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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: What kind of house buyer are you? Are you pedantic?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: I've spent more time deliberating over pasta sources than buying

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Speaker 1: a house. Every house I've bought, I don't get a

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Speaker 1: building inspection. I just go straight in there. What do

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Speaker 1: you want for it?

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Speaker 3: Bank? Done?

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Speaker 2: But Helen's very pragmatic, isn't she?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: No, she's what makes our partnership work with buying houses

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Speaker 1: is we don't like the house at the same time.

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Speaker 1: This has happened to us once and the house was

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Speaker 1: a total dump and it was great. It was it

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Speaker 1: was It was a good house for us because we

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Speaker 1: bought it kind of cheaply and managed to renovate it.

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Speaker 3: But I will never do that again.

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Speaker 2: You don't like it at the same time, or.

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Speaker 1: Like it at the same time. If you both like

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Speaker 1: the house at the same time, then you've got trouble.

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Speaker 1: You need one partner to not like the house so

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Speaker 1: when you go into it, you're not We particularly with

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Speaker 1: an auction, gotcha. But there was one house that we

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Speaker 1: bought an Helen loved it and I wasn't so Keen,

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Speaker 1: So I went to the auction not really wanting it.

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Speaker 3: She didn't come to the ouction. That's the other thing.

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Speaker 3: Go to the auction by herself. Don't go as a couple.

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Speaker 1: Because then and then I bought the house and I

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Speaker 1: rang her and I said, I've got the house, and

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Speaker 1: because I know what you do that for, and I said,

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Speaker 1: we you said to buy the house a bit late.

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Speaker 2: Now, casual, I am the worst poker player of all time.

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Speaker 2: When we bought a house in the Northern Beaches years ago,

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Speaker 2: twenty five years ago, I walked in and Harley said,

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Speaker 2: don't say a thing. But I walked in and said,

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Speaker 2: I love it. How much do you want for it?

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Speaker 2: And I didn't notice that. I was so enthused by it.

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Speaker 2: I didn't notice it had a driveway that would make

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Speaker 2: a billy goat anxious. That's one of those steep But

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Speaker 2: I didn't even notice. I just loved the house so much.

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Speaker 2: But the reason I asked this is that someone here

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Speaker 2: house hunters being urged to bring along a kit of

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Speaker 2: simple rules to assess whether the house is perfect. No,

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Speaker 2: but it's almost as bad. So. Experts from the Australian

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Speaker 2: Apartment Advocacy recommend that you take three items with you

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Speaker 2: when you're inspecting a house, even to rent or buy.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the first one. A hair dryer. Why

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Speaker 2: so that you can check This is for your final inspection,

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Speaker 2: so you can check all the power points are working.

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Speaker 2: Imagine going around checking all of them. What about? Why

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Speaker 2: do you think you'd be told to take along a tissue?

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Speaker 3: It'd be like a breezy thing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, hold up tissues in every room to detect any

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Speaker 2: wind or drafts that are coming through cracks or holes

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Speaker 2: in the home. Come on, and why do you think

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Speaker 2: you'd take a small mirror? A small mirror should be

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Speaker 2: used to look at the top and bottom of doors

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Speaker 2: to ensure they've been painted.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on, so you're not going to buy the

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Speaker 3: house because of that?

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Speaker 2: Or and also check batteries confirms if the remotes are functional?

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Speaker 2: Come on? And what about this another of the recommendations.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if someone came to your an inspection for your

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Speaker 2: house and ask for a flood test on a balcony.

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Speaker 3: What do you do, Well, that's what they've said, blood test.

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Speaker 2: They say it's you can ask for a flood test

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Speaker 2: on a balcony, But if developers refuse, A marble can

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Speaker 2: be used to make sure water will drain to any

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Speaker 2: drainage point well.

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Speaker 1: Or you can get a building I think like the

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Speaker 1: developer thing, like if you're getting a slim Maharsher Special,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of those towers that all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: Well, then I would get a professional building inspector take

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Speaker 2: a lot. Can I flood your balcony? No?

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Speaker 1: What you do is you bring a like a priest

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Speaker 1: to do an exorcism.

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Speaker 3: That's what I want.

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Speaker 2: Jones and Amanda's