So, you are comparing a full-scale coal generation plant or why not a nuclear one, with a midget hobby solar panel on the top of some greenie’s roof are you?
That is a serious comparison is it?

You must tell all the businessman who are investing hundreds of millions in wind farming, in convection towers, solar equipment and wave machines to drop…[Read more]

Yes, you will always find someone who tells you it won’t work. When they erected the first wind farms, the friends of the birds gathered horrified, stating as matter of fact how the windmills would produce carnage beyond anything imaginable. The bird apocalypses had arrived.[blink]
Yea right.

So now, we shouldn’t build any alternative source of e…[Read more]

Yes you can eliminate your power bill and even get paid … if you are one of a hand full of rich excentrics that do it for fun. Start proposing this in any serious numbers and see the activity taxed out of existence, unless… it is part of a re election campaing.

The above is a feasible energy solution and it would be easy to legislate that…[Read more]

I would put it all on red…[biggrin]

Seriously now, investment is for the bold, the brave, the astute, the lateral thinker.
Returns like those can only come with a higher than average risk. Of course you can put it all in ING over the phone for a healthy 5.25% per year or $525 per year minus tax about $300… or use for deposit for an IP worth…[Read more]

As for the “all is lost cruel world, pass me the poison chalice” type of people, hold your horses.

There are two factors to keep in mind.
If the world bosses, (the one that pull the strings and make the Bushes and Blairs wave and blare) want an environmental crisis for their own obscure purposes, no amount of reasoning or voting will change that.…[Read more]

The oil price boom produces a crisis in the food industry because we use some oil as anti-caking agent for NPK fertilizers??????
Would be like saying that it will produce a crisis in the hotel industry because the complimentary shampoo sachets the Hotels put in the toilets are made from plastic that needs oil for its production [blink]

Higher oil…[Read more]

http://thewest.com.au/20040529/news/general/tw-news-general-home-sto125751.html

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc

Agree with the above comments.
You can buy a sealant for grout that is supposed to make it water tight, (yea right), you can change the grout, or you can strip the shower recess, strip the water membrane down to the compressed fibrocement and start again.(Tank? Green plaster? I suppose are the name given in Queensland to the…[Read more]

Well, lawyers usually know jack about Centrelink’s rules or worst, are convinced that they do. I would ask a FISO in Centrelink first.

This person inherited a property but has not moved into it, so it is not an exempted asset and should have reduced his pension already providing he declared it.

He can move in it, he can rent it, he can sell it…[Read more]

I must agree.
A friends wife called me for advise because hubby had stopped making repayments.

When approached by the bank, he requested an additional advance equivalent to the interest to be paid for one year, and convert the loan to interst only, this after several months of zero payments….in order to have another year free of repayments….…[Read more]

You must love Richard, no two ways around it.
He has always a solution to offer.
Good on you Richard, certainly a quick renovation is worth a couple of hundreds in airfair and some money spent in renting some of the tools.

I will have to fly 1000k to a block of flats that needs one of thouse Mite 10 kit double carport. My RE agent cannot find one…[Read more]

Melbar, I think it is rude to assume the world is against you and react with aggression… and once your obvious mistake is explained to lack the courage to apologise.

As for not reading, the only way one can assume I am talking about Mrs Scremin rather then the author of the book who featured in the show in question … is by not reading my post…[Read more]

NRG, you are making a few mistaken assumptions.

When one sells with vendor finance, the vendor who remains the owner until he receives the total amount agreed upon does the financing.
He is selling you a house in instalments in stead as in one lump sum as it is usually done.

If the owner has a mortgage, the bank may be informed but does not…[Read more]

I have an IP in Sydney that is brick veneer, no asbestos, but has a detached brick garage that has an asbestos roof.
The tenants have been living in that property from before I bought it some 10 years now, always been good tenants.
The RE agent went for a recent inspection and sent a (once again) new PM. This chick noted on the checklist “Asbestos…[Read more]

I am with Terry on this one.
Demolition costs can vary greately depending on material, location, council regulations etc

I spoke to an old timer not long ago who has an IP built in concrete and that has plenty of Asbestos lining and asbestos roofing. The cost of demolition is close to 50,000 for the cost of disposal of asbestos and the fact that…[Read more]

The answer is in your question
“…. They gave you strategies you applied… ”

The most effective Guru is the one that finds the way into you head and makes you apply a properly thought strategy.

The best strategy in the world is worthless if you do not put it in practice. Even a half-cooked one applied from the heart will have great effect.

To…[Read more]

Kay, I doubt that RK or anyone else, intend telling you work is bad.

What they are all telling you is that lineal income is changing hours for dollars, and such will not keep you out of trouble when no one wants to pay you for your time.

What all the speakers are telling us in chorus is, build residual income. Be it with RE, Shares, Networking,…[Read more]

Originally posted by AusProp:

this bashing of consumerism is all a bit ho-hum. The worlds biggest consumer economy, the US, is always sledged as being some greedy giant, yet it is the standard to which all nations aspire. We all want designer labels, flash cars, nice houses. If you want to be a hippy and carve wood branches in the bush go for…[Read more]

Its alwasy good to read your valuable contributions rogue. Is this your normal state of mind?

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc

Oh come on Screming you made a mistake in thinking I refered to you and your post when I did not. You jumped the gun, admitt it and have a laugh at your own expense. It is very healty and helps with credibility.
Making comments on my signature is in poor taste, and I am sure you don’t even mean it.

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc