Georgie discusses her experiences with a fashion rental service and Geoff chimes in with the super relevant topic of selling his apartment.
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Georgie discusses her experiences with a fashion rental service and Geoff chimes in with the super relevant topic of selling his apartment.
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Geoff 0:00
Hi and welcome back to another episode of Toast &. Roast. I'm your co host, Jeff and as always, I'm joined by my guest, Georgie has how how goes everything in the last
timeframe since
Georgie 0:31
anyone know? Nobody knows.
Geoff 0:34
Nobody knows not even we know. To be honest. Where? Yeah, see so so things have been things have been
Georgie 0:44
like to announce that I hate clothes that have high next.
Geoff 0:51
So you so you hate the turtlenecks? Yeah, you hate Steve Jobs?
Georgie 0:57
No.
Geoff 0:58
Oh.
Georgie 1:02
Yeah. I was I was just trying on this top, which, so I might have talked about on the podcast before but I subscribe to a rental wardrobe, which is by a small company in Melbourne, who attempts to get more people involved with circular fashion. So instead of people buying new things, and then only wearing them a couple of times, and then like donating them, they find interesting clothes that are secondhand and you get to rent them for a certain price every month and they cover the shipping it covers the shipping costs like send it back like you just have to drop it off at your local supermarket or wherever you have like a parcel point. And if you like any of the clothes in that given months, you can buy them like to keep because sometimes you just don't know if you'd like something until you've actually like tried it. So anyway they because I really liked to experiment with clothes sometimes I said just give me some fun stuff, you know, like you can give them a mood board but also your measurements and stuff. So you give them all these details and they give you about five to six pieces of clothing that you can try for like a whole month so anyway, they gave me like a high neck wool top. But it was quite stiff. The fabric was quite stiff and to be honest, I have a lot of trouble getting it over my head to put it on in the first place and I have like a tiny edge so I don't know what's up with this
Geoff 2:25
non stop so I thought once upon a time you had a small head your heads small head
Georgie 2:33
I
Geoff 2:37
don't know if I talked about on the podcast but when I went to his bike
Georgie 2:44
grand total of maybe at least three times
Geoff 2:47
I mean look I lose them and I buy some new ones and yeah, anyway so you've you've been How long have you been doing the rental? I tried
Georgie 2:56
it in December so it's been like six ish months six ish months.
Geoff 3:02
It's like HelloFresh
Georgie 3:05
you don't returning food from HelloFresh like after you've digest
Geoff 3:08
oh you don't return food? You don't do you don't do
Georgie 3:15
what are you doing with it? You get the thing and then you make the you make the meals
Geoff 3:21
and you make it
Georgie 3:26
that's my gold star.
Geoff 3:28
I'm done like this is not the this is not the point of the HelloFresh thing you don't just get rated you just don't like send back your food to just get judged.
Georgie 3:39
But yeah, I don't know. I think like as I've gotten older, just clothes that like not comfortable in like the smallest way. Really annoying. Or even like itchy tags and stuff like that. Itchy fabric.
Geoff 3:55
Yeah, so how many times have you actually purchase something from three
Georgie 4:00
times now? So the first time my mind just blanked what was it? Oh yeah, the first time it was like a nice top. That was like for summer and I need I kind of needed more summer tops as a time because some of mine were like getting too small. So I was like I liked that one. I'll buy that one. And then another one, which was like a white frilly top which is actually not something that's the other good thing about it is though sometimes send me things that I wouldn't normally like I might look at in the store and be like you and like I would have said that to this white frilly top but when I wore it and try it around, I actually really liked it. So I bought that. And then last month they sent me a jumper amongst the other things and it was just like a nice fit and had like different colours in it. And it looks kind of unique, so I decided to buy that as well. And the good thing is you don't Like, okay, I don't know for other people listening if you if you hate shopping like you just go into a shop, you're like, fuck this shits overwhelming is bright lights and stuff, I just came in here to get a couple of things and leave, or you're trying to look for something specific. And it's a pain. Like that's why I like this because like, I don't have to pick chips, someone else is doing that for me. So that comes in the price of what I pay, which is about $550 $145 a month, which I think is pretty. I mean, it's all like super close. And I feel good about like the fact that it's not like going to waste and then you know, someone, someone else, like if I return them, someone else will just end up in landfill.
