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good suggestion the crest – im in!! send me the business plan!
i reckon its a great idea. linking all the backpackers with a shuttle service. great way to keep the clients within yr system and you can get some money for the transport aswell. i reckon you would have to view the transport as an auxillary service to the accomodation. you cld buy 10 vans and have them running all the time. you cld even get one of the backpackers to drive it to the next location. insurance could be an issue but i reckon youve got a great idea.
you could start small by offering this in one state. ie 7 backpackers in victoria. all linked with shuttles. clients pay an upfront fee if they wish and legs are redeamable within a 3 month time frame (a bit like the old eurail).
worth thinking about – you cld also pitch the idea to a van company or even a backpackers network.good idea!
apparently the leases are great – long term, good return with first class clients. the problem is that once the lease runs out finding another tennant can be tough especially if the fuel climate has changed (rationalisation). make sure you buy one on a nice block near a good intercection. the land value alone maybe the fallback (ripe for development….)
jo – good point. the only latin i can quote are the words to the above song. we used to sing it every week at assembly, then at speech night and occassionaly when the lads get together for an ale or two.
if you think that sounds like one of those preppy movies where all the frat boys get together and sing silly songs, wearing turtle neck sweaters with girlfriends called Pippa and Feefee – well your right. so as a protrest i only sing it by myself in the shower.
must admit it sounded great when 1000 young men belt it out!! but dont tell anyone i told you that..
good one marc! i actually dont know what the words mean but i sang it many times at school!! and it sings well if you know what i mean.
its the other posts that scare me!
Marc – interesting post. Send me a list of IF and THEN people that we all know – and i will consider you postion.
I do think your hypothesis is a bit basic and would only be written by someone who considers themselves a THEN person.
Personally – i think one should be flexible. A THEN person sometimes and a IF person other times. Theres a time for everything under the sun.
gaudiamus igatur, juvunes dum sumus.
g’day – its all about being positive cashflow. ie if you have more money coming in from rent than you have going out in mortgage payments then the bank will have no problem giving you more money. so your rent needs to cover your payments. on a basic 10 pct deposit you will need approx 11 pct return to achieve this.
buy steves first book and that will explain it all in full..
cheers
g’day – you can buy as many as you want as quickly as you want as long as your lender will let you. first thing to do is seek advise from a finance broker and he/she can discuss your options. there a re a few excellent ones on this forum who can help you out.
as a general rule you can keep buying as long as you investment property is cashflow positrive and you have enough money for consecutive deposits…
good luck..
(i have a feeling you will be surfing threads on investing in New Zealand within a fairly short time)
marc 1 – i noticed you didnt sign off your last post with a LATIN quote as is your liking.
marc 1 – you make some very valid points.
and in the main i agree. my point about doctors and lawyers was that they are like everyone else – happy and unhappy. you are right that in general they are probably happier than plumbers but the reason for this is that they are afforded more status by others, than that which is afforded to plumbers. when you are ‘heard’ purely becuase of your vocation – life can be good!
think about this however. i believe you (marc 1) are trying to imagine a world/society where evryone has a higher level of consciencousness with regards to personal development/financial achievement etc. that being poor is a state of mind. this is your thing. valid arguement.
what if i were to say to you that we (australia) have already achived that!! that infact per person we are happier, healthier and wealthier than most of the worlds population.
then why do we feel so bad?? why is it that you think we can all have more?? why is it not good enough for what you consider poor here in australia to still be amongst the wordls 10 pct richest people.
happiness, status, wealth etc is all relative and is a state of mind. remind yourself constantly that you are infact already rich and you feel feel happier and less anxious.
with regards to private schools and giving one the tools to succeed. yes i think this would be a very healthy way to approach thinking about sending your child to a private school. and there is no doubt they give you better tools too reach your goals. although must admit that whilst at school my real goals had something more to do with eating jam donnuts and later on (high school) chasing girls. i did have some other more serious goals planted there by my parents and peer group some of which fortunaly i never achieved. in hindsight i really belive in the adage ‘be careful what you wish for’. the problem with your overall concept about providing the tools is that you give people far to much credit for knowing what they want and what they need especially at such an early age.
