Who Are The Top 10 Investors Who Use A Positive Gearing Strategy?

Would the real top 10 investors want the publiciity?

You would never know who they really are.

Is this all they buy or do the buy both positive and negative with high growth?

I think you are assuming seminar promotors and book authors are the biggest investors. I don't beleive this to be the case. The big ones keep quiet. eg I have heard of one guy who owns more than 200 properties in the Milsons Point area of Sydney. There are many many more people like this who you will never hear of.

How so very true, indeed.

You wouldn't even be able to tell them by the way they dress or by the car they drive.  Some of the rich people I know are so simple. 

I used to work for AMEX's as a Platinum and Centurion Customer Service Rep.  They people who spend an average of $100K a MONTH (yes, 30 days) are very nice and polite.  But you come across the trying-hards and they're so mean, "Do you know how much i spend on my card?"  I was tempted, on more than one occasion, to say, "yes, you're at the bottom 2%."

I spoke to Mr Lindsey Fox, billionaire, and he goes, "hi mate, I just want to activate my card, mate." 

Another memorable one, though not rich per world standard, is Cathy Freeman, such a sweetheart.  Amazingly nice person,  even when I was pretending not to know who she is.  Since I still sound Asian she probably thought I was answering the call from Manila.  Amazing human being.

The true world's richest, or even Australia's richest, we will never know.  It would be between them and God and  hopefully the people they have helped along the way.

Guess what, even the tax office doesn't know….

Happy day,

Angel

Being an expert or accomplished at anything is not a requirement to become a published author.

Also being a published author in Australia is hardly going to make you wealthy, or even pay you a decent wage in most cases, rather it's a ticket to the much more lucrative seminar circuit and such ideas. If you take away the business income from being 'a success' then many published wealth authors wouldn't have much to write about

It's a circular argument in some cases, X is an investor who has accomplished nothing of note, fakes it till she makes it as 'an expert' and then has a substantial income and perhaps later an impressive portfolio of properties to showcase.

To answer the original question I was first thinking Harry Triguboff as mentioned previously, comes back to what you classify as business/property income/property investment. I know plenty of people in the 5-20M or so; range with holdings spinning off cash, probably a very small % of the total population but a large enough number in absolute terms, must be quite a few out there in the big whale category as well, the published rich lists only catch those who want to be caught or who can't hide well enough what they control for whatever reason.

Just read an interesting article in SMH
http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/come-in-and-feel-the-noise-landlords-to-pay-for-rowdy-tenants-20110506-1ec3g.html

The article is about tenant noise and some landlords allegedly renting out units to backpackers, but the article also mentions:
"Landlords John and Sarah Hanna, who own more than 100 properties in the eastern suburbs"