Ok.
Margin is possible on stocks allowed by the Margin lender (I use BT–Bankers Trust)Oh by the way forward paid interest is as low as 6.5%and defered is 7.45%.

Now as part of the allowable stocks to trade there are a number of Property trusts–some out performing others.
I think Property…[Read more]

You get better return and cash flow.
Increased equity and proof of cashflow = more properties.

Just a thought.

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Sickening!

Those serious about charity NEVER talk about it.

Those who do(Talk about it) tend to need their ego’s massaged.

The worlds full of ‘would be’s’

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

But there are a couple of issues that I feel people over look.

Lets face it we make good money in Property because we use other peoples money for leverage.

We may put 50K down as deposit lending insto gives us a further 200K and we are in.

Prices boom and we make 30% in a couple of years…[Read more]

The buyer paid for Richards iption to be able to buy the land after Richard gained approval for 55 Units.

So Richard you on sold the option (approved).

Have I got it now?

As I said Ive done this with land and off plan apartments but…[Read more]

Would be happy to help.

Our site deployment maybe a little steep from Adelaide!!

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

yes I understand.

but back to the question.
Your original investment for the option was $1000.

You sold it then for $1.350 mill.
Making 1.349 mill from the original investment?

Can you just clarify the numbers.
What you got
What the Bowling clud got.

In the $1.35 mill option deal.

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do…[Read more]

My Company–Retaining Wall Industries(Civil)Pty Ltd—Constructs walls for both commercial and domestic developements.

Bugga the flat land you all go and buy sloping blocks

.Give us a call and we will ad $1000s of value.

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Just trying to get my head around this.

Option on Bowling club,$1000
You on sold it(the option)for $1.35 mill.
The owner of the option continued to on sell.
What did the bowling club end up with?

As it appears that the option to buy was sold not the underlying property.

(Ive done the same with fast moving land parcels.Downside is that…[Read more]

Domestics had its run.
Commercial has more upside IMHO

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

While also you may have just completed a profitable transaction or a wise investment move has payed off it appears unlikely.

Had your 16k been placed in a growth stock or part of a property deal it may well have been 32K in 12 mths.
300K in 5 yrs—-who…[Read more]

Once youve made your first Million there is no way youll have it sitting in a corner smiling back at you.

Youll have learnt how to put it to work.

I read here constantly of generating passive income and this IS how youll be able to survive and ENJOY life.

You can do/have BOTH you know.

There are 3 ways I know of for…[Read more]

CTX (Caltex) one in my portfolio up 200% in the time Ive had it.

Youd take that if it were property growth.

Pity I didnt have the value of a house on it!
There in lies a big difference!

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Interesting comment.

I maybe wrong but Ill bet chances are thay are (although by name,advisors) still the same “Salesmen”.

If however you old us that they are now owning X properies and they had “Followed the Money’
Id certaintly agree.

All I can see is an alteration in percieved posture within an industry!

Doing the same thing placing…[Read more]

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

I note your net negative.

Anyway a great effort to email me your statements.
Your enthusiasm deserves reward and Im sure youll be challenging Donald Trump b4…[Read more]

Could you be kind enough to send me a copy of that LLC contract with 13 plus contracts bought 13/10 and now up over 100% thats $50K in a few days.Also the NCP contracts which you still have I presume thats 60 of them They would be down around $30K at this time possibly more.

I just dont want to be hoodwinked by a braggard,Im sure you…[Read more]

Simply if your highly geared decrease your exposure while you can.

No need to then guess or postulate on what “COULD” occur,it wont matter!!

There will even be other opportunities for those who were astute enough to place themselves in a position to take advantage of them when they occur!

You…[Read more]

Stick this on your fridge!!

It would be wise to think about your current position and take action as needed to manage the risk while there is still time.

NOW DO SOMETHING.

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Thanks I’ll check it out (The illusion).

By the way Ive learnt more over the last 50 yrs from the UNQUALIFIED than I have from the QUALIFIED.

Its the pretentiousness of those who present themselves as something they arnet that gets up my nose.(Its a personal thing).
Anyway now thats cleared up I’ll continue reading your…[Read more]

Clever illusion.

Your not alone 90% of the Financial Planning fraternity are nothing more than glorified insurance salesmen restricted to the mother company and the products carried holding their authority.(Not a licience an authority,clever again).

You know and I know that this little illusion works well.

Hi Im Joe Bloggs and Im not a…[Read more]

You write calls on your stock if your long term bullish and short term bearish.

Its not a money making ploy its a hedging stratagy—-a risk minimisation tool.
a clearer understanding of option use and deployment maybe best.

Read David Caplan
“The New options advantage” if your keen.

Humans are the…[Read more]

If your confident of your report or a 3rd report varifies your initial report then I think youll know what to do!

The purchaser also knows what he is prepared to pay and he maybe a keen negotiator!

You could do a subject to a 3rd independant report by X period say 21 days.If X then this price if Y…[Read more]

After giving you a bit of a rap Im now a little confused.

On your site you state.

{{My name is Paul Crewther, I am a qualified Financial Advisor based in Brisbane.}}

And your Site Disclaimer states.

{{Disclaimer – This site contains educational information only. The author cannot guarantee that all information is complete or accurate.…[Read more]

You may know I have basically no time for Financial Planners,purely because 90% of them are attempting to be as wealthy as their clients.

