PropertyInvesting.com | gomez109 | Activity https://www.propertyinvesting.com/members/gomez109/activity/ Activity feed for gomez109. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:54:40 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 d6b3000f9f4edc3255f2346e423971d3 gomez109 replied to the topic Duty changes QLD - Opinions in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4403950-duty-changes-qld-opinions/#post-4649966 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:52:21 +0000 So, if you wanted to make a bit of money from this, couldn't you buy a large block of land now (under the old stamp duty rates) and then commence building 3 townhouses for investment purposes on the land after 1st August, you could claim this 3 times, couldn't you?(Of course, it does need to make sense in its own right, but given I was thinking…[Read more]

]]> eb5c9fb36ac46087fbb89356a6827d75 gomez109 replied to the topic Discretionary Trust questions in the forum Legal & Accounting https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4403831-discretionary-trust-questions/#post-4649139 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:01:03 +0000 Hi Terry,

Thanks very much for your thoughts. It’s always very helpful to bounce ideas off other people, particularly when they seem to be as well informed as you are!

Cheers,

TIm

]]> 6bd597666fea13576cc533d966abb5ad gomez109 replied to the topic Discretionary Trust questions in the forum Legal & Accounting https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4403831-discretionary-trust-questions/#post-4649137 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:37:18 +0000 Hi Terry,

I appreciate that the asset will grow in value and when it is sold there will be a profit — but that profit will need to be distributed as a capital gain to the beneficiaries so cannot be used to pay off the “loan”. So the only real way for the trust to acquire capital seems to be through non-cash deductibles like depreciation.

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]]> 339abd0217223320085687740e640f20 gomez109 replied to the topic Estimating depreciation in the forum Legal & Accounting https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4403832-estimating-depreciation/#post-4649144 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:18:10 +0000 Thanks for all the great input, much appreciated. And I certainly agree and would never buy a place just for a depreciation allowance. However, when trying to quantitatively determine whether a brand new property is a better investment than a similar configuration but older property with smaller price tag, depreciation does come into it.

(As do…[Read more]

]]> 9428a8f6b6efe4328305cdf3802b8020 gomez109 replied to the topic Discretionary Trust questions in the forum Legal & Accounting https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4403831-discretionary-trust-questions/#post-4649135 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:41:19 +0000 Hi Terry,

That’s very helpful, thank you.

I guess what I’m getting confused about in the first scenario is: If the trust has to distribute all it’s profit to beneficiaries then it will never have any money to repay the “loan”. The only way it seems to be able to get money is to have it gifted.

So if it makes $1,000 and has to distribute it,…[Read more]

]]> 3a32e70ebf4ca8b4dad2e73c6edb0b62 gomez109 replied to the topic Multiple loan consolidation? in the forum Finance https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4395398-multiple-loan-consolidation/#post-4599212 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:56:50 +0000 Thanks Richard, that clears it up. So really you're talking about splitting a loan secured by a single security into multiple separate accounts all under the same loan. Something like St George's portfolio loan.Now I've just got to find a lender that offers this split facility with an offset account… Out of curiosity, do you know if I can…[Read more]

]]> c6d28d27699e8c76c836987a2071e9c3 gomez109 replied to the topic Whose money is it anyway? in the forum Legal & Accounting https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4395399-whose-money-is-it-anyway/#post-4599216 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:09:41 +0000 Eddiec, thanks very much, that's what I thought. IP Freely, sorry if I was unclear. There would be 3 accounts, 2 loans and 2 properties. My wife owns one property, one loan and an offset account, all in her name. I own one property, one loan and an offset account, all in my name. The third account is not an offset account, but it's just a normal…[Read more]

]]> b80c5eac638bd64174f313f6424b07ea gomez109 replied to the topic Multiple loan consolidation? in the forum Hi Richard, Thanks very much https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4395398-multiple-loan-consolidation/#post-4599210 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:23:33 +0000 Hi Richard,Thanks very much for getting back to me. My loans are both I/O and not P&I, but they both have redraw facilities on them, so I've put some extra money into them in order to reduce the interest. That's what I meant by "ahead of the repayments"; badly worded I know.After your comment, I read the "10 disadvantages of cross collateralizing"…[Read more]

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