Geoff 5:48
Pretty sure we covered it in another episode where like, it depends on how much you value your time. In Imagine spending a couple I can imagine spending a couple hours trying to figure out whether or not I would like this piece of clothing or finding pieces of clothing and then trying them on and then like, and then leaving out leaving the store without anything. being like, I just wasted all that time when I didn't even get a piece of clothing. So you could spend a fair amount of time on that. So yeah, I can I can get that. But yeah, sounds good. Good thing for you could do with with other things can we do with other things? Tech? Can you just like can you borrow tech? And then like buy the mouse? Buy sunglasses?
Georgie 6:46
I guess?
Geoff 6:47
I don't know. Did we come up with a million dollar idea? Monitor by actually someone's asked actually, someone's been asking like, cuz work is offering monitors. For work at home. Yeah, work from home. But they've only like given three options. Three different types, either two. Yeah, three different three different kinds. I think it's all by del. Monte. You can either choose you can eat the cheese to 27 inch, four K's what's fine. 111 32 inch 4k? Or 134 inch ultra wide.
Georgie 7:32
Launched?
Geoff 7:36
Yeah, I mean, mine's 38 inches. Oh, wow. Okay,
Georgie 7:39
hang on a minute. Let's find my displays have
Geoff 7:44
to do to do Yeah.
Georgie 7:48
Why wouldn't tell me? Just tell me
Geoff 7:50
but but I guess what? Why don't you change monitor every month? Just just to try out like different monitors.
Georgie 7:58
Mine is the way to tell me how large it is. I feel like it's a 10 it's a 27
Geoff 8:07
I feel like you'd be at 27
Georgie 8:12
It's a Dell you to 715 Hey
Geoff 8:18
27 inch full cable.
Georgie 8:20
Definitely not for okay. It's it's like one Oh, really? I think yeah.
Geoff 8:27
250 53 H 15015 page. Drum roll.
Georgie 8:37
I actually Oh, I actually bought this off my friend. So it is secondhand. And it was like, must have been about 2019 I think it was just before the purchase because I was like, I'm glad I bought this with my friend. Just before.
Geoff 8:56
Holy crap. Yours is a 1440 p monitor.
Georgie 9:00
You gotta cry. Like I mean, it wasn't released, like how old is this? Right? Because my friend used it for a good while and he was a designer.
Geoff 9:13
It was released in at least 2018 2012 No, no 20 2015
Georgie 9:20
And I bought it in 20 and 2019 or so. So it's,
Geoff 9:26
it's doing well. So it's not it works. I mean, not It's not bad. It's just like a weird ratio. It's just like so 1920 by 1080 is kind of like the standard run standard one, right? So it's 400 extra pixels or no about 400 extra pixels vertically. And then it is also equally 400 ish pixels horizontal. Okay. Anyways, for 4k 4k is definitely like, better but it's kind of like your, your, your aspect ratio is like really? Like, wide like it's shorter. Yeah, so it's short is short and wide. Whereas sort of like 4k is basically as equally tall as in as it scales large wise so it's more like a square, or more like rectangular rather than like a like a
square like close to the square then
Georgie 10:36
anyways, listening to this, you cannot see Jeff's hand gestures of like, up.
Geoff 10:41
Like, yeah, I'm begging at the moment. Small like big box, little box. It's
Georgie 10:47
like, tissue box. Are you talking about like, a Tupperware container? Oh, yeah,
Geoff 10:52
yeah. Yeah, it's like the difference between a Pyrex and like a tissue box. where yours is the tissue box and like, full case of more of a Pyrex.
Georgie 11:03
So how big is your monitor? Would you say 30? To
Geoff 11:08
38
Georgie 11:08
That's huge. I got I've got my rule. Yeah, I ran rule was make fun of me.
Geoff 11:15
It's the it's the ruler is the famous ruler.
Georgie 11:19
Dude, do you want to take a guess? As to how long I've had this rule up?
