This charming property on a quiet Jindalee street has Potential written all over it. A much-loved family home for over forty years, it would be ideal for first-time buyers or as a starter home, and is ripe for investment and developing.

Over two levels, with extensive storage and clever use of the space available, astute buyers will be able to see the opportunities it offers . extend to the rear, perhaps enclose the car port and add to the front, or develop the huge under-house area – which already has plumbing and electric. If you’ve been watching the property programs and are keen to have a go – well, here’s your chance.

The property is located close to local shops, bus routes, motorway access, the Jindalee Home-Maker centre / DFO and primary school. The block itself slopes down from colourful beds at the front, is flanked by established trees and bushes at the sides, to parkland at the rear. The house is brick and timber-built, and has three good-sized bedrooms, a kitchen / dining area, formal lounge / living room, family bathroom, separate WC and laundry room.

Rarely do you come across a property with the potential of Number 41 – the options are endless, and the flexibility this home has to offer represents true value. It really is a developer’s dream.

But don’t believe us, come and see for yourself.

Quality features of this property include :-
- Quiet Jindalee street, close to parks, primary school, Jindalee village, Home-maker centre and DFO, with ready access to the motorway network
- Walking distance to the bus routes, local shops and doctor’s surgery
- Sloping block, with established bushes and trees, backing onto parkland
- Much-loved and well maintained brick / timber home on two levels
- Ideal first-time buyer or starter home. Ripe for investment and developing
- Three good-size bedrooms with built-in robes
- Light and spacious lounge with windows on three sides
- Kitchen / dining room with built-in storage, pantry unit and outside access. Oven to remain.
- Raised alfresco area at the rear
- Family bath / shower room with separate WC
- Separate laundry room with sink and outside access
- Covered double car port with internal access
- Extensive storage including built-in robes, linen cupboard, and storage under raised lounge and car port
- Huge storage area under the house, including sealed workshop with workbench and electric
- Colourful landscaped front aspect with lawn and beautifully maintained beds
- Banked rear lawn with established trees and shade.

The Last 43 Years:

It is May 1967 and the Nicholls family take up residence at 41 Kangaloon Street. This happened more by accident than design. With a transfer from the Stanthorpe District, and with the prospect of regular trips back there, we were looking for somewhere on this side of Brisbane. A wrong turn on the way to Kenmore brought us to the then emerging suburb of Jindalee.

A number of “spec” houses were on offer and while some were more attractive, they were also some hundreds of dollars dearer. This was the cheapest house in Jindalee and something we could just afford.

While we bought it purely on price we did recognise the benefit of the proximity to the school. With an enrolment of around ninety, and virtually in our backyard, our son 8 and daughter 6 had no problems considering the small country school they came from.

It was only in later years that we came to value other advantages as we see them.

When we moved in, the block on the other side of the pathway was vacant until a house was built a few years later. The pathway gives us that extra distance apart.

The bank across the road in front of us gives us, and our immediate neighbours, a parking free zone. The benefit of this becomes evident when viewed with the rest of the street.

Kangaloon Street formed part of the western boundary of Jindalee at the time and the area behind us was a wasteland. This has gone through various stages to its present state of development as parkland.

We have deliberately resisted putting up fences to block out these open spaces as we believe without them we have the advantage of acreage living without having the maintenance. Our contribution is to keep the storm water drain tidy and up to a couple of years ago the mowing of the footpath. The council sees to this now.

Some houses in the street have undergone major alterations and renovation particularly in the last few years. Apart from some improvements in the very early years, this house remains virtually unchanged.

While today it would appear that the carport would be the obvious place to start development, council regulations prevented this at the time, in that houses had to be a certain distance from the fence lines and nothing to be built between the front of the house and the fence line. Hence the carport, because of the slope of the block, became part of the house. In later years this regulation has been relaxed.

On a sloping block and built on piers with the split level in the middle, the house did lend itself to development underneath. Our first effort was to excavate, with a lot of pick and shovel work, the area under the top level to create a workshop and storage area. The equivalent of the backyard shed.

Then came the development under the lower level. With the laundry already in place more or less dictating the height, it was beyond our financial capabilities to develop to the extent required for proper living areas such as bedrooms etc. We compromised with what it is today, an enclosed entertainment area. Again a lot of pick and shovel work was involved and the project finished in 1975.

Today the existing carport could be enclosed and another built at the front. We did consider doing this a couple of years ago as it would make a great sunroom for the winter but one half of the negotiating team thought at our age we should be thinking of moving to a flat block instead. Now that is happening albeit with some reluctance on the part of the other half of the team who has to sort out an alternative workshop facility.

We have purchased elsewhere and it is time to put this house on the market. While it probably cannot be described as a grand house when compared to some on offer it has been a very comfortable and convenient place for us to live for the past forty three years. As it did when we first moved in it would suit a young family with primary school age children but now also with the added advantage of a high school just a kilometre away. Also, just as we did, they would find themselves with a number of other families in the street with young children.

A copy of the Sustainability Declaration is held by the SELLER.