You at least appear to be ‘Out of the Square’.Ill have a good read of your site when time allows.
(youd think at 3 in the morning Id have time!!)

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do…[Read more]

An example you will relate to.

Whats better a WRX or an S2000?

“Often the result you will recieve will be proportional to the effort you put in!”

tech

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Thanks for the generous offer.Im in Adelaide.

Just a couple of comments.
(1) BHP gapped down on Wednesday
(2) BHP gapped again today.

Your not seriously suggesting that due to a fibonacci (Note the spelling!)level falling at around $14 that THIS WAS the reason for the fall!!,and as such made the fall predictive!

SIS,I and every fund…[Read more]

I used to be early 20s once and remember wanting the world to be impressed with my endeavors.
SIS doesnt yet realise that the best accolades are those that arnet solicited.

Just a quick tally of SIS’s value of positions puts his current holdings at around $300/350,000 from what Ive seen thats well above his net worth!

While I have no…[Read more]

By all means post the results.
I can keep an eye on them at the office.

Just a one thing.

Could you post your total contract holdings on each option, so I can just do a little spread sheet to watch.

Thanks
Muchly make it easier.

Humans are the DUMBEST of creatures.
They do the same thing day in day out and expect a DIFFERENT result.

Im not questioning SIS motivation(Over 2700 Posts) or desire just his current claims.
Particularly when I see claims of Near enough to nought to $250K+ in a matter of months from trading.

Substantiated Trading accounts would see me posting a full public apology,but somehow I think I wont be doing this.

(He with biggest mouth usually has…[Read more]

Sis.
I often find that claims like that made above are generally fanciful.Probably 1 in 1…[Read more]

Some touched on what I believe to be the only way to achieve whatever financial goals you have.

In summary.
(1)You need to be in the position to secure and use other peoples money.

(2)This will give you the LEVERAGE you need.

(3)You need to COMPOUND profits this…[Read more]

Youve,basically picked 2.
The second being liquidate some of your IPs and freehold as many as you can.Having 2 freehold now Im selling 2 more and freeholding one other.leaving then 6 of which 3 will be F/H.
This frees up capital if required for some bargains/alternate investments and limits exposure.

The 3rd is allocating some funds to…[Read more]

You can borrow off shore $$s.
Exchange rates can be the killer.
If the USD tanks then you win.
If the A$ tanks you lose.
As did 1000s of Australians who took up the Westpac offer years ago.

Westpac still arrange off shore loans Im told.

Question.
Why wouldnt you lock down a 5 yrs loan when…[Read more]

Lets take a 2mill portfolio of which one owes 900K.A 1 % rise = approx $9k a year.
3% = $27K and heaven forbid 5% = $45K or $850/week.
Now even $525/week for Mr and or Mrs above average would be difficult.

I was interested to hear from the Market Sauvve like yourself Jo.Often…[Read more]

Yes I do agree that 10% is unlikely in the forseeable future.

Rates are used to slow down spending and that seems in the short term to be under control.

While I do expect some increase I think it will be gradual rather than a spike.

But from the replies here there seems to be very few with any number of IPs OR…[Read more]

All is explained upon…[Read more]

1900 number/s If you own a good one $$$$

Great position, high demand,LOW MAINTENANCE and we take advantage of the POSITION.

But on the other side of the coin there is a lot of “Dogs” out there.

Get one and it will cost you.

PS happily married and princess looks after the IP’s tennents and Short termers in our apartments.
So Im not a…[Read more]

It is??

Please educate me,Ive been trading for many years and have never been introduced to trading using hedging to increase my capital.

Please explain your method of hedging.

tech

There in lies the secret of success

whatever the method/s you employ.

To the Math
Line of credit on your equity–say 7%
Interest on Margin say 7.6%
Costs of buying and selling portfolio etc 1.5%
So you need to make say 10% P/A to be viable.

Remember a 10% return on your Margin account.
is approx $35000 on our case above.

This is 35% on our initial investment…[Read more]

Firstly we are all happy to run off to a financial institution for a few $100K for our own home or the next IP.Armed with our deposit of cash or equity from…[Read more]

Ive never asked that question of my lender but would say that as your security to the lender is either cash of stock and provided you are within their margin parameters I cant see why not its your stock.
That also raises a question re stock held by a self contributing super fund (Your own) wether you could write covered calls on that as…[Read more]

Writing puts are fine in a bull market,are you writing index options?There are some interesting stratagies writing puts or calls 3 weeks out 3 standard deviations from the mean.Your in the minority.

Im sure you are aware that your writing of call options while holding the underlying is a stratagy for flat or falling markets as a…[Read more]

The question originally broadly asked about alternate methods of investment of equity in housing now that the market is somewhat flat.
Having equity that isnt working for you is really dead money and can be chewed up if interest rates turn you from a positive geared property…[Read more]

http://www.reefcap.com/ubb/Forum23/HTML/000427.html

Ok.
Margin is possible on stocks allowed by the Margin lender (I use BT–Bankers Trust)Oh by the way forward paid interest is as low as 6.5%and defered is 7.45%.

Now as part of the allowable stocks to trade there are a number of Property trusts–some out performing others.
I think Property trusts have been chosen…[Read more]