Geoff 11:26
I mean, by the looks of it, since you were
Georgie 11:30
I think actually not wrong. I actually don't know. I don't know. It's probably I feel like I got in like 2005 How long ago was hot? Well, it's like 20 years. So the reason everybody the reason I like this ruler or why fucking keep hanging on to it is because it's not your traditional wooden school ruler. It's like just made clear, bendy ish plastic, like flexible plastic. So this was solid. Yeah, and you know what's funny is even though I had it for that long, none of the fucking numbers have faded off. So it's kinda it's actually impressive. And none of like the fucking little bunnies and shit. That's right. I'll read this out for you. Toto bear Club World is always beautiful and sunny wish to share with all of my friends.
Geoff 12:22
Yeah, they put some random shit.
Georgie 12:27
It's whatever plus apparently the graphics are copyright 1994 Whatever that means. Oh,
Geoff 12:34
they haven't expired. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, how long does How long is it? 50 year expiry date something copyright expired. You follow on? How long does copyright last? I did not want to enter the site. 70 year copyright terms come into effect in 2005.
Georgie 13:00
So it's not Australia, though. made in Taiwan. Hey, everyone's finding out about my 20 year old ruler. Now who
Geoff 13:12
does a fifth chakra generally last seven years after death of creator or after first year of publication? So I don't know. It's got a long time circle half
Georgie 13:25
90 force. Is that like some like Sanrio kind of vibe and type?
Geoff 13:33
Is it actually made in Australia? Taiwan. So what's okay? No, we're not. We're not gonna get to the bar.
Georgie 13:39
Anyway. My point was 38 inch monitor yours which 38? Right? Must 27 So
Geoff 13:48
the three times your ruler, it's like
Georgie 13:53
that's 1011 Sorry, I can't do maths. Yeah. Wow. That's basically a TV.
Geoff 14:01
Yeah. So it is this one. So is it is it pretty sure. I
Georgie 14:08
can't remember because I remember we had
Geoff 14:10
this Oh, it curves a little bit. But it looks basically flat.
Georgie 14:14
How it's just sitting in the same spot.
Geoff 14:18
Well, I know because it has a has like a like a screenshot
Georgie 14:24
of curved.
Geoff 14:27
Yes, of course. I also had to download more RAM to take the screenshot.
Georgie 14:34
But you can just take a screenshot of like partial, right? Like
Geoff 14:38
oh, yeah, I can take screenshot partial stuff. But this is like 21 by nine aspect ratio. So this is a pretty special one actually. Because when you get ultra wides, it's usually the tissue box that's actually 1440 P which is your one and they do that because as like, it makes your field of view and video games like your 1440 P and the way you can see peripherals or even so you don't actually you don't actually need the top and bottom for video games because you're really just like, focused on what's in front of you this very thin sliver of view or whatever. And it's also more efficient to, to output that resolution from your computer. Like, it basically lets you play at a higher refresh rate and whatever. Anyway, so there's a lot of things around why 1440 piece, but this is actually 4k by 1600, which is like so I get 200 more pixels vertically than you do. And 1000 pixels. Yeah, yeah, I hit the count in pixels. But yeah, I was like thinking, You know what, it's just so it's just so thin. And I kind of wanted something that mimicked two monitors side by side. So, but in the in the one ultralight. And if you if you like, it's better than 10 At any case. So someone asked the question of these three options, and then I was like, Okay, I've tried all these. Wait, for real before I landed on this one, which is like the ultimate one. In your Yeah, I Yeah. And my opinion
Georgie 16:43
is correct.
Geoff 16:45
Yeah. Which is, which is the most correct, really. So I gave my two cents. I feel like 32 inch 4k is like too much window management. Like you really have to like floating windows and like, yeah, like half or 32 inches too big. Yeah.
