I reckon you take town planner out to lunch !

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I live in Vic and would move in a flash to QLd but my Wife was raised in Tassy and doesn’t cope well with heat and humidity.

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car parks might be $40,000 just thinking outside the square however risk profile is higher …

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why use a telecommunications company when you might be able to get broadband from your electricity!!!!
on trial in tasmania see http://www.auroraenergy.com.au/small_business/products_and_services/tastel.asp
I reckon you should ask your electricity supplier when they will adopt this technology that uses the power lines to transmit broadband data…[Read more]

expenses like rates, insurance, water, maintenance..
price paid, current value
Would be good to calculate ROI
ROI = rent minus expenses / value of prop * 100
capital gain calc

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Ask yourself would you want to live there. There is a house on a busy road near me and it has been demolished to put up three townhouses. So a corner block might be good if development is the aim as Yuppies do not have kiddies or a need for a backyard.
What type of people rent in this area if it is Mums and Dads with kiddies they are not going to…[Read more]

It might be worth demanding TELSTRA installs broadband coverage to the new surburb via a PASO microwave radio link until they can run Cables into the suburb.
I think Telstra could use a Satelite link connected to a 3G mobile base station to provide the suburb with wireless broadband or put up a microwave link.
In one country town Darnum there is a…[Read more]

The new CEO pulled this sort of caper when he was in charge of a Telco in the USA . I have been motivated to provide the above information as Telstra in its wisdom decided as they were running broadband cable past the house I live in to neglect to put a TAPS connect point in. The Pit is directly in front of my front door.
So I am using another…[Read more]

As the federal election is coming up about 12 months I reckon a letter written to the Federal minister of Communications being Helen Coonan would be in order. A probably a letter written to the local federal representative about the problem or lack of broadband would be a starting point. If the heat is needed to be increased ACA love these sort of…[Read more]

from an accounting viewpoint as steve is an accountant
Equity = Value of property minus debt owed
Equity = original value plus increase in value minus debt
Equity = $200,000 + 50,000 – 150,000
Equity = $100,000
This is also know as your financial position from accounting
To a bank you have $100,000 to use to borrow more money
Also if interest…[Read more]

I purchased a house in a commission area and would say that solid concrete houses are quite tenant proof. I had a house abandoned and vandals broke in so the front door needed repair and the excrement needed to be cleaned and a paint job was needed but the structure of solid concrete and iron roof struts makes the houses almost tentant damage…[Read more]

Steve’s third book comes out 17th of November called From 0 to 260m + properties in 7 years. Arrowsmith if you are not happy with stamp duty then let more feet do the walking.
As a property investor you are not bound by geographic location like with PPOR so you can purchase property in other states. If enough people take their investments out of…[Read more]

Celeste, the economy is allowed to grow at a sustainable economic level of 2%- 3% if it gets higher than this the reserve bank withdraws money from the economy by buying bonds. This causes the interest rates to increase. People have borrowed money to buy a new car or a new pool or a new house extenstion by borrowing money from the increased equity…[Read more]

I am using CGU

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Hopefully you held the property for more than 12 months between the entering of Buying Contract date and the entering of sale contract date.
If individual tax payer 50% discount applies on assets capital gain if held for more then 12 months.

If you own property in joint names the gain is split 50% to you 50% to other joint owner . Then this is…[Read more]

I came across a new system called http://www.wired.com.au that provides wireless broadband for an initial outlay and then a monthly fee.
This depends on “Wired” radio coverage where tenant lives.
Telstra also provides wireless broadband that doesn’t require a cable into the house so long as you have Telstra radio coverage.
The Wired system is really new…[Read more]

I think from memory I used an insurance broker
Aon/REI in Camberwell
check
http://www.aon.com.au/associations/landlords_residential_property_protection.asp

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cgu insurance landlord insurance policy. I had the same problem and they were extremely helpful in this situation.

You are probably feeling like you are in dire straits with your settlement date racing closer and the bank not issuing the money because the house isn’t insured !!!!
If you are going through a real estate agent for the rental…[Read more]

I reckon it probably is the baby boomers retiring in the southern states that are moving north toa sunny climate. ABS figures may verify this. But you would have to pay for data checkout http://www.abs.gov.au. I saw a similiar thing happen in Warrnambool Victoria where there was no employment but houses were going up all over the town because of…[Read more]

You pay tax when you put it in called contributions tax 15% , your earnings within the fund are taxed at 15% and when you take it out you used to pay tax of 15% unless put into an approved rollover pension plan. I say used to as it has changed recently on taking out the super.
There was also a reasonable benefits limit that restricted how much…[Read more]