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Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

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402 points cfcfcf | 3 comments | 30 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
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brunker2 ◴[01 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44429301[source]▶
How? It was accessible through a door. Nobody - not the seller, agent, himself or any other prospective buyers, or the building inspector he presumably engaged to check the place over before signing contracts - thought to look behind the door?

How can you buy a house without checking out the foundations/basement yourself or by a pro?

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mcdeltat ◴[01 Jul 25 00:52 UTC] No.44429508[source]▶
It's really a shame too. If the realtor found that prime basement living space beforehand they could've tripled the sale price!!

(A joke but also not really because housing prices here in Australia are absolutely insane)

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bombcar ◴[01 Jul 25 12:21 UTC] No.44433165[source]▶
What is insane? I’ve been staring at valuations so long that $1,000 a square foot in SoCal doesn’t seem “that unreasonable”.
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1. averageRoyalty ◴[01 Jul 25 13:02 UTC] No.44433508[source]▶
Heads up, the rest of the world don't know what a "square foot" or a "SoCal" is.
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2. xboxnolifes ◴[02 Jul 25 06:14 UTC] No.44440702[source]▶
Heads up, the rest (most) of the world has access to Google to figure it out easily. Same way Americans convert a square foot to a square meter, or tatami, or whatever.
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3. bombcar ◴[02 Jul 25 10:53 UTC] No.44442147[source]▶
To be fair we can also google Australian house prices ;)

Maybe we need an international standard for house overpricedness - median hourly per square meter or something.