Georgie 17:04
So based on what you said, you seem to like half half, just like in the middle one. One, we
Geoff 17:11
actually do third and two thirds. A lot is essentially like
Georgie 17:15
one side of the screen. Other side of the screen. Yeah. Some hate floating screen, like basically the way Yeah, always always. It's either like entire screen. Plus, I also have my left my, like plugged in. Or I have like code and terminal. It's like just in the middle, like, on the middle. split down the middle, like one half
Geoff 17:40
is half off. Yeah. I mean, this also requires a lot of window management, but it's like manageable through apps and things, but I rarely do 1/3 1/3 ones that
Georgie 17:57
I mean, I don't know, it's hard for me to say Oh, I see because I can't see your screen.
Geoff 18:03
Yeah. Because 1/3 is too skinny for a lot of things. So it basically turns into a tablet. tablet mode. Vertically. Oh, yeah, I try I have tried to monitor vertically.
Georgie 18:19
jobs. And I was actually I was like, I was borderline obsessed with it, because I loved to just see my entire terminal output. Or if I was working in like yesterday, Photoshop document, and I wanted to see the entire design, like top to bottom without scrolling. The vertical monitor was like the bomb.
Geoff 18:42
Can you see my windows? Like change? Yeah, so this is what 1/3?
Georgie 18:51
And like, I kind of don't like that sometimes, because I think it's because some websites shit period. Some websites just shit. Like I think they, they, they give you the view that's more for the tablet, once it starts to get narrower. And that's not what I want. Because it's us.
Geoff 19:13
And another thing I was like thinking of is half 1/3. So once Yeah, one six, and how much resolution that is. One six is really good for slack. Like anything any messaging platform is because it's like small enough that you can read everything and then like also small enough so that or big enough that you can write pretty much like a message. Right? I
Georgie 19:40
do the same with I put a message in calendar split. But the iMessage always takes up roughly a six I don't calculate but yeah, relatively narrow because it's actually easier to read like the text. And it's probably it's like, what do you call it? Like a femoral? It's not like your browsing a website and you need space. It's like yeah, just need to look at ship moving, like more text, etc. Yeah,
Geoff 20:06
I think it's also to do with text wrap. Yeah. So this is like a comfortable size that you can actually not have to go all the way like, this is this is this is one six. This is one six for me. And I'm like, this is entire, like, this is the full screen. So I'm like, yeah, like how am I meant to start on the left and then all the way to the middle of my screen to finish the text message. Like that's, that's too. Too much. So yeah. Anyways, it took a long time and a lot of experimentation. I don't know what episode I mentioned it in but I went through a whole bunch of monitors sold them report.
Georgie 20:47
Title potentially.
Geoff 20:49
Yeah, yeah, potentially. Anyways, enough money to talk. What was the what was the other thing that pissed you off? lately? Oh, this is just gonna come. Because
Georgie 21:06
it's like, it's such a silly outfit, right? So I wanted to wash my hair. If you have like, long hair, if your hair like below the shoulders or even like, yeah, let's get shoulder length, or longer. Depending on how often you wash your hair, but also the weather. I just feel like there's so many factors at play. Like I don't like I don't like to have my hair dry naturally, because it takes ages. So my hair is like a bit postural at length. And I
Geoff 21:34
yeah, my head is actually not very like, boy like, of course. agenda. I can. I can gender hair like you can gender bags. Oh, that's, that's a that's a reference to an old episode. My head generally takes like at least half an hour to dry even though there's not a lot of it. So yeah,
Georgie 21:59
so like I want to use the the hairdryer like you haven't hairdryer. I think we talked about hairdryer. I do. Episode as well. And so that takes time as well. But then I thought because of the wind. Like if you have longish hair, sometimes you might find at least I do find the wind very annoying to them as that's why I have my hair tied up now because that was I went outside and the wind would just blow my fucking face or whatever. And if I had washed my hair, the wind would just be blowing debris into my hair. And also making it sounds like it's not worth it. Maybe I should just do it on a different day. So yeah, and the noise yeah makes and just the general discomfort with also how it makes the weather colder than it actually is. And you're just trying to walk outside and instead you're just like just Yeah, uncomfortable.
