PropertyInvesting.com | john howard | Activity https://www.propertyinvesting.com/members/john-howard/activity/ Activity feed for john howard. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:05:18 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 372eecd24ed82ef12233e1a5e31732a8 john howard replied to the topic Is insurance worth it? in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375806-is-insurance-worth-it/#post-4488610 Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:56:58 +0000 there is a old saying in the travel industry, if you cant afford insurance u cant afford to travel. i think you can apply that too the housing market.

]]> a18ab7eccc9de88145aa5e705e876785 john howard replied to the topic property prices falling %10 year to date. in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375825-property-prices-falling-%10-year-to-date/#post-4488710 Fri, 03 Sep 2004 05:04:12 +0000 what do you mean yorker??????
So you have just got into the housing sector????? Look, the way i see it, things will be getting a lot worse b4 it gets better. Wait untill the election is over and interest rates start moving north, it will really hit the fan then. the smart ppl have sold they properties now and cash will be king. If you guys cant…[Read more]

]]> ffdc3e012d2b3adaeeae610b74db270c john howard replied to the topic property prices falling %10 year to date. in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375825-property-prices-falling-%10-year-to-date/#post-4488704 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:11:24 +0000 House price fall a record
September 2, 2004

A RECORD quarterly decline in house prices and a fall in the number of building approvals for the third consecutive month support signs of a cooling housing market, latest figures show.

Approvals slipped 0.7 per cent to 14,438 units in July, compared with a downwardly revised 0.4 per cent fall in June,…[Read more]

]]> ee267b03017e88a3905e9e9515210236 john howard replied to the topic Mining for returns - Rent vs Capital? in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375440-mining-for-returns-rent-vs-capital/#post-4486211 Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:37:46 +0000 If you want +cash flow then you can forget major capital growth.

]]> 45708c8c3eb649850c947dbf396633f4 john howard replied to the topic Albury Property Investors Group Meeting in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375139-albury-property-investors-group-meeting/#post-4483927 Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:21:32 +0000 Agent smith, i dont know what you are talking about. The Uni has been relocated for 3 years now and with other development to follow, thurgoona to me, will be shown great groth in the comming years. The golf club has recently under gone a multi million $ upgrade and land is being snapped up asap. You say you know central, south and east albury…[Read more]

]]> 6715ec19eb6d753e9e14aeb42c4a9666 john howard replied to the topic Albury Property Investors Group Meeting in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375139-albury-property-investors-group-meeting/#post-4483925 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:56:26 +0000 Albury Wodonga has an aprox population of 75 thousand ppl, for many years wodonga has been out growing albury, but recently albury’s prices have came back into line with wodonga. Albury is known as a transit city where travelers and truck drivers take breaks going thru to melb and syd. Both alb/wod have major industry ranging from BTR a gear box…[Read more]

]]> 587bc6358ade03398b1dee498b1c6f59 john howard replied to the topic Portland in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375362-portland-2/#post-4485706 Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:02:56 +0000 Has anyone heard of portland surgical products???? I think its known as the needle factory?? If so can you tell me anything about it??? where it is how big it is and anything else.

]]> b1e26ff170f65dfff844a0688eda89a9 john howard replied to the topic INTEREST RATES 9% 2005 6 in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375257-interest-rates-9-2005-6/#post-4485046 Mon, 02 Aug 2004 05:21:03 +0000 If interest rates hit 9% this forum will no longer be around, try finding a cash flow + deal trying to repay a 9% loan. The USA is moving and further intrest rate jumps will come in the comming months. I have also read personal debt has hit a trillion $, thats over 50k per person (this alone is enough for a couple of points rise in rates.

]]> 487f6b3144ec82b3bd9524881deafbe8 john howard replied to the topic Owners from hell !!! in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4373264-owners-from-hell/page/2/#post-4470266 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:10:18 +0000 Kay, either way he has been taken hook line and sinker, my advise to him is go and donate your time to a real charity (salvos) and stay well away from investing.

]]> 4ef1c809e6bc8db9ca6c9ad388dc25f3 john howard replied to the topic Buying a Pub? in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375036-buying-a-pub/#post-4483189 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:30:47 +0000 Salubrious, Why never buy a lease???? If the lease is long this can be a very good way of getting into a business that has very high turn over and net profits, the secret to leaseing is to keep buying years on your lease, never go below 15 years left on a lease or it will be near impossible to sell. One of my leasees buys a year at the end of the…[Read more]

]]> 4f219504ff70999cda0431b9bd0ee3b8 john howard replied to the topic Buying a Pub? in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375036-buying-a-pub/#post-4483178 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:20:10 +0000 you say in your post, a turn over of 120k???? that doesnt seem much to me. 120k would be a ok net return.

