New Rentals Needed

As reported a couple of weeks ago, houses for rent are scarce!! Although several properties came available since that last blog, we have rented them all, and once again, Ray White Beecroft has no vacant properties available (well, we are still advertising one, but we have two applications being considered by the owner)!
We have gained some new managements so have more properties on our books than ever before, but Nicole our brilliant property officer has been renting them faster than we can list them! Of course there is a steady turnover of people moving away or, recently, buying under the first home owner grant. But there are lots of people out there queuing to rent properties.
Stop Press - a tenant just advised us he is vacating immediately so we can now advertise another property!

All Five Birds Have Flown the Nest

Five birds, ten legs. This saga was first blogged on 19 October, where I expressed concern about the rescued chick's foot, which was trapped in the nest and covered with blood. It's really nice to see that the leg mended!

Last Birdie

This one is too scared to jump!

The birds are flying!

It looks as though mommy has stopped feeding the birds outside Ray White Beecroft's office, and this little one has started learning to fly. We will miss them when they are all gone!

Seven Lovely Ducklings

Peter Hewitt of Ray White Beecroft Real Estate Agency did his first official WIRES rescue today, responding to a plea from a lady in West Pennant Hills. A duck with seven ducklings were in her swimming pool, and she wanted them removed to somewhere safer from her dogs and neighbourhood cats.

Catching the ducklings was easy, just chase them with the pool scooper until they dive then catch them like fish.

Then we walked the basket to the Wirreanda Retirement Home, with mommy duck walking along beside us clucking furiously, but sensibly flying over the main road even though we were holding up the traffic for her. By the time we reached the lovely Wirreanda pond, mom was already in the water waiting, and we released the ducklings into her care.

Interestingly this was a repeat of something that has happened twice before, at one year intervals. Obviously lady duck breeds them near this house, takes them to the nice clean swimming pool to freshen up and get a feed of corn, and then expects to be escorted to the Wirreanda Retirement Home duck pond.

Apparently the residents love having ducks on their pond, and as you can see the pond is just ideal for ducks. By the way Ingrid, WIRES Waterbird Coordinator, subsequently identified them as native Pacific Black Ducks.

Rentals Going Strong

For the first time in a long time Ray White Beecroft had no vacant properties for rent at the end of a month! Typically there has been an average of 10 or 12 properties to rent at any one time, but this month there was quite unprecedented demand and Nicole our fabulous Property Officer was on fire, renting properties as quickly as they became vacant.
She found tenants for eleven properties in the month, including three that were new managements.

The Birds

We can now see that there are FIVE birds in the nest at the entrance to the arcade outside Ray White Beecroft!

All of them are hungry!

But mum is hard at work!

Christmas Lunch

Ray White Beecroft Real Estate held its staff lunch on Sunday at the Oliveto Bar and Restaurant on the waterfront in Rhodes, and all agree the restaurant is superb. Food, service and ambience all were outstanding! Thank you Oliveto.

Both birds are in the nest and seem to be thriving! (See the post of 18 October

Digital Window Adverts

Ray White Beecroft has four digital window displays using software by LymLive. New software allows us to set one screen to just display adverts, with as many adverts as we choose selected in turn then starting again.
















We are now offering local businesses the opportunity to advertise themselves on our windows. Here is an advert for Rosie's beauty salon.

Meanwhile the other three screens show "top properties for sale" on screen 1, "other properties for sale" on screen 3, and "houses for rent" on screen 4, which works really well.

Hornsby Council reducing greenhouse gases

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald describes how local governments are taking steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The first example they quote in quite a long list is Hornsby Council's co-generation system for its library. Well done Hornsby Council!