WHEN Jake and Ina Lubner hit hard times last year, they at first didn’t know where to turn.

“They sold the house we'd been living in for 13 years,” Ms Lubner told the Broken Hill Times.

“We were in Adelaide at the time, with a baby girl, and the rental economy down there is not too good. My husband’s family is born and bred in Broken Hill, so we decided to make the move.

"We’ve been...