Gee Mary so many interested people! This answers the question whether there would be much of a market for this service!
Don’t forget, that if people are happy with your prices and services the 1st time they buy from you, there will most likely to be a 2nd, 3rd time they require your services.
Good luck and hope to hear from you soon![]

May be because they need as many interested investors as they can since most investors have difficulty in getting these units financed. If you do a search on retirement units, you will find more information, which may be helpful.[]

That would be horrible, SES

Hello Ivana
Earlier this year I was in your situation- I had no clue what to do first.
Apart from the great advice given to you by Namaste, Blowie and Realtor, I would like to add that you’ll make life easier for yourself if you have all your paperwork organised before you apply for a loan.

THen, when you have to fill in the loan application, it…[Read more]

Congratulations Rubbachook!!! We now not only live in the same area, we both have a child born on the 19th december, as well. (except mine is 15).
Must have been exciting watching the little one hatch![]

Congratulations to you on becoming a moderator!!! You must be thrilled! Well done!
Hope you enjoy it.[:X]

I also want to say congratulations SIS I just noticed your name as moderator! Well done, you totally deserve it.
[:X]

THe theory sounds good Andrew, but I think you need a high-paid job to be able to keep borrowing, or am I missing the point?
Say that I buy a $250K unit somewhere in Sydney.
First of all, this unit will be quite heavily neg geared, even if you pay IO.
(Like Kay says, who can afford those prices? One’s OK but I certainly can’t affford a few of…[Read more]

Hi again Gerald, I think these townhouses are pretty close to the Macarthur square, do you know if it is walking distance from it? If so, I am very very very jealous of your townhouse! I think Rubbachook will be jealous as well! []
You should may be go to this shopping square one day and check it out, look at your townhouse again. Mate look after…[Read more]

Hi Gerald, I live around this area, but unfortunately I have no IPs here. I wish I had started investing here a few years ago, nice and close and CG has been huge. IT’s all become so expensive now!

Out of interest, if you want to tell me, which suburb is your townhouse in? And do you live far from there yourself?
Which agency did you buy from?…[Read more]

Shaunwalker, I was also disappointed that the latest CG numbers weren’t in the API magazine.
I haven’t been reading this magazine for a long time, just the last 3 issues.
Has it ever, (in the past, when the market was really booming,) occured before that they didn’t have the numbers? If this is the first time they didn’t have the figures, now the…[Read more]

There’s one of the authors (not sure who, may be Anita Bell???) who mentioned in her book that it was OK to buy unseen if you have inspections done. I’m glad to hear that Rubbachook and SIS have done it without problems, ’cause it’s very tempting!
Still…. something to think about…
My husband probably would not buy site unseen whereas I would…[Read more]

I have combed the Brissie area, and Ipswich too, and have to agree with all of the above.
If I “ever” find a great area to invest in, I will happily be sharing it with this forum. Because if there are such areas these WILL be found by other investors anyway (I mean I certainly won’t be the only one to notice them)and I’d rather have you helpful…[Read more]

Yeh Chook, I’m terrified to see what kind of rates we will have to pay. Hopefully our rates will be used wisely![]

[/quote]There are a couple of ways to do this.

1. Listing price of property is $100k, you negotiate with vendor to buy at $80k. $20k equity to be used.

2. 2nd mortgage from vendor

3. As Mel said Off the Plan

4. As Mel said Long settlement

5. Use your super.

(Gee I’m messing around to put this quote in, dunno how to do it properly. I pressed…[Read more]

I have just finished reading this book, very interesting.
Gee I would just LOVE [:X] to have Dolf as my neighbour ’cause he will happily paint my house, mow my lawn, maybe even wash my windows free of charge. [^]
All because having a nice looking house on his left and right will increase the value of his own property!
Thinking of that, may be I…[Read more]

Hi RickHy, if you do a search, you will find a post on it, I asked this same question a while ago.
After that, I did some more research and Steve’s right, the deals heavily rely on depreciation. Most of the deals are holiday appartments and office buildings etc, which are not my thing to invest in, I find it too risky.

Just a bit off the point, but interesting argument: Did you ever see a program (I can’t remember the name of the documentary) about a group of scientists arguing why Armstrong, or no-one else at all, has never walked on the moon, and this was all a set-up? THey came up with good arguments, eg the shadows didn’t make sense, the flag on the moon was…[Read more]

Hello Kenzhang How ah ya gonin?[]
When I first came to Australia (from The Netherlands) I had a lot of problems with the language, too, even though I’d learned English at Highschool. But you learn that formal “Queen’s” English at school, from a tape, which is kind of useless since no-one talks like that in real life (oh yeh apart from the queen)-…[Read more]

I wonder if any of you has done a TAFE real estate course? How did you find it, are they useful knowledge to property investors?[?]
If they are, I believe that there are a lot of TAFE courses you can do as distance courses, I think they call them OTEN courses.