Bay dream believer
When searching for property, hopeful homeowners will often wait for the magic “love at first sight” or the “this is the one” moment. Tracy Clements experienced the opposite on viewing a rundown townhouse in Lyall Bay, Wellington that would soon become her home.
“I walked in and thought, ‘Oh god, this is awful’,” says Tracy. “It didn’t present well at all, it was full of stuff and it hadn’t been maintained well at all. People were going in and coming out pretty quickly at the open home.”
It took three more visits for Tracy to see any potential in the light-filled, three-storey home. “I felt like it had good bones, even though it had nothing else, so I thought, ‘Yes,
