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Episode #17 The Drive Home to the Hawkesbury with Rachael Goldsworthy – Rachael talks about attending an Open Home for a rental property

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Hi, my name’s Rachael Goldsworthy, and today I want to talk to you about open inspections for rental properties.

When you’re attending that as a potential tenant, what’s always best to do is make sure that you have all of your information ready to go. I’ve just come from one in McGraths Hill, we had about 25, to 30 people through the open home, so lots of interest, especially at the moment. It’s a fairly hot market with the rental markets, so it’s always advised that you get in and get your information in as soon as possible to give yourself the best chance.

The second thing I would recommend that you do with that is also have the documentation to back it up. If you don’t have the documentation ready to go, you like the home, the chances are somebody else will have that documentation ready to go, and it makes it very difficult for you to attain that property that you want to attain unless you have everything there, as I say.

Number one: turn up to the inspection, number two: make sure you’ve got your 100 point check ready to go, and number three: fill in your application as soon as you possibly can, so that you can get the best possible chance to attain that rental property that you’re after.

All right. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy, and I’ll catch up with you next time.

Episode #16 The Drive Home to the Hawkesbury with Rachael Goldsworthy – Rachael talks about what to look for at an Open Home

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Hi, my names Rachael Goldsworthy. We’re just heading off to an open inspection at Riverstone this morning. It’s a new listing. We’ve had about 45 inquiries during the week and we’re expecting 19 people this morning. It’s going to be good open inspection.

What I’ll probably recommend for buyers when they’re looking at getting into a home or going to an open inspection, might sound a bit dorky but take a clipboard. You can write down a list of things that you’re looking in for in a home. Maybe the top ten things. You’re probably not going to get all of them in any home, so you’ll probably get eight to ten things out of a home but the other two things you can always add to later on once you’re in there. Things like land size might be important to you, whether it’s brick veneer, double brick or weather board. Whether you have terracotta roof tiles, whether you have an iron roof. It’s all dependent on what you want to do.

Just make sure that you’re clear of what you want to achieve from the open home, and make sure you have a look at everything you possibly can at the home because it always just gives you a better snapshot. When you walk away you’ve got some notes, and you can go back to them because you might be looking at say, three homes, in one particular day. There’s no way that you can remember all of those things at any one time. That would be my advice to you.

Good luck with your opens, I hope they go well as I’m sure this one will today. I’ll catch up with you in the next video.

Episode #14 The Drive Home to the Hawkesbury with Rachael Goldsworthy – The rental process with Rachael Goldsworthy Realty

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Hi people. My name’s Rachael Goldsworthy and I’m just going to talk to you about inspections. I’m heading off to McGraths Hill. I’ve got an open home there today. It’s for an inspection for tenants only. That’s for people that are looking to rent a home as opposed to buy a home. Usually you’ll get quite a number of people there given it’s quite a hot market in the rental market at the moment. There’s a lot of tenants out there and probably not as many homes for the tenants that are looking for homes.

With those inspections, they’re advertised on our website. Then the people turn up and have a look through the home, see what it’s that they’re after, and then after that then they take what they call a rental application for. That renal application form is then processed within our office and we nominate the three top most suitable tenants for the property. We put that forward to the owner. The owner then makes a decision based on that.

It’s really important that you go to these inspections. Look at as many homes as you possibly can do because if you don’t, just let that gentleman in. He’s trying to get in and there’s a lot of traffic here heading through Windsor. If you don’t get out to see as many homes as you possibly can, sometimes there’s better options available for you. You look at everything within the home. Remember whether there’s built in wardrobes. Remember whether there’s air conditioning. Fly screen are another important one because as a home is rented or once a home is rented or leased to a potential tenant, as is. Then if the landlord does not want to put those services in as additional services to you, you are stuck with in that timeframe of the lease.

What I recommend, just make sure you check all of the things that are really important to you, what you won’t compromise on as a tenant, and go from there. All right. If you need any further help in regards to renting your homes or looking at renting a home, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Episode#13 The Drive Home to the Hawkesbury with Rachael Goldsworthy – Rachael talks about getting an agent out to list your home

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Hi, my name’s Rachael Goldsworthy, and today I wanted to talk to you about going to somebody’s house just before they’re going to list the home for sale. When somebody lists their home for sale, they get quite nervous about the whole process. The agent goes out, has a look at the home, gives them an idea of the value of their home so that they can then list their home for sale. I had one particular person today that was looking at listing their home for sale, but was really anxious about the agent going out because well my house is untidy, or my backyard’s not right, or this is not right.

