Mini Golf Hire Melbourne and its influence on mortgage stress

Sitting at an exquisite Super A-mart wooden-look table, the Julie Bourke that I am speaking with is apparently a very different woman to the Julie Bourke of 18 months ago.

“It had gone that far that we had actually started looking at jobs and houses in the country”

The letter from the bank she is holding looks like it has been through the wringer almost as much as Julie and her partner Thaniel have. It has obviously been dragged around to house meetings, held during tense telephone calls with uncaring bank staff, scrunched and thrown in desperation. It has been looked at for hours and hours as if there was some secret code to make its bold numbers and threatening words disappear.

While the wheels had not yet been put in motion to evict the Bourke family, the writing was on the wall.

“We were overdue on everything. Mortgage, Bills, hockey club membership and a Blockbuster Video fine. We were scared to go to the letterbox or answer the phone. Not because of the Bills, because of our neighbour. He’s a really aggressive guy who always prank calls us and yells at us when we get our mail. He does this weird thing where he does this throat-slitting motion at my husband while he thrusts over his garden hose as he waters his garden. Its really intimidating but his roses are amazing. I’ll give him that”

Enter mini golf hire Melbourne.

“I can’t remember if it was a birthday or if we just wanted to have a midweek party. We were always throwing random parties, it may have contributed slightly to us falling behind on payments but, whatever. Anyway, we had heard there was a portable mini golf hire place in Melbourne. So were ordered a mini golf course to come to our house. It was really fun. Really glad we did it.”

Within 7 months of that party, the Bourkes were mortgage free.

“No I don’t think the mini golf hire had any influence whatsoever on us becoming mortgage free. I think it is quite ludicrous to suggest otherwise”

Maybe. Maybe not.