PropertyInvesting.com | benm | Activity https://www.propertyinvesting.com/members/benm/activity/ Activity feed for benm. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:25:06 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 287d789dcd967b19c792f1cf05617a0d benm replied to the topic Deductability of Capitalised Interest in the forum Legal & Accounting https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4381242-deductability-of-capitalised-interest/#post-4523258 Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:53:11 +0000 Thanks all for the replys.

Sounds like no-one can decide whether or not capitalising is deductible.

Personally, I do not see why you would even want to do this as the tax benefit is far less than paying the debt down!!!

I was thinking of doing this to take a year off work and travel and/or spend more time finding good investments.

I’m…[Read more]

]]> 45225aa14ab613c686af7ad070152903 benm replied to the topic Borrowing capacity in the forum Finance https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4380538-borrowing-capacity-2/#post-4518438 Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:27:03 +0000 I think I just understood what Mortgage Advisor is saying –

Original Property owing $80k
Worth $120k
Equity is $40k
BUT, you must keep 80% LVR on this property.

Therefore 120*20% = 24k of equity you must keep in this property. So of you’re $40k equity, you can only use 40k – 24k = 16k

If you want to skip LMI on your next property, then using…[Read more]

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