New Alpaca Experts
For all you Alpaca fans, or those of you who may be thinking about having alpacas on your block! goodGround is lucky enough to welcome not one but
TWO alpaca experts.
Chuck and Kathy Rademacher have joined goodground, and have already begun helping us out with answers to our questions - and they're here for you too!
If you have any queries, or stories to tell about your alpacas, then drop them an
email and we'll get their reply published for you all to read!
Click
here to read Chuck and Kathy's story, and to send through any questions you might have.
Many thanks to those of you who have asked questions of our experts - up online now - but please keep them coming, let's keep those experts busy!
goodGround subscriptions
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free subscription' offer is still running - why not try it out and see the benefits for you and your block? - click
HERE. A subscription gives you complete access to our
virtual vet and growing library of '
special reports' - indepth articles about the issues that important on
YOUR block, most of which will save you money and make your life easier and safer.
Featured product
Bianco pumps.
Goodground user Laura, from a Lifestyle block in kerikeri has this to say about her Bianco pump, which she purchased through goodground 3 months ago:
"Our new water sysyem is fabby! Thanks to goodground who put us in contact with
Bianco Pumps, we got one for half the price of any other we could find and even the plumber was impressed with it. The pressure in the house now is of a kind we only dreamt of before. Our water is now lovely rainwater and it looks very clean and sparkly!
When we have a shower now, instead of a sort of almost passable amount of water we now have such pressure that it bounces out of the bath !!!"
Read more about Bianco Pumps
HERE.
If you have a product that you think would be of interest to Lifestyle Block owners, and would like to see it on goodground.com, the send us an email
here and we'll help you!
Karla says:
This month's featured property
Our feature property this month is a unique North River property in waipu.
Points you won't see in the real estate section include the fact that there is an option to also purchase the existing business that is currently run from the property.
If developing is your thing we also have on file a survey plan that shows possibilities for at least 10 suitable house sites on the property. So whether you're after lifestyle, land-bank or a business opportunity then be sure to check it out
here and enjoy the 35 photos we have for you to view.
Martin says:
Value your trees!
When buying or selling your lifestyle block don't neglect the value of your trees. "Sooner or later we will catch up with people and tax will be paid on trees". This a quote from an IRD officer.
He is of course referring to trees which will provide income. It is in both the buyers and sellers interest to record the value of trees planted on their lifestyle blocks on the sale and purchase agreement.
Don't forget that around 90% of all lifestyle blocks have trees planted on them. Check it out, they may be more valuable than you think! Click
here to read more about this issue on goodground.
Next month - your trees are earning you money while you sleep!
Steph says:
Will un-bundling mean un-investing?
Telecom's announcement that they will be opening their network to other providers this month is great news for the future of New Zealand's internet connections. However, it could be bad news for rural dwellers.
Federated Farmers telecommunications spokesman Hugh Ritchie believes that the high costs involved in supplying the rural sector means that there is no guarantee that other service providers will be willing to invest.
Telecom had based it's long term investment plans on a certain set of rules, which included supply to the rural sector, and those rules have now changed with the recent announcements. The farmers federation wants "a standard across the country internet service".
GoodGround backs the federation and will keep you updated with the changes within the industry as they happen. If you have any suggestions or areas we could investigate then PLEASE add your voice to our forum, this is such an important issue for rural dwellers, and for New Zealand as a country - let's make sure they get it right!
http://www.fedfarm.org.nz/
