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Instant money guaranteed…Tell me how!

We are proud to announce our exciting new Income Guarantee Program – a first of its kind in Australia. The Parkhound Income Guarantee Program is an amazing new way to earn income from your unused parking space. The deal is so good; it’s hard to believe it’s real! Parkhound we’ll pay you instantly to lease out your parking space, whilst

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Top 5 tips for New Year’s Eve Docklands

At Parkhound, our favourite day of the year is New Year’s Eve. It offers great weather, good times and fireworks! New Year’s Eve is also a great time for reflection. After a long hard year of working, it’s easy to get a little carried away, Check the weather forecast Whilst New Year’s Eve weather has been warm the last few

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How to Make Money from Parking

So you are new to Parkhound, you love the concept, but you are not entirely sure what you can list? You could do with some extra cash but you have doubts that your space next to the BBQ in the backyard applies? To help you out, we thought we would cover the types of parking spaces you can list. So

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Parking Poetry

I took my daughter to the shops last week on a Saturday.It was an odyssey of sorts and an adventure I must say.We ventured into the city at about a quarter past nine.In spite of some construction work we made it there on time. We entered a parking garage and slowly moved up the screw.We were looking for a spot,

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Open Letter – Melbourne Sheriff’s Office

Dear Melbourne Sheriff’s Office, We found out recently that the people of Melbourne owe you more than $57 million in unpaid fines. We know that this seems like a lot but in the grand scheme of things it’s not that much. You see this represents only 3.8% of the total $1.5 billion Myki budget. Now that’s immoral. Is parking for

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How to Park Your Car

When people think about getting a Driver’s license, they invariably imagine the day when they can cruise down the open road with the sun shining, wind in their hair and some great music blaring. Due to this, most of the time spent learning to drive is focused on just that; learning to drive. Australian road authorities have introduced a number

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Raiders of the Lost Park

It’s a Friday night and there is a special buzz in the air.  Your favourite football team is about to play their biggest rivals.  You turn off the engine, jump out of the car and join the masses.  You are walking to the game with your scarf in hand and electricity in the air.  You look at your best mate

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Parkhound Offers 10% Discount to Drivers with Parking Fines

Australia’s number 1 online car parking marketplace has been deeply disappointed by a story about frustrated motorists who received parking fines in error as reported by Fairfax media. Parkhound has announced a new offer to lighten the burden to those affected and anyone else who has received a parking fine across Australia.  For the entire month of August 2014, all

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To Rent, Or Not To Rent

One of the regular questions we get asked here at Parkhound is, ‘Can I sublet my parking space?’  It’s a fantastic question and something we would like to clarify.  We have spoken to our lawyers *yawn* and attempted to distil their responses into something more legible.  So here we go… Is subletting my parking space legal? Unfortunately, there is no

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