October 6, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode, The Block 2025 contestants Britt and Taz sit down to share their full story — the stuff you didn’t see on TV.
They kick things off by talking about their background as police officers and how their unique bond helped them take on the high-pressure world of reality renovation. Then, they break down their Block journey: the day-to-day grind of renovating under pressure, the challenges they faced, and how they tackled key design decisions.
You’ll also get an insider look at their auction prep, marketing strategy, and what really goes down in the lead-up to that nail-biting finale. Britt and Taz wrap up with personal reflections, what they’d do differently, and what’s next for them after The Block.
Their real estate agent, Mark Nunn, also joins the conversation to discuss the property play and share his expert insights into the auction process.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the mentor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm Mark Boris.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Britain taz Eto, welcome to the mentor and Mark Nunn
real estate agent. Thank you, welcome to the show, and
welcome to the mentor. Glad to be Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So Tas and Britt husband wife, I being presumptuous or partners.
At least we're married these days.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's been usually these days. But you're married and your
contestants on the block. How many years now we're talk
about block twenty years?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How twenty one season's over nineteen years.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
This is the twenty first season, twenty first so twenty
twenty five is the twenty first season. I remember the
very first season down Bondi and I went to my
mate Ginjel was the boss at nine in those days,
and me and Ginju went to the.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Very first auction auction in Roscoe Street.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Bondi and the two producers who came to him with
the idea, we're there and I think gin Shaw is
going to have a bid, but there's no way I
was going to have a bid. And we're going to
shock how popular it was and how popular the day
of selling the first block of apartments in Ross Coastry
was it was amazing. Now it's like a big production, massive,
(01:16):
massive production. And so you guys are where are you
at in terms of the show?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So your house is completed?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, the house was completed the start of June. That's
when we finished filming, and then we will go back
to our normal lives for about six weeks before it
starts to air and it's on TV now, and then
the auctions are at the end of next month.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So the auction is at the end of October. We
should say this month, we're in October, we're going to
go Outbert, So we're recording this on the first of
October and we'll go to where sometime towards the end
of October. I presume I don't know what the Boy's
going to do, and by that stage the auction will
(01:57):
be over.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, So how do you feel about all this stuff?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Oh, it's nerve wracking, Like you give up. Everyone on
the who goes on the show gives up a big
chunk of their life. You're a way for filming for
thirteen weeks. We're back on the block now for another
six weeks. Try to maximize and meet as many people
as we can, so you just hope at the end
of the day that the sacrifice was worth it, all
the blood, sweat and tears.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Three months are hard work, no breaks, no days off.
But after you do that three months, yeah, it's just
like you stop, you go back. We're back on the road,
dawn police stuff and straight back into it. And no
one knew we're being on TV yet.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So so you two are coppers, both of us coppers.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, so's just go and have a little circle around
what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So are you from Dalston? The block was at Daltford,
the blocks in Dalsford from the pill bro in West Australia.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
From Westralia, Yeah, well from the piller in the desert.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's amazing what we call home at the moment. Have
you always been from there?
Speaker 7 (02:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I grub in Sydney, Yeah, grub Sydney.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I was born in Griffith in the desert there and
then which was in New South Wales, yeah, South Wales,
and then moved over to Sydney with the family. It
was four of us growing up and then yeah, played
some semi pro afl and in Sydney. In Sydney, yeah,
then got cut from there and made me way able
to Perth to play some semi pro over there.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And were you were a copper then?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
No, not a cop then just playing football and mucking around, okay, and.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
You and then so I grew up in in Perth
in Western Australia.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay, you're a West trainer, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And then cousin I met after he'd moved over two
months and then met on Tinder modern day romance these days,
it seems to be.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's how people meet these days. So did you meet
during a COVID period?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
No, we met ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Didn't have been around that long. And a's but you're
a policeman too, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, so I've been in the job nearly eight years now,
nearly five. So we both joined, we both applied together,
but we both knew each other before the job, which
is nice.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You knew each other before your police yeah yeah, okay.
And then so in Perth will you police police persons
police anyway in Perth?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, britt police on the coast, Hillary's region, beautiful,
beautiful part of.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The world which hills is that north south of the
past on Scarborough Past.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
From down the road from Scarboro, good spot I lived
over there for well.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It is great.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
And then I was in Jodle Up, which is from yeah, yeah,
I know what that is so wise amazing blue wys
from me mother.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Not going to give her all the great note.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
My mom likes telling me, I know you've got the
eyes from me, so yeah, Mum's a black fellow from
thoroughle dur All Nations.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So just down the road in Wollongong.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Era, did you fall in over those blue eyes?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
How did you tell?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It was me?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Good chat?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It was me?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It was me jokes in me good chat.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He put his blue eyes up on dinder he.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Had and he had his shirt off. I did the
other way everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
How did you know that? She almost said her She
must have told you that. She said, up, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I saw the topless photos. He goes, I just gonna swap.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So and being in the cops, what they come in,
that'll be hard. That's a hard go having husband and
wife together in the cops. So I think it's as
I'm pretty good friends with the cops here in your
South Wales.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And it's not an easy business. It's a hard business
to be in.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
It's pretty universal. It's pretty hard work being where we're from.
We work at the same station as well now to
me in Plboro, so there's a lot of crossover. So
usually Brut will finishing night shift at about seven am
and I'll go to work at seven am. Both constables
where I where I'm comfortable. But it's the first class
so she likes telling me that as well.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He could do you exams, mate, that's all about it.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I'm halfway through the examples, but no, Britt acts up
sergeant as well, so yeah, acting sergeant when when.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So most people don't realize a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's like a lot of shift work, especially in the
regional areas especially.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
What's like now, is it good?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, it's hot, But in terms of police work, police work, yeah,
it's it's hard work.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's family violence and just a coping ounce for alcohol
up there.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Kids and kids.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You get in the same drama with that they're having
Maury for example. Is it as bad as those?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Not as bad as may not as bad as that,
But there's always dangers up there, and because you've got
no backup, you just got to sort of deal with
it yourself. So going in your own close the stations
five hours, five hours, six hours, and they've got resources there,
which is good, but it's five six hours before they're coming,
so you deal with it while you can.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And yeah, there's no it's not uncommon for brit to
be at the station.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Going I need you here now, and I'll go grab
the neighbors and say go sit with the kids because you've.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Got the two young fellows your kids, yeah, four hun
year old.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, so the neighbors are the best.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
They'll just come overseare with the kids for the night
and member it will go out on the road and do.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It we need to, though most people wouldn't have a
sense of what the pillers like.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Give us a bit of a paint picture of it,
red red dirt.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
But it's a community town, very big on mining, very
big indigenous culture there as well, and we've got the
best at both well, we've got a lot of mates
in the minds and we do a lot of community
work on and off shift and that's where we just
you know, that's where you make it at home. Like
minimum there for two years, maximum there for six with
ten years. So we just wanted to make it a
home and that's what we've done. So we get on
really well with the community. Yes, we might be wrestling
(07:36):
with them during the night, but the next morning we're
seeing them at the shops with our kids, and you know,
they're saying, sorry, Constable, sorry, sorry that I was being
a tool bag and you just got to move.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
On with it.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, we have a very good relationship with the community.
It's probably that's the best thing about the policing, that
is the community actually really supports us, whereas if some
other communities that it can make their job really hard
if they see them in the shops, it's not such
a nice interaction.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Once we had a branch one of my businesses up
in Mount Isa and I thought, Okay, visit the guy
up there who's running the branch. And I stayed in
the Mount eysa hotel just a pub and my accommodation.
But it had accommodation and it was upstairs. It was
so I had my dinner downstairs early when I thought
(08:21):
i'd go to bed because I had to work the
next day with my guy up there. I'm laying in
bed watching TV and all of a sudden I heard
like a lot of noise and drama.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I thought, Oka says it was going on, and
I go down.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The stairs and there's the biggest brawls you've ever seen
in your life in the pub. I just stood there
watched it was great, and the chairs people and the
publicans jumped over the counter and the stuff and its
spilled out on the street, and two cops turned up too,
And there would have been like thirty people in this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And apparently it happens every.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Saturday Friday night there, but I don't even been there once.
And I thought, wow, like, you can't stop it. No,
you can't stop it. No, and at no point trying
to stop it, especially if you're a woman, because you know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Not suggesting women my own ability.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, you just got to wait for it to calm
down a little bit and maybe try and talk them
out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's I guess the same sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Maybe not to that sin because Mount I was just
quite famous for this stuff. But what do you learn
about people in the interaction with people and maybe interaction
with yourselves from those experiences.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I think for us, especially where we are, your voice
is your best weapon, so you can start pulling out
whatever you want, but a lot of the time you
can just talk your way out. I think communications and
what we'll see is and usually what we're we do
or of an afternoon, we'll go it for an afternoon
shift and we'll go around the whole community talk to everyone,
and then we'll rock around back at two am, and
that all the guys we talked to earlier who were
(09:51):
great with us are all down punching on with each other.
But because we had a good chat with him earlier,
you go home, I'll deal with you later. Yeah, they'll
turn around to walk home and so they're not pun
not in the street anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They'll just go back to their own.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Businesses and we'll deal with it all then and then
we'll follow up with everyone in the next morning as well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And how do you use between yourselves given you just
see communication, Like.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Do you sort.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of sort of de robe yourself I don't mean literally
better like from being a police a police officer. And
then when you're together at home and your kids running around,
do you derobe your.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Police officer lifestyle or persona?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And then but do you drag take anything away from
your police officer persona to actually communicate with each other
because like in all families have conflict, ones tired, but
there's not tied to your kids the usual drama.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Does communication?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Are you able to get that stuff, that communication skill
that you're developing and applied to your selves, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
One hundred percent. I think that's the great thing about being.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
So I think that's the good thing is you do and.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
The escalation and communication, Like your mouth's your best tool,
how you talk to people. It's not a ways what
you say, it's how you say. It matters the delivery,
one hundred percent. And we definitely bring that into our
relationship as well. We understand, you know, what we do
is a hard job, stressful job. Sometimes someone make ten percent,
so the other person's going to pull up to make
(11:20):
that ninety percent. So communication's key. I think what makes
a very successful police officer's ability to be able to switch.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Off a little bit of successful husband, wife, mum and dad.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Yeah, I think it gave one of us.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Not bringing work home, is it? You've just got to
I'm not great.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
How do you do that?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
It's hard work.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I mean, like, let's say you just experience some drama,
you're tired. It's the same same deal, you know, and
I'm sure this thing is repetitive. It's the same crap
you have to do with all the time. How do
you just and especially for it a little bit of
a shock, I mean, how do you brush it?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I think the kids are the best, Your kids, Yeah,
best medicine for that because you go home and it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Matter what dealt with.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah, but when you sort of think, yeah, absolutely, because
they're so innocent, you know, and they're just running around
and their biggest drama is who they fought with at
daycare that day, like the boy at school, like you know,
hurt himself jumping off jumping off a slide and yeah
like that. So you just love hearing them talk. And
now they're growing up and they can tell your stories
about their day. It's just a different You just sort
(12:21):
of go, what doesn't matter what happened at work today.
