Garden state
Oct 21, 2020
4 minutes
Text Monique Balvert-O’Connor
Photography
Alice Veysey
1 Buying and renting
Sally Blockley remembers well the day in May 2013 when her home dream in Tauranga became reality.
She’d seen the house she now calls home but hadn’t bothered going to the auction thinking it was beyond her means. But the house didn’t sell, as she discovered during a drive-by.
“I checked it out and within three minutes said to my mother, ‘This is my house’. I then got in the car and three streets later I stopped to make an offer,” Sally recalls.
She knew it would involve a fair bit of DIY but decided she was up for the challenge.
“I always wanted a
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