PropertyInvesting.com | athman | Activity https://www.propertyinvesting.com/members/athman/activity/ Activity feed for athman. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:26:20 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 87247a51c1d111a51efe57da86026395 athman replied to the topic running a bussiness and property investing in the forum Help Needed! https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4402238-running-a-bussiness-and-property-investing/#post-4638477 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:53:51 +0000 I went the other way. I had my own consulting practice as my main source of income for 10+ years. It earned good money but it was always harder to get bank finance. Also, it can be the same trap as a full time job, i.e. the more you earn the more you spend. On the side we’ve also progressively built up our restaurant business over the past 10…[Read more]

]]> 9c4db906881345ce6d7d7e3fa16b7be7 athman replied to the topic Financial Planners - the bad and the ugly in the forum Help Needed! https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4402164-financial-planners-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#post-4638007 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:43:26 +0000 I’ve looked at it seriously twice (2 years ago and 7 years ago). These were specialist financial planners. Both times recommended by people I know well. Both times I walked away after my own due diligence. Looking back, had I taken their advice it would have been financially disastrous.

Two observations.
(1) They sell pre-packaged investment…[Read more]

]]> e632c80d00292221a012afe3f564d9cc athman replied to the topic Draftsman - Melbourne Eastern Suburbs in the forum Value Adding https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4402030-draftsman-melbourne-eastern-suburbs/#post-4637131 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:24:48 +0000 I’m doing a shop/apartment development in Ashwood at the moment. The designer is Ron Asling of Studiothreedesign. He has been good at hooking me up with all of the other services required (surveyors etc).He shares a building with a lot of them and they have a little cluster going in Pakenham to service a lot of the new developments out that way.…[Read more]

]]> 64547deb43bd9f62a1b9acedffad2de2 athman replied to the topic Help with Monash City Council in the forum Help Needed! https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4402082-help-with-monash-city-council/#post-4637495 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:48:45 +0000 I’d contact the planning department and arrange a pre-planning application discussion (even if it the site has ‘provisional’ planing approval, its really a pre-purchase meeting that you are seeking to have). I have done that 3 times now in Monash Council. I went ahead with two of three projects based on those meetings. I backed away from one…[Read more]

]]> 40fff0c252ccac9458146d3cfa205214 athman replied to the topic Motel Investment in the forum Commercial Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4396914-motel-investment/page/3/#post-4607338 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:02:32 +0000 Thanks thecrest, thats really helpful.

]]> 0ff65dff17d0d3c0d20f6edcb329efd3 athman replied to the topic Motel Investment in the forum Commercial Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4396914-motel-investment/page/3/#post-4607336 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:29:16 +0000 I been watching this thread for a while now, its a good quality discussion. I’m interested in people’s opinions on motels with restaurants.

My wife and I are in the restaurant business. I find the sites, do the deals and fit them out, she (and family members) operate them. Then, I fix things when they break! We’re on our third restaurant now,…[Read more]

]]> f4f5d77ad5b86cc53f8e95115654c789 athman replied to the topic ?Dumb question re YIELD...? in the forum Help Needed! https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4401865-dumb-question-re-yield/#post-4636059 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:55:49 +0000 I agree with Michael, you can look at it in many ways and it will provide different insights.
‘Yield’ is a return on something. There are different somethings.
Michael’s first example, based on what he originally paid, is a yield calculation of the return on his capital employed. The later example is a yield calculation of the return on assets (at…[Read more]

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