Househunting by remote

5 June 2002

I'm spending most of my time and emotional energy finding a place to live in Melbourne. It's now possible to do a fair bit of this at a distance, due to websites listing available properties, but of course you have to be there to inspect properties. Timing, as usual, is almost everything. In this business money is also almost everything. It follows that timing overlaps a great deal with money—which has been noticed before.

Anyway, I'm flying down to Melbourne this weekend to take a personal look at a few rental properties, and hopefully to place a bond on a suitable one. Given that we move in 3 weeks' time, I'll be spending less time online until we're up and settled in our new home.