I'll deal with that again tomorrow. But the kids are
our biggest outlet. We also ride horses and stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Like that as well, so animals, unbelieved.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Animals are the best.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
So we've got the dogs at home who jump on
you and go mental, but then the horses as well
that we Yeah, we do just anything outside of work, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Having good outlets for sure, having good friendships.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Not to many golf courses over there golf course.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, the green is red. It's it's good fun to
play at.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
But yeah, it's as soon as you get the green
you're sort of struggling from there.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
In that place, we can go swimming like I mean,
not outside of a pool like it is there waterways.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Yeah, we've got we've got these beautiful waterfalls and my
watering holes in.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Karajanie, So it's about two hours up the up the
road up.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Ones as well.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
We have a quite a few different ones. So it's
really nice. Just on days off, we'll go to watering
holes and explore.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Throw the kids in the back, throw the dogs in
the back, and we'll just go all these watering holes
and we'll bring our mates along as well, and they
just just live and breathe it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So why did you decide to go into the block
watching it? I didn't want to do.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
No, it was me.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
As were you apply and what's the deal.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It's quite a lengthy process. So we applied. It's like
a video application. You've got to do.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You did a video application, video application, you're just yourself, you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
H you don't do it at home? You just put
your phone up.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
What we've done, Yeah, checked it chuck the police kid on, yeah,
gun badeas, how you going, and then just stood in
front of it and said, we're Britains, we're in the
middle of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
We'd like to be on the block.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I reckon. They would have loved that.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I just say that.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Because you you're the perfect sort of profile Bilbra Coppers. Yeah,
I love getting stuck a local boy, like, you know,
one of the one of the local boys, and we're.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Like of Aboriginal extract and heritage. You're the opposite pretty much.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But by the way, he's got the blue eyes, you know,
the brown eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I know that everybody a little bit and and yeah, no,
I just think it would have been a perfect mix.
And so obviously they what happens.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, So then there's a big like five hundred questions
you've got to fill out and then they give you
a phone call.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Once you do that, then it's like a face to
face interview. It's like a four hour interview. Last camera teams,
we're in person.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We happened to be in Perth at the same time
they were doing them, so then we had that and
then after that we had about three or four different
psych tests, and it was very intense.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
It was actually get experience as well police clearance for
the police yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We're having real problems with the police clearance. I said,
I think we'll be right, but.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
They just couldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
They wouldn't take it off for some reason. They went
for ages. That was the longest process.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I think by the way, I think because of
the show I did min years ago. But I don't
think most people realize what happens is it's not Channel
nine doing that. It's they have an outsourced mob who
did the cast. They do all the casting, and then
they might get ten thousand applications and they would have
done a five thousand and two thousand and one thousand.
How many people in the show, there's only ten ten
(15:30):
And they eventually get it and then that last twenty
or thirty gain interview, usually by the producer of the show.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Did you do a show producer interview?
Speaker 7 (15:39):
We did have that.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
They put us on and we'd never been any situation
lines before, but they had three cameras, signs like in
front of us. They sit on the couch ing an
interviewer like we were on the block, and just to
see if we'd be a bit like talent. Yeah, yeah,
and again we just answered questions. But I went into
the whole process going I'm just going to answer it.
I reckon because forty thousand people a poy for this
(16:01):
thing and that many, so that it was mental and
I was like, they're not going to pick us, you know,
they're not even going to see our application. And we
got in pretty late to I think put the application
in with ten minutes to spare and they were like, yeah,
all right, bring these to So what experience did you
do that a should be experience in renovating? Yeah, have
you had experienced renovating? That's probably good really, and that's
(16:23):
what the things. So some of the questions are like, oh,
how would you go on the block? I said, oh, terribly,
Like I'm not the trading I'm not. I can't build nothing,
like We've had cracks at doing it ourselves. We do
lock it out in the garden quite a bit. So
we'll do some gardening and landscaping to a degree, but
you know, I can build a bench, but I'm not
putting up a whole house.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
But I think our values from policing got brought into it.
So the communication, project project management Yeah, all these vital
skills were definitely acrossover from policing. Although no real renovation experience,
the people skills that we gat within our industry definitely helped.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Insane that brit had a eye for interior design and
stuff like that. A lot of the shows based on
how you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The house do they ask you, like what style you
would do it in?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
They asked us what style?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Where?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
They give us no help do anything that helped. You
have to find.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
All our own trades. You have to find all you
mean when the show is on. Yeah, they don't help
you at all.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So you're you're so so you're at you know, you're
in some place of Victoria and you don't know anybody.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We just in front of carpenter.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You have to find Okay, that's cool, that's cool everyone.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But we because we before we start or before.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
We start agents everything, before you started, you found your
real estate agent.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
We struck with Buxton because Buxton went as soon as
we were desperate to get Buxton on board as soon
as we because they just they sell high.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
End properties and this is this is as high end.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
In Dastood or just generally.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Regional Victoria in regional Regional Victoria. So because Dastford is
in Yeah, it's about an er and twenty out from Melbourne,
but it's in Ballarate. It's half an hour from Ballarat.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, it's like towards Victoria, towards Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So no, if you're heading sort of towards sort of
in the center of regional Victoria. So if you're heading
not heading towards New South I was bordered towards Bendiger. No,
not quite Balerates. You news in New South Wales. Bend
he goes in ballarates in Victoria, and bend he goes
in Victoria's ben one kind of between Ballot, Ballarat and Bendigo.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Right, Okay, yeah, yeah, And so you chose these guys
chose Buxton.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Research just just all research.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You got to ask the right questions because we come
from a small community of like no one to come here.
It's all about who's the best here, Like who's the
best chippies, who's the best agents, who's the best time
Like because you've got to build the whole house, but
you've got to build it to a certain standard architect
or designers architect and the design of the house has
already done for you from nine and six and they
pick their own architect and Julian Brenchley, he designs all
(18:51):
that exterior of the houses and the layouts of the houses.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We can the interior design that's all lost.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You have to learn how to draw, I mean like
because we got to give some working drawings, so who
does that?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
So it's a bit of a drawing and a piece
of paper like this, you sketch it. Creative carpenters to
interpret my creatively.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So you don't get shop drawings.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Someone does shop drawings for you, so you're not giving
the Carbonera.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
They don't know at all marks. So Brit would draw
or something like this is what I want to do.
So the kitchen layer, we changed our kitchen layer to
make it the biggest kitchen on the block and we
had all the appliances to go with it. So Britt
had to draw her exactly out of the kitchen. And
then we gave that to our chippies and we're the
best chippies on the block, and they made better.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Drawings of it because BRIT's drawing wasn't up to standards.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
And then they would submit it to nine and six,
which is the builders of the whole block oversee everyone,
and then yeah, they would approve.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It, and they sent off the cabinet made cabinet to
get the cabinetry, et cetera.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
We get in touch with like Freedom Cabinetry and a
bunch of other these other chippies at all install those
right areas.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
But yeah, you have to do it off your own back.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Wow, I didn't realize that. I thought they'd give you
much more help than that.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I thought they did too.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
To help you out.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
But it's similar to agents. No one has the same chippies,
no one has the same tilers.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
That you have to find it all yourself.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
And you know, it was lucky to have, you know,
the Dales for locals and the Ballarette locals that we
could call up and get them on board.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
When you walk in there and you know, you sort
of see all the other contestants, do you sort of
like size them up, like you sort of go back
to you like you must stay in a hotel or
something around the area.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Yeah, we stayed in Caribbean, so everyone got a Caribbean okay,
right across from se Yeah. Absolutely, size this is what
you want to go on the show, because you're going
to be a bunch of trade's there and I'm going
to be there.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Not knowing what I'm doing as trading contestants.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Trading contestants.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah so and I'll just be spitting rubbish football facts
like and that's it was all good at so I
was like, I can't be doing that this year on
the show. There's only like there's any one trade in
one engineer from the other team, and then everyone else
is pretty it was pretty leavy playing level playing field
to be.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Fair and do you go on size maybe you explained
the first day there was like when you sort of
get there and everybody's sort of mulling around the place,
and you know, you've probably got production crew sort of
running around, sort of trying to sort out and maybe
have a didn't dinner to get to meet everyone that
night or something.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
What do we do that?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
We just got straight into it.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
We were straight into designing something and floats, yeah, it's
mental and then we from there. I think Scotty and
Shelley were there and.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
They challenge you guys got to pick the house got
the win on the first challenge mental, the first challenge
that they wont, and then they got to select the
house which they wanted, which is a very important thing.
The house that they wanted, they wanted to.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yes, and then what does Scotty Campbell what's you do
like when you're all standing there?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Does he know bag your bit or sort of ba
a little bit wind up?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
We actually hung out with Scotty a lot with the
shows we got, and we got quite a few wins,
and as you say on the thing, we won a
few rooms. If you get a room win, you get
to go to dinner with Scotti. And yeah, it was
probably probably not the best for us because we just
ended up or not. Haven't too many beers talking about
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he loves he loves a beer and loves the Chucks.
So we were just it was it was really good
to Britty like, I'm going, I'm going, how.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Is your let's just get back. So you're a Chuck supporter?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yes, yeah, so but you weren't born in BONDI I
wasn't born in BONDI actually grew up in Campbelltown. I
grew up watching you know, Minchello and about for the plane. Yeah,
well there they're from Cambleton, yeah, and Camden.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I think Mini's from family had a little like a
little market garden thing and around Camden somewhere.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, and then I think because because Freddie and yeah,
and Teddy because he was a Tigers as well, so
and yeah, and then Freddy came to our school and
stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So this is pretty good.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
But yes, I grew up playing supporting the Chucks. My
brother is a Tigers fan, so poor bugger. But yeah,
so just just from there, just lived and they grew
up playing rugby league and then you know a lot
of people got a lot bigger than me and then
made the swushfl and just played some AFL football and
but yeah, that's that's where it was.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
So Scotty camp would have loved that though, because he
does love yn't about the Roosters.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It just loves talking about him. People know he's like
a full tragic.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I know, we know it.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Yeah, we're going to go watch the Chucks and the
Sharks game. But we had I was on we were
on Notchift that week and I was like, because we
were like, come over and watch the Chucks and the
and the Sharks are amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
If you met the semi yeah, yeah recently. We don't
want to talk about that.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
We don't want to talk we want to talk about
how we can beat them when they've got no no
stars out. During that origin period we had like five
players out and we can knock them off by forty points,
but we couldn't do it anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So you see, you get to hang out with Scotti
camp if you win a room. Yes, so speak which
room did you win?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
We won the kitchen, we won.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
The kids room, kids rooms, master bedroom and back of
house and back of house. There's still three rooms still
to be shown on TV, so we can't release those results.
But yeah, we definitely hang out with him four times.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But how many rooms are twelve? Twelve twelve? So you
one was that was four? Four? Technically one five five? Five? Ok? Wow,
well done.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
So so like you you see, you guys are in
terms of and that's that's Scott Shiley, they make that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
To call or who decides on who wins?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
They get three judges in right, one's an interior designer.
No Chaine is also on interior designer, and then Martin
Fox are real estate.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So like in terms of maybe winning the whole show,
which obviously you're not going to don't know yet, but
because we've done a bit, depend on this bloke and
you're very very famous auctioneer, which is Damien Cooley, a
good mate of mine who I will have to say,
I must declare. I was looking at my brother and
sis and I were looking for when my parents passed away.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
My brothers and sis and I were looking.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
For who would be the best auctioneer to auction there
their decease state house in Mossman, and we used Aimien
and Dame wanted to. I wouldn't have any of that,
but mate, that guy is so good getting the last
dollar out of somebody.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
He's so good.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And you're going to have Mark walking around trying to
wind everybody up from you won't have another bid. You
won't have another bid. So I can just see it happening.
So you've chosen really well. Had you find Damien and Mark? Well,
apart from Mark been working for work.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Brits watched the show since before, you know, from the
BONDI one that you're talking about, like from there to now.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
BRIT's what lives and breathes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It like you mean in terms of research or you
were doing before.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I've watched all of them, but then when we found
out we're on the block, I went start and watched
every single auction.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Back from really wow.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
So I took notes of what the auction is, what
were the results, auction order, things like that, do a
bit of research.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Damien was an easy choice, but we're not going to
lock him in. He's too he's too short.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
After I didn't think, yeah, I don't think he would
want to call him and he was like, I'm not
really sure. I'll get back to you, and then a
couple of days later, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, And we saw it first down Yesterda. I
went to a few of the options yesterday and Harry Talent, Oh,
he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He does he will drag literally a dollar around something.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
So to have Mark work on the floor and Damen
up the front door on it, as well as Pete
as well, it'll just be is a dream team that
we didn't think we're going to get, but we managed
to pull.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Out of that.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So so tell me about the house now, So what
are we looking at? You like, what's the what's the style?
