Can you help?

Hi Steve,

My top three would be ;

1. Strategies for minimising the time and cost and stress implications when having to evict tenants who refuse to pay rent / trash the place / refuse to move.

2. Deciding what is an equitable balance for the same dollars between (a) larger land content and worse infrastructure vs (b) smaller land content and better infrastructure.

3. How to assess people quickly who will actually ‘honour and take ownership’ of the responsibilities they undertake when signing a lease. To have the commitment in writing is one thing, for the tenant to ‘feel’ that is also the case and therefore the Landlord encounters no resistance is another step entirely.

Just to be cheeky, I’ll add a fourth ;

4. In the future, which way do you see the burden of payment of outgoings falling to ?? Do you believe residential tenants, like comm. and ind. tenants now, will ever tolerate paying these for the Landlord. Or indeed, do you see the comm. and ind. tenants palming these off to the Landlord in the future with the influx of residential Landlords buying more and more C&I IP’s, bringing with them their standard expectation that the outgoings are the responsibility of the property owner ??

Cheers,

Dazzling

“No point having a cake if you can’t eat it.”

Hi Steve,

One that is hot on my list at the moment is CGT. I know this is an age old problem but my specific issue is with the claiming of the capital write off (2.5%) & what impact this has on CGT. I was advised recently that even if you don’t claim the 2.5% write off that you are perceived to have claimed it when it comes to working out your capital gain on sale. I don’t think everybody understands this issue & gets the appropriate valuations when they are first purchasing the property. Any help would be appreciated as I am trying to muddle through this at the moment.

Kim

I agree with ‘Dazzling’ – correctly assessing potential tenants is difficult so including that topic would be helpful.

Maso

Hi Steve,

I’d really like to see strategies for building wealth in this environment of rising rates and falling prices.
Possible strategies
– Build equity by paying more off loans
– Let time increase the value of property
– Carry out realistic analysis of holdings
– Investigate what we can expect by looking at previous economic cycles

etc

Hi Steve,

I will appreciate your thoughts and views on the recently updated book “The Dollar Crisis” by R. Duncan. Also your thoughts on the The Economist ‘s recent themes on the ‘worldwide property market bubble’.

Regards

Joseph

How about some accounting tips n tricks..warnings even?

And maybe spreadsheets/checklists etc..

relevant for this time of year and planning the next 12 months..

Guest articles from valued contributors on the forum regarding mortgages/depreciation/investing/asset protection etc..sounds good to me and also promotes the contributors to the Forum?

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Dom[eh]

Hi Steve,

I’d like some info on the best way to get started with a property portfolio. What strategies should be used? Is it best to buy a property with land which can be developed, thus making a capital gain which enables more properties to be bought with the profits, or to go for the positive cashflow properties? Or a mix of both? I would find some help on this matter invaluable.

Thanks,
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annette

Hi

My three would be:

1) Best place to source finance once all your capital is used up.
2) Some practical advice (maybe from someone who is already in the same position)to those of us who actually enjoy our jobs (and don’t wish to quit!) but who are time poor and would like to invest in multiple properties.
3) What you feel about property markets outside of Oz and NZ.

Thanks a lot

James Wincott