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  • Profile photo of Henry AdamsHenry Adams
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    Hi All,

    I’m wondering if I shall exclude this agency fee out from my Interest Only account or pay cash straight away ?

    Because when I sign up with one of the wealth building agency (JDL Strategies) in getting the Interest Only 95% loan with Bankwest, they put the $8500 fee into the loan so in total I can get $608.500 in total estimate.

    This IO account has the offset facility to let me re-draw and repaid as often as possible.

    Profile photo of Jamie MooreJamie Moore
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    Hi Henry

    I'm not quite following the question.

    Are you using these JDL guys to help you find property and also to organise finance and they're capitalising their fee onto your loan?

    Cheers

    Jamie

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    Profile photo of Henry AdamsHenry Adams
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    Jamie M wrote:
    Hi Henry

    I'm not quite following the question.

    Are you using these JDL guys to help you find property and also to organise finance and they're capitalising their fee onto your loan?

    Cheers

    Jamie

    Yes, they put the $8500 into the loan account.

    Profile photo of TerrywTerryw
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    $8,500 is a very large fee! ( i will do it for $8,000 whatever it is).

    However, if you are happy to pay this, and it does relate to an investment property then it would be far better to borrow it (in terms of tax) then using cash as the cash can come off non deductible debt first.

    However, by borrowing it how much extra is the LMI going to cost?

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    Profile photo of Jamie MooreJamie Moore
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    Henry Adams wrote:
    Yes, they put the $8500 into the loan account.

    Really? I don't know how they could add this to a 95% lend……

    Cheers

    Jamie

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    Profile photo of TerrywTerryw
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    Jamie M wrote:
    Henry Adams wrote:
    Yes, they put the $8500 into the loan account.

    Really? I don't know how they could add this to a 95% lend……

    Cheers

    Jamie

    Hope he hasn't used other security.

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    Profile photo of Henry AdamsHenry Adams
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    Terryw wrote:
    $8,500 is a very large fee! ( i will do it for $8,000 whatever it is).

    However, if you are happy to pay this, and it does relate to an investment property then it would be far better to borrow it (in terms of tax) then using cash as the cash can come off non deductible debt first.

    However, by borrowing it how much extra is the LMI going to cost?

    Actually to be precise it is $ 8700 once off and JDL Strategies mention that this fee will be covered once we get Tax Depreciation for the house which will be $10k+ in the first year.

    Profile photo of TerrywTerryw
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    Without the fee the depreciation schedule would be the same too.

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    Profile photo of Gordie1080Gordie1080
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    Agree Terry and Jamie, What a read….I would run and run and run from JDL. They seem to get a lot of bad press. Has anyone had sucess with them at all? Just read that they also over value property, overvalue expected rental on property etc Bet they on the radar now.

    Profile photo of Gordie1080Gordie1080
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    Had to write this as I am a regular visitor to this blog. What a disaster jdl strategies are. If you want to snap up a cheap (bargain) investment property you can buy one from a disgruntled client of the company (client who has brought an investment from jdl).  I am told that many properties are now on the market cause the poor investors are freaking out and getting out. Doesn’t that tell you something about this company?  Get a good broker/advisor and do it yourself.

    Profile photo of Henry AdamsHenry Adams
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    Gordie,

    Yes you are right mate, somehow the $880 is the only price that i lost so far for the lifetime registration fee.
    They are only specializing in building new house in QLD area especially COOMERA. They didn’t tell me about this before until I realized that it was too late.

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