HEY

and when you get $00 per child at tax gtime, you also get $300 per family... :) it all comes in handy!! And if you're like my DP who didnt get off his butt and do his tax return, you get it around now.... which does came in handy :)

Such a long day here, im spring cleaning, and have had enough... got a mega headache from bending over to pick stuff up. Have been going since about 10.30, and only half done ergh. May have to do it tomorrow too...

better get back to it...

I Hate Real Estate Agents And The Crap That Is Trying To Rent.
I Want To Kick And Scream And Punch Things.
Rant More Later.

Hope Everyone Else I Well. I Am An Angry Angry Angry Girl.

Oh Ash :hugs:

i have to say i hate real estate companys also. There isn't much around and what there is, is far too expensive for what it is!

Hope you can find something soon.

when we renewed our lease this year our stupid RE agent put the rent up by $30 a week, i burst into tears when i got the letter, but its was so much easier to just sign and pay that then to have to look for another place which would cost about he same anyway, or close to... A.holes!

We rent our place off a guy that DP works with and in August they sent us a rent renewal and a letter stating they were putting our rent up $10 which i understand isnt much, so DP contacted the owner and he had no idea about the rent rise he contacted the real estate and gave them his notice to stop renting the house through them. So after Christmas we'll be paying our rent straight to the owner unless he finds another real estate.
There's not alot on the rental market, i wanted to move before the baby is here as we're living in a huge house and not very close to shops, but DP said we'd stay here for a bit after the baby is born.

i guess i am really lucky, i have a big 3x1 1km from the beach in rockingham for $200 a week... so many other people applied for this house (about 20 from what im told) but i begged and pleaded and rang up at least once a day... and they gave it to me :) I also got great ref's, (church minister) and my mums boyfriend said i was his office girl (little white lie, "Girl Friday i think he referred to me as...) and i was a clean freak, and meticulous to detail. It must have swayed them... :)

Good luck girlies, the market sucks... I feel lucky to rent a nice house, let alone think about buying... Once DP gets his degree and finishes med school, we may be able to buy a little something on that... fingers crossed...

Kat PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE teach me how to find rent! My wage isn't that great, in fact its not much more than what the rent would be. I hope that after tomorrow I will soon be approved for single parenting payment. The biggest bonus I see in that is pensioner concession which would seriously cut down my work travel expenses. But how do I make my application good? What days are best to look? I have w/e mon and fri when I don't work. But I'd have to take my daughter and I don't drive so it would be a pain to see the place. I guess I'll find something.

Ash :hugs:

VENT AHEAD!!!!

What's the go with real estate agency expectations??? I mean honestly, they want us to work to afford it, but they wont plan inspections for when were not working, and then they wont let us apply without looking at it. Oh, and did i mention government housing initiatives have a six to twentyfour month waiting period... so even for emergency cheap accomodation we're apparently screwed...
I looked at a website that said you shouldn't pay more than 30% of your income on rent per week, strangely enough even with bringing that down to 20% r/e agents dont think were good enough. I think i might look into private rentals...
Anyway, ssorry about the rental rant, im just so frustrated and over it. We tried buying and the finance/conveyancing company screwed us over to the point where it took them three weeks to forward our applications to the banks and then the owner told us to get f'd. Now we've been looking for rentals for two months, we only have til the end of december to get out and it seems were not making progress at all. Do they really believe that every single young person with children is that irresponsible??????? How come my mum who used to earn 26k a year with three kids managed to rent just fine, but we have an income of 42k and one baby and cant get a house. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Sorry.....

People are jumping on the profit bandwagon. I'm sure all those that rent out have never had to rent themselves. Elouise doesn't want a nap so I gotta go. Would say more but can't.
Love yas

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People are jumping on the profit bandwagon. I'm sure all those that rent out have never had to rent themselves.

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that's so true! most of the people renting out houses don't have the mortgage to pay, they are just upping the rent because of "interest rate rises". It's just an excuse! I am dreading looking for somewhere to live. But I can't stay here forever..... mmmm

take care :D

I wish we could share Sal! Damn the 4000km!!!

Funny you say that, I was just saying to mum that if things don't work out with Nigel i should move interstate!

gee its hot here today just a stinker..

My Ds has been have some truable at school atm so I went to his teacher the other day to talk about it, but she just laugh like it was nothing grrrrrr it makes me soooooo mad that even now I get treated like I dont know anything, just because I had my child at 21 doesnt mean I know any less about him than a mother who had their child at 33. it just makes me so mad.. When will I ever be treated like everybody else is treated.. sorry girls I know this seems a bit left field but you will be the only ones who would kinda know whats its like not that you have school kids yet. just need to get it of my chest..