Geoff 22:53
We we went out just then before the before this episode, recording the episode. And we didn't we weren't prepared for how windy it was outside. We weren't prepared for the rain. And it didn't rain. But did it he was very sorry, but it's raining. The wind
Georgie 23:15
blowing that's the thing right? The rain was like this. I'm drawing an angle from like,
Geoff 23:21
is it Boeing wind? I think the rain is fairly straight down. Yeah.
Georgie 23:25
The worst? Not the worst, but wind is my least favourite sort of weather condition. Like if it's freezing cold and raining. It's fine. I'll just be prepared I'll bring my whatever umbrella raincoat just you know if it's windy like it's just very inconvenient
Geoff 23:50
tough loss the
Georgie 23:52
the wind can also blow the rain sideways which is just like WHAT IS WHAT THE FUCK YEAH. should be illegal. That's
Geoff 24:01
why I That's That's why I invested heavily in the jackets more than the end of wind resistance and not so much in the umbrella even though like I like
Georgie 24:12
my raincoat. Oh, yeah. Here's the problem. Yeah, do I just say blonde? Yeah, we have a cup. Yeah. umbrellas. So raincoat. I realised the other day. Alright, here's the problem with our current situation in Sydney, because when it rains, and it's not quite cold yet. So sometimes we are met with humidity when it rains. And in my nice ass raincoat. Sometimes by the time I get to the way work, I am sweating. I am overheated raincoat. In which case, bring an umbrella and then the other thing I realised was like one time I fully got dressed, put my raincoat on put my backpack on I looked outside and it's it's bucketing and I'm like, that's fine. I'll be fine. I'm like because I'm covered in my raincoat whatever and then I was like wait but my my backpack is on the outside and then I went put a jacket on instead and brought an umbrella instead. So it's Yeah.
Geoff 25:15
I mean, I invest in waterproof backpack waterproof jacket waterproof every waterproof shoes but what I haven't invested in waterproof pants everything else everything else is like tripping on my pants instead in the lay. Oh, this is pretty much
Georgie 25:36
bought pants like waterproof pants because the rain gets on your pants and then like it might drip down into your shoe or like NIOSH and then your shoe like will get your socks will get wet.
Geoff 25:51
Yeah I think the the whole waterproofing thing is a bit hard to Yeah, because the when like you said it's windy it's too windy to use an umbrella sometime. And oh yeah, I used to wear like skinny jeans. I don't use
Georgie 26:12
these days like the baggy like low right? Oh
Geoff 26:18
no, I don't wear jeans at all. I wear like black track pants. Most days because I don't have to go to the office. And usually if I go to the office then I would wear jeans maybe. But it has its genes has a very particular specific weather to weather but yeah, yes to be asked to be cold enough not not to wear jeans, but not hot. Not so hot, but you will cook in them. And then also can't wear them in the rain because they obviously get drenched. My mine apparently bleed blue still. Dude like yeah, it's still bleeds blue. So generally, generally, I don't have much of an opportunity to wear the jeans anymore. So I wear past track pants, like pretty minimal track pants from UNIQLO. But I haven't actually got around to wearing the to getting waterproof versions of how often
Georgie 27:30
are you going outside that that's the other thing, right? Like before I got my raincoat I waited until like, I was like when to actually when we'll actually use this you know.
Geoff 27:42
I mean, I wear I wear like a duck down jacket and the and the waterproof, whatever. Waterproof and wind resistant like coat basically, as a pair all the time. So anytime it's cold outside, I just went off. And so that's yeah, I guess like when am I going to actually wear waterproof if they're if they're actually like comfortable? And the general general pants looking because what does it look like trash bags? You like looking for? Yeah. So if I can get fairly normal looking ones I would probably wear it all the time. Maybe I will cook in them. Like yeah, it's like
Georgie 28:29
I like Okay, so back in. I feel like back in the day. They didn't really make very good raincoats. They were literally just like put our plastic bag like into the the ponchos. They might just sell for 10 bucks absolutely rip off at a festival where it starts raining. But these days yeah,
Geoff 28:48
I think backpacks also had the had the water resistant shell that you would pull out of your backpack before they made them actually carrying like a big plastic nondescript, nondescript shell wrapped in plastic
Georgie 29:08
and my my raincoat is like a nice blue collar. And it's got like nice lining inside that's like striped and so it's like fashion II right. And then even I think even the more athletic rain jackets you can get from places like Lululemon like out to plastic baggy but you know that sometimes it just literally looks like you're about to go on a wet hike and I get that you know you weren't pants that didn't make it look like you're about to do like the Overland Track although the amount of flooding we've had recently just walked through this Yeah.
