Libs
Reviews
"Great investment, beautiful HOME!"
We purchased in Sunshine West in 2006 (picked up a BARGAIN in need of some minor elbow grease - now it's worth twice what we paid less than 5 years later, good timing and a bit of luck!?!!) - it seems our other reviewer (Melissa) has had awful tenant luck, as the renters near us all appear to be respectable families from my limited broader neighbourly experience (one 'occasionally' loud one down the street I must admit, we were all 'younger' once), but then I rented inner city and then Coburg area prior to making the mortgage jump and the usual peaceful serenity in Sunshine West is bliss when compared to the noisy inner city, however, we do have mostly home owners more immediately placed around us, maybe that makes a difference? All extremely lovely people. I strongly concur with the far nicer review as our neighbours do actually roll our bin on for us, so I had a good giggle when I read that far more apt review of our happy home!!! We have friendly chats and regularly smile and wave to all of our neighbours! Sorry re your bad luck Melissa, maybe if you actually lived here you would have a better appreciation of this wonderful, multicultural, laid back suburb, some great eats and cafe's now opening up to too, if you're a foody and like to cook you can't beat our local mix of fresh produce shops.
Yes, I'm sure Sunshine West is not 'perfect', and sure, I've occasionally seen the odd 'character' about (I regularly saw the odd 'character' about in Coburg and Abbotsford too, I just couldn't afford to buy near those 'characters'!)...and there's still a bargain to be found here for sure, very solid ex govvie houses, big blocks, and super quick via road our train to the inner city....yet a magical, peaceful massive parkland right near your doorstep (dog friendly too). So, please do jump in if you're looking to get started, we're about to purchase our first investment home now too, as we didn't over stretch ourselves for our first home, we can now afford to invest in another humble abode - just wish me luck in the tenants department!
So, better luck with your tenants next time Melissa, that's a huge pain and cost too, but you will get bad tenants in a wide variety of suburbs I'm sure, not only the 'lower socio-economic' (or bargain!) areas. I'm not sure what you originally paid for your house, but all the data I've seen shows we are right on a very normal investment cycle in this area doubling every 7 to 10 years, or in our case even sooner if you get a good buy.
Give the West a go, we did, and we love it!!!!
Great for
- Friendly neighbours
- Variety of fresh produce in Sunshine shopping area
- Parklands, yet still not far from inner Melbourne
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
- Retirees
- LGBT+
- Hipsters
- Students
Ahhh poor Craig, yet another person to add to the glass half empty club - surely if you 'get along great' with 'every person in your street' then that's a pretty good start in terms of being in a good neighbourhood? Yes I agree it would be crap to live near one of those bus shelters that keep getting smashed, you would think they would come up with a better design that required no glass!! ....I'm sure they'll get there....and not sure what you mean 'almost every street has a house with cars on the lawn'...you could cover a hell of a lot of Aussie suburbs with that description! Robberies/violence, a very sad part of life, but they do happen in shops all over the place - it's not exclusive to Sunshine....I suspect some people are just much happier sadly looking at their half an empty glass.....!!
sunshine west is a hole and always will be a hole, i dont know where about in sunshine west you live but there is nothing good about the place, the shops are always geting broken into, the bus stops are all way getting the windows smash, coles supermarket was held up with machetes last month,and the year before the supermarket was sprayed with shot gun shell, almost every street has a house with cars on the front lawn and a would say the a good amount of the people in the area dont work. i brought here 7 years ago and i have been watching this place sink since ive been here, i get along great with every person in my street and they all say the same thing, sunshine west is a hole, the only thing its good for is driving past