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The Block winners buy into Pomona lifestyle WINNERS of renovation reality TV show, The Block 2020 have snapped up a house in Pomona, site unseen. Brisbane couple Jimmy and Tam bought the Pavillion Street property late last month without viewing it after a prior sale fell through. Jimmy and Tam told the Cooroy Rag they saw the brick home online months ago and contacted Alyssa Wythes at Wythes Real Estate but it was already under offer. “We have been looking for somewhere to buy since January. We saw the house on Pavillion Street but it already had an offer in on it. “Then a month ago Alyssa called and said the sale had fallen through and it was ours if we wanted it. We couldn’t believe it. “We said yes and told her to send us a contract even though we hadn’t viewed it and a week later we had a signed contract with a month-long settlement.” The settlement date has come and gone and Jimmy and Tam still haven’t moved into their first family home because it is tenanted. “The house has a tenant in it at the moment and she’s struggling to find a place to live. And we’re not going to kick her out, we’ll wait for her to find somewhere to live.” Until then, Jimmy and Tam will continue living at Tam’s parent’s place in Tinbeerwah, where they have been since January. “We’ve wanted to move to the Coast for years and when we won The Block, we quit our jobs and moved up.” Jimmy and Tam won the 2020 season with a renovated 1950s-style home that sold for $4.256 million at auction before settlement fell through. “We had a scandal happen at our auction. The woman
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who bought it was a con artist. It’s been an ordeal to get through that.” Months after the scandal, the property was finally sold. A month ago, Jimmy and Tam received their money. “We had a reserve of $3.2m and our house sold for $4.2. We got to keep the difference and because we won we also got $100k. “We’ve been able to buy a home outright. We’re very lucky and still pinch ourselves. Prior to the block, renters trying to get a leg up.” The Block contestants first applied for the show in 2019, making the top 20. “There are 55,000 couples that apply. They then get it down to the top 20,000 then top 5,000 and down to the top 20. We made it into the top 20 that first year but didn’t get through. But the second year we got through, making it into the top five.” During the show, Jimmy and Tam had to renovate a 1950s shell plus an extension that had been built on the back. “It was one of the hardest things we’ve done in our lives but it was a great experience.” The couple was looking for something to renovate when they first saw their Pavillion Street home but said it was the Pomona community that really sold it. “We were looking for
something we could put our touch on. When you look at it the house you think farm country style but we’re going to go in a different direction. It’s still going to have great character but it’s going to be different, it will have a Jimmy and Tam vibe. “But for us, it was more the area.” Jimmy said he grew up in Kilcoy and wants to bring their five-year-old daughter, Frankie up in a community like that. While Tam’s family have been in the area for a long time and the hinterland is a second home to them. “We were very lucky to jump on this in Pomona. It’s such a great area and a gorgeous little town with so much going for it.” Once they move in, Jimmy and Tam will spend most of their time working on the house and daughter Frankie will attend Pomona State School. “We have a design business called Captain and Queen, which has a plumbing business attached to it so we will continue to work on that as well as filming a couple of other TV shows.” Until then, you might see Jimmy and Tam “hanging out in Pomona”. “We’ve been going to the Pomona Distillery all the time and just hanging out in town a lot. We love it and can’t wait to move here.”
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