Geoff 29:54
So so my my new place actually has like There are two buildings that face each other, like our building and the building next to each other next to us face each other, obviously. But But what can you say? Oh, yeah, it's really, it's really fun. It's really funny here because you can see so clearly into other people's apartments. And there are a lot of ground floor apartments in the area. So we get like, when you're just going on a casual walk up and down as up and down the neighbourhood. You basically see into people's living rooms, like you look left, you look right, it would be like the windows, the windows would be on the ground floor. Everyone has their blinds up, and you just like inadvertently, like, look into their living room. Yeah,
Georgie 30:49
I think some people have remedied that. And you can tell because they've just put plants or they've put up more like,
Geoff 30:55
Yeah, but this space is really compact, a close a regular or regular to like, it's basically one and a half. People with laneways sometimes so then narrow so you can barely do to aid that you can barely do to a traffic along these along these pathways. And their base. They're basically between two different apartment buildings. And they have entrances to those ground floor apartments sometimes. Right on that pathway. So So yeah, I'm, I'm going, Oh, we're going to we're going to the shops or something. And left and right. It's like it's like, yeah, trespassing, essentially. And that, like you look left and right, like, Oh, hey, like they're having a dinner right now. And they're watching TV what they want to see these squares. Yeah. So from our balcony over to our neighbour, we can actually see like five different apartments with TVs on all the time. Like they they don't turn the TV's off or like wake up in the middle of night and they're still got the TV on. Yeah, and we basically can see what they're watching. Yeah, anyways, it's
Georgie 32:17
funny like there isn't a building adjacent opposite. It's a little bit shorter though, so we can see the top level of it. But this is what I can see. Like you can see two bedrooms in someone's apartment. So we can see the bedroom and then with the I think I don't know a bedroom sorry, a bedroom and then like the front door area so we can see people come in out of that comment and when they're in the bedroom, and we can also see the common area. So we get a full view this is from the side yeah, full view of like
Geoff 32:49
the elevators, the entire apartment. We can
Georgie 32:53
see when someone comes out from like, either side or whatever, the apartments and then go like Nick was like, Oh, that's a girl. She's got garbage she's putting in the garbage chute. Let's see. And he's like, Yeah, giant cardboard. Let's see if she, you know, takes it downstairs does the right thing. It's like commentating to me because I was facing the other direction and doing something else. And he's like, Oh, she like Gosh, put the garbage in the garbage chute. And then he's like well she pushed it in she made sure it went down the chute and not sat in the fucking like chute door with a large cardboard is like oh, she's taking it with her to the to the elevator. She must be taking
Geoff 33:33
nine nine out of 10 Garbage visit so yeah, anyway, so there's actually quite a fair amount of space between us like there's a full garden. There's full pathway so there's actually two three metres maybe even five metre gap between our our pathway and the garden that leads into their apartment building. And it's a rock bed. Says like it's it's it's a it's a better it's a better rock. It's like as if you were at a dried up river. That's that's the last one looks
Georgie 34:24
like pebble thing. No.
Geoff 34:27
Well, it is intentional. Because it's supposed to be a drainage point for floods. Oh,
Georgie 34:34
she can't really Yeah, so.
