Approval from the council must come before building, they approve the plans, that is what the bank wants, not the approval of the final stage of the building.

Do you have development approval? You cannot build two townhouses and then subdivide. You may never get it. If the council approved dual occupancy without subdivision, there is no guarantee…[Read more]

Not far from where I live an old servo was sold for development into a very small shopping centre. The owner simply dug up the entire place, built an underground car park and refilled with imported soil the front for the level car park area and built two stories over the rest.Bingo.

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What about “The Hermit’s Den”[biggrin]

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“What you want in your life occasionally shows up…
what you must have… always does.”
……….– Doug Firebaugh

May God Prosper you.[biggrin]
Marc…http://www.chosen4u.com/?ace

The debt recovery option may be a good complement of self insuring, but I wouldn’t advice anyone to self insure.
In my opinion CGU is good, providing you have a small excess. They do pay.

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what you must have… always does.”
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Originally posted by mkc:
How are you guys.
This may seem like a rediculous question but l actually bought another property like this once posting it on a board like this.
We have found a house on 75 ac at Deans Marsh Vic, in The Great Ocean road hinterland 15 min’s in from Fairhaven and Anglesea . Problem . lt’s 570 grand,around 370 out of my…[Read more]

How do you make an offer to a motivated seller?

Hum…I’m not a smart guy because I don’t understand the question.[blink]
How to….hum…Say Mr Smith is selling and asking $300,000 for his property. Do you need to know how to offer $300k to Mr Smith?
Hum [cigar]

OK this is my 2 cents advice…. You say…Dear Mr Smith, I would be delighted to…[Read more]

isn’t it much easier to take you name off the phone directory?
I have yet to recieve one single marketing phone call.

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“What you want in your life occasionally shows up…
what you must have… always does.”
……….– Doug Firebaugh

May God Prosper you.[biggrin]
Marc…http://www.chosen4u.com/?ace

Foundation, not defending resiwealth, he does not need me, but I must say your post of late do hurt to read. You have some unresolved issues there.

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“What you want in your life occasionally shows up…
what you must have… always does.”
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Mobile home…don’t know.

Coober Pedy…love to own an underground home and go night golfing…. as far as investment…don’t know.

Mt Isa, I have two block of flats there and they are a cash cow for me. Capital gain 40% in one year, put the rent up from 120 to 155 with no problems on all flats and there is hardly anything left to rent…[Read more]

Originally posted by enduser:
I have a letter from Centrelink which states that Council Rates Notices are the documents of proof of ownership and value of a property. They will step out of that method only if they suspect dodgy goings-on.

Centrelink decisions are subject to appeal.
The only means Centrelink uses to value a property is the…[Read more]

Originally posted by oshen:
Hi Marc
If the property is considered to be hers, wouldn’t it be her own home and therefore exempt from the assets test? Or doesn’t it work like that.

Only in a few cases is an asset exempt from the asset test, one of this cases is, if the person lives in the property. However according to the original post this is…[Read more]

Originally posted by skippygirl:
Hello,

This might be a little off-topic, but have been reading thru the Centrelink website to check the definition of an assessable asset for age pensions, it says “real estate that you own”.
One of my relations has had Centrelink almost wipe out her age pension because they believe she has an RE asset and they…[Read more]

Terry is right, unless…it is normal in your area to have furnished properties.

I am not sure how much more you could ask for rent if furnished as opposed to not. I have a few furnished properties but they are all furnished over there, so it is expected.
Also, some of the best and most expensive real estate are rented furnished, to corporate…[Read more]

It’s interesting how when we talk about rental issues, the discussion becomes emotional.
I remember one comment by Dazzling saying: “That is why we got out of the residential rental market”. Smart move.

Back to your question, how to terminate the contract, this is a question for your PM and for the magistrate in your local Residential Tenancy…[Read more]

Originally posted by Dazzling:
Bonnie,

Excellent – thanks for clearing that up.

Given that set of circumstances that you describe, my suggestion is that you have to accept the conditions imposed upon the lease. The horse has bolted, so to speak.

The prudent thing would have been to step back in time and have dictated to the prospective…[Read more]

Originally posted by Maria0911:
Hi

This is my first time on the forum. I’m interested to know if anyone has every purchased a property without physically seeing it. I’m interested in investing in Brisbane and have seen the property online. The agent has been very helpful with providing room measurements, possible rental return and specifics about…[Read more]

Bonnie, this is not a landlord versus tenant issue at all.

A landlord would not in normal circumstances have a clause that the tenant must take care of the aircon, that is obvious and does not merit discussion.

The issue is between a seller, you, and a buyer that happens to be now temporarily your landlord.

The buyer thinks that you sold him a…[Read more]

Originally posted by cathnniv:
I thought there was a register kept with the local chamber magistrate or sheriffs office.
Sheriff would be private i imagine but i thought the chamber magistrate held a list which was public knowledge???
Not sure but that’s what i’d heard

Something like that… but it applies to the…[Read more]

Mini, you have what it takes, may I suggest to change you name to Maxi ? [biggrin]

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“What you want in your life occasionally shows up…
what you must have… always does.”
– Doug Firebaugh

May God Prosper you.[biggrin]
Marc
http://www.chosen4u.com/?ace

…..house prices have a tendency to revert to historic means* (or below!) after boom periods, and there is no fundamental reason for this to now change. While waiting may be painful, you will be in a far better financial situation than those in your (our?) generation who have stretched their finances to buy overpriced houses once this correction…[Read more]