House hunting comes to an end

It's been a while since I last posted. We bought a house!

We finally found a house that suits us. It's a brick house, not termite food. It has no termites. We will be homeowners again at the end of this week.

It's actually quite a process buying a house here in Queensland, and it seems more complicated and time consuming than it does in Perth. Nevertheless, we have been through all the work of getting masses of paperwork completed and signed and witnessed by JP's etc. Now I can have time to do important and interesting things again...

The other good thing for us is that our landlord found someone else to live in the house we are renting and take over our lease, which means we don't have to keep paying rent as well as our shiny new mortgage!

There's a few things we need to do to the new house, and the extra money from not paying rent will come in handy. Things such as replacing the pool fence to meet the requirements of Queensland's strict new pool safety laws, as well as enclosing the existing carport into another room.

All in all, it should be exciting. We are definitely looking forward to having our own place again, somewhere we can actually settle in.