Two of the best contestants we’ve had on the show = got great ratings out of these campaigners being campaigners, which paid for my new yacht and another year of boner pills
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Two of the best contestants we’ve had on the show = got great ratings out of these campaigners being campaigners, which paid for my new yacht and another year of boner pills
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Do they do the Block outside of Sydney or VIC?
Thered be plenty of locations suitable in South East QLD, Adelaide, potentially parts of Perth. I'm sure they could find some great sports in Tassie and regional NSW too.
Thered be plenty of locations suitable in South East QLD, Adelaide, potentially parts of Perth. I'm sure they could find some great sports in Tassie and regional NSW too.
From what i understand Sydney councils are to hard to deal with so they won't go back there.But yeh i agree take it elsewhere for a while.
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That's because from week to week the contestants are judged and scored upon the ability to hit a 'brief' when that 'brief' doesn't necessarily take in to account the person who may actually purchase the properties and what they may use them for. You pigeon hole a house if you go to the extent of designing a childrens bedroom specifically for a 5yo girl, or design a flash in the pan living room that can only actually sit about 5 people comfortably in it. They win points, but most real world people would be like "yeah nah"
The issue is because the properties are marketed without the agents representing the property actually knowing the desired target. If you're running a campaign pushing potential buyers are a price of circa $2.8M and then on auction day your reserve is set at $2.97M, this is killing the actual potential for buyers. Not only this, even the quoted price ranges are well above the median for the area.
Whether the agents do or do not know the reserves, this area probably needs work to guarantee genuine competition.
I felt like H3's auctioneer was trashed, deservedly or not, and they'd be careful about what more they say about him from a defamation perspecitve, at least that I was my thoughts at the time,.
Having said that though, he pooped the bed and by the time Frank bidded $2.9M for Leah & Ash's house, you knew he'd figured it out based on H3s auctioneer, which may or may not have contributed to the shit run after H2.
To Alice from Domain, I don't reckon H4 would have gotten anywhere near it did going anywhere other than first. Possibly second, but certainly not at the end.
I would agree with asking them not to participate, but its a hard one to swallow given it's the only thing not making the show an embarrassment at this point.
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A couple of other thoughts:
They shot themselves in the foot with how much they paid for the properties in the first place. This was always not going to bare well for the reserve prices.
You can show Leah & Ash looking forlorn but I wouldn't be too confident yet, they have the best chance now to get a better result than H1 and H3.
They need to return to a program where auction order is determined by an earlier decided process, such as who scored the highest points for the season, perhaps they get to pick and then the other 4 go in order 1-4 after that.
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The whole "we wanted you to open up at 3.2M" is a bit crap - I'm sure plenty of people would love to start the auction higher than their reserve - but as he said, with Consumer Affairs in the room, asking for the first bid to be $200k higher than the reserve is probably a fair no no
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Speaking after the show, Inan claimed a Consumer Affairs representative was on his case during the auction, urging him to state when the house was on the market.
“With Consumer Affairs [Victoria] in attendance it’s very hard not to answer truthfully,” he said to Domain after the auction.
“You can sometimes say, ‘Look I’ll answer you when I’m ready.’ But the reality is, with Consumer Affairs there – and they’re knowing what the paperwork says – it’s very, very hard to do anything but tell the truth.
“They actually followed me around during the break and said, ‘You’d better make sure you reiterate that it’s on the market – I don’t think everyone heard you’.”
“With Consumer Affairs [Victoria] in attendance it’s very hard not to answer truthfully,” he said to Domain after the auction.
“You can sometimes say, ‘Look I’ll answer you when I’m ready.’ But the reality is, with Consumer Affairs there – and they’re knowing what the paperwork says – it’s very, very hard to do anything but tell the truth.
“They actually followed me around during the break and said, ‘You’d better make sure you reiterate that it’s on the market – I don’t think everyone heard you’.”
The Block: Danny Wallis selling St Kilda house Mitch and Mark renovated due to Victorian government’s land tax changes - realestate.com.au
Regular Block bidder Danny Wallis is selling a glam “party house” he snapped up on the show’s 2019 season. And he has blamed former Premier Daniel Andrews as his main reason why.www.realestate.com.au
Perhaps we won't be in for some quirky bids this week
I wasn't quite right, there was a quirky bid or two.
But I genuinely reckon he had little intention of buying a property this time around, based on his earlier complaints regarding land tax. He would have been there to show he think he's still king dick, and probably cause Ch9 needed him there to help prop up things
He was never interested in buying.
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The Block finale: Danny Wallis slams show's 'junk' houses and leaves empty-handed
Danny Wallis, who usually bids on The Block houses has slammed this season's properties and left empty-handed. Read more.
Only if she is an egotistical multi multi millionaire using the show to inflate her 'brand'... I agree, it is very unlikely.
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He was never interested in buying.
The Block finale: Danny Wallis slams show's 'junk' houses and leaves empty-handed
Danny Wallis, who usually bids on The Block houses has slammed this season's properties and left empty-handed. Read more.
What a flog.
"He also shared that residential tenancies regulations that were introduced in 2021 were another reason he was keen to sell, as it means tenants can do things such as replacing curtains, installing picture hooks, planting a vegetable or herb garden, painting, installing security systems and more without the landlord's permission."
Wannabe slumlords who don't want their tenants to ever feel like they have a home are the worst.
PLANTING A HERB GARDEN WITHOUT PERMISSION?!
What a flog.
"He also shared that residential tenancies regulations that were introduced in 2021 were another reason he was keen to sell, as it means tenants can do things such as replacing curtains, installing picture hooks, planting a vegetable or herb garden, painting, installing security systems and more without the landlord's permission."
Wannabe slumlords who don't want their tenants to ever feel like they have a home are the worst.
PLANTING A HERB GARDEN WITHOUT PERMISSION?!
In the case of the block houses where he'd probably want to keep them reasonably close to the original finished product I can kinda see a point here.
But in that article he answers why he didn't buy and it was certainly not because he didn't like the houses.
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Didn't the Belle guy..Sam Inan say 2.9 Mil.
Pretty stupid thing to say at the start of a auction.
He said today people didn't see value in Kusty and Brett house.
Doubley dumb as their real-estate agent.
Pretty stupid thing to say at the start of a auction.
He said today people didn't see value in Kusty and Brett house.
Doubley dumb as their real-estate agent.
The place has already sold tho
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To be fair, they gave the midget plumber a job this year and probably helped him get the Hi pages ad.
So would Keith & Dan have normal day jobs?
Surely this can't be all they do?
Surely this can't be all they do?
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As far as Danny and Adrian go, Frank is getting past his used by date to… “is it on the market?“ seems to be his opening bid now. And what ever happened to Greville and the Brunette lady? Sick of never landing a sale anymore?
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Doubt anyone is on the other end of that phone he's always on.
All for drama.
What's with old mate putting 0.9c at the end of stuff?
What was the auctioneer saying "I'll chip in $1000 for you to increase it by $1000"
is that even legal?
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All for drama.
What's with old mate putting 0.9c at the end of stuff?
What was the auctioneer saying "I'll chip in $1000 for you to increase it by $1000"
is that even legal?
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So we tink Lumbo guy taking things out of the house.
And going another raffle..?
And going another raffle..?
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Both Dan & Keith work as building foremen outside The Block on other building sites.
