SOLD…..
At long last and just over a year after putting it on the market our house in the hills has sold. Unfortunately the housing market in Perth is not great and is going nowhere fast, so we had to take less than we wanted and…
Category: Paying for the Dream
Selling a House to Buy a Catamaran :)
We are getting closer to moving off land, just a minor hurdle of selling a house in a recession…. Shame to sell it, as its a beautiful property, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
How to Leave the Daily Grind and afford to Sail Away Part 3
So the next idea to further our cause was bricks and mortar. After the GFC the property market in Perth was in a slump for a long time and we took advantage of this to buy a cheap, but run down house. Having a sizeable…
How to Leave the Daily Grind and afford to Sail Away Part 2
I’ll admit, being 45 at the time, I already had a history of 15 years hard work behind me, so I was not starting from scratch, but I was still many hundreds of thousands of dollars away from our goal of sailing away. OK, so…
How to Leave the Daily Grind and afford to Sail Away Part 1
So this is a very tricky one and if you are not one of the lucky few, for most of us it’s a major issue. Breaking away from the enslavement of the Western World’s hamster wheel and the continual cycle or work, taxes, bills &…