And is there a style? I mean, like, what are
we doing?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
So the style that I've gone for is modern organic luxery.
The reason why I've done that, So what Dalsford's known
for it's actually the spark couple of Australia, correct, as
well as very very Airbnb dance. So going into I
knew that the house is most likely going to be
an Airbnb and what.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Sorry just to stop there for a second, but is
that right? So let's describe Dalsford for those people who
don't know Dalsford. It's one of the great regional areas
of Victoria probably Australia.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You're right, it's a cool spots Springsapburn Springs.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I can talk to this, so it is. It's the
spark country of regional Victoria. So a lot of Melbourne people,
for example, if they're trying to get out of the city,
you know, they'll either head to the coast or the country.
And when they go, if they don't go coast, they'll
go country and Datsford is one of those.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I've been a number of occasions.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Beautiful, yeah, restaurants, spas, massage, airbnbs, and crystals, Yeah, crystals.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Shopstals, crystal shops right, yeah, lots of lots of them.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, lots of like side of breweries and things like wineries.
There's lots of just yeah, really wellness, living and I
think the brief that these guys have gone for is
that wellness home, and that's where in the marketing we're
referring to their home as the wellness home.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
So that's what you mean by organic like natural elements naturally?
Does that mean like when you say do you mean
is it?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Does it go as far as sort of saying that
the materials used are clean organic materials or recycled or
what are we talking about?
Speaker 7 (28:05):
So we do have some recycled materials inside the house.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
I can sample the curtains and made out of nine
percent recycled plastic, but a lot of the materials is
like natural stones, where us timbers, throughout linens, like all
of the feel is very organic, so very natural elements.
You walk into the house and it's about creating an
environment that's really calm, tranquil and goes with the whole wellness.
So you want to be in a house where you
can rest, replenish and recharge before going out. So that
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was encompassing my whole design.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So you're looking for so when you do the design
and you're trying to work out who's the person going
to stay here? So maybe also who's the person going
to buy it, because if you're going to put out,
if you're going to buy it as an investor, you're
looking for an investor who's going to put it on Airbnb,
you've got to be able to make sure you appeal
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to the reason why people a should get.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
A Dallas for the first place.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
One hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So you did some research on that, some research.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
You wouldn't have been there before, would you know, never
been to Dallas.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Dasford is like diametrically opposed in terms of the environment.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
To philbrig By, different struggled with the cold. Mostly gets cold,
it gets cold. Beautiful town green, luscious, and.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Everything really beautiful.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Two days before going to Dyasford it hit fifty degrees
where we were, so we had two fifty degree days
and then we went to Dysford and degrees and it
was dry than anything. Daysford of seventeen degrees. I had
four jumpers on and would have been probably probably just
finished raining. Was about to rain, so rains a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
We took them out, some hoodies and some beanies through
the whole pro We needed every bit of it.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
We were struggling.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
We were struggling, and then when it hit negatives, Yeah,
I was hide somewhere in the caravan.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Did you engage Mark from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, we tried Mark and Damien right right at the beginning,
and that was the exciting part because we talk about
the buyer, the bree you know, that was what we
discussed right back on week one, So talking about all right, well,
the style that they're going for with the high end
luxury finishes that they've done, it was all targeted around
the high end Airbnb buyer, the investor that where we
think is going to be the buyer and that's the
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interest that we're getting so far. So it was really
trying to understand with these guys where they wanted to go.
But also all our end game is the buyer and
the buyer brief and I reckon they've just executed it
really well. And what we're seeing across TV is that
their style is coming across beautifully. You know, their popularity
with the two of them who they are, is really good.
But the style of their property, the real estate itself
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that they've built, it's an exceptional house.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Is us for I don't know, is it a sort
after Airbnb investors style, absolute investors, lots of investors, So
it's so basically you go there on a weekend Friday, Saturday,
Sunday that the town is absolutely humming.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
So sho, yeah, crazy, restaurants are full. It's just it
is just a really good feel and a good vibe.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And that summer in winter, summer and winter.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, it's funny like winter is probably even more popular
there because people aren't going to the beach, you know,
in Victoria in particular, so they go inland fireplaces.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I would have put six fireplaces in that place.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Board, so did Mark and you guys sort of consult
and say, okay, here's a list of things we've got
to have in there, and then you designer and that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
For example, fireplace, can you have a fireplace these days?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We put what we got three fireplaces, natural fireplaces. You
can only put gas, two real ones, one electric.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
One of the master We've put one in the master
room as well, but you want to be able to
temperature control that one. You don't want to sit next
that's electric.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, And then and the natural fireplaces like the usual
top of fireplaces there, and like living areas and stuff like.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
That, living an outdoor outdoor of rescue as well They've
got a beautiful fireplace in their outdoor living area that
you can sit around, have a wind, got an outdoor
kitchen bar you on there al fresco, it's magnificent, overlooks
their pool and all their landscaping. It's it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
So when you when when you're designing, the coming up
with the ideas as designing come next to the guests.
But they coming up with the ideas and you've spoken
to Mark, the two guys are sort of saying, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We need an outdoor area.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Everywhere we're in Australia, it's an outdoor area, especially maybe
for the spring, the summer and autumn periods, maybe in
for the winter. But you decide what are the non
negotiables these things we must have. We must have an
outdoor ol for it. Let's call it alf usko, but
outdoor area. Then you are you saying we need to
have a pogola because it can rain. We need to
have the fireplace, and we need to have someone we
can have a table a certain length because we want
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to be able accommodate to any friends you might you
might rent the house on Airbnb with your mates.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, I think a lot of that was down to me,
like the styling items, but I definitely run things past Mark,
Like we did something.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
A little more controversial this year, so really, what was it.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
One of the rooms we turned into a wellness space,
so we turned it into a polates room and you
step outside and right outside there's a nice bath, a
hot tub and a sauna. So we're really encompassing outdoor shower.
We have like a veggie garter, and we have a greenhouse.
We also have a chicken coop, so we're really going
for that like go chooks. We don't have the chooks there,
but the chik house is there.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
To get the roosters.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You want to roost mate. You don't want to rooster
in a chicken pen.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I can turn out you want chooks because that rooster
will wake you up very well in the morning. I
have a farm and the last thing you want is
a rooster because they do get up at but they
make a lot of noise and they don't shut there.
They just keep going. But typical rooster. But so you've
got provision for chooks, provisions eggs.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So that was a bit controversial doing.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
The wellness or not done before not done before.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
The feedback from the judges was it wasn't very dials
for but we actually had the tourism DALs would come
through Victoria and they loved the room. So it's an
incredibly smart decision to do that, which run this decision
past Mark and past you know, our team who all
live local and express that it's a great idea. People
don't come to Delfhid to sit and watch more TV.
They come there to be healthy, be in that wellness
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and they'll go out and explore.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
So for us, a real point of difference mark this room.
It's the Plarties. They've got two Plarties reformers in there,
so it's and then it does open up to the
ice bath, plunge pool sauna as well that are straight
outside outdoor shalled. So when with their brief of who
they were going for the other where it's controversial the
other houses went for a theater room in this space,
whereas these guys went for the Plarti's room and wellness room.
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And that's where it is a point of difference, and
from a marketing point of view too to have this room.
It is just a beautiful room, like it's photoed up
amazingly well from a marketing point of view. So, and
it can easily be converted back into a theater room
or another living space should the buyer want that to
be the case. So I actually think they've hit it
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on both both nails on the head, so to speak.
So it's beautiful in the room that it is, and
it's a point of difference, but easily convertible if the
buy wants it to be.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And then so how many bedrooms in this place?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
So it's four bedrooms, three baths, so you get outtore toilet.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It's on twenty three hundred and twenty square meters so
it's a hataker yeah wow, big land.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, and so you've got plenty to play with, so
it's not like you're sort of sort of jam the
chicken cooping na.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Lots of space and all the house is to be fair,
are all nice and spacious as well. So yeah, we
certainly think britain tads are on a winter with house three,
but all houses are really they're really good quality home.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And and do you do you do the landscaping as well?
Is that something you guys have to do as well?
We get a landscaper in but you're responsible for it.
It's part of the deal.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
So what did you did you do it in?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
You know, I mean it may have already had some
landscaping there, but did you do it in stall like
a rainforest style and what styling?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Were talking?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
No again without wellness. So we had the idea that
the space could be hired out for say weddings, or
people could come there for like a girl's week, and
so we did lots again, lots of natural elements. We've
done natural timber arbors throughout. All of the planting that
we've done is native to the area, so it's going
to survive the frost in the cool brother and the
droughts in summer. So everything was planted in mind that
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it is very low maintenance but also impactful as well.
So our landscape was very incredible with his design.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
And again local landscaper, a local landscaping, And then did
you pick this landscaper.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Right the beginning, Right at the beginning, there's a few
non negotiables across the blot. You need to you need
to lock in an agent auction here that are going
to do everything they can. And so we did that
and guide you along the way and then for this year.
Landscaping is probably part of the kitchen is probably one
of the biggest things to you mean, like because the
kitchen sells the house usually, but because we've got fourteen
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under squares landscaping to do, that's going to set you
apart from everyone else.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And the garden that we created.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It's not on the air yet, but we've already started
creating that garden where we're showing now. It's just it
needs to stand out because you've got so much of it.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Us orientates to their backyard too, So each room, whether
it's the pilate's room, the wellness room, their kitchen, living space,
the master bedroom for example, they all orientate out to
their landscaping. So landscaping was it's a root, we're calling it.
It's a room in itself so to speak, because it is.
It's incredible. So they've got a natural water course that
they've got into it. Well, hopefully we want to talk
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to you about maybe being a potential for Britain tasch.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
But it was it was really well. The only we
won the kitchen, which is great because that.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Usually still turn me through the kitchen. So why why
did you win the kitchen? They give you reasons. Well,
we want a kitchen upgrade, so we want we want.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
A bedroom, the kids bedroom, which meant we had a
two hundred and twenty thousand dollars clients kitchen appliants upgrade.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
A bonus yuan dollar fridge mark in the house.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Well, yeah, sub zero fridges.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
They're walking fridges.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
No, they're not walking fridges. They're just commercial grade fridge.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
They're made by NASAs.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Essentially they take out well the chemicals out of the fridge,
which means your food last seven times longer in these fridges.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
So credits will last six months in there, no problem.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Amazing, incredible for we tried, because we finished and then
we're like, well let's leave some eggs, leaves egs and
we'll come back in three months, which we did eggs. Great,
it's just done. It was because we don't believe this,
but sub zero unbelievable. The unox oven that we've got
is unox oven. What's that just cooks itself, cleans itself.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Oven made into a residential so it's got all programs
made into it and you can touch what you want,
so it puts moisture into the oven. So say, if
you want your chicken nice and moist, but Crispy puts
the moisture in once you're Donet cleans itself as well.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
They're the Ferrari of the appliants world. So I've literally
got the best appliance as you can get the market off.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
But you've also got to dissign your kitchen well.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
So we extended our kitchen bench beginning four and a
half meter up kitchen bench, so it's got a dining
tab on the end of the kitchen as well. But
also the colors are styling the color. We put timber
all across the ceiling as well.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
But it also orientates to this backyard too, so when
you're in the kitchen, if you've got the kids that
are outside playing, for example, you can watch them. You
can watch it. Yeah, it's really clever design. Not just
as is it impressive, it's super impressive, but it's it's
clever the way it's designed.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
We just rely on the appliances. We need to rely
on a functional, working, beautiful looking kid. And I was
going to ask you about that tastes like how much
being parents did you? How much to be in parents
inform you as to how a thing like a kitchen
should work in a practical sense, Oh.
