I run a very small business with 1 full time, 2 part time and 1 casual employees. If other employers decrease their employees pay, and in turn can offer discounts on prices (whether or not they increase profits is another thing), I would be unwilling to do so. This will hurt my…[Read more]

Great display though.

I don’t think art is a solid form of investing, despite the numbers put forth by some. It’s true that you can make money from art, but I feel that there is too much luck involved for it to be called investing. I heard on the radio the other day that Blue Lines by Picasso…[Read more]

In addition to Dazza’s voice of reason….

Make sure you know if council will allow for extra offices/showroom as this may incur the need for extra car parks, etc. Generally, the more people you can fit into a piece of turf, the better your yield will be.

Management fees, I know some like to manage themselves, but just ask around for…[Read more]

They have one inside the Forbidden city, in Beijing – the historic home of the emperor.

For the price of a souvenir cup and a hot drink of your choice, you could easily get a seafood buffet with live entertainment!!!

It can get confusing sometimes when people have the same character especially if they post one after another.

In addition to the Japanese property market discussion, I believe that they have a neg population growth rate, which makes some market analysts uneasy about their property market. However, their economic and property cycle do seem to have bottomed out. I think there is more confidence in their commercial property market, rather than their…[Read more]

They (the happy lawyers) then came back and said they wanted the right, and me to agree, as a consequence of not being able to slap a caveat on my title, to sue my company for unlimited and unspecified damages if I ever sell the property and the new owner doesn’t recognise the Lease.

Wouldn’t that be the case…[Read more]

Wish I had something to add! All I can say is the possibility never occurred to me.

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My 2 cents is this: everyone loves government tenants because they definitely can pay the rent, and they take up more floor space than they actually need. Good when they’re renting, bad when they leave.

I think my own reservation would lie in how hard it would be to obtain another tenant for this building.

Just like GR said,…[Read more]

Personally though, I have so much to learn and so little time – especially to waste on offensive/irrelevant posts. So I appreciate not having to read those kind of posts- thanks to all the mods.

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Will have to see how it is.

You haven’t got one for commercial property do you?

Also, I was interested by the point score increasing for the further the property is away from a city/water view, yet the points decrease for the further located the property is to from the actual city/water. Almost balanced out.

Munjy

So now all we need are the mentors right?

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Or are you saying I can learn from the mentor but not be involved with the syndicate if I don’t like it?
Sounds great if that’s the case.

Or its either mentoring PLUS investing or nothing? I think that’s what your getting at with the “half pregnant” comment.

Munjy

Not sure what you mean

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With the absence of better suggestions, I suppose your own suggestion of completing the development might be the way to go. However, it does involve significantly higher risk, considering the small amount of interest the property has shown to date.

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Are you suggesting that the group is going to buy a property together? If not, and it’s just straight mentoring, I’d be interested. My interest would be directly proportional to…[Read more]

How does CGT apply in this case?

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Wouldn’t it be mainly the vendor’s solicitor’s fees going up?

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Sorry. All out of rich bachelors.

DrX, the marrying into wealth is really only in jest.

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You’re absolutely right! Maybe my posts don’t count

I’m sure some of them really shouldn’t anyway

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I’m no computer expert but these are always the first port of call for me.

Sorry can’t help more

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I still need to pass the Valued member stage. So i’m really just a rookie

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They do a wierd musical routine. Kind of like a Bollywood movie, except… you’re in the middle of it. With as much info in it.

I do find the angle with which Robbins looks at things occasionally insightful, but don’t find him too motivational. However, I’m sure he’d be entertaining to some and possibly life-changing for a few…[Read more]

I would ask your asset protection specialist what tertiary qualifications they have in either law or accounting or business admin.

Even though it is clearly not a pre-requisite to become an asset protection specialist, what kind of benefits do you think they bring to the job? I only ask because a lot of people…[Read more]

Why can’t Steve be trying to make as much money as possible, yet at the same time, help others to make money? And at the same time get some more publicity? And at the same time be charitable? And… etc you get the idea… Maybe this is the kind of win/win deal he’s always looking for?

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Forgive me for thinking Stepford Wives.

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So all you can really do is get the best lawyer you can.

And the most expensive. What’s the difference if she/he is going to get half anyway?

hmmm… am I being too cynical? …nah

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PS I only really replied to this thread so that I’d get one more notch. One more closer to that coveted veteran ranking!

The main idea behind it is to highlight the inconsistencies in R.Kiyosaki’s stories and his supposed transformation from almost bankrupt to multi-millionaire. The “cult” is used to emphasise the way Kiyosaki gives his followers…[Read more]

How will they be matched up with the participants?

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Anyway, I have talked to a solicitor about this, but it was at a pub and I’m sure she’d had a few drinks so not sure if this is totally true.

Pre-nup (btw it’s called something else in Oz can’t remember -a financial agreement?) as others have suggested will protect what you bring to the marriage. After that it’s split according to the…[Read more]

I have only briefly glanced over those websides Studiotraffic and Paidresponse. Correct me if I’m wrong, but do you basically make $2000/mth for surfing the web?

How secure is this? Seems easy enough though! Just gotta leave my computer on before I head off to work What’s to lose?

Munjy

If he has made AND lost money, I’d be more interested in a mentor that has seen both sides of the coin. I’d be willing to learn off someone poorer than me, if they had…[Read more]

I hope others have better suggestions, as this is all I can think of.

Rent the property out for a little while before listing again. Sometimes, if a property has been on the market for a long time, people will stay away from it thinking that there must be something wrong with it. Esply if you’ve dropped the asking price from 310k to 240k…[Read more]

I’d like to echo everyone else’s congrats on your creativity, but also to say that it was also your perseverence and determination that allowed this to eventuate. Inspirational.

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Awesome stuff. These jokes were obviously invented way before Kindergarten Cop.

As the buyer I played it up for all it was worth a got a sizeable chunk off the agreed price.

As the seller, I told the buyer that we already knew about it and that is the reason we agreed on such a low price.

Hi Dazz,

When you were selling, did you actually know about the repairs required or were you bluffing?…[Read more]

Seems to me like general feeling about here is you owe it to yourself to ask him how he has the nerve to request such a thing.

Why you feel obligated in any way to a future in law, is beyond me.

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Shwing: Any lotto winnings would be invested. Only a proportion of those profits would be distributed to family and certain friends. That ensures I’ll never end up one of those sob stories who go broke.

DD: Not sure who thinks the market is moving…[Read more]

But I’m really referring to the original posts by NAT12.

1.It was her initial bid.
2.At 5k less than someone else’s it was not a low ball.
3.She was not given a 5 second phone call to give another offer. The vendor is NOT waiting for days for another buyer/offer.
4.There is no need for further house inspections – she is already…[Read more]

I don’t think that desire alone will get you there. Money talks.

Having a partner who spends money like water is also a motivational tool,…[Read more]

For the people who feel that NAT12 should have offered a higher price, or, that it’s understandable/forgivable that a REA shuns other buyers for a quick sale, how would they feel if they were the vendor who NAT12 approached with a higher…[Read more]