Let's get some clarrity here for you Robbie. 1. A Cert IV in Property (Real Estate) allows you to be a Real Estate Sales Representative – NOT a Real Estate Agent. You will need to have completed your Diploma for the full Real Estate Agents License. You will also, for both, be required to provide a NPC National Police Check to show you have no…[Read more]

Yeah, there's another well crafted, great book of fiction written on how to pay the Federal Government NO, ZERO, 0, NADA tax – it's called Dianetics! Personally, I thought Battlefield Earth was better but that wasn't the one that sucked the money out of the gullible masses and kept it from tha taxman's coffers.

Hi again Robbie.In terms of a Real Estate Sales Rep License you will need the minimum Certificate IV in Property (Real Estate) and the best place to go to find info on the Cert IV is usually the Real Estate Institute (REI) in your state and, as for licensing and certification, your state Consumer Affairs Office.I hope this has been of further help…[Read more]

G'day Matt.Boy, are you going to have a field day with my latest post! Be kind https://www.propertyinvesting.com/forums/community/opinionated/4336372

With all due respect Robbie, I have over 300 ex South African clients all around Australia and the single biggest constant I found from every one of them, regardless of their background in Sth Africa or their chosen trade or profession, is things such as laws, taxation, regulations, licensing and so on in Australia is vastly different to what you…[Read more]

Hi Newbie.The Melbourne market is flooded with one bedroom apartments & student accomodation and I personally would not touch one with a 40 foot barge pole. Now a 2 bedroom is a different story and if it is the lower or cheaper end of the market you want to invest in, 2 bedroom minimum in an unit. Check out the link below for more…[Read more]

Good response Scott!

Thanks everyone. I'll try to continue to post positive info on a broad range of topics as often as I can. I don't know everything but, what I do know, I like to share so others benefit.

Hi Veronique.Kong makes some very good points for investing into precious metal(s) such as silver. However, were your US IP bought for a quick buck or to obtain Capital Growth over time? Why did you buy property in the US in the first place? Property is rarely the superfast highway to riches but ponder on this: the US economy will recover as it…[Read more]

Hi Paul & Karen.Could you please drop me an email as I get alot of enquiries for Options and Vendor Finance and would be more than pleased to work out an arrangement with yourselves to do some of my overflows or where I simply don't have the time to do the job properly within time constraints.Kind regards,

PS Matt – it's late; I know you're going to write a long retort and defend your position again; I must go forth and sleep and will read what you have to say in the 'morrow!

And Nostradamus made alot of predictions too and it is REAL easy to look back in hindsight and fit the pieces to fit your hypothesis. I know of a Professor who claimed carrots caused cancer – easily said from a man who firstly, has never lived in the real world as he's never really left school but, also, his hypothisis was an easy one to make: it…[Read more]

"If you think you can or think you can't, you're right". Henry Ford

Matt, you are so convinced that the proverbial is going to hit the fan, I bet if you were a young adult in the 1970's you would have built a nuclear bomb shelter convinced 'the end was nigh' and no one would ever have been able to convince you that not only would the Berlin Wall come down but we would see the fall of Stalin's communism in our…[Read more]

Hi Richard.You are 100% correct Richard. I looked at the time of that post and it was 2:40 AM!!!!!I must be more careful in future to either pull-the-pin earlier OR hang off on any advice until a more sane time. Thanks for the correction.

PS: Being Sunday, i'll be offline for the rest of the day now but will be back on deck tomorrow.

Drop me a line below Bardon and i'd be happy to talk more to you privately and with legal priviledge.

25 years………Bought first home PPOR in VIC 1984 for $55,000 a bloody fortune -worth $ 650,000 todayBought first IP 1987 for $129,000 with 18.4% mortgage – worth $580,000 todayOwned freehold IP in Bunbury WA in 2000 worth $61,000 – sold in 2002 for $153,000 (ecstatic!) – it sold in 2003 for $249,000 – worth today $780.000.Defense rests

Hi Bardon.You don't see too many but I have done an Option Agreement on a $23.3million property before – the largest I've done.

Remember also, we are still very much in a Buyers Market which means YOU have the upper hand. Properties are NOT selling like they were pre-GFC so Vendors and their Real Estate Agents can't afford to 'burn' potential buyers.