Speaker 7 (39:37):
Yeah, for sure, Like we like it to have informal
dining options.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
We don't always like to eat at the dining table,
so for us to yeah, so for us about to
have the island bench, and we've done it like this,
so there's a waterfall at the end, so there's two tables,
two chairs each site. So for us, that functionality was
definitely there. About how could this homework if a family
is living it? However, I don't think that is the
demographic of who is going to be buying my house
and living in it. But it still is in the
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forefront of your minding case.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
You know, there's.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Grandparents tenants, so short term tenants with kids.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Do you have an area where people can just sit
down and read a book.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
We've got heap the main living space because you've got
a natural rock wall, you've got timber on the ceiling,
you've got the fire going.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
You can do it there.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
But then you've got we've actually created to speakeasy at
the back of the whiskey bar, a whiskey bar at
the back of the it's cool back of the house,
as well.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Some other stuff. You've got lots of breakout here. So
Troy love at the landscape, but from love at landscaping.
His design was about having lots of little breakout areas outside. Yeah,
so you can go and read a book. You can
go and sit down and have a coffee or a
cup of tea, you know, sit down and just yeah,
very cool. Yeah, lots of mature trees. How many mature
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trees that you put in?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
We secured no, one and seven of them went in.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, but no.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
True thousand trees. Remember three and a half thousand.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Three and a half thousand trees on the plot that
he's put in.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yeah, well so I guess you got citrus trees or
something like that.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yes, And he's good at that because that's what you
call him.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
You know, we've got experts in age and stuff like that,
but the experts in landscaping is these trees are going
to survive.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
They're going to do well regardless of how the weather is.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
So if someone can go and stay there and you
there in the winter, they go and pick some citrus,
theyre going to pick an orange or amanda in or
something that they can get the barbecue going. They can
go and grab some fas, some morning, get some fresh
herbs out of the garden. If it's shitty weather, they
can sit inside with the fireplace. If it's great where
they can sit outside the back. But it sounds like
it's everything to how much you must be filthy that
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you've got to get back to.
Speaker 7 (41:42):
It's really hard.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Mouse.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
But I think what's something so unique with the block
and why people do buy them is the tax appreciation
schedules on these. So it is something completely out of control.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Like where're talking what five point seven y so the
depreciation schedules. You've got a value over five million dollars.
So you for the investors listening out there, if they
want a tax break of around the two hundred to
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, this is
the property for you.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah, so like so just some might open that up
a little bit. Just important for me to understand that.
So if they buy it as not as a home
but as an investment property. The items that you're put
in there, the appreciable items, which ovens and covers and
all sorts of things, all those have a schedule. Someone
must have gone through the schedule and said this is
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your depreciation schedule.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yes and yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
So they've done a full depreciation schedule that we can
send to any clients that are listening.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
For sure buy So the buyer then we'll get a
tax stuction up to a couple of hundred grand. It
is against the rev those rents. So you know, maybe
you know what would do you have a sense of
what it would rent for a weekend?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, well at high end airbnb, so on short term stage,
a lot of these properties can get anywhere between one
to two thousand dollars a night for a high end AIRBNBA.
So you're going to be in that ballpark for this
probum let's say two nights. Yeah, and it's usually a
minimum two nights day and two. That's the other that's
the other important factor.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
So do you do these things sort of?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
I mean I don't know what the demand is there,
but like given if let's say it's the best property
in Darcement and if you market it, probably which but
the vendor the probably the owner will be marketing it somehow.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I assume that.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
We're doing that for them. We're on domain, so domain
it's the listings up and running yep, so people can
look at it. So we've got all the photography and
videos done.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
So, but probably the owner may not have to pay
a tax if the rent's correct.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
I just quickly worked out. Then it's probably probably going
to get about one hundred and fifty grand a year
render if it's it's high high occupancy and more likely
make a loss to get a tax reduction against the
other stuff. So with a negative gearing, And do you
have a sense of price, I mean, how does it work?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Our guide price is three to three point three million. Yeah,
so we're expect this.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Has had an average price for a good home industry.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah. Look, to be fair, these are going to be
the best houses, you know, because there's nothing that has
been built to this quality and this substantial size and
everything that these guys have done. So these are going
to be an amazing property. So actually, to be honest,
I actually think it's a bit cheap because you wouldn't
be able to build a house like this for three
three to three point three. You wouldn't be able to
build this house for it.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
So so how big is the house? How many square meters?
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yeah? The square meters of the house around thirty I'd
have to check that, because yeah, it's a big house. Yeah,
over thirty square and parking. Garaging, Yeah, garaging, so you
got double car garage plus the way they've done their
drive while you've got loads of room to park other
car spaces in the front of the house as well. Yeah.
So if you've gone with two families, for example, if
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it's a their BMB, there's plenty of room. Yeah, you
can have two families. The other thing they've got is
a guest room on one wing of the house, so
you got to even sublet that out.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
We're talking permanently, Yeah, exactly, so you can put your
manager in the you could absolutely. Are the rules about
airbnb and stuff like that?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Is that one of them?
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Very common?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
So yeah, a lot of people, a lot of the
market is buying in DAS four, specifically the airbnb.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Yeah, and do you give guidance on rates and stuff
with that rates? Is it expensive and real estate there
from a council point of view.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Look, it's nothing's cheap. I suppose in real estate probably
you know, the market's probably cheap competed to sitting, but no,
it's in terms of because of the rental years are
going to be high and the tax appreciation you're going
to get these investments will be will be far. You know,
this is where a lot of the high wealth, high
income people that will be looking to buy. It is
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a great option for them to negative gear.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, and do you have like does your firm have
a like a client list you yes, you reach out.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
To we do our company at Buckston. We've been involved
in the block about five times through the Alburn so
we've actually already had a bunch of buy a list
so we all share we all do a one shared
database through Buckston. So we've been able to tap into
the Melbourne market, especially the affluent areas of Melbourne, and
that's where a lot of our inquiry is coming from.
We're actually getting a lot from Sydney too. We're getting
a few inquiries from Sydney as well. So yeah, so
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we've definitely been able to tap into that. Buyers advocates
as well and buyers agents have been really prevalent in
terms of they're they're definitely a buyer group that is
interested in the block in most seasons and this season
certainly is the case too. We've got a few buyers
agents that are loving Britain Tazz's house, which is great.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
They should pre approval on them.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
We'll get the team at ye yellow brick road, so
we'll get ye.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I'll rub your back.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
That's how business works.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
It's very interesting because this is a long way off
the way the original block started when I went down
there in Roscoe St.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Bondo and uh and the whole last year was.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
That he bought all of us, he bought more. Yeah,
but he's doing his own show this year, so he
won't be bidding this year.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
So he's doing his own show. What do you mean
he's got a block sher seven, I really seven.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
But we've got so many other buyers, and look with
what happens there with him not bidding, and creates opportunity
for others because he bought all five houndses last year,
and I think he brought two or three years before,
so you know, this creates more opportunity for other people
that perhaps wanted to purchase last year that they couldn't
get in the market. So yeah, we see that as
a really big upside. And Adrian's obviously done really well
(47:34):
out of it himself, which is great, great work by him,
So there should be other people that could consider doing
what he's also.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Done very good.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
I remember David Ginjo's nine taught me in to buy
and a few in the early days, which is always
fun because.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
I bid, but I did end up winning.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
But we'll get you to win this time.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
I did manage to push the price up so and
I'm hoping the show will do the same for you
two guys.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
And now how do you feel after the whole event?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
So it hasn't finished it, you haven't noother last bit,
but just in terms of the renovation, So as a couple,
what did you get out of it?
Speaker 5 (48:10):
We actually came out a lot stronger. I thought there'd
be a lot more bickering, but when you're on a
show like this, it is very, very stressful. It's a
lot harder than what you see on the cameras as
over a thousand hours worth of footage and Australia only
gets to see four of that, so a lot more
things go wrong that you just simply don't see. So
for us, it was so important that we communicated and
that we weren't upset with each other, because you're feeling
(48:33):
so much like pressure.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And stressing you to be upset, because that's great.
Speaker 5 (48:40):
So we just communicated the whole time, and we just
reliud on each other. We were never angry with each
other because you couldn't. You just have to get on
with things.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
So it was easily the hardest thing we've had to do.
Speaker 6 (48:50):
And like three weeks before as a couple, you do admit, well,
just because we were separated a lot, because it would
be in balorate buying everything, and I would be outside
managing the fifteen trades that were there. So kid no
kids as well, and they bring that up quite a bit,
which is fine. We try to call them, but we'd
miss them as well with the time difference and everything
like that as well. So definitely hard things. And it
(49:12):
was coming off, you know, three weeks before going on
the show, we were you know, it was dragging bodies
out of cars, like you know that we're involved in
REX and that.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
Those are just regular jobs. But we're trained to do that.
We do that quite well. We know what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (49:22):
We're going into this environment, never been there before. It
was like learn quick or drowned. So luckily we learned
pretty quickly, and you know a lot of things came
together for us.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
And have you did it?
Speaker 5 (49:34):
Have you we did it?
Speaker 7 (49:35):
Well, we'll see, have we we did.
Speaker 6 (49:39):
It to set the kids up with so and you
know we're getting a lot of interest for it, but
you never know until you know. Some of the best
people until the day, some of the best people that
haven't sold their house for any money. So yeah, the
gance set up the kids. We could do it one
hundred times over, even though it was bloody hard, but
you know, set up a good life for them.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
We the show to me, But do you kids watch it?
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (50:02):
The four year olds, he'll sit and watch.
Speaker 8 (50:06):
Wouldn't I will know this Mom and dad yet know
what's going on, but it's past bedtime when it's on
at seven o'clock every every Monday, Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (50:16):
And seven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (50:17):
So he just uses an excuse, surely I can watch
the block tonight, so you're going to stay up and
watch TV.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
But he does.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
They're not as good yet. So the next year, I
guess for four year olds at school, kids will.
Speaker 7 (50:29):
Know that on tell the teachers. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Yeah, but it's good for the ballot crew because a
lot of the ball traders we're good made for them now,
so we speak to them all the time. But like
they go around school and stuff. Now their kids are
going my dad's on TV trading.
Speaker 7 (50:44):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
My dad's the builder of for tasm Bred on the block.
Like it's any major dramas, they have a blue with anyone.
Speaker 7 (50:53):
There's a big blue right now.
Speaker 6 (50:55):
We got on a bit of a roll with winning stuff,
and yeah, people didn't like it, so they came after
a poppy synder. Yeah yeah, and we just we just
copped it with and said go on. Then we just
kept winning stuff.
Speaker 8 (51:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
I think for us, we just you know, we're very
used to high process, high pressure situation. So if people
would come after us, you know, trying to yell at
us or whatever, we would just talk back, very mirror
and just talking us and calmly to them and just
there's just no point, like.
Speaker 7 (51:23):
They want us to react more.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
But you've seen the worst of it in your job.
We've seen nothings. Nothing's gonna sort of get close to
what you see day to day.
Speaker 7 (51:33):
That's what we kept bringing.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, we kept being we build our house, yeah, because
we can do hard things.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Yeah, but they're very authentic, as you can see already
in this interview. They're coming across that way on TV.
So and that was what I noticed with working them
off camera and then seeing them on camera it's the same.
So it's been great.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
First, you're the first people that Damiens recommended to me,
so that's a wrap. Yeah, and I've known him for
a long time so you know we're mate, so that
the first person he's recommended to me. So take take
to take that as you will. Well, good luck, guys,
big auctions coming up ready right now. It's in the
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hands of the gods and you have to wait and
see what the outcome is. But obviously you put your
best foot forward. You've done a great job from what
I'm hearing, and you've enjoyed yourself most importantly, and now
it's over to him and.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
Get it done and do our best.
Speaker 6 (52:28):
Thanks having us absolute pleasure to come on this show.
We love watching what you do as well, so we talk.
Speaker 5 (52:34):
About this yourself moments for us. This is one being
here with you talking thank you and a little.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Gift for you Mark from Bucks and Baller. That's Monopoly
board that we give out New.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Zealand and I was in Queensland and I saw I
didn't realize but Monopoly does these.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
There's one for yeah, and you can get them. So
we put a painting on it. For the Ballerade area,
so it's very unique to our business and Ballarat streets,
Ballarat icons, it's and we love it. It's better, we thought,
rather than giving somebody a bottle of wine, for example,
when you sell a house for them or to them,
this is something that they'll use. They might put it
in the cupboard for six months, but then they'll pull
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it out again, so you'll never really throw that away.
