The Martin family move in and later rent it out to Malcolm Kennedy and Danni Stark, and then to Angie Rebecchi and her sons Stonefish Rebecchi and Toadfish Rebecchi. The house continues to be rented to several regular and recurring characters, including Ruth Wilkinson, Mike Healey, Tess Bell, Daniel Fitzgerald (Brett Tucker) and Dee Bliss (Madeleine West). The house is then bought by the Hancock family and later Max Hoyland (Stephen Lovatt), who lives there with his children Boyd Hoyland (Kyal Marsh) and Summer Hoyland (Marisa Siketa), and wife Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner). Following Max's exit, Toadfish Rebecchi and Ned Parker briefly move in as lodgers. At the end of 2006, a hostage situation storyline involving Steph, her son Charlie Hoyland, Toadfish, Zeke Kinski and Katya Kinski occurs at the house, after Guy Sykes threatens them with a gun. Steph later has three more lodgers; Libby Kennedy, Ty Harper (Dean Geyer), and Zeke Kinski.