wayne from a fellow antisnob – yep its a good book. he was on the sunday programme 2 weeks ago with jana wendt. great stuff..

marc 1 – maybe in this minature little town you could have miniature little dinner parties, on miniature little dinner plates….y’re kidding!

learay – yr spot on – not many opportunities for traditional positive cashflow type deals in victoria – i reckon best to hang on for while. one of 2 things should happen – prices should drop or rents should rise. yields are historically very low so dont be in too much of a hurry

good luck

misty – cgt applies on 50 pct upto 12 mos after date of purchase of the block, not the building of the house.

the key to effective study is to enjoy it!! – then you wont want any distractions anyway!!

marc 1

yes you are right – im riddled with insecurities and anxieties. but to me thats part of being human – i havent met anyone who isnt. as one of my fabourite authors kurt vonnegut once said ‘if you dont suffer from anxiety, you either have your head in the sand or you are a master of self deception.

im gonna take a chance here and tell you…[Read more]

marc – what interests me about your posts is the tone wch says ‘listen to me i am right – i couldnt possibly be wrong’.

rarely is life so cut and dry. all the wise people i know admit they are fallible and admit that they could be wrong about there attitudes – but i dont get this impression from you.

dogmatic is the word.

what are your…[Read more]

this has become a debate abt social systems. i dont remember saying anything abt the usa. western culture allows us great freedoms etc etc no doubting that.

by the way if your happy being mainstream all the power to ya. you probably think matchbox 20 are a good rock band.

but you gotta be blind not to think that rampant consumerism is not a huge…[Read more]

salubrious – re changing yr undies. that usually happens becuase i give people the shiits – so happy its happened for another. better reason! keep rockin’

salubrious – re commercial advertising – you cant ignore but dont be blind to it!!!

when i was living in asia about 3 years ago there was a phenominon going around asia where mc donalds were selling these little toy figures (i forget the name). now hk, japan and singapore are hotbeds of consumerism. fathers and mothers were queing overnight…[Read more]

heres the thing – i reckon we look at things from the wrong angle…

we sit back and say that ‘we are greedy’, that ‘we want things too quickly’, that somehow the other person ‘doesnt have perspective about money’.

the question is why do people behave that way???

and the truth is that everyday each of us is guilty of treating people…[Read more]

im confused – i think ill go buy something.

scremin – its patently obvious you are a success! the fact that you have reached a point where your definition of success is not linear and involves ‘making a difference in peoples lives’ is for me about as good as it gets!

and i know what you mean about having a nice car!!

one day!!!

housesonly – how you can relate giving a kid a hiding to our consumer society is baffling. the left wingers as you put it are the ones who out of anyone are anti consumerism.

lefty rogue (now theres a contradiction)

10 pct in the next 6 months. 30 pct in the next 4 years!!

there you go!

i think redwing was thinking of esperence which is a great place in itself. exmouth is one of the world great undiscovered (relatively) areas. ningaloo reef, national parks etc etc. its a wilderness paradise and therefore i reckon value for money as a buy and hold.

ref cyclones – yep they are a problem but they have very strcit laws on they type…[Read more]

very interesting.

sounds like a good meeting – so how many turned up then???

not a bad idea pisces – ill think about it!!

a friends property in blackburn (melbourne) was listed 3 months ago at 470k. its now on the market at 425. they have had one offer in 3 months at that was at 415k….