So for us it's a yeah, it's a real meaningful
gift rather than just a bottle of wine.
Welcome to the mentor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm Mark Boris.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Britain taz Eto, welcome to the mentor and Mark Nunn
real estate agent. Thank you, welcome to the show, and
welcome to the mentor. Glad to be Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So Tas and Britt husband wife, I being presumptuous or partners.
At least we're married these days.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's been usually these days. But you're married and your
contestants on the block. How many years now we're talk
about block twenty years?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How twenty one season's over nineteen years.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
This is the twenty first season, twenty first so twenty
twenty five is the twenty first season. I remember the
very first season down Bondi and I went to my
mate Ginjel was the boss at nine in those days,
and me and Ginju went to the.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Very first auction auction in Roscoe Street.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Bondi and the two producers who came to him with
the idea, we're there and I think gin Shaw is
going to have a bid, but there's no way I
was going to have a bid. And we're going to
shock how popular it was and how popular the day
of selling the first block of apartments in Ross Coastry
was it was amazing. Now it's like a big production, massive,
(01:16):
massive production. And so you guys are where are you
at in terms of the show?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So your house is completed?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, the house was completed the start of June. That's
when we finished filming, and then we will go back
to our normal lives for about six weeks before it
starts to air and it's on TV now, and then
the auctions are at the end of next month.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So the auction is at the end of October. We
should say this month, we're in October, we're going to
go Outbert, So we're recording this on the first of
October and we'll go to where sometime towards the end
of October. I presume I don't know what the Boy's
going to do, and by that stage the auction will
(01:57):
be over.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, So how do you feel about all this stuff?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Oh, it's nerve wracking, Like you give up. Everyone on
the who goes on the show gives up a big
chunk of their life. You're a way for filming for
thirteen weeks. We're back on the block now for another
six weeks. Try to maximize and meet as many people
as we can, so you just hope at the end
of the day that the sacrifice was worth it, all
the blood, sweat and tears.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Three months are hard work, no breaks, no days off.
But after you do that three months, yeah, it's just
like you stop, you go back. We're back on the road,
dawn police stuff and straight back into it. And no
one knew we're being on TV yet.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So so you two are coppers, both of us coppers.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, so's just go and have a little circle around
what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So are you from Dalston? The block was at Daltford,
the blocks in Dalsford from the pill bro in West Australia.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
From Westralia, Yeah, well from the piller in the desert.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's amazing what we call home at the moment. Have
you always been from there?
Speaker 7 (02:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I grub in Sydney, Yeah, grub Sydney.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I was born in Griffith in the desert there and
then which was in New South Wales, yeah, South Wales,
and then moved over to Sydney with the family. It
was four of us growing up and then yeah, played
some semi pro afl and in Sydney. In Sydney, yeah,
then got cut from there and made me way able
to Perth to play some semi pro over there.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And were you were a copper then?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
No, not a cop then just playing football and mucking around, okay, and.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
You and then so I grew up in in Perth
in Western Australia.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay, you're a West trainer, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And then cousin I met after he'd moved over two
months and then met on Tinder modern day romance these days,
it seems to be.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's how people meet these days. So did you meet
during a COVID period?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
No, we met ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Didn't have been around that long. And a's but you're
a policeman too, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, so I've been in the job nearly eight years now,
nearly five. So we both joined, we both applied together,
but we both knew each other before the job, which
is nice.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You knew each other before your police yeah yeah, okay.
And then so in Perth will you police police persons
police anyway in Perth?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, britt police on the coast, Hillary's region, beautiful,
beautiful part of.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The world which hills is that north south of the
past on Scarborough Past.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
From down the road from Scarboro, good spot I lived
over there for well.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It is great.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
And then I was in Jodle Up, which is from yeah, yeah,
I know what that is so wise amazing blue wys
from me mother.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Not going to give her all the great note.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
My mom likes telling me, I know you've got the
eyes from me, so yeah, Mum's a black fellow from
thoroughle dur All Nations.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So just down the road in Wollongong.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Era, did you fall in over those blue eyes?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
How did you tell?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It was me?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Good chat?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It was me?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It was me jokes in me good chat.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He put his blue eyes up on dinder he.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Had and he had his shirt off. I did the
other way everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
How did you know that? She almost said her She
must have told you that. She said, up, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I saw the topless photos. He goes, I just gonna swap.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So and being in the cops, what they come in,
that'll be hard. That's a hard go having husband and
wife together in the cops. So I think it's as
I'm pretty good friends with the cops here in your
South Wales.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And it's not an easy business. It's a hard business
to be in.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
It's pretty universal. It's pretty hard work being where we're from.
We work at the same station as well now to
me in Plboro, so there's a lot of crossover. So
usually Brut will finishing night shift at about seven am
and I'll go to work at seven am. Both constables
where I where I'm comfortable. But it's the first class
so she likes telling me that as well.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He could do you exams, mate, that's all about it.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I'm halfway through the examples, but no, Britt acts up
sergeant as well, so yeah, acting sergeant when when.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So most people don't realize a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's like a lot of shift work, especially in the
regional areas especially.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
What's like now, is it good?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, it's hot, But in terms of police work, police work, yeah,
it's it's hard work.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's family violence and just a coping ounce for alcohol
up there.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Kids and kids.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You get in the same drama with that they're having
Maury for example. Is it as bad as those?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Not as bad as may not as bad as that,
But there's always dangers up there, and because you've got
no backup, you just got to sort of deal with
it yourself. So going in your own close the stations
five hours, five hours, six hours, and they've got resources there,
which is good, but it's five six hours before they're coming,
so you deal with it while you can.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And yeah, there's no it's not uncommon for brit to
be at the station.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Going I need you here now, and I'll go grab
the neighbors and say go sit with the kids because you've.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Got the two young fellows your kids, yeah, four hun
year old.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, so the neighbors are the best.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
They'll just come overseare with the kids for the night
and member it will go out on the road and do.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It we need to, though most people wouldn't have a
sense of what the pillers like.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Give us a bit of a paint picture of it,
red red dirt.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
But it's a community town, very big on mining, very
big indigenous culture there as well, and we've got the
best at both well, we've got a lot of mates
in the minds and we do a lot of community
work on and off shift and that's where we just
you know, that's where you make it at home. Like
minimum there for two years, maximum there for six with
ten years. So we just wanted to make it a
home and that's what we've done. So we get on
really well with the community. Yes, we might be wrestling
(07:36):
with them during the night, but the next morning we're
seeing them at the shops with our kids, and you know,
they're saying, sorry, Constable, sorry, sorry that I was being
a tool bag and you just got to move.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
On with it.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, we have a very good relationship with the community.
It's probably that's the best thing about the policing, that
is the community actually really supports us, whereas if some
other communities that it can make their job really hard
if they see them in the shops, it's not such
a nice interaction.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Once we had a branch one of my businesses up
in Mount Isa and I thought, Okay, visit the guy
up there who's running the branch. And I stayed in
the Mount eysa hotel just a pub and my accommodation.
But it had accommodation and it was upstairs. It was
so I had my dinner downstairs early when I thought
(08:21):
i'd go to bed because I had to work the
next day with my guy up there. I'm laying in
bed watching TV and all of a sudden I heard
like a lot of noise and drama.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I thought, Oka says it was going on, and
I go down.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The stairs and there's the biggest brawls you've ever seen
in your life in the pub. I just stood there
watched it was great, and the chairs people and the
publicans jumped over the counter and the stuff and its
spilled out on the street, and two cops turned up too,
And there would have been like thirty people in this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And apparently it happens every.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Saturday Friday night there, but I don't even been there once.
And I thought, wow, like, you can't stop it. No,
you can't stop it. No, and at no point trying
to stop it, especially if you're a woman, because you know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Not suggesting women my own ability.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, you just got to wait for it to calm
down a little bit and maybe try and talk them
out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's I guess the same sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Maybe not to that sin because Mount I was just
quite famous for this stuff. But what do you learn
about people in the interaction with people and maybe interaction
with yourselves from those experiences.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I think for us, especially where we are, your voice
is your best weapon, so you can start pulling out
whatever you want, but a lot of the time you
can just talk your way out. I think communications and
what we'll see is and usually what we're we do
or of an afternoon, we'll go it for an afternoon
shift and we'll go around the whole community talk to everyone,
and then we'll rock around back at two am, and
that all the guys we talked to earlier who were
(09:51):
great with us are all down punching on with each other.
But because we had a good chat with him earlier,
you go home, I'll deal with you later. Yeah, they'll
turn around to walk home and so they're not pun
not in the street anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They'll just go back to their own.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Businesses and we'll deal with it all then and then
we'll follow up with everyone in the next morning as well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And how do you use between yourselves given you just
see communication, Like.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Do you sort.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of sort of de robe yourself I don't mean literally
better like from being a police a police officer. And
then when you're together at home and your kids running around,
do you derobe your.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Police officer lifestyle or persona?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And then but do you drag take anything away from
your police officer persona to actually communicate with each other
because like in all families have conflict, ones tired, but
there's not tied to your kids the usual drama.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Does communication?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Are you able to get that stuff, that communication skill
that you're developing and applied to your selves, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
One hundred percent. I think that's the great thing about being.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
So I think that's the good thing is you do and.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
The escalation and communication, Like your mouth's your best tool,
how you talk to people. It's not a ways what
you say, it's how you say. It matters the delivery,
one hundred percent. And we definitely bring that into our
relationship as well. We understand, you know, what we do
is a hard job, stressful job. Sometimes someone make ten percent,
so the other person's going to pull up to make
(11:20):
that ninety percent. So communication's key. I think what makes
a very successful police officer's ability to be able to switch.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Off a little bit of successful husband, wife, mum and dad.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Yeah, I think it gave one of us.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Not bringing work home, is it? You've just got to
I'm not great.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
How do you do that?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
It's hard work.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I mean, like, let's say you just experience some drama,
you're tired. It's the same same deal, you know, and
I'm sure this thing is repetitive. It's the same crap
you have to do with all the time. How do
you just and especially for it a little bit of
a shock, I mean, how do you brush it?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I think the kids are the best, Your kids, Yeah,
best medicine for that because you go home and it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Matter what dealt with.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah, but when you sort of think, yeah, absolutely, because
they're so innocent, you know, and they're just running around
and their biggest drama is who they fought with at
daycare that day, like the boy at school, like you know,
hurt himself jumping off jumping off a slide and yeah
like that. So you just love hearing them talk. And
now they're growing up and they can tell your stories
about their day. It's just a different You just sort
(12:21):
of go, what doesn't matter what happened at work today.
I'll deal with that again tomorrow. But the kids are
our biggest outlet. We also ride horses and stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Like that as well, so animals, unbelieved.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Animals are the best.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
So we've got the dogs at home who jump on
you and go mental, but then the horses as well
that we Yeah, we do just anything outside of work, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Having good outlets for sure, having good friendships.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Not to many golf courses over there golf course.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, the green is red. It's it's good fun to
play at.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
But yeah, it's as soon as you get the green
you're sort of struggling from there.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
In that place, we can go swimming like I mean,
not outside of a pool like it is there waterways.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Yeah, we've got we've got these beautiful waterfalls and my
watering holes in.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Karajanie, So it's about two hours up the up the
road up.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Ones as well.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
We have a quite a few different ones. So it's
really nice. Just on days off, we'll go to watering
holes and explore.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Throw the kids in the back, throw the dogs in
the back, and we'll just go all these watering holes
and we'll bring our mates along as well, and they
just just live and breathe it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So why did you decide to go into the block
watching it? I didn't want to do.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
No, it was me.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
As were you apply and what's the deal.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It's quite a lengthy process. So we applied. It's like
a video application. You've got to do.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You did a video application, video application, you're just yourself, you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
H you don't do it at home? You just put
your phone up.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
What we've done, Yeah, checked it chuck the police kid on, yeah,
gun badeas, how you going, and then just stood in
front of it and said, we're Britains, we're in the
middle of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
We'd like to be on the block.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I reckon. They would have loved that.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I just say that.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Because you you're the perfect sort of profile Bilbra Coppers. Yeah,
I love getting stuck a local boy, like, you know,
one of the one of the local boys, and we're.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Like of Aboriginal extract and heritage. You're the opposite pretty much.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But by the way, he's got the blue eyes, you know,
the brown eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I know that everybody a little bit and and yeah, no,
I just think it would have been a perfect mix.
