This is another test…

The real question is whether the economist is right in his outlook.

That certainly isn’t necessarily so as ‘they’ have been known to get things wrong before.

Of course, we all h-o-p-e that the opinion is correct so we can continue what we are doing and sleep well at the same time.

In the meantime, trying to look at the picture from a bit longer…[Read more]

HoldenCommodore, have a look again at your post.

It is one big blob of words. I haven’t, just couldn’t finish it.

Pleeze, next time, break it up into several paragraphs. It makes it so much easier for others to understand. [wink2]

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>>bloody media, ay pisces? <<

Well I haven’t seen the program but, yes, sure looks like it. Looking at things from one perspective only.

Don’t tell me that there aren’t any good points in the scheme so where is the balanced view ?

What channel did you say the story was on, Richmond ? [wink]

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Yeh, good idea to spruce up the front yard with some palm trees.

Thanks for the idea.

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Well, I am thoroughly ashamed to say that I learned (i.e. followed others like a sheep) to abuse one particular boy because he happened to have a brown skin colour.

I can remember that a bunch of us were following him and yelling out ‘shitty, shitty’ merely because of his colour.

I certainly wasn’t brought up that way at home.

And that was in a…[Read more]

As noted by other replies, offering multiple properties as security for an overall loan limit, locks borrower into one lender.

Selling properties under such a arrangement would entail the lender revaluing all proposed remaining securities (unless valuations had been done recently), to acertain the residual total value, and the total loan limit…[Read more]

>>If it was some Joe Blow who usually finishes 5 minutes after Thorpe and had no chance of qualifying would there be such a fuss? I doubt it.
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Exactly, that is right.

However ………….., the difference between Thorpe and an also run comepetitor is the very reason why the rule should have been overridden in this case.

Unless of course if…[Read more]

Yes, this is my final say too on the topic (for the moment at least).

Richmond, as far as I know I haven’t had any real dialog with any of the moderators other than Bear (in a private email some time ago).

On the other hand, I have participated in several threads where you posted too.

So my remark that you are my favourite moderator isn’t…[Read more]

>>As for your case in terms of the defamed eye clinic… if the journo stuffed up, then they should get in trouble, I can’t be any clearer than that. Humans make mistakes, I just don’t agree with your view that “THE MEDIA” are all out to cover stories and take angles for the wrong reasons.<<

Well I have had a few days to think about whether to…[Read more]

>>Is that polite? You’ve made all of 15 posts on the PI.com forum, Acey.<<

Kay, for heavens sake, what does the number of posts one has made got to do with the value (or otherwise) of a particular statement ???

>>I’m not out for your seal of approval. And please don’t think me “defensive”. I think your comments are a generalised putdown<<

The…[Read more]

Wayne, I enjoy your writings but I have my doubts about your grasp of geography.

I note that in your personal details it shows as :

User Name: wayneL
Location: perth, VIC
Australia
Total Posts: 359

Perth ? Victoria ?

I understand that there is a Perth in Tasmania as well but in Victoria ?? [rolleyesanim] [wink]

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Well Shushar, you have just given us the solution in your postscript : ‘All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ‘ [king]

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Cycles. That raises the question how to recognise approaching tops and bottoms sooner than most people.

In sharetrading I’ve got no problem doing so but when it comes to real estate, well that is something else again.

Yes, we can (and should), broadly speaking, take notice of trends in interest rate, employment figures, manufacturing production…[Read more]

>>However I am approaching this from a different angle than you might imagine. The economic cycle is really a manifestation of social mood. We point to the stock market, mainly because it is so easily and accurately quantifyable. But we also track other things that are less easily quantifyable, including such things as Real estate, art,…[Read more]

Ist ip 2002 lge regional centre 2 br brick house built circa ’90 $68k now worth 110k rent $135pw (increase to $145 pw in may)

2nd ip oct 2003 2br unit nr beach nice complex nth qld $142k rents @ 200pw

3rd ip Dec 2003 2 br brick villa nice complex – same regional centre as 1st ip 113,000 rents @ $145 pw- to $160 soon
We have a buy & hold…[Read more]

Reading Redwing’s post it appears as if the answer is to use any sizeable increase in the value of one’s properties to buy another one and so on.

The danger is that if something goes wrong the whole pack of cards may come tumbling down.

The obvious thing to do, once one has obtained a sizeable asset worth, is to start looking how one can still…[Read more]

Whilst that would be a nice gesture by Musharraf
it sounds too much like a plot exposed by the conspiracy theory people.

Then again, perhaps you should suggest to your boss to have a camera team handy, just in case.

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I am not implying anything Yack.

I am merely having a guess as to what S.I.S. means by that term.

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Next thing you will want to sell us a CD to keep us from getting upset,Sunshine. [biggrin]

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