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N F C said:
I'm not familiar with how things work in NZ Jae...do you have to have some certificate to sell your house? What's the purpose of that?

Sounds like you've found a more promising sales agent, hope that gets things moving along for you!
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Because we'd done a heap of renovation on this place it all had to be signed off by local/district council (not sure what your equivalent is :idunno) to say that it's all been done to an acceptable standard etc. We were expecting the 'Code of Compliance Certificate' to maybe be around $500. We weren't quite expecting almost $1000!

Apparently banks won't lend people money for a mortgage to buy a renovated house without that certificate so we kinda needed it.

Our weather was wonderfully cool yesterday and we got a decent amount of rain (it hadn't rained since Christmas Day) so our water tanks are topped up nicely. And we could actually sleep last night - it was lovely and cool when I got up this morning. Today is cloudy and cool, but tomorrow it looks like we are back to heat and humidity. :hit

Lovely car DMC - I do like that colour.
 
So do you have a new house picked out?

Blooie said:
Plates are super expensive too - $420.00 for the Rav this year.
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Ouch. Well, they have to cover those low property taxes somehow.

Could you put a receiver hitch on the RAV and get a cargo tray to put the wheel chair on? Get some sort of cover to keep the rain and snow off the chair when traveling. Way cheaper than a new car.
 
Bamabexchicks said:
Yup! X2:celebrate
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Thank you:hugs
bruceha2000 said:
No idea, its spinach :lau


Perhaps but I doubt it. Any vehicle that has a high back end tends to roll the dirt and junk on the road up the back. Even our Priuses(Prii) have junk covering the small back window under the "spoiler" and they aren't near as high in back as SUVs. If you are lucky that overhang above the license plate will act as a wind stopper and keep the junk off the rear window.


Silver or tan seem to show dirt the least. I guess your new one is kind of a silverish tan?
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Bad thing about having to drive gravel roads is the vehicle gets dirty. We’ll see what happens. Depending on light or lack of it, it’s gray in color. What do you get for mileage on a Prius? Our last Equinox the max we got was 39.6 highway miles...that only happened once, otherwise averaged between 21 to low 30’s.
Blooie said:
I love it!



Me either! Right now I'm having second, third and fourth thoughts about the Rav4 I loved so much when I got it. It was great when the handle on Kendra's wheelchair folded down, but now with the double handles on the back they are fixed, making the wheelchair just barely small enough to get into the back hatch area. Oh, sure we can take the wheels off the chair and get it in, but who the heck wants to stand outside when it's 10 below zero with 40 mph winds and do that? Ken and I are kicking around getting a Sienna....we loved ours and wouldn't mind having another. But never in my life have I traded in a car that wasn't paid for for another car...I don't even know how that works!

The kids drive a beat up old Pontiac van. Again, chair fit well before but not so much now, and that car won't get them from one point to another very well anyway. It's past time for a new and slighter bigger car for them, but they can't afford it. They aren't even living from paycheck to paycheck - more like almost paycheck to almost paycheck. And having just bought the house, it'll take awhile before their credit rebounds enough even if they could afford the additional payments, down payment, insurance and ridiculous Wyoming taxes on a vehicle. Plates are super expensive too - $420.00 for the Rav this year. But our backs are hosed from trying to get Kendra in and out - especially Jenny's back. Last doctor's appointment our doctor recommended that we try a GoFundMe account and try to mitigate the cost of an accessible vehicle for the kids, just to try to save Jen's back a bit. But I dunno, those things seem a little iffy to me, although I did contribute to Ashley's when she was diagnosed with leukemia and to Rachel's too when they had one for her. Just not sure if we'd get enough to really do anything, and end up right back where we are. We've looked into grants and they don't qualify for anything there. Kendra's Medicaid waiver doesn't help either.

They absolutely need a vehicle that will get them safely to Denver and back, with room for the wheelchair and luggage and people. Ideally one of those Siennas with the 90 degree seat would be in the budget - it has a door that swivels 90 degrees, then lowers to the ground with the touch of a button so we can just transition from wheelchair to carseat, buckle her in, raise the seat back up and turn it into position again. But yeah, they are expensive as all get out.
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Thanks Blooie! Wish there was something I could do for you:hugs
JaeG said:
Because we'd done a heap of renovation on this place it all had to be signed off by local/district council (not sure what your equivalent is :idunno) to say that it's all been done to an acceptable standard etc. We were expecting the 'Code of Compliance Certificate' to maybe be around $500. We weren't quite expecting almost $1000!

Apparently banks won't lend people money for a mortgage to buy a renovated house without that certificate so we kinda needed it.

Our weather was wonderfully cool yesterday and we got a decent amount of rain (it hadn't rained since Christmas Day) so our water tanks are topped up nicely. And we could actually sleep last night - it was lovely and cool when I got up this morning. Today is cloudy and cool, but tomorrow it looks like we are back to heat and humidity. :hit

Lovely car DMC - I do like that colour.
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Thank you Jae:hugs
 
bruceha2000 said:
So do you have a new house picked out?
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We are going to look at a place on Thursday, though they want rather a lot for what it is, so we'll see. But because selling is taking so long we haven't wanted to put an offer in anywhere because we don't want to fall in love with a place only to put in a conditional offer but lose out because it's all taking too long. :barnie
 
DigMyChicks said:
Depending on light or lack of it, it’s gray in color. What do you get for mileage on a Prius? Our last Equinox the max we got was 39.6 highway miles...that only happened once, otherwise averaged between 21 to low 30’s.
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Low 40s is a bad whole tank in the winter with snow tires. Winter average 45, summer closer to 55. The newer ones supposedly get better. We have two 2006s, a 2009 and a 2010. In the right conditions I had several tanks over 60 in my 2004. DD1 has done that in her 2010 this past summer.

Light gray is kinda dirt color, should look pretty decent even when not clean.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Low 40s is a bad whole tank in the winter with snow tires. Winter average 45, summer closer to 55. The newer ones supposedly get better. We have two 2006s, a 2009 and a 2010. In the right conditions I had several tanks over 60 in my 2004. DD1 has done that in her 2010 this past summer.

Light gray is kinda dirt color, should look pretty decent even when not clean.
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Wow, thats good.
 

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