First things first Darren – are you going to be providing advice and are you licenced too?

The biggest hurdle you will face would be credibility. As you probably know, as a group, RE agents aren’t held in the highest esteem, and most people would run a mile before looking for investment advice from one.

Are you a successful investor or is it theory? Anyone can learn theory but few actually put it into practice. If you are not an independently successful investor with a high net worth it makes it a hard sell to convince people to take your advice when you haven’t done it yourself.

Have just been to Borders in Sydney’s Pitt St mall to re-check the price and it is without a doubt $21.95

Sorry – meant to say $21.95 at Borders

*****From Admin on 5/10/04…

We edited your original post thinking it was an error as we rang Broders to check your stated low price as it sounded unusual. They confirmed that the price they are selling it for is $29.95.

Broders are selling the new book for 29.95 in Pitt St mall from memory.

It can put you in trouble when there are lurking Taswegians like me around

Could be worse I suppose – I could be a Kiwi ))

No crossed wires, I just thought Kay’s quotes were hardly a fair comparison.

Quote “Did you know that 100% of state government funding for primary and secondary schools goes to the two thirds of government school students and 0% to the one third of non-government school students” – Anubis Sept 9, 2004

Forgot to add that private school funding from the Fed Govt is based on Socio Economic Status.

Quote “Schools which draw students from areas of predominantly low SES receive Australian Government funding of up to 70% of total public expenditure provided to a student in a State government school. Schools drawing students from the wealthiest areas receive just 13.7% of total public expenditure provided to a student in a State government school.”

So a non-government school can never get more funding than a government school.

Not quite – most schools are based upon catchment areas so you could theoretically choose based on what school(s) areas you live in.

The simplistic choice of attending wherever you wanted would soon be taken away from you if everyone could choose what school they attended. You may have one school with 25,000 children wishing to attend and another with 5.

Any system has to have checks and balances and it isn’t feasible to have 20 different types of schools in each suburb.

Luckyone – why is that so? Parents of private school kids pay taxes too – does not some of that tax money deserve to go to their school, private or not?

BTW many catholic schools are private in name only – they charge nominal school fees, and if parents cannot afford the fees ut still want their kids to have a catholic education other agreements are reached. I’d say many of these schools would go bankrupt without government funding.

I know the catholic church is a wealthy organisation but don’t confuse that with the low level parish or school.

Allan,

Think you may be confusing things a bit. It’s a long bow to suggest the FHOG caused the property boom – more like speculative investors and the FHOG was introduced as compensation for GST increasing housing prices.

It was the NSW govt who introduced the investors tax no the federal govt.

I think the rules were tightened rather than re-written to stop investors taking advantage of the FHOG. You know have to live in it for a period of time, where the previous wording left living there open to interpretation.

Subsidised rent at 25% isn’t something I know about but it sounds pretty decent to me. If your subsidised rent is the same as private rent maybe you earn too much to qualify for govt housing and it should go to someone who really does.