if we as parents had a hidstory of sound decision making then your ideas / ideology would make perfect sense. but we dont. see my previous message about divorse rates, cigarette smoking, keeping up with the jones’s.
heres something that makes me smile. the push to get rid off bullying in the schoolyard. nothing wrong with the pricipal apart from the fact that we think its the kids problem. equally as endemic is bullying in the workplace and this is perpetuated by adults, parents etc. so why then do we think these same adults will then teach there kids not to bully in the schoolyard. its a silly concept because people dont understand that its not just the kids who dont understand the consequenses of there actions – its the parents..
we adults constantly get things wrong. again all im saying is have some perspective.
cheers
awesome scotty. very humble name – i like it!. i think the industry does send mixed signals because most of the said signals are perpetuated by vested interest groups. overwhelmingly these groups want to keep realestae prices high…
realestae in aussie is a massive industry and many people have alot to lose if the market turns sour. and this includes industry bodies, industry papers, magazines, agents, the building industry, etc. the problem is that ‘buyers’ dont really have a uniform presence, body which can counter that influence with propaganda/figures of its own.
what do you think?
sorry sonja good one patrick. actually i got the idea from an old wives tale. a couple gets a divorse but its the man that has to move out. he is a little bit bitter and on the day of leaving decides to get even. when the other half is out of the house he takes down the curtains in the living room and stuffs the prawn shells inside the cylinder which holds up the curtains. and then replaces the curtains. sure enough w/in 2 days the place stinks and no-one can tell where the smell is coming from. 2 months later fed up she puts the home up for sale and through someone else he rebuys thew place at a knockdown price….or so the story goes…hehe
no huge deal either way buy maust say now im 100 pct sure your the same person. yorker you are a classic.
tough deal – ‘small minded’ – ‘move on with your life’. what are you trying to prove? im not the only one who thinks this thread is advertising!! maybe you are yorkers alter ego considering youve only made 3 posts. someone check this mans user id!!! hehe….
we talk about wanting our kids to have great or the best educations so they can becomew doctors, lawyers, astronauts etc. half of my family are doctors and the truth is heaps of doctors have social problems including drugs and drink, as do lawyers. just ask insurance companies who now charge huge premiums for this type of job (salary insurance) and they will tell you same (stress and anxiety disorders). so this again becomes the crux of the matter. why is going to a private school a great thing? why is achieving 99 pct a great thing. why is a being a doctor a great thing. just to prove it – my best friend went to a public school, got C grades and is a plumber. great bloke. see!!!
i also went to a school where 95 pct of people who are now proffessionals, as is myself. heres what ive learnt. alot of success in our world comes down to a few things
– conforming to sociatal norms
– playing the system. (especially with regards to school grades
– being part of a particlar socio economic group.even the least cynical of us would recognise there is a certain truth to these statements. so if you agree then you also would also agree that these reasons should in a healthy society be in-valid. they are about deception and conformity. hardly the things of a vibrant, free thinking society.
when you redefine what success IS – you will then naturally understand that private school education is not the ‘be all and end all’ to the future success of your child.
it may be the best alternative for your child, no problems with that – but lest not place such a huge emphasis on it that it helps perpertuate the madness. hehe
yorker – just admit that you own there but then go on to say that you reckon its still a good place to buy. the way you have approached it has put people off rather than get them excited. no need to bullshit if your product sells itself..
nice one westan – everyone this is called due diligence.
and i think even yorker will admit that his charity was especially overwhelming. i mean letting us know on two threads not just one….
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there is however some chance that prices could still rise eventhough populations decrease.
someone can correct me if im wrong but tasmania as a whole has experienced negative population growth but overall house price growth (over the last 10 years).
yorker – if what you say is true then your charity is amazing. if i was you i would have bought a few places first, then spread the good news. good luck.
tough deal – in that case have i got a great house for you…
in all seriousness if someone is pushing something or selling something you should check if someone has a vested interest in doing so. i tell everyone where i live is great just in the vain hope it might push up house prices. truth is me living there has probably bought down the mediun house price for which i apoligize to all my neighbours incase any may be watching……