And so obviously they what happens.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, So then there's a big like five hundred questions
you've got to fill out and then they give you
a phone call.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Once you do that, then it's like a face to
face interview. It's like a four hour interview. Last camera teams,
we're in person.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We happened to be in Perth at the same time
they were doing them, so then we had that and
then after that we had about three or four different
psych tests, and it was very intense.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
It was actually get experience as well police clearance for
the police yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We're having real problems with the police clearance. I said,
I think we'll be right, but.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
They just couldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
They wouldn't take it off for some reason. They went
for ages. That was the longest process.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I think by the way, I think because of
the show I did min years ago. But I don't
think most people realize what happens is it's not Channel
nine doing that. It's they have an outsourced mob who
did the cast. They do all the casting, and then
they might get ten thousand applications and they would have
done a five thousand and two thousand and one thousand.
How many people in the show, there's only ten ten
(15:30):
And they eventually get it and then that last twenty
or thirty gain interview, usually by the producer of the show.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Did you do a show producer interview?
Speaker 7 (15:39):
We did have that.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
They put us on and we'd never been any situation
lines before, but they had three cameras, signs like in
front of us. They sit on the couch ing an
interviewer like we were on the block, and just to
see if we'd be a bit like talent. Yeah, yeah,
and again we just answered questions. But I went into
the whole process going I'm just going to answer it.
I reckon because forty thousand people a poy for this
(16:01):
thing and that many, so that it was mental and
I was like, they're not going to pick us, you know,
they're not even going to see our application. And we
got in pretty late to I think put the application
in with ten minutes to spare and they were like, yeah,
all right, bring these to So what experience did you
do that a should be experience in renovating? Yeah, have
you had experienced renovating? That's probably good really, and that's
(16:23):
what the things. So some of the questions are like, oh,
how would you go on the block? I said, oh, terribly,
Like I'm not the trading I'm not. I can't build nothing,
like We've had cracks at doing it ourselves. We do
lock it out in the garden quite a bit. So
we'll do some gardening and landscaping to a degree, but
you know, I can build a bench, but I'm not
putting up a whole house.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
But I think our values from policing got brought into it.
So the communication, project project management Yeah, all these vital
skills were definitely acrossover from policing. Although no real renovation experience,
the people skills that we gat within our industry definitely helped.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Insane that brit had a eye for interior design and
stuff like that. A lot of the shows based on
how you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The house do they ask you, like what style you
would do it in?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
They asked us what style?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Where?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
They give us no help do anything that helped. You
have to find.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
All our own trades. You have to find all you
mean when the show is on. Yeah, they don't help
you at all.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So you're you're so so you're at you know, you're
in some place of Victoria and you don't know anybody.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We just in front of carpenter.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You have to find Okay, that's cool, that's cool everyone.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But we because we before we start or before.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
We start agents everything, before you started, you found your
real estate agent.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
We struck with Buxton because Buxton went as soon as
we were desperate to get Buxton on board as soon
as we because they just they sell high.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
End properties and this is this is as high end.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
In Dastood or just generally.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Regional Victoria in regional Regional Victoria. So because Dastford is
in Yeah, it's about an er and twenty out from Melbourne,
but it's in Ballarate. It's half an hour from Ballarat.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, it's like towards Victoria, towards Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So no, if you're heading sort of towards sort of
in the center of regional Victoria. So if you're heading
not heading towards New South I was bordered towards Bendiger. No,
not quite Balerates. You news in New South Wales. Bend
he goes in ballarates in Victoria, and bend he goes
in Victoria's ben one kind of between Ballot, Ballarat and Bendigo.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Right, Okay, yeah, yeah, And so you chose these guys
chose Buxton.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Research just just all research.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You got to ask the right questions because we come
from a small community of like no one to come here.
It's all about who's the best here, Like who's the
best chippies, who's the best agents, who's the best time
Like because you've got to build the whole house, but
you've got to build it to a certain standard architect
or designers architect and the design of the house has
already done for you from nine and six and they
pick their own architect and Julian Brenchley, he designs all
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that exterior of the houses and the layouts of the houses.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We can the interior design that's all lost.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You have to learn how to draw, I mean like
because we got to give some working drawings, so who
does that?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
So it's a bit of a drawing and a piece
of paper like this, you sketch it. Creative carpenters to
interpret my creatively.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So you don't get shop drawings.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Someone does shop drawings for you, so you're not giving
the Carbonera.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
They don't know at all marks. So Brit would draw
or something like this is what I want to do.
So the kitchen layer, we changed our kitchen layer to
make it the biggest kitchen on the block and we
had all the appliances to go with it. So Britt
had to draw her exactly out of the kitchen. And
then we gave that to our chippies and we're the
best chippies on the block, and they made better.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Drawings of it because BRIT's drawing wasn't up to standards.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
And then they would submit it to nine and six,
which is the builders of the whole block oversee everyone,
and then yeah, they would approve.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It, and they sent off the cabinet made cabinet to
get the cabinetry, et cetera.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
We get in touch with like Freedom Cabinetry and a
bunch of other these other chippies at all install those
right areas.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
But yeah, you have to do it off your own back.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Wow, I didn't realize that. I thought they'd give you
much more help than that.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I thought they did too.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
To help you out.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
But it's similar to agents. No one has the same chippies,
no one has the same tilers.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
That you have to find it all yourself.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
And you know, it was lucky to have, you know,
the Dales for locals and the Ballarette locals that we
could call up and get them on board.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
When you walk in there and you know, you sort
of see all the other contestants, do you sort of
like size them up, like you sort of go back
to you like you must stay in a hotel or
something around the area.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Yeah, we stayed in Caribbean, so everyone got a Caribbean okay,
right across from se Yeah. Absolutely, size this is what
you want to go on the show, because you're going
to be a bunch of trade's there and I'm going
to be there.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Not knowing what I'm doing as trading contestants.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Trading contestants.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah so and I'll just be spitting rubbish football facts
like and that's it was all good at so I
was like, I can't be doing that this year on
the show. There's only like there's any one trade in
one engineer from the other team, and then everyone else
is pretty it was pretty leavy playing level playing field
to be.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Fair and do you go on size maybe you explained
the first day there was like when you sort of
get there and everybody's sort of mulling around the place,
and you know, you've probably got production crew sort of
running around, sort of trying to sort out and maybe
have a didn't dinner to get to meet everyone that
night or something.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
What do we do that?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
We just got straight into it.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
We were straight into designing something and floats, yeah, it's
mental and then we from there. I think Scotty and
Shelley were there and.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
They challenge you guys got to pick the house got
the win on the first challenge mental, the first challenge
that they wont, and then they got to select the
house which they wanted, which is a very important thing.
The house that they wanted, they wanted to.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yes, and then what does Scotty Campbell what's you do
like when you're all standing there?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Does he know bag your bit or sort of ba
a little bit wind up?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
We actually hung out with Scotty a lot with the
shows we got, and we got quite a few wins,
and as you say on the thing, we won a
few rooms. If you get a room win, you get
to go to dinner with Scotti. And yeah, it was
probably probably not the best for us because we just
ended up or not. Haven't too many beers talking about
(22:10):
he loves he loves a beer and loves the Chucks.
So we were just it was it was really good
to Britty like, I'm going, I'm going, how.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Is your let's just get back. So you're a Chuck supporter?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yes, yeah, so but you weren't born in BONDI I
wasn't born in BONDI actually grew up in Campbelltown. I
grew up watching you know, Minchello and about for the plane. Yeah,
well there they're from Cambleton, yeah, and Camden.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I think Mini's from family had a little like a
little market garden thing and around Camden somewhere.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, and then I think because because Freddie and yeah,
and Teddy because he was a Tigers as well, so
and yeah, and then Freddy came to our school and
stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So this is pretty good.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
But yes, I grew up playing supporting the Chucks. My
brother is a Tigers fan, so poor bugger. But yeah,
so just just from there, just lived and they grew
up playing rugby league and then you know a lot
of people got a lot bigger than me and then
made the swushfl and just played some AFL football and
but yeah, that's that's where it was.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
So Scotty camp would have loved that though, because he
does love yn't about the Roosters.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It just loves talking about him. People know he's like
a full tragic.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I know, we know it.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Yeah, we're going to go watch the Chucks and the
Sharks game. But we had I was on we were
on Notchift that week and I was like, because we
were like, come over and watch the Chucks and the
and the Sharks are amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
If you met the semi yeah, yeah recently. We don't
want to talk about that.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
We don't want to talk we want to talk about
how we can beat them when they've got no no
stars out. During that origin period we had like five
players out and we can knock them off by forty points,
but we couldn't do it anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So you see, you get to hang out with Scotti
camp if you win a room. Yes, so speak which
room did you win?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
We won the kitchen, we won.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
The kids room, kids rooms, master bedroom and back of
house and back of house. There's still three rooms still
to be shown on TV, so we can't release those results.
But yeah, we definitely hang out with him four times.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But how many rooms are twelve? Twelve twelve? So you
one was that was four? Four? Technically one five five? Five? Ok? Wow,
well done.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
So so like you you see, you guys are in
terms of and that's that's Scott Shiley, they make that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
To call or who decides on who wins?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
They get three judges in right, one's an interior designer.
No Chaine is also on interior designer, and then Martin
Fox are real estate.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So like in terms of maybe winning the whole show,
which obviously you're not going to don't know yet, but
because we've done a bit, depend on this bloke and
you're very very famous auctioneer, which is Damien Cooley, a
good mate of mine who I will have to say,
I must declare. I was looking at my brother and
sis and I were looking for when my parents passed away.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
My brothers and sis and I were looking.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
For who would be the best auctioneer to auction there
their decease state house in Mossman, and we used Aimien
and Dame wanted to. I wouldn't have any of that,
but mate, that guy is so good getting the last
dollar out of somebody.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
He's so good.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And you're going to have Mark walking around trying to
wind everybody up from you won't have another bid. You
won't have another bid. So I can just see it happening.
So you've chosen really well. Had you find Damien and Mark? Well,
apart from Mark been working for work.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Brits watched the show since before, you know, from the
BONDI one that you're talking about, like from there to now.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
BRIT's what lives and breathes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It like you mean in terms of research or you
were doing before.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I've watched all of them, but then when we found
out we're on the block, I went start and watched
every single auction.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Back from really wow.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
So I took notes of what the auction is, what
were the results, auction order, things like that, do a
bit of research.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Damien was an easy choice, but we're not going to
lock him in. He's too he's too short.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
After I didn't think, yeah, I don't think he would
want to call him and he was like, I'm not
really sure. I'll get back to you, and then a
couple of days later, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, And we saw it first down Yesterda. I
went to a few of the options yesterday and Harry Talent, Oh,
he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He does he will drag literally a dollar around something.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
So to have Mark work on the floor and Damen
up the front door on it, as well as Pete
as well, it'll just be is a dream team that
we didn't think we're going to get, but we managed
to pull.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Out of that.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So so tell me about the house now, So what
are we looking at? You like, what's the what's the style?
And is there a style? I mean, like, what are
we doing?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
So the style that I've gone for is modern organic luxery.
