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Tomorrow is a day of remembrance.
If you were thinking of attending a Local Service I have attached the Commemoration Services in the Hawkesbury.
Out of respect to our Anzacs we will not be holding any Open Homes tomorrow and I hope see you at one of the Commemoration Services.
Lest we Forget.
Rachael
Local Services information courtesy: Louise Markus MP
Take care and safe travels to all in the Hawkesbury today.
Rachael 🙂
This flood bulletin summarises the key impacts of the current weather event for communities along the Hawkesbury River System, including Colo River, Webbs Creek and the MacDonald River.
Weather Prognosis
Rain is expected to continue throughout the night with a second low pressure system making its way towards the coast between Sydney and Newcastle. Winds in Western Sydney are southerly between 40-60 km/h and are expected to ease to 35 – 50km/h in the late evening.
Transport
For the latest traffic information, check www.livetraffic.com
Roads
Annangrove – Blue Gum Rd is closed in both directions near O’Keefe Rd due to flooding
Castle Hill – Showground Rd is reduced to a single lane westbound due to a fallen tree at Kings Rd
Cattai – Cattai Ridge Rd closed in both directions at Cattai Bridge, due to flooding
Maraylya – Cattai Ridge Rd closed in both directions due to flooding
Marsden Park – Grange Avenue closed in both directions near Carnarvon Rd due to flooding
Marsden Park – South St closed in both directions at Richmond Rd due to flooding
Marsden Park – Vine St closed in both directions at Richmond Rd due to flooding
McGraths Hill – Pitt Town Rd closed in both directions at McKenzies Creek, due to flooding
Rouse Hill – Rouse Rd closed in both directions at Worcester Rd due to flooding
Schofield – Carnarvon Rd closed in both directions due to flooding
Schofield – Hambledon Rd closed in both directions at Schofield due to flooding
Shanes Park – Stony Creek Rd closed in both directions near Sirius Pl due to flooding
Wilberforce and Howes Valley – Putty Rd closed in both directions pending removal of ~80 trees
Bridges
Yarramundi is currently open. However RMS teams are onsite and monitoring water levels closely.
North Richmond and Windsor Bridges remain open and are not expected to close
Webbs Creek – The bridge at Doyles Creek is washed out and there are trees down across the roads.
Ferries
Sackville Ferry – Closed
Webbs Creek Ferry – Closed
Lower Portland Ferry – Closed
Wisemans Ferry – Open
Power Outages
Due to the extensive number of tree-related incidents, there are widespread power and telecom outages.
Power outages are being experienced in a number of areas across the Sydney Western Region including: Annangrove, Kenthurst, Box Hill, Maraylya, Oakville, Riverstone, Castle Hill, Parramatta,
Hawkesbury LGA – Current Water Levels
St Albans 3.57m at 1518hrs
Colo River at Putty Rd 5.34m at 1520hrs (minor flood level)
Lower Portland 3.69 at 1514hrs
Hawkesbury River at Windsor and North Richmond are well below minor levels
Colo River at Putty Rd is expected to reach 5.5m at 6:00pm.
General Information
Flooding will initially affect low-lying farmland and local roads near the rivers and their tributaries. Farmers should watch the weather and be ready to move pumps, other equipment and livestock away from rising waters.
A number of caravan parks on the Colo River and lower Hawkesbury from Lower Portland, might be affected by the rising water level.
NSW SES advises people for road information visit www.livetraffic.com or call 132 701.
The NSW SES is monitoring the situation and advises:
Never drive, ride or walk through floodwater
Keep listening to your local radio station for further information, updates and advice
Keep in contact with your neighbours
Be prepared to evacuate if advised
Rural property owners relocate livestock and farm equipment, including pumps, to high ground
FloodSafe advice is available at www.ses.nsw.gov.au
The NSW SES urges motorists to take extreme care as many creeks and streams may break their banks with fast flowing water across many causeways and low lying roads. Motorists are advised not to attempt to cross causeways as floodwaters may be deeper and faster flowing than you realise and can contain hidden snags and debris.
If flooding occurs:
Never drive, ride or walk through floodwater
If you need emergency assistance as a result of flooding, contact your local NSW SES unit by calling 132 500.
For life threatening emergencies, call 000 immediately.
FloodSafe advice is available at www.ses.nsw.gov.au
Weather Forecast:
For the latest weather forecast see www.bom.gov.au.
For the latest rainfall and river level information see www.bom.gov.au/nsw/flood/
The NSW SES is monitoring the situation. Keep listening to this station for updates.
