<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237</id><updated>2012-02-15T23:26:22.301-08:00</updated><category term='house'/><category term='houses'/><category term='first NZ house'/><category term='Gold Coast'/><category term='eugene'/><category term='15 Sheridan Street'/><category term='rental properties'/><category term='Nawton'/><category term='Kevin&apos;s house'/><title type='text'>40. Houses</title><subtitle type='html'>Apparently some people in New Zealand collect houses just like they do postage stamps. There was this hype about buying rental properties as an investment. The Tofu shop towkay in Auckland was reputed to have collected not less than 27 houses.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112210372358965440</id><published>2005-07-23T00:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T22:11:00.485-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kevin&apos;s house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='houses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Coast'/><title type='text'>Kevin's house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/lagoon%20pool.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/lagoon%20pool.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/Kevin"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/Kevin%27s%20house1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a communal swimming pool just behind the back fence. It looked really inviting in the humid tropical heat of the Gold Coast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112210372358965440?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112210372358965440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112210372358965440' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112210372358965440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112210372358965440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/kevins-house.html' title='Kevin&apos;s house'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112210275203011680</id><published>2005-07-23T00:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T04:15:24.129-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eugene'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rental properties'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='houses'/><title type='text'>Eugene's house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/eugene"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/eugene%27s%20house%201b.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/Eugene"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/Eugene%27s%20house%2021.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/Eugene"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/Eugene%27s%20house.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first house in Auckland is a 3 brm unit with parking for only two cars. The second house is a home and income type located at Gulf Harbour. The third house is a cheap two brm flat in Mangere, a very poor area in Auckland.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112210275203011680?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112210275203011680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112210275203011680' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112210275203011680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112210275203011680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/eugenes-house.html' title='Eugene&apos;s house'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112210132174944282</id><published>2005-07-22T23:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T22:04:11.412-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pearl's house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fylFImMOUeM/SaTfVMNekyI/AAAAAAAAR-4/PX8tsquS_7A/s1600-h/house.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fylFImMOUeM/SaTfVMNekyI/AAAAAAAAR-4/PX8tsquS_7A/s200/house.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306611816097288994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/2nd%20house.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/2nd%20house.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/Pearl"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/Pearl%27s%20house1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112210132174944282?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112210132174944282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112210132174944282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112210132174944282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112210132174944282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/pearls-house.html' title='Pearl&apos;s house'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fylFImMOUeM/SaTfVMNekyI/AAAAAAAAR-4/PX8tsquS_7A/s72-c/house.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112157381511544014</id><published>2005-07-16T21:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T16:08:51.241-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nawton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='house'/><title type='text'>Nawton house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/back%20garden%204.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/back%20garden%204.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/2nd%20House1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/2nd%20House1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This house at Nawton has 4 brm and two bathrooms. Internal access, 2 car garage, 3 electric storage heaters with pink bats in the ceiling and walls, open plan kitchen, family room and a formal lounge. The back yard is big enough for practising golf, using a lobe wedge. There is plenty of room to park the trailer yacht on the front lawn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112157381511544014?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112157381511544014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112157381511544014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157381511544014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157381511544014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/nawton-house.html' title='Nawton house'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112157328702718801</id><published>2005-07-16T20:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T22:02:22.160-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='first NZ house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='15 Sheridan Street'/><title type='text'>Hillcrest house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/1st%20house.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/1st%20house.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/15%20SheridanSt.%202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/15%20SheridanSt.%202.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first house in NZ had 4 brm and a one car garage. It was 37 years old. In winter we discovered that the walls and floors were not insulated. I was using a portable gas heater which produces a lot of water vapour and using up most of the oxygen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112157328702718801?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112157328702718801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112157328702718801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157328702718801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157328702718801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/hillcrest-house.html' title='Hillcrest house'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112157219752747275</id><published>2005-07-16T20:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T06:03:30.156-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pujut house</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/Pujut%20House%205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/Pujut%20House%205.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;This house has 4 bedrooms, study, 3 toilets/bathrooms, lounge, family room, dining room, laundry, 3 air conditioners and gas hot water heater. It sits on a quarter acre with enough space to park 5 boats or more in the back yard. I was the developer of one house which I still regard as &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://davidchin29.blogspot.com"&gt;my home &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112157219752747275?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112157219752747275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112157219752747275' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157219752747275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157219752747275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/pujut-house.html' title='Pujut house'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556237.post-112157170273002969</id><published>2005-07-16T20:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-21T23:41:21.752-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ETB Lutong</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/1600/ears.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6264/1282/200/ears.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;This Elevated Type Bungalow has 3 brm, air conditioning and space to park 4 cars under the house. Do you see those beautiful long ears? She was a Kenyah girl from the upper Baram.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556237-112157170273002969?l=davidchin40.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/feeds/112157170273002969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14556237&amp;postID=112157170273002969' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157170273002969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14556237/posts/default/112157170273002969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://davidchin40.blogspot.com/2005/07/etb-lutong.html' title='ETB Lutong'/><author><name>David Chin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efoII92MxMg/TbZegln-qxI/AAAAAAAAjcw/Y90HlWWCGQg/s220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
