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22.01.2022 Dodgy post-1994 houses & inspections that we've been talking about involve more than 50% of Australia's total pool of houses now.Dodgy post-1994 houses & inspections that we've been talking about involve more than 50% of Australia's total pool of houses now.

19.01.2022 Your bid may be over by more than $80 000 in 5% of post-94 house sales if you get a typical building inspection report carried outYour bid may be over by more than $80 000 in 5% of post-94 house sales if you get a typical building inspection report carried out

19.01.2022 START THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE NOW (VIC. AND N.S.W.) HERE’S AN IDEA WHICH SOLVES SO MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS. Let’s get futuristic Australia... instead of chasing our tails and getting nowhere leaving our future generations with little to look forward to.... VBAG says let’s put our collective (Vic and NSW) thinking caps on and solve the problem our children (and all future generations) are facing a future without home ownership. VBAG also says that our Aussie traditional icon ‘The Backyard’ has in the last 20 years just been thrown to the wolves (literally) and just because our State Governments will not get together and really ‘nut out’ the alternatives... and they do exist. Here’s one that seems to solve so many obstacles we now face in Melbourne and Sydney we say because our cities have become too big for their boots. LET’S BUILD ANOTHER CITY CONNECTED VIA HIGH SPEED RAIL. That way land will once again become affordable (in the new city) for a considerable time and the pressure on land prices in Sydney and Melbourne will lessen. And if our governments are allowed to simply continue to prop up the country with immigrant assets John Howard style instead of concentrating full bore on clever manufacturing, then let’s plan for another city (now there’s a word plan) and let’s not wait until congestion becomes economically ineffective and such a burden on our young. We hesitate to say that Albury-Wodonga is a bleedin’ obvious possibility staring us all in the face with its back-up highways and infrastructure already set up for building on and already 50-50 within both Victoria and New South Wales. But whatever location is chosen, let’s make it attractive and not just a dumping ground. Let’s start some manufacturing centres out there NOW. And we could create some lovely centres for recreation by (say) filling in coal mines to become inland aquatic centres and create a mega tree planting regime to win back our carbon footprint which is right up there (per head of population). And let’s supply the water infrastructure (dams and pipelines) necessary for creating several forests using indigenous ideas to help avoid bush-fires. LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN NOW VICTORIA AND NEW SOUTH WALES VBAG Striving to keep interested building consumers well informed.

15.01.2022 During Covid shutdown we have decided to wait until people are able to think about building projects once more.During Covid shutdown we have decided to wait until people are able to think about building projects once more.

12.01.2022 WE STILL HAVEN'T NOTICED ANY REGULATION CHANGE... HAVE YOU? NEW SMOKE ALARM RULES ARE NEEDED TO KEEP RENTERS SAFE. Tuesday 2 July 2019... Victorian Coroner Rosemary Carlin is calling for stronger rules for the installation and maintenance of smoke alarms in rental properties, following the tragic deaths of two children. DQ, 2, and LQ, 1, whose names have been withheld to protect their identities, died from smoke inhalation when a heater set a soft toy alight in their family’s rented East Geelong home on 13 September 2018. Her Honour said the children’s deaths could have been prevented if hardwired smoke alarms had been installed in the house and recommended the Residential Tenancies Act and Building Regulations be amended to make it an offence for landlords to lease properties without such devices. While rental properties built after 1 August 1997 must have hardwired smoke alarms, older properties like the children’s family home only require battery-powered smoke alarms, which are easily deactivated and removed. In the finding, released publicly for the first time today, Coroner Carlin found that there was no smoke alarm in the property at the time of the fire. Her Honour noted that while there had been a battery-powered smoke alarm, albeit without a battery, in the house when the rental agreement was signed, the safety device had been removed some time before the fire. The investigation also revealed legislative ambiguities surrounding landlord and tenant obligations for the maintenance of smoke alarms. While landlords are responsible for replacing alarms and tenants are required to report a faulty alarm, there is no clarity on who should regularly check the devices are in working order. These issues were also the subject of a 2014 inquest into the deaths of three international students in a house fire in Footscray in January 2008. The coroner in that case made several recommendations including calling for hardwired smoke alarms for all rental properties irrespective of when they were built and clear guidelines for who must check smoke alarms. Her Honour said it was unfortunate that the previous recommendations had not been actioned, with the similarity in the cases showing how current legislation continues to put lives at risk. Coroner Carlin also recommended expanded resources and education programs for tenants from non-English speaking backgrounds, noting that the tenants in both cases had recently arrived in Australia and may not have been aware of their rights and obligations regarding smoke detectors in their homes.

06.01.2022 SCROLL DOWN TO ARTICLES BACK TO 2015 WITH STATS FOR 1st 2 YEARS REMOVED BY FACEBOOK?SCROLL DOWN TO ARTICLES BACK TO 2015 WITH STATS FOR 1st 2 YEARS REMOVED BY FACEBOOK?

06.01.2022 > 50% dodgy homes & building inspections also apply to tens of thousands of units, additions and renovations... and apartments.> 50% dodgy homes & building inspections also apply to tens of thousands of units, additions and renovations... and apartments.

05.01.2022 THIS IS STILL RELEVANT AND WILL BE FOR AT LEAST A DECADE. ABOUT TO BUY A BLOCK OF LAND OUT WEST OF MELBOURNE? NEW SUBURBS, LATENT HEAVE AND LESSONS NOT LEARNT....Continue reading