Always a good place to vent :D oh, we have a lot to look forward to by the sound of things!!

yeah things dont seem to change much :( but it just gets harder as you age as I think that I'm old but then when they get to school most the mums are almost 40 so 28 seems young again. maybe when kai is in school I will feel normal but by them I will have one in yr 6 .

I thought I'd pop in, hope I'm not too old! I'm 24 (will be 25 in Feb) and my dh is 28 this month. We have been together since Nov 01, got engaged Feb 06 and married Mar 07. We have our little man, Jensen born Aug 07. I can't wait to have more! It was the best experience I've ever had! I went back to work on Thursday just gone - originally for one day a week. Spoke to my boss, and he said I could do 2 days per wk, and as money is tight, i said yes. Jensen is 3mths old, and will be watched by his nana (dh mum) and his oma (my mum). hehe they get to share, 1 day a week each.

Catherine - PM me with any questions, and i'd be happy to answer them for you :) Centrelink will pay rent assist, my sister has 2 children and she gets about $100 a fortnight rent assist.

hello sconeonamission.... (love ya nic :D ) welcome to our young mum thread... :D

Welcome sconeonamission! :)
The max amount of rent assistance you can get is $123.76 for 1-2 kids and $140 for 3 or more
Oh boy it makes me angry thinking of people (or at least their real estate managers) who put up the cost of rent just because they're greedy. Really gets up my goat! its just a shame that its just about impossible to buy a home unless you're in a relationship and both working full time. I had a look at what we could borrow from Home Start to buy a house and it was like $170,000. we couldn't buy a stretch of gutter in the street with that...... All the houses around here are a minimum of $300,000 unless you want to live in the festy neighbourhoods where there are a lot of disturbances, drugs, violence, etc.. AND on top of that, any houses that are going cheap are being bought by companies who are ripping them down to build two houses on the same block its total bullsh*t. I see it everywhere, blocks with two houses going up so they can double their cash, never mind the poorer people who could've bought the house at a reasonable price TO LIVE IN.
tali - i understand what you mean, when mine are old enough for school i might end up bringing DH to do most of the talking, he's currently 32 so that might make a difference in how they deal with us i dunno.
Gawd i'm hungry... imma go have some breakie..
*hugs*

Hello & welcome sconeonamission

Welcome Scone! I'm not thinking too much about school just yet. One at a time, find a place to live first.

Hey Cate, you little girl is sooooooo cute!

Thanks Nina!

Hi , Just wanted to stop in and say Hi , Im 21 and about a week away from induced birth of my first Baby - hopfully called Maya . My partner is 35 but im not positive as to how much longer ill put up with the situation there . But more later .
Ive enjoyed reading and getting to know u all a little better through past posts . and hope you are all doing well .
As for Renting i can relate there moved out at 14 struggled renting so i can feel your anger . Thanks for listening and Hope u & babes are doing ok .

Hi Cheryle,
Welcome, and thanks for dropping in :D Congratulations on your daughter :)

Welcome Cheryle :D
Congratulations! and GL with the birth i hope all goes well and you have a great experience :)

Hi Cheryle and welcome :D
Good luck with the birth of your daughter

Hey Cheryle,

It's kinda exciting that you know exactly when your baby girl will be here!! I wish I could know when bubba boy would show his beautiful face! Then I might be a little more ready...

How are you all going? I hope that everything is going smoothly for you all! How is the renting situation going Ash?

Welcome Cheryle! Good luck with the birth and hopefully you sort out what you want from your partner soon. Sometimes its better to leave before it gets messy with fighting. I can tell you that! We still have to have big discussions but we only broke up last week. But I'm doing fine. And you will too. Katnap and some of the others here are so helpful, so you'll be well looked after!

Welcome Cheryle, good to have another young mum on board =D !!!
Hi and hope everyone else is keeping well, i've been a bit scarce of late....

Nina - renting is still a pain, we looked at three places this morning though so that's a step at least. First real estate agency to actually make a time to suit us for inspection, so that's a bonus...
now just to get all the different info this compnay wants... why can't they make the required info universal, so to speak? would make things so much easier...

not much else is news, im a bit of a wreck, but im betting that's third trimester blues... wooohooo. i want it to be over already!

Ash, How is "jellybean" progressing? Did you end up finding out what you are having? You must be getting excited, not long to go now!! :D

WOW Ash, I remember looking at how pregnant you were when you were 19 weeks and I was 16....now your 28 and I'm 25 tomorrow! How time flys!

Well at leasr that is a step in the right direction with the renting situation. Fingers crossed for you guys. You'll get a place soon....I can feel it.

It's sooo cool that we all kept this thread going and that there is other young mummys and mummys to be joining all the time.
Hope eveyone is going well. It is so hot here at the moment. Can't wait till next Friday when We fly out of here for Christmas holidays....some relief from the humidity. It is 85% on a GOOD day! Sydney here we come!

