Yes good you got in early and got the grant. I went to Steve Mcknight’s book launch of the revised 1 to 130 property book and he was having a challenge of making $250,000 in 18 months from real estate. I am looking at a few ways of doing this, one of them is to work with my carpenter brother in canberra on buying a place and doing…[Read more]

thanks for sharing your story, I grew up in canberra and think of it fondly. Congratulations for getting your first property, not only that but successfully completing a small renovation on a small budget. It’s great you enjoy your job, as you can plan based on it. I can only speak of what I would do in your shoes. I would work on…[Read more]

liking the humour , Roseagain, I looked into ATM’s myself, and the key that stopped my buying was the guy didn’t have any legitimate bank on board for funding (as it’s direct competition to them!) no fixed rate of interest therefore profits were eaten up by interest. Maybe if you know a lawyer or accountant (someone good at reading…[Read more]

Yes I’d agree with Vicky the key is the right city if investing there for a couple of years. I brought in Rotorua in 2008 for and it’s currently just paying itself off. the New Zealand economy isn’t great, and the good news about that is our the aussie dollar will buy you more. And their interest rate haven’t risen, very good news if you…[Read more]

E, if your willing to travel to Brisbane the Reno Kings are going to do a bus tour there on 14th of March which is specifically on renovation.
Unfortunately I can’t even do the under coat properly when painting and have no fixing up skills.

Best of luck
jo

I guess I am thinking of “strata” as in apartments a quarterly cost, I think with car park it’s just called “annual outgoings”
actually I found a site called http://www.findacarpark.com.au and below is an example of some of the expenses related to car parks
“The actual annual costs for 08/09 were –council $557 , water $160 , strata…[Read more]

I hope you get some insights, it’s a good area to find out about

Now sounds like your ready to go, but might be worth taking a breather and doing some more research, asking yourself questions like:
1. is the local council used to subdivisions or am i going to be coming up…[Read more]

you are right, their is alot of various degree seminars. I know it’s a good seminar if I go home and I am so excited I can’t sleep, and that’s what happened tuesday!

Back to the US investing I shall continue research, it’s tricky as I can find several property/foreclosure sale database sites. But unless you have the other…[Read more]

thanks sapphire101 for the website information for the US. I have been keen on the US market for a few months now, but I need to really settle on acouple of cities.
the fact that detroit will be part of the green business projects the us government is pouring money into is very appealing.
a few other sites i found investing
government…[Read more]