Thanks for answering your own question. In doing that you may have helped me out aswell. I currently have a line of credit against my own property, but mostley used for personal use. Until recently when I used it to place a 10% deposit on a $75,000.00 property I am buying.
I would need to claim the interest on that 10% that I used but not the rest that was for personal use. Is this correct?
Bedsitters. I think you need to be comfortable with what you invest in. It depends on if you can sleep at night or are you going to always sit up and worry about the future of your Bedsitter.
You will need to do your research, on the area and recent sales to see if you being over charged.
Im not too keen on bedsitters myself, but I would probably still look into it if the numbers were right.
My view is to do a bit of both + & -. Sally and I have been thinking about selling our house in Sydney and buy negative cash plow prop off the plan in Sydney, at the same time, we would also buy +ve out in the country, just to balance it out.
In Sydney we intend to hold property for atleast 10 to 15 years. Out in the country keep all +ve props for much longer.
We expect that the Sydney properties will have a better capital groth rate than the country props, so thats the reason for -ve cash flows in Sydney.
If there were +ve cash flows in Sydney I would be the first to jump at it.
Im back. Well I am the one who started all this and wow, I didn’t think it would have got such a great response.
Our plan was to sell our house for about $950,000.00 wich would leave us with about $900,000.00 cash to play with. We already have three IP’s 1 -cshflow & 2 +cshflow. We were thinking of buying off the plan units at Breakfast point. But I think we may need to rethink and go possitive cash in large country towns.
The main thing is that we don’t realy want to stay in our house anymore as we have been overshadowed by the property development next door.
We would much rather rent in a luxury appartment and invest with the $900,000.00 cash from home sale.
Yes, thanks for that Will. I have been thinking of this for some time now. Sally and I have bought 3 properties in the last 10 mounths, but we feel the need to get more so as to set ouselves up for life. I feel that selling up our home and renting a nice place would give us a lifestyle plus enable us to invest in lots more +ve cash ppty. We just have to find them now.