For current information visit:
https://www.facebook.com/RachaelGoldsworthyRealty
Hawkesbury SES www.facebook.com/seshawkesbury
The Hills SES https://www.facebook.com/TheHillsSES
Penrith SES https://www.facebook.com/PenrithSES
Sydney Western Region SES www.facebook.com/SESSWR
information courtesy: SES
Hi. My name’s Rachael Goldsworthy and I’ve just left a listing bright and early on Sunday morning, in at the lovely McGraths Hill. It was a two-story home, which is typically what they have in McGraths Hill. A lot of the homes are two set because of the flood levels. A lot of the homes had to be built that little bit higher for that reason. Typically they’ll put the rumpus room downstairs or teenager’s retreat. It’s a really good utilisation of space rather than having a wasted void there. Sometimes they’ll have the garage downstairs as well, but they’re really nice homes. There’s lots of parks. There’s Colbee Park. They play baseball, soccer, BMX, those sorts of things. There’s also some really good preschools in the area together with good facilities.
There’s the local shops that have lots of different things available to the locals. You’re within walking distance to the train if you wanted to catch the train at Mulgrave, and you’re also within walking distance to transport and those sorts of things. Anyway McGraths Hill’s at the top of my list for one of the best suburbs to buy in the Hawkesbury. If you’ve got any questions in regards to that, don’t hesitate to call me. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy, and I look forward to catching up with you on the next video.
Hi. My name is Rachael Goldsworthy, and I’ve just come from a house in South Windsor. The owner has just settled in the last couple of days, and they’ve purchased a home from another agent who had a mortgage in possession sale. They have managed to secure the property a little bit more affordably than normally, so they got a bit of a discount on the sale price. Want to do it up quickly and then turn the property over. Often i find my clients ring me up and ask me what they could do to improve the value of the property, and turn it over quickly so that they can get a good return on it.
It’s really important when you’re doing these sorts of promotions, and also sorts of renovations that you do the right renovations because if you spend a lot of money with the principal and of putting things there that you would ordinarily like if you lived in the house, I can tell you right now you’re not going to make any money on the property. The reason being is we get involved with the process. We get emotionally attached to the process, which is okay, but equally is a lot of money involved when we like things that we like, and we put them in the homes and then they just cost us a lot more money.
I guess my advice to you is when you’re renovating a home for profit, make sure that you don’t spend it as though you were going to live in it. For example, in the kitchen instead of a particular style of appliances, stainless steel appliances, just go for the low end or the middle range as opposed to the top end. You wouldn’t be going for the De’Longhi. You would be going for something like Whirlpool or Westinghouse. Still good brands. Still recognised by the buyers as good brands, but it won’t cost you as much, and you’ll be able to get a higher profit on the sale process.
That’s I guess in essence what I’ve been looking at. Make sure that when you are renovating for profit that you look at the costs. Also, do a layout of the costs, what you’re looking at promoting, what you’re looking at renovating, and then do that list. Then from that list, work out what the costs are and find out what’s a priority and what’s really just a wish list, so that you make sure you do the priority items prior to doing the wish list and that way you won’t run out of money prior to putting the house on the market. And you’ll make a nice little profit for yourself. All right, well I’m Rachael Goldsworthy, and I look forward to catching up with you on the next video.
Hi. My name’s Rachael Goldsworthy and I was just talking to one of my clients in regards to a property that they have, which is tenanted. This property is in Windsor and they were looking at putting it on the market. The tenant they currently have is a wonderful tenant, however they’ve got a lot of furniture, and it’s just not going to work from the perspective of utilising the space for the home. My suggestion to that vendor was to look at offering the tenant a little bit less in rent, charging them less in rent to declutter and possibly put some things away in storage for them. That just allows the space in the house to work. Otherwise, if you’ve got too much gear, too many things all over the shop, it’s just not a good look for a house, especially when you know it can look so much more larger than what it is.
That would be my advice to the client. Just offer the tenant less rent or offer the tenant services of an agent to go in there and help them set up their home in a particular way. That tenant may say, “No. I don’t want to do that, not interested.” That’s absolutely fine. It just means that you may not necessarily want to put the house on at that particular time. The tenant might also say, “That’s fantastic. I’ve been waiting, I just haven’t known when to start. There’s so much gear there and I’m really not sure what to do.” Could be a blessing in disguise for all parties.
Anyway, if you’ve got any other questions in regards to looking at your house and tenants and those sorts of things, don’t hesitate to contact me. We’ll catch up with you on the next video.
