https://www.propertyinvesting.com/members/chat2howie/activity/ Activity feed for chat2howie. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:06:21 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 2eb5d1154bd08bce86b68d7e6e834806 https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4393621-sell-and-lose-or-hold-and-lose/#post-4589669 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:43:09 +0000 Im not sure how you depreciate on a 60 year old house.  My understanding was that you can depreciate it at (usually)2.5% p.a. so it will depreciate it off over 40 years. Unless you are just talking about the costs of a re fitout of the house or something.

]]> 28bd9caf31b447f4e54287ce8a2cf6a8 https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4393621-sell-and-lose-or-hold-and-lose/#post-4589663 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:37:38 +0000 GerryG wrote:
Hey there Howie.  Lets not get too hasty about selling up.  Interest only loan indicates that you have set up things for tax reasons.  Have you had the property you bought assessed by an investment property depreciation specialist. I am not talking about negative gearing etc, but depreciation specialist.  Let me know, regards Ger…[Read more]

]]> af5d83b97726c88181166117e2a93e90 https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4393621-sell-and-lose-or-hold-and-lose/#post-4589660 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:15:54 +0000 The idea was to pay interest only loan, rent would eventually go up to equal the interest payments (with the tax deductions) and the money would be made on the capital growth..assuming the average of around 8% capital growth was occuring, but im estimating it will be 8% capital growth total for about a 5-6 year period.So yeah i can hold for long…[Read more]

]]> d68dc1cefe62457848e9af767ab77234 https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4393621-sell-and-lose-or-hold-and-lose/#post-4589655 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:19:30 +0000 What is a rent to buy option?.I know its long term but at 3% rise for the  next 3 years it means i will have a house worth around$340k 5 years after i bought it up with loan for it of 322k, 15k for a real estate to sell it and i will have put 40-50k into it buy then.

]]> 0c634d82743283c4b38360e12bc0529a https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4385499-how-do-i-find-a-positive-cashflow-property-in-wa/#post-4547469 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:22:56 +0000 Very hard in W.A. now, i live in Bunbury (highest popluation %growth city in Australia at the moment) 3 years ago houses were around 180-250K, rent $200, now houses are are around 380-500K with rent at hardly anymore around $225.

]]> 06c3b0fe5f8a9da8889f9ef761bdcd3f https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4384420-salary-packaging-investment-interest/#post-4541708 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:15:43 +0000 What i probably should have mentioned is this.
We can salary package up to $8755 threshold with a certain number of things such as credit card payments, rent, mortgage and other ‘easy’ things. Then from $8755 to 100% of your income there is another different set of items that can be slaraypacked for this amount, they are more obscure items and…[Read more]

]]> 49cb16969d5c06f6b6b6695db9324c5a https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4384420-salary-packaging-investment-interest/#post-4541705 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:27:53 +0000 I forgot to add, that because i work for the health department of WA i can salary package 100% of my income with investment loan interest. How would this work with holding a joint property with my girlfriend? So would we split the investment loan interest so if it was $20,000 i would get $10,000 i could salary package, and if so how would that…[Read more]

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