Geoff 34:37
Yeah, it is gang. There's like bridges and gangways across from one side to the other. So that's the people in the building. Yeah, it's not as fun you're meant to walk on. And there's huge like, grated drainage points all along this river bed. And it's like it's like do not sweat He signs a flash flood warning. So, yeah, with all our rain is pouring buckets, it doesn't become full. But it would be really concerning if it did become full because there's so many J's so much drainage points. And the it's quite large. It's not even it's not monsoon large. But yeah, that's like, it's like, hey, you know what, there's a lot of rain will actually form a river and say, you know, what, if it forms a river, that's when you have a problem. So you don't really want it to form a river. But my my mom was like, when she cased the place out. Okay, so that's when she saw the place. She was like, Oh, you have your own personal river. And I'm like, she don't want that. And my mom's like, because of the Lorraine she's like, Oh, de DC water, like in the in the river pot, like mom, she don't want that to fill up because it's just a very pretty drain. So yeah, it was a concern, like, when buying the place was like, hey, there's lots of signs that say flash flood warnings and like, don't swim in this part of the place. And you could possibly not cross over to the other place, because there's a flood.
Georgie 36:26
But bad rain recently. So if it didn't happen, then even a little bit, then maybe, maybe you're fine. I don't know. Yeah, it
Geoff 36:36
was quite I mean, we're not going to be here long enough to get to get to that point. Hopefully, we have global warming must be terrible. And another thing that that we got sold on was the balcony being really dry, even though there's rain. Oh, so the balcony doesn't collect water? Well,
Georgie 36:59
ours doesn't either. Because like, but that's good. That's,
Geoff 37:03
that's a sign of good drainage. It's more that most apartments don't have, like
Georgie 37:07
the rain doesn't even come in, because we've got apartments above. So their balcony. So we don't actually get in a lot of wet, like, like rent coming to the balcony in the first place.
Geoff 37:21
As is partially closed?
Georgie 37:23
Or not. Yeah, but not not this way. But like on top
Geoff 37:26
here. Yeah. So ours has, has a weird pattern to it. Because the whole whole whole suburb is Art Deco. But so there's a wall, of course, where the like end of the balcony Well, halfway half wall,
Georgie 37:45
a third with
Geoff 37:48
no, just on the balcony, like the end of the balcony has a wall. So you can't just fall off. And then there's like a, there's like a gap between the ceiling and the in the low wall. That gap vertically, has a has a single glass panel in the middle. So there's a gap. There's a gap where there's no no glass, then there's glass. And then there's another gap where this is glass. So there's no glass. So in the middle of radically, there's like a Yeah, 50% of its covered, covered glass. So generally rain doesn't come in, but they can come in on the two sides with no glass. And it's a bit weird, weird
Georgie 38:37
design. It sounds like I can't see it. But yeah, yeah, yeah.
Geoff 38:43
So we have some protection from the water, like from the rain coming through, but only half and generally the most rain that we've got in has like drained away. So that was like the selling point from the real estate agent. He's like, look how dry it is. There's so much rain in the past day like past few weeks, but no water here. Like yes, it is very dry. Let's see Yeah. Real estate agents. But yeah. Oh,
Georgie 39:20
yes.
Geoff 39:21
I'm I'm if I told you I was trying to sell my old apartment.
Georgie 39:25
If you told me but I assume that you mentioned Yeah, I assumed I don't know if you would like to to buy it. I'm like Fuck no.
Geoff 39:38
The Yeah, the it's a bit interesting being on the selling side.
Georgie 39:43
It's your first time.
Geoff 39:46
Yeah, yeah. It's like everything you hate about buying a place is everything you'd like about it's like you hate the pushy real estate agent. I love them now. out what you love them you love them now because so your shit right? You hate the you hate the pricing tactics. You love the pricing. Give me the pricing tactics now. But it's pretty been pretty interesting process because like there's been other apartments selling in the same building. Yeah. So you basically have to price competitively against those other selling apartments. The
Georgie 40:31
others kind of have to sell out about the soul you expected to sell at about the same. Yeah, so fucking Hi everyone uses that money to
Geoff 40:40
Yeah, as a sixth floor, the ninth floor sold apartment, same configuration as my one. So basically any price they sell up, we have to essentially go
Georgie 40:52
lower. Because it's like a good deal. Yeah, no, no, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Because
Geoff 40:56
Because with three floors below, and generally when you buy the price includes how many floors up? You are. So for every floor is a 5k increase. So we have to actually do 15k below their asking price. And there's a apartment on the 13th floor right now selling in the same building. And we're like, oh, no, it's the 13th. What does what the 13th floor sells for is basically going to like, like affect our pricing? Because it's really it's really interesting.