The reason why I've done that, So what Dalsford's known
for it's actually the spark couple of Australia, correct, as
well as very very Airbnb dance. So going into I
knew that the house is most likely going to be
an Airbnb and what.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Sorry just to stop there for a second, but is
that right? So let's describe Dalsford for those people who
don't know Dalsford. It's one of the great regional areas
of Victoria probably Australia.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You're right, it's a cool spots Springsapburn Springs.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I can talk to this, so it is. It's the
spark country of regional Victoria. So a lot of Melbourne people,
for example, if they're trying to get out of the city,
you know, they'll either head to the coast or the country.
And when they go, if they don't go coast, they'll
go country and Datsford is one of those.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I've been a number of occasions.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Beautiful, yeah, restaurants, spas, massage, airbnbs, and crystals, Yeah, crystals.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Shopstals, crystal shops right, yeah, lots of lots of them.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, lots of like side of breweries and things like wineries.
There's lots of just yeah, really wellness, living and I
think the brief that these guys have gone for is
that wellness home, and that's where in the marketing we're
referring to their home as the wellness home.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
So that's what you mean by organic like natural elements naturally?
Does that mean like when you say do you mean
is it?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Does it go as far as sort of saying that
the materials used are clean organic materials or recycled or
what are we talking about?
Speaker 7 (28:05):
So we do have some recycled materials inside the house.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
I can sample the curtains and made out of nine
percent recycled plastic, but a lot of the materials is
like natural stones, where us timbers, throughout linens, like all
of the feel is very organic, so very natural elements.
You walk into the house and it's about creating an
environment that's really calm, tranquil and goes with the whole wellness.
So you want to be in a house where you
can rest, replenish and recharge before going out. So that
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was encompassing my whole design.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So you're looking for so when you do the design
and you're trying to work out who's the person going
to stay here? So maybe also who's the person going
to buy it, because if you're going to put out,
if you're going to buy it as an investor, you're
looking for an investor who's going to put it on Airbnb,
you've got to be able to make sure you appeal
(28:55):
to the reason why people a should get.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
A Dallas for the first place.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
One hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So you did some research on that, some research.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
You wouldn't have been there before, would you know, never
been to Dallas.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Dasford is like diametrically opposed in terms of the environment.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
To philbrig By, different struggled with the cold. Mostly gets cold,
it gets cold. Beautiful town green, luscious, and.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Everything really beautiful.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Two days before going to Dyasford it hit fifty degrees
where we were, so we had two fifty degree days
and then we went to Dysford and degrees and it
was dry than anything. Daysford of seventeen degrees. I had
four jumpers on and would have been probably probably just
finished raining. Was about to rain, so rains a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
We took them out, some hoodies and some beanies through
the whole pro We needed every bit of it.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
We were struggling.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
We were struggling, and then when it hit negatives, Yeah,
I was hide somewhere in the caravan.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Did you engage Mark from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, we tried Mark and Damien right right at the beginning,
and that was the exciting part because we talk about
the buyer, the bree you know, that was what we
discussed right back on week one, So talking about all right, well,
the style that they're going for with the high end
luxury finishes that they've done, it was all targeted around
the high end Airbnb buyer, the investor that where we
think is going to be the buyer and that's the
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interest that we're getting so far. So it was really
trying to understand with these guys where they wanted to go.
But also all our end game is the buyer and
the buyer brief and I reckon they've just executed it
really well. And what we're seeing across TV is that
their style is coming across beautifully. You know, their popularity
with the two of them who they are, is really good.
But the style of their property, the real estate itself
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that they've built, it's an exceptional house.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Is us for I don't know, is it a sort
after Airbnb investors style, absolute investors, lots of investors, So
it's so basically you go there on a weekend Friday, Saturday,
Sunday that the town is absolutely humming.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
So sho, yeah, crazy, restaurants are full. It's just it
is just a really good feel and a good vibe.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And that summer in winter, summer and winter.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, it's funny like winter is probably even more popular
there because people aren't going to the beach, you know,
in Victoria in particular, so they go inland fireplaces.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I would have put six fireplaces in that place.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Board, so did Mark and you guys sort of consult
and say, okay, here's a list of things we've got
to have in there, and then you designer and that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
For example, fireplace, can you have a fireplace these days?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We put what we got three fireplaces, natural fireplaces. You
can only put gas, two real ones, one electric.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
One of the master We've put one in the master
room as well, but you want to be able to
temperature control that one. You don't want to sit next
that's electric.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, And then and the natural fireplaces like the usual
top of fireplaces there, and like living areas and stuff like.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
That, living an outdoor outdoor of rescue as well They've
got a beautiful fireplace in their outdoor living area that
you can sit around, have a wind, got an outdoor
kitchen bar you on there al fresco, it's magnificent, overlooks
their pool and all their landscaping. It's it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
So when you when when you're designing, the coming up
with the ideas as designing come next to the guests.
But they coming up with the ideas and you've spoken
to Mark, the two guys are sort of saying, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We need an outdoor area.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Everywhere we're in Australia, it's an outdoor area, especially maybe
for the spring, the summer and autumn periods, maybe in
for the winter. But you decide what are the non
negotiables these things we must have. We must have an
outdoor ol for it. Let's call it alf usko, but
outdoor area. Then you are you saying we need to
have a pogola because it can rain. We need to
have the fireplace, and we need to have someone we
can have a table a certain length because we want
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to be able accommodate to any friends you might you
might rent the house on Airbnb with your mates.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, I think a lot of that was down to me,
like the styling items, but I definitely run things past Mark,
Like we did something.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
A little more controversial this year, so really, what was it.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
One of the rooms we turned into a wellness space,
so we turned it into a polates room and you
step outside and right outside there's a nice bath, a
hot tub and a sauna. So we're really encompassing outdoor shower.
We have like a veggie garter, and we have a greenhouse.
We also have a chicken coop, so we're really going
for that like go chooks. We don't have the chooks there,
but the chik house is there.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
To get the roosters.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You want to roost mate. You don't want to rooster
in a chicken pen.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I can turn out you want chooks because that rooster
will wake you up very well in the morning. I
have a farm and the last thing you want is
a rooster because they do get up at but they
make a lot of noise and they don't shut there.
They just keep going. But typical rooster. But so you've
got provision for chooks, provisions eggs.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So that was a bit controversial doing.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
The wellness or not done before not done before.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
The feedback from the judges was it wasn't very dials
for but we actually had the tourism DALs would come
through Victoria and they loved the room. So it's an
incredibly smart decision to do that, which run this decision
past Mark and past you know, our team who all
live local and express that it's a great idea. People
don't come to Delfhid to sit and watch more TV.
They come there to be healthy, be in that wellness
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and they'll go out and explore.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
So for us, a real point of difference mark this room.
It's the Plarties. They've got two Plarties reformers in there,
so it's and then it does open up to the
ice bath, plunge pool sauna as well that are straight
outside outdoor shalled. So when with their brief of who
they were going for the other where it's controversial the
other houses went for a theater room in this space,
whereas these guys went for the Plarti's room and wellness room.
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And that's where it is a point of difference, and
from a marketing point of view too to have this room.
It is just a beautiful room, like it's photoed up
amazingly well from a marketing point of view. So, and
it can easily be converted back into a theater room
or another living space should the buyer want that to
be the case. So I actually think they've hit it
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on both both nails on the head, so to speak.
So it's beautiful in the room that it is, and
it's a point of difference, but easily convertible if the
buy wants it to be.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And then so how many bedrooms in this place?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
So it's four bedrooms, three baths, so you get outtore toilet.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It's on twenty three hundred and twenty square meters so
it's a hataker yeah wow, big land.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, and so you've got plenty to play with, so
it's not like you're sort of sort of jam the
chicken cooping na.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Lots of space and all the house is to be fair,
are all nice and spacious as well. So yeah, we
certainly think britain tads are on a winter with house three,
but all houses are really they're really good quality home.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And and do you do you do the landscaping as well?
Is that something you guys have to do as well?
We get a landscaper in but you're responsible for it.
It's part of the deal.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
So what did you did you do it in?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
You know, I mean it may have already had some
landscaping there, but did you do it in stall like
a rainforest style and what styling?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Were talking?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
No again without wellness. So we had the idea that
the space could be hired out for say weddings, or
people could come there for like a girl's week, and
so we did lots again, lots of natural elements. We've
done natural timber arbors throughout. All of the planting that
we've done is native to the area, so it's going
to survive the frost in the cool brother and the
droughts in summer. So everything was planted in mind that
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it is very low maintenance but also impactful as well.
So our landscape was very incredible with his design.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
And again local landscaper, a local landscaping, And then did
you pick this landscaper.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Right the beginning, Right at the beginning, there's a few
non negotiables across the blot. You need to you need
to lock in an agent auction here that are going
to do everything they can. And so we did that
and guide you along the way and then for this year.
Landscaping is probably part of the kitchen is probably one
of the biggest things to you mean, like because the
kitchen sells the house usually, but because we've got fourteen
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under squares landscaping to do, that's going to set you
apart from everyone else.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And the garden that we created.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It's not on the air yet, but we've already started
creating that garden where we're showing now. It's just it
needs to stand out because you've got so much of it.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Us orientates to their backyard too, So each room, whether
it's the pilate's room, the wellness room, their kitchen, living space,
the master bedroom for example, they all orientate out to
their landscaping. So landscaping was it's a root, we're calling it.
It's a room in itself so to speak, because it is.
It's incredible. So they've got a natural water course that
they've got into it. Well, hopefully we want to talk
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to you about maybe being a potential for Britain tasch.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
But it was it was really well. The only we
won the kitchen, which is great because that.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Usually still turn me through the kitchen. So why why
did you win the kitchen? They give you reasons. Well,
we want a kitchen upgrade, so we want we want.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
A bedroom, the kids bedroom, which meant we had a
two hundred and twenty thousand dollars clients kitchen appliants upgrade.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
A bonus yuan dollar fridge mark in the house.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Well, yeah, sub zero fridges.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
They're walking fridges.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
No, they're not walking fridges. They're just commercial grade fridge.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
They're made by NASAs.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Essentially they take out well the chemicals out of the fridge,
which means your food last seven times longer in these fridges.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
So credits will last six months in there, no problem.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Amazing, incredible for we tried, because we finished and then
we're like, well let's leave some eggs, leaves egs and
we'll come back in three months, which we did eggs. Great,
it's just done. It was because we don't believe this,
but sub zero unbelievable. The unox oven that we've got
is unox oven. What's that just cooks itself, cleans itself.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Oven made into a residential so it's got all programs
made into it and you can touch what you want,
so it puts moisture into the oven. So say, if
you want your chicken nice and moist, but Crispy puts
the moisture in once you're Donet cleans itself as well.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
They're the Ferrari of the appliants world. So I've literally
got the best appliance as you can get the market off.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
But you've also got to dissign your kitchen well.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
So we extended our kitchen bench beginning four and a
half meter up kitchen bench, so it's got a dining
tab on the end of the kitchen as well. But
also the colors are styling the color. We put timber
all across the ceiling as well.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
But it also orientates to this backyard too, so when
you're in the kitchen, if you've got the kids that
are outside playing, for example, you can watch them. You
can watch it. Yeah, it's really clever design. Not just
as is it impressive, it's super impressive, but it's it's
clever the way it's designed.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
We just rely on the appliances. We need to rely
on a functional, working, beautiful looking kid. And I was
going to ask you about that tastes like how much
being parents did you? How much to be in parents
inform you as to how a thing like a kitchen
should work in a practical sense, Oh.
Speaker 7 (39:37):
Yeah, for sure, Like we like it to have informal
dining options.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
We don't always like to eat at the dining table,
so for us to yeah, so for us about to
have the island bench, and we've done it like this,
so there's a waterfall at the end, so there's two tables,
two chairs each site. So for us, that functionality was
definitely there. About how could this homework if a family
is living it? However, I don't think that is the
demographic of who is going to be buying my house
and living in it. But it still is in the
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forefront of your minding case.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
You know, there's.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Grandparents tenants, so short term tenants with kids.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Do you have an area where people can just sit
down and read a book.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
We've got heap the main living space because you've got
a natural rock wall, you've got timber on the ceiling,
you've got the fire going.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
You can do it there.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
But then you've got we've actually created to speakeasy at
the back of the whiskey bar, a whiskey bar at
the back of the it's cool back of the house,
as well.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Some other stuff. You've got lots of breakout here. So
Troy love at the landscape, but from love at landscaping.
