Pilfered Mail

One of the tenants in another unit discovered a man (last night or this morning) in his early twenties going through my mail box. He had used some piece of metal to open it and was opening my letters. He said the person was feeling the letters first, to see if they contained anything. Apparently they do this to find credit cards. Two of my letters had been opened. Anyway, the co-tenant, who I will have to give thank-you letter stopped the thief and delivered my mail as the mail box was now open.

A young man in his early twenties. approx 173 cm tall, 65 kg (so quite skinny), short black hair, well dressed in black and white over sized top, dark sunglasses, jeans and runners. He had a shoulder bag hanging on his right shoulder. He had a short mustache and spoke clear English.

Woman in Black

A strange event happened while moving house. I was down in the basement putting some things in my car. As I returned I saw the bottom of the truck in the drive up at road level. I head someone running on the wooden plank ramp leading up into the truck. So I ran towards the truck. From where I was, all I could see were the legs of someone wearing black from about the knee down. When I got to the road level there was only one person who could be seen. A woman at the flats next door, in the direction the person had run. She was wearing a black burqa dress. She stood there and looked at me. I wonder if she took anything?

countdown

The people moving into my place are pushing for a 12:30 settlement. I agree so this is good. It gives me time to get into the new place.

Moving House

It seems all systems go for moving tomorrow. So my next post should be from the new house.

not moving tomorrow

I am not moving tomorrow. The person working for the solicitor of the party I am purchasing from left the company. No one else took up the work. Then it was too late. All the people who could do it were away at court cases. We are trying to reschedule for 20 September.

There was an oddball statement made on the street that Cluff And Scant found out something and becuase of this they canceled this settlement. I wonder what they found out.

lumps and bumps in the settlement process

he said "it is almost guaranteed it will happen on time." I said, "it did not work the time before. How certain is almost guaranteed?" he said "90%". Well in the industry I work in 99.9999% is considered to be almost acceptable and we aim for 99.9999999%. 90% is not guaranteed at all! Anyway things are not going well. There is one outstanding item. The person in the other party's solicitor's firm is on holidays. They have not provided the final details. That was yesterday morning. I will call this morning to see if it has been sorted.

Moving House Hassles

Well moving has not gone as smoothly as I expected. I am moving on 14 September, a Friday. Perhaps, now I know more, choosing a Friday was a bad choice.

• There is now a complicated process for choosing a gas and electricity supplier. I went to the ombudsman's site and got the links to the supplier sites. Most sites are next to useless when it comes to finding out what their plans are and what they charge. A very sorry state of affairs. In the end I picked Australian Power and Gas, as their site made sense and I could see the prices and they were good. But they cannot supply to new places until a week after I moved in because they are a new company. So after some more hassles, I stuck with my current gas supplier AGL for both the gas and electricity. At least I could see their plans online, but to sort it out I still had to call them as there was much information missing.
• Telstra can book the moving of the phone to the new location. But I was unable to cancel my big pond account before time. I have to call them on the day. What a pain in the neck.
• I am ordering ADSL for my new house. However, I will not have a new phone connected until Monday after I have moved in. I cannot order the service until the phone is actually installed and then it takes another three days for the connection to happen and the modem to arrive. So I will be without broadband access for 5 days.
  

Everything else is going OK.

total cost of moving house

Well in the end it was an expensive exercise. It cost quite a lot is money I will never see again.

tax $24,557.88
legal $2,600.00
moving $1,779.80
estate agent fees $7,625.00
other $2,150.00

total $38,712.68