oh ship. Yeah so human nature, laws of comparison in effect, supply and demand. Perhaps dubious Influence techniques, pre-framing, embedded commands, social proof from other people that paid way too much and the like. It happens. Often..

I found it strange years ago when I heard the story of a friend doubling his rates for fixing computers. He…[Read more]

Deep breath in…..Deep breath out.
You know the thing that kept me here and what I love most about this forum, is how we can be upfront, honest, we can be with our wins, losses, thoughts, stresses and all that.
I kinda semi or fully retired in 2009, 28yrs old. After a few years backpacking I wondered what I would do next. I started this NLP…[Read more]

Ivan, I just visit Cebu & Bohol occasionally. In Townsville now, renovating, then back to Shanghai.

Zyrine69, Love to see an update on your hunt. an Dimple, could you share your numbers.

Personally, I would love to buy house and land on Palawan. Or if I was a young tech savy eager Entrepreneur, I would be tempted to run an Outsource center in…[Read more]

Love reading all the comments. Thanks for sharing. Something a lot of us can learn from.

Great post. Thanks for sharing this. this,something a lot of us can learn from.

Riky, I would love to see a post on your thoughts about HK/Indo/CN. I live in Shanghai half the year, Australia the rest. Watching HK on the news a lot. I actually really like the Chinese Government. Not necessarily everything they do however they do a lot of things with more regard to long term, and greater population, then the Australian…[Read more]

Depends on your situation. Mainly with Tax and your vision/road map. Really can’t say cause it’s so dependent on all the untold factors.
Welcome to the Forum Sam,

A bit late,
A Collaboration from my work and a story from Dr John Gray (Men are from Mars).
He has a great talk where he says were taught to be nice guys, and nice happy guys open doors first. Be good and open the door and let people in first, don’t rush. Let them go in first and let them take what you want. Then thank them for it. Turn the other…[Read more]

I have a place in NQ as well, so do some friends. Our costs are rising but far less than the ‘resort’ style complex’s. While I can’t compare NQ to Sydney, as Richard or Corey said, your paying so much for the Gym, Spa, Sauna…….

We did reduce ours recently though. A owner is now doing most of the maintenance and doing a far better job which…[Read more]

I had to change Agents a few times due to neglected properties. It was always a simple process though Ryan.
Collecting the rent himself before their contract is up could lead to more complications then required.

PS. I signed up to one of your newsletters/mail campaigns a year or so ago. Nice work.

Fantastic stuff!! Love your work.

I have a good Solicitor available in Cebu if you like to contact him let me know.
Ayala Land has a fantastic new development going on their as well.

Good stuff! Love reading all the comments, thanks for sharing. This is something a lot of us can learn from.

Good stuff! It’s really motivating to hear this. Love reading all the comments,thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this great inspiring post!