At the end of the day for what we do, and the way I see my role with the agency is that that’s our job to point out those things that need to be done. We can help you identify very quickly as to what a buyer’s looking for in a home, and what things that you need to tidy up with your home prior to selling. Things like zeroing weeds and gardens and general declutter, that’s all pretty normal things. Other things that we can identify pretty quickly in regards to homes, for example painting around gutters and storm water drains that aren’t connected, that aren’t normally things but as a result of that can cause other problems with the home.

If you wanted me to come out and have a look at your home and give you any ideas to what the value of your home maybe or any other things that might help you with the assist of the, assist you the the sale process, or get you a higher price, more than happy to do that. Once again, contact me if you’ve got any question.

Episode #12 The Drive Home to the Hawkesbury with Rachael Goldsworthy – Rachael talks about Property Valuations

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Hi, my name is Rachael Goldsworthy, and I’ve just come from a inspection at a home that had a valuation done on it. With evaluations they’re always done after contracts are exchanged, and it’s just to ensure that the bank’s lending the money against the right value, and they want to ensure that their not lending over and above what the home could potentially be worth. The situation is if the home is sold often a home is very close to market value or over and above market value, or what they perceive to be market value. In that instance, if the valuation doesn’t come up trumps, that means that obviously the agent’s done a really good job, and you’ve got more than what they perceive the market value to be of the home.

Equal it means that money needs to come from somewhere to ensure that it gets sold. For example, if the home is sold for 500,000 and the valuer thought that the home was only worth 490,000 it means that that difference of $10,000 needs to be met by somebody. Either the buyer comes up to that 500,000 by putting $10,000 into it, or the vendor if the buyer is unable to, is then asked the question whether they are willing to sell the home at 490 as opposed to 500, the agreed sale price.

It just depends on an individual circumstance, so it’s a case by case basis. It’s just a matter of working out each time that you sell your home as to how things pan out. Usually, nine times out of 10 you’re fine, or maybe eight times out of 10 you’re fine, but sometimes you’ll find that the home is not valued as high as what it might have been sold for. Sometimes it’s a process of negotiation, but it’s all good. If it’s managed in the correct way, it’s an easy process to follow. All right, if you’ve got any other questions in regards to those sorts of things or real estate, don’t hesitate to give me a call.

Are you trading Effectiveness for Busyness?

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I was watching a seminar during the week by Bishop T.D. Jakes and I loved the simple message he shared. Now you don’t have to be religious to continue reading this post however it may just challenge the way you think so I encourage you to stay with me.

The Bishop says that “We live in a society that has dumbed down our ideas….Mobile Phones, Apps, Ipods, Ipads, Computer Games, Facebook, Twitter,Gadgets… because we have traded effectiveness for busyness.” He goes onto say that “we are busier than any other generation than we have seen in the last 300 to 400 years.”

I think we can all make the mistake of thinking because we are busy we must be effective. The Bishop encourages us all to take a look at our schedule. “Are you being effective or is your life being cluttered with all kinds of stuff that demands you, drains you, taxes you and stops you from being your highest and best self? And are you substituting busyness and all the chaos that goes along with busyness from being effective?”

He says, “You can take my clothes, I can get others. You can take my car, I can get another. You can take my house, I can get another but when you take my time, you have taken something from me that is totally irreplaceable.”

The Bishop says, “Every moment in your life is a gift, every thought is a gift, every idea is a gift, every opportunity is a gift, everybody you meet is a gift, you are gifted with opportunities, maximise what you have got. You are missing your life, your purpose, your passion, your enthusiasm.”

Are there things in your life you would like to be spending more time if you weren’t so busy? The kids, your husband, your wife, your partner in life, friends and family you haven’t seen in a while, the pets, a hobby, volunteering, holidays? Get creative people, I challenge you to write a list of all the things that you would do if you knew you wouldn’t fail.

I would love to hear how you exchanged Busyness for Effectiveness in your life and what you have achieved as a result. Start being true to yourself and what you really need to do now to live the life you have always wanted.

Have fun being Effective,

Rachael 🙂

Bishop T.D. Jakes: How to Use Your Time Effectively and Purposefully

Bishop T.D. Jakes says we’re living in an era that dumbs down ideas because we have traded effectiveness for busyness. Get Bishop Jakes’ advice for reducing the clutter in your schedule and living a more passionate and enlightened life.

source: Thanks to Bishop T.D.Jakes and Oprah

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