I love to ask people what their resolutions are each year and when I boil the answers down, the most common responses I get are centred around health and wealth. SpaceOut is not in the business of advising on the first of these, but when it comes to adding or saving cash to your monthly [...]

Despite an apparent turnaround in the economy, in the first half of this year one in five Australian families have still had difficulties paying their bills and many have been forced to seek help from family and friends during the economic crisis. A new Australian Government report released yesterday, reveals that a frightening number of [...]

Unless you happen to live next door to a storage facility, chances are that you will have to travel a little (or a lot) when you need to find self storage space. But a new online service has just added hundreds of new storage locations throughout Australia (maybe even in your suburb or street), and [...]

With the move to higher density apartment living – and in recognition of the need that people have for extra storage space, a new apartment development proposed for The Gap in Brisbane has announced that they plan to include extra storage . Owners of the 66 apartments in the Verve development will be offered an [...]

You will have quite a few choices when it comes to storing your things. If you’ve never used storage before, here is the list that will simplify the process and help you on your way: 1. Do you REALLY need to store your stuff? Is this stuff you will ever use again? You should establish [...]

A THIRD of Melbourne bedrooms are now unoccupied, according to a state department report. As the Government extends the city’s urban growth boundary by thousands of hectares, a Transport Department report showed there were already 1.3 million spare bedrooms in existing suburbs, enough to accommodate projected population growth during the next 20 years. Almost 70 [...]

Right now, there are 1.3 Million bedrooms in Melbourne that are not being used. This accounts for nearly a third of all bedrooms in Melbourne, and highlights what a massive opportunity there is for these home owners to convert that unused space into an extra income. An article in today’s Melbourne Age Newspaper – Room [...]

Often we are asked what type of people use SpaceOut and for some of the reasons why people use us.  We are getting in touch with members and will be relating some of their “stories” on this blog in the future, but in the interim, I’ve outlined below a selection from some of the many [...]

I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days with some Empty Nesters at a 70th birthday on the weekend. I was amazed at their feedback on the Spaceout idea. It seems they had seen the article in the local paper and had a heap of ideas of how they could make money from [...]

The Daily Advertiser : 6 July 2009- by Daisy Huntly Do you have so much space you don’t know what to do with it? The answer according to Wagga men Nathon Irvin, Damon Russell and Andy Henderson, is to rent it out. The Australian-first concept of helping people rent space has been launched in the [...]