]]> 149c7b1d2a97fe995b12bc07e2ada416 john howard replied to the topic Buying a Pub? in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375036-buying-a-pub/#post-4483176 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:54:58 +0000 or the managers had put alot of the locals off by the way they were running the place, this often happens when new publicans take over, people who hadnt drank there for years start comming back.

]]> bc917e2212bb59feb11fea404c38a019 john howard replied to the topic Timeshare in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375034-timeshare/#post-4483150 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:51:41 +0000 Why pay $500 to be told when and where to take holidays.For $600 per week you can get a really nice apartment in most places. There is a reason they died out in the 80s leave it at that.

]]> a3307179b5367800fe21d2a67ac4469e john howard replied to the topic Buying a Pub? in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375036-buying-a-pub/#post-4483174 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:25:36 +0000 Make sure your patner is the licencee, as he will be the hands on partner who will be around most of the time (last thing you want is a phone call to come down to the pub at one in the morning when something has gone wrong and the police will only talk to the licencee. Also find out if you are contracted to any beer or liquor company eg you can…[Read more]

]]> d55b304f2c0a4f535a97ac336749ad56 john howard replied to the topic What would you do with $4000? in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375026-what-would-you-do-with-4000/#post-4483047 Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:37:55 +0000 turning 4 k into 12 k

I have a price target of 26$ b4 i get on NAB. Take a good look at a small cap share that is on the rise. I have just bought into a little BIO share with a heap of upside in the next 6 months, its called Eastland Medical Systems EMS, they are doing all the right things ATM and i beleive good news is just around the corner,…[Read more]

]]> 0271b4fa8fd7ff9f23b2002acbe35f6e john howard replied to the topic Owners from hell !!! in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4373264-owners-from-hell/page/2/#post-4470264 Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:47:39 +0000 Russh, where will it stop???? What happens to you when your doing your next deal and some one lays a sob story on you?? You need to treat all investing as business. Never get emotionally attached to anything or anyone while doing business (out side of business is a totally different thing). Offer her what you are prepared to pay taking into…[Read more]

]]> 6561fefbe57f5376611dd381542552ad john howard replied to the topic What would you do with $4000? in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375026-what-would-you-do-with-4000/#post-4483035 Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:17:48 +0000 I would used the 4 grand to educate myself, so that i could no longer be renting and in a low income job.

]]> 95edd06994a49ad007f532a22715f4fc john howard replied to the topic the good time are over!!!!!! in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375012-the-good-time-are-over/#post-4482932 Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:04:53 +0000 Nothing sophisticated.

Finance is easily available. If prices fall as ‘John Howard’ is saying (and mark you I don’t expect that type of across the board fall in prices) then that will encourage a great number of people to exit the market taking their profits of the last 3-4 years.

This is crazy talk acey!!!! You are talking about current…[Read more]

]]> 9d16d333bc6473438f21ae4824dd2301 john howard replied to the topic the good time are over!!!!!! in the forum No Subject https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375012-the-good-time-are-over/#post-4482926 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:00:42 +0000 Originally posted by Aceyducey:

Quote:
Originally posted by john howard:
Its in my opion that one interest rate rise will see the market go into melt down.

Ahhh – another Doom Sayer.

I love you guys – you make me so much money! [biggrin]

Cheers,

Aceyducey

wait for the 20% correction to happen, you wont be making to much money then

]]> b1b143561145031ddf8c07953a838b41 john howard replied to the topic the good time are over!!!!!! in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375012-the-good-time-are-over/#post-4482925 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 06:58:17 +0000 weston. As you said there might be a 10% drop in houses if the market does go bust, But as i work off a cycle of 7 years, your house in 5 years time in my opinon might only be worth the same as todays rates, no to take other thing into account for eg inflation and so forth you are stuck with a property that is worth 250k in 2009 which in real…[Read more]

]]> f7db014a51d79bce4410cdd11cf2e5c6 john howard replied to the topic the good time are over!!!!!! in the forum General Property https://www.propertyinvesting.com/topic/4375012-the-good-time-are-over/#post-4482922 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:37:28 +0000 I say that investing is at its worst point in 5 to 6 years because, as ppl have pointed out property has not retreated and is still very costly to accumalate. Key Henery said “Well, yes, if you are looking at it from an owner’s point of view. Prices have cooled somewheat from peak times, auctions are deader, it takes doubly as long to sell a…[Read more]

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