His design was about having lots of little breakout areas outside. Yeah,
so you can go and read a book. You can
go and sit down and have a coffee or a
cup of tea, you know, sit down and just yeah,
very cool. Yeah, lots of mature trees. How many mature
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trees that you put in?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
We secured no, one and seven of them went in.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, but no.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
True thousand trees. Remember three and a half thousand.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Three and a half thousand trees on the plot that
he's put in.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yeah, well so I guess you got citrus trees or
something like that.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yes, And he's good at that because that's what you
call him.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
You know, we've got experts in age and stuff like that,
but the experts in landscaping is these trees are going
to survive.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
They're going to do well regardless of how the weather is.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
So if someone can go and stay there and you
there in the winter, they go and pick some citrus,
theyre going to pick an orange or amanda in or
something that they can get the barbecue going. They can
go and grab some fas, some morning, get some fresh
herbs out of the garden. If it's shitty weather, they
can sit inside with the fireplace. If it's great where
they can sit outside the back. But it sounds like
it's everything to how much you must be filthy that
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you've got to get back to.
Speaker 7 (41:42):
It's really hard.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Mouse.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
But I think what's something so unique with the block
and why people do buy them is the tax appreciation
schedules on these. So it is something completely out of control.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Like where're talking what five point seven y so the
depreciation schedules. You've got a value over five million dollars.
So you for the investors listening out there, if they
want a tax break of around the two hundred to
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, this is
the property for you.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah, so like so just some might open that up
a little bit. Just important for me to understand that.
So if they buy it as not as a home
but as an investment property. The items that you're put
in there, the appreciable items, which ovens and covers and
all sorts of things, all those have a schedule. Someone
must have gone through the schedule and said this is
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your depreciation schedule.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yes and yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
So they've done a full depreciation schedule that we can
send to any clients that are listening.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
For sure buy So the buyer then we'll get a
tax stuction up to a couple of hundred grand. It
is against the rev those rents. So you know, maybe
you know what would do you have a sense of
what it would rent for a weekend?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, well at high end airbnb, so on short term stage,
a lot of these properties can get anywhere between one
to two thousand dollars a night for a high end AIRBNBA.
So you're going to be in that ballpark for this
probum let's say two nights. Yeah, and it's usually a
minimum two nights day and two. That's the other that's
the other important factor.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
So do you do these things sort of?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
I mean I don't know what the demand is there,
but like given if let's say it's the best property
in Darcement and if you market it, probably which but
the vendor the probably the owner will be marketing it somehow.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I assume that.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
We're doing that for them. We're on domain, so domain
it's the listings up and running yep, so people can
look at it. So we've got all the photography and
videos done.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
So, but probably the owner may not have to pay
a tax if the rent's correct.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
I just quickly worked out. Then it's probably probably going
to get about one hundred and fifty grand a year
render if it's it's high high occupancy and more likely
make a loss to get a tax reduction against the
other stuff. So with a negative gearing, And do you
have a sense of price, I mean, how does it work?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Our guide price is three to three point three million. Yeah,
so we're expect this.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Has had an average price for a good home industry.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah. Look, to be fair, these are going to be
the best houses, you know, because there's nothing that has
been built to this quality and this substantial size and
everything that these guys have done. So these are going
to be an amazing property. So actually, to be honest,
I actually think it's a bit cheap because you wouldn't
be able to build a house like this for three
three to three point three. You wouldn't be able to
build this house for it.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
So so how big is the house? How many square meters?
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yeah? The square meters of the house around thirty I'd
have to check that, because yeah, it's a big house. Yeah,
over thirty square and parking. Garaging, Yeah, garaging, so you
got double car garage plus the way they've done their
drive while you've got loads of room to park other
car spaces in the front of the house as well. Yeah.
So if you've gone with two families, for example, if
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it's a their BMB, there's plenty of room. Yeah, you
can have two families. The other thing they've got is
a guest room on one wing of the house, so
you got to even sublet that out.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
We're talking permanently, Yeah, exactly, so you can put your
manager in the you could absolutely. Are the rules about
airbnb and stuff like that?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Is that one of them?
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Very common?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
So yeah, a lot of people, a lot of the
market is buying in DAS four, specifically the airbnb.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Yeah, and do you give guidance on rates and stuff
with that rates? Is it expensive and real estate there
from a council point of view.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Look, it's nothing's cheap. I suppose in real estate probably
you know, the market's probably cheap competed to sitting, but no,
it's in terms of because of the rental years are
going to be high and the tax appreciation you're going
to get these investments will be will be far. You know,
this is where a lot of the high wealth, high
income people that will be looking to buy. It is
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a great option for them to negative gear.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, and do you have like does your firm have
a like a client list you yes, you reach out.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
To we do our company at Buckston. We've been involved
in the block about five times through the Alburn so
we've actually already had a bunch of buy a list
so we all share we all do a one shared
database through Buckston. So we've been able to tap into
the Melbourne market, especially the affluent areas of Melbourne, and
that's where a lot of our inquiry is coming from.
We're actually getting a lot from Sydney too. We're getting
a few inquiries from Sydney as well. So yeah, so
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we've definitely been able to tap into that. Buyers advocates
as well and buyers agents have been really prevalent in
terms of they're they're definitely a buyer group that is
interested in the block in most seasons and this season
certainly is the case too. We've got a few buyers
agents that are loving Britain Tazz's house, which is great.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
They should pre approval on them.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
We'll get the team at ye yellow brick road, so
we'll get ye.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I'll rub your back.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
That's how business works.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
It's very interesting because this is a long way off
the way the original block started when I went down
there in Roscoe St.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Bondo and uh and the whole last year was.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
That he bought all of us, he bought more. Yeah,
but he's doing his own show this year, so he
won't be bidding this year.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
So he's doing his own show. What do you mean
he's got a block sher seven, I really seven.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
But we've got so many other buyers, and look with
what happens there with him not bidding, and creates opportunity
for others because he bought all five houndses last year,
and I think he brought two or three years before,
so you know, this creates more opportunity for other people
that perhaps wanted to purchase last year that they couldn't
get in the market. So yeah, we see that as
a really big upside. And Adrian's obviously done really well
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out of it himself, which is great, great work by him,
So there should be other people that could consider doing
what he's also.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Done very good.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
I remember David Ginjo's nine taught me in to buy
and a few in the early days, which is always
fun because.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
I bid, but I did end up winning.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
But we'll get you to win this time.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
I did manage to push the price up so and
I'm hoping the show will do the same for you
two guys.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
And now how do you feel after the whole event?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
So it hasn't finished it, you haven't noother last bit,
but just in terms of the renovation, So as a couple,
what did you get out of it?
Speaker 5 (48:10):
We actually came out a lot stronger. I thought there'd
be a lot more bickering, but when you're on a
show like this, it is very, very stressful. It's a
lot harder than what you see on the cameras as
over a thousand hours worth of footage and Australia only
gets to see four of that, so a lot more
things go wrong that you just simply don't see. So
for us, it was so important that we communicated and
that we weren't upset with each other, because you're feeling
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so much like pressure.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And stressing you to be upset, because that's great.
Speaker 5 (48:40):
So we just communicated the whole time, and we just
reliud on each other. We were never angry with each
other because you couldn't. You just have to get on
with things.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
So it was easily the hardest thing we've had to do.
Speaker 6 (48:50):
And like three weeks before as a couple, you do admit, well,
just because we were separated a lot, because it would
be in balorate buying everything, and I would be outside
managing the fifteen trades that were there. So kid no
kids as well, and they bring that up quite a bit,
which is fine. We try to call them, but we'd
miss them as well with the time difference and everything
like that as well. So definitely hard things. And it
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was coming off, you know, three weeks before going on
the show, we were you know, it was dragging bodies
out of cars, like you know that we're involved in
REX and that.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
Those are just regular jobs. But we're trained to do that.
We do that quite well. We know what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (49:22):
We're going into this environment, never been there before. It
was like learn quick or drowned. So luckily we learned
pretty quickly, and you know a lot of things came
together for us.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
And have you did it?
Speaker 5 (49:34):
Have you we did it?
Speaker 7 (49:35):
Well, we'll see, have we we did.
Speaker 6 (49:39):
It to set the kids up with so and you
know we're getting a lot of interest for it, but
you never know until you know. Some of the best
people until the day, some of the best people that
haven't sold their house for any money. So yeah, the
gance set up the kids. We could do it one
hundred times over, even though it was bloody hard, but
you know, set up a good life for them.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
We the show to me, But do you kids watch it?
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (50:02):
The four year olds, he'll sit and watch.
Speaker 8 (50:06):
Wouldn't I will know this Mom and dad yet know
what's going on, but it's past bedtime when it's on
at seven o'clock every every Monday, Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (50:16):
And seven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (50:17):
So he just uses an excuse, surely I can watch
the block tonight, so you're going to stay up and
watch TV.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
But he does.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
They're not as good yet. So the next year, I
guess for four year olds at school, kids will.
Speaker 7 (50:29):
Know that on tell the teachers. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Yeah, but it's good for the ballot crew because a
lot of the ball traders we're good made for them now,
so we speak to them all the time. But like
they go around school and stuff. Now their kids are
going my dad's on TV trading.
Speaker 7 (50:44):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
My dad's the builder of for tasm Bred on the block.
Like it's any major dramas, they have a blue with anyone.
Speaker 7 (50:53):
There's a big blue right now.
Speaker 6 (50:55):
We got on a bit of a roll with winning stuff,
and yeah, people didn't like it, so they came after
a poppy synder. Yeah yeah, and we just we just
copped it with and said go on. Then we just
kept winning stuff.
Speaker 8 (51:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
I think for us, we just you know, we're very
used to high process, high pressure situation. So if people
would come after us, you know, trying to yell at
us or whatever, we would just talk back, very mirror
and just talking us and calmly to them and just
there's just no point, like.
Speaker 7 (51:23):
They want us to react more.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
But you've seen the worst of it in your job.
We've seen nothings. Nothing's gonna sort of get close to
what you see day to day.
Speaker 7 (51:33):
That's what we kept bringing.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, we kept being we build our house, yeah, because
we can do hard things.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Yeah, but they're very authentic, as you can see already
in this interview. They're coming across that way on TV.
So and that was what I noticed with working them
off camera and then seeing them on camera it's the same.
So it's been great.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
First, you're the first people that Damiens recommended to me,
so that's a wrap. Yeah, and I've known him for
a long time so you know we're mate, so that
the first person he's recommended to me. So take take
to take that as you will. Well, good luck, guys,
big auctions coming up ready right now. It's in the
(52:11):
hands of the gods and you have to wait and
see what the outcome is. But obviously you put your
best foot forward. You've done a great job from what
I'm hearing, and you've enjoyed yourself most importantly, and now
it's over to him and.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
Get it done and do our best.
Speaker 6 (52:28):
Thanks having us absolute pleasure to come on this show.
We love watching what you do as well, so we talk.
Speaker 5 (52:34):
About this yourself moments for us. This is one being
here with you talking thank you and a little.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Gift for you Mark from Bucks and Baller. That's Monopoly
board that we give out New.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Zealand and I was in Queensland and I saw I
didn't realize but Monopoly does these.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
There's one for yeah, and you can get them. So
we put a painting on it. For the Ballerade area,
so it's very unique to our business and Ballarat streets,
Ballarat icons, it's and we love it. It's better, we thought,
rather than giving somebody a bottle of wine, for example,
when you sell a house for them or to them,
this is something that they'll use. They might put it
in the cupboard for six months, but then they'll pull
(53:10):
it out again, so you'll never really throw that away.
So for us it's a yeah, it's a real meaningful
gift rather than just a bottle of wine.
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