Georgie 41:34
Like not too much more than ninth one.
Geoff 41:37
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Much lower. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, I'm in a particularly, I guess, I mean, I don't know how common this is. But generally competing with other other apartments selling price.
Georgie 41:53
Also, same configuration. Is it also only one? Bedrooms?
Geoff 42:03
No, it's like, the higher floors don't mean that there's more bedrooms.
Georgie 42:09
Oh, yeah. Because if you're like, Yeah, same. Yeah. Okay.
Geoff 42:14
Yeah, I mean, generally apartments that like you maybe have one you have like, three single bedrooms, two, two bedrooms, maybe one three bedroom. Yeah. On the one floor, and they just duplicate it upwards. So yeah, it's a bit interesting to like, on, like, having to price according to the selling of other people's apartments, which is like makes sense.
Georgie 42:41
Like, it's just like, it's because it's an apartment? I don't know. No, I think.
Geoff 42:48
Yeah, but yeah, I mean, like being having having to be price aware and like making sure that you're pricing competitively but you also don't want to lose too much money. And then you would, we're trying to essentially tell people why AWS is, like worth this much compared to the other ones. So even the ninth floor so that x dollars, we're asking for basically close to the X dollar, maybe $10,000 less. But of course, we can't ask that price. Right. Like, like you said, it we have to price competitive, guys, you have to price competitive competitively against them. So we can't ask for very much more than they did. Because they're nine floors. Yeah. And they have hard floors. But we have features they don't have. So we're trying to like play up the features compared to confetti. It's just weird. Man. And then I'm like trying to be hands off because I don't want I don't want to deal with this fancy person. Yeah, but that's not like i The game is you know what? I'm overall the most invested in selling the place so I should be okay, like, hey, sell it lower because I don't have any quick money or something like that. Some people might like sell that way. Anyways, so yeah, I haven't I don't know when there's so I don't I don't I'm not gonna say I'm gonna
Georgie 44:33
do my whole paperwork and shit.
Geoff 44:37
No, it's like the like people are coming in.
Georgie 44:40
Okay, so might be gone real soon potentially. I'd be gone tomorrow
Geoff 44:44
yeah, I don't know when when this episode is coming out so could be club.
Georgie 44:52
If you're listening, you cannot be gone by now.
Geoff 44:57
Yeah, yeah. So yeah. The buy the selling process is pretty interesting and overall pretty expensive given that we have two big players in the listing in this like it's listing space you know and they can pretty much ask any amount for like advertising on their site. So oh yeah, so the real estate agent I chose has drone footage what
Georgie 45:30
like how did they get it like they took it they flew
Geoff 45:36
drones Yeah, they like it I'll send you an impressive yeah like they drone from outside of the building so you can kind of see the surrounding
Georgie 45:51
house but I realise it's an apartment is that
Geoff 45:55
it Yeah, like I'm questioning
Georgie 46:00
privacy right you can't get like you would be looking at people's apartments with like, you would only be able to look yeah, Ty complex
Geoff 46:09
Yeah, imagine if they did a drone drone footage of this apartment and you just see everybody else's licence TVs Yeah, yeah. Anyways, speaking of sued we might get sued for how over time so
Georgie 46:30
you can follow you
Geoff 46:31
can follow us on nothing too crazy. We're not being paid for this.
Georgie 46:40
Someone do so yeah. We will pay you in for free. I don't know we work I feel bad. Anyone want to volunteer? Don't you don't you don't know. They will volunteer hours of use. Are you doing work for us for free? You sound like the douchebag
Geoff 46:59
Yeah, but I also don't want to manage someone
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Georgie 47:22
I do have a parcel locker account. I think of a passage right away Do you
Geoff 47:30
can you mail you get a Pio box like Yeah, did you get free pizza? I can't think he gets a free pizza box. Right?
Georgie 47:36
Um, can find episodes on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to your podcasts and the big tiny apartment that Jeff is selling.
Geoff 47:50
Oh man is starting to pour and the wind is picking up a new episodes every Monday. So see you next week. Bye.