Hey Nina what part of Darwin do you live we have had 3 posting to there so have lived on larrakeyah, the RAAF Base then the last time we lived in Rosebery. Darwins a funny place I alway want to get out of there when I'm living there but as soon as we do we want to go back. I think I just miss small thing like mindle beach night market and eating barr and chips at the warft(sp?) life seems simple there. its a shame it just so expencive to live there and the cost of comming home is too great now that we wouldnt have rllt to reliy on.

Hey Tali,
We live in Bakewell. Yes, Darwin IS a funny place. I have been here for 11yrs and am soooooo over it. Joel got a posting to 2CER in Brisbane so we will be moving there in January. Can't wait for that either.

Yeah I wil miss things like the Barra too. I LOVE Barramundi. I like Mindil for the food but can't stand the fact that everyone pushes their way around and that mothers with prams EXPECT you to move out of the way for them when you were there first....lol that seems to happen to me alot. I find the people here really rude and obnoxious. Not to mention shocking drivers. Everyone does atleast 20 over the speed limit and if you don't drive like them...they let you know about it. Oooops...I think you've opened up a can of worms..... ;)

Nina, I feel the same way. That's why I won't get my licence, I'm terrified of Sydney drivers. One day I'll drive but I can't panic at the wheel so I won't yet.

Hey Sally, jellybean is great, thanks for asking. We did find out, we're having a boy, they say 95%, but everything was on display ' loud and clear' made daddy quite proud. LOL! I'm very excited, but also of course leading up to the idea of birth i'm becoming more and more terrified, seems the third tri hormones have kicked their way in despite my best attempts as well. I'm pretty much a mess all the time - which is annoying me greatly!!! Thank goodness for downtime on public transport // im sorry to all those people that watch me in fits of tears for no reason!! Haha!!!

Nina, i know what you mean, it really seems like yesterday... so close now... Midwife advised to be prepared to go at 36 weeks as early tends to run in the family, so i guess that's something i might need to keep in mind. Although my mum has tiny hips and mine are twice the size, so who knows, either way i'm just hoping the summer flies by! Thanks for your encouragement re: the rental situation, fingers crossed we get somewhere soon, it would take a lot of our minds...

Hope everyone else is doing well, as i said i seem to have the third trimester blues and a bit of morning sickness again but apart from that im slowly just waiting to get fat!!

Ash, I have those lovely wide pelvis/hip bones that made giving birth not painless by not too difficult and my reward: not finding pants that fit right. Yay :(.

nina - yes the worms are open lol

the driver do drive fast but they are heaps better than over here where they dont let you in or know where there going.

I did notice last time we lived there that darwin was look old and tired they really do need to fix it up a bit. how the water frount project going have they done much or are they doing it in Darwin time?

well better go DH is home today so better spend some time with him...

Tali: LOL @ Darwin time. It seems to be coming along. The convention center part of it is due to be open in early 08. But you never know.... Mitchell st has really boomed in the last 6mths or so. Nearly every shop and cafe there has been renovated and it is starting to look quite nice. Mind you they are chopping down all the trees to make way for new buildings so it desn't have that old Darwin charm about it anymore.
Still not enough to keep me here. Can't wait to see it from the sky. I know that I will get home sick in the first few mths but hopefully having bubby I won't have too much time to ponder. Will miss my friends the most. My Dad and Brother live in Byron Bay so it's only about a 2hr drive from Brisbane and I will be with family.

Hey Ash: My due date is the 18th of March but for a couple of weeks now I have this feeling that he will be born on the 12th. The other day I was hanging out the washing and that date cam into my head....wonder if that is when it's all going to happen??

Cate: If I lived in Sydney I'd be terrified to get my licence too. Don't worry..take your time and get it when your ready. The great thing about Sydney is that you have all that public transport that you can practically go anywhere on. The public transport here is shocking!

:hug: Cat!!! I know what you mean... though my problem tends to be the top end... if only i could win tattslotto to pay for a breast reduction. im sure then id find i couldn't find something else to fit, lol!

Nina, yeah it's really weird like that isn't it? Mum thinks she's going to go on december 21, she said her 'tarot cards said so'. I figure i'll either go on feb 14th (being v-day, this year ant and i were each others 'fake' valentines, little did we realise the other one was serious too...), the 18th which was sort of a first date, but we call it our anniversary day anyway, or the 22nd which is probably the 'official' date. either that or the 29th, (just because its a leap year and little JB would be confused as all heck).
Apparently the family's have bets on the 11th, because it's FIL's birthday, and my mum says jan 28th because she went four weeks early with me and that will be DF's 21st.

garble garble garble. i should talk less crap!!! goodnight ladies :grouphug: to you all!