Category Archives: Personal

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Day 41 to 47 – Nothing beats a new, fresh coat of paint!

Hello all,

Not much to update this week as the renovations are going along strongly and taking up the majority of my time.

The house renovations are coming along nicely with painting well under way.  It’s amazing how good a fresh white coat of paint looks. I anticipate painting will be finished over the next week or two and will post before and after pictures of the renovations then.

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Day 27 to 33 – Let the renovations begin!

Well, my loan should be processed this week (perhaps even tomorrow!) meaning I should have some money in the bank to start the renovations as part of my overall Zero to a Million strategy.  With the assistance of my grandfather, I will start in putting up a false wall up in the lounge room to build a fourth bedroom.  Then, the other renovations will follow.

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Day 13 – A rough house renovation project plan

Ok great – I have now come up with my ‘house spruce’ plan and budget as follows…

Available resources:

  • My grandfather (available full time)
  • Myself (available after business hours)
  • My mum, dad and brother (available for a few days here and there)

Things I would like to do (prices do not include labour as it is intended above resources will assist and time stated is timeframe, not actual effort):

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Day 6 to 12 – The plan before the plan (before the plan?)

Ohayou,

It certainly has been a busy week so I am going to begin by reflecting on the week that has gone by.

Looking at the action plan I had set for days 6 to 10, plus two days for the weekend actually bringing it to day 12, I am quite happy to say that I am on track and have completed everything I wanted to do thus far.

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