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yr right blacky south is close to forrest hill chase but i still reckon access to major arterials and train lines will be major issues in the years ahead. only blackburn will give you 5 mins walk to the station and to be honest for a 3 bedroom very basic house antry level in this 5 km radius would be 400k. i believe in the boxhill/mitcham corridoor. very self contained and pretty close to melb mediun house range. not sure about outstanding capital growth – still think thats reserved for 10 km radius of the city or bayside/coastal areas.
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if you own a house in an area you are plugging in my opinion you should atleast tell us and we can make up our own minds if there is a conflict of interest. duty of disclosure…
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you meen blacky south!!!. not bad. not as highly regarded as blackburn or blackburn north. blackburn north i reckon presents better value as prices are about the same (as backy south) and you have better access to the eastern freeway (as well as the train stations)
i recommend waiting until a stinking hot summer day and then leave prawns all over various part of the house. come back a week later and your cigarette smoke smell will have definatley disappeared. hope this helps.
g’day allan.
what to do with 15k eh?? well i reckon that would depend on how your position is overall. if you have little debt and sitting pretty then leaving 15k in a intere4st bearing account to me makes no sence. do something with it. get some debt and try and get a reasonable return.
if however you have more debt then you should have in what is a very volatile market (oil prices, interest rates, terrorism, property bubbles etc) then i would pay down some of you debt.
all depends on your appetitie for risk. and this will vary from one person to another depending on your overall financial situation. good luck..
anything from Max (tangles) Walker
see you have a bs degree so you should do well. good luck!
james allen sounds like he has studied budhisms. i might read one of his books. thanks for the tip.
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to put an end to the arguement – i agree that ones inner limits can sometimes effect there prosperity, or there achievements. this can be sad especially when the person in question underachieves in general and is less than happy. its also a powerful psychological tool. ‘imagine a straight long drive (golf) and you give yourself a better opportunity to achieve it.
but dont belittle people because they dont necessarly wan to run 100 meters in 9 seconds, or if they dont wanna own 10 properties in 3 hours. look for the good things like if the barrack for essendon or if they have good oral hygeine.
marc – may the force be with you.
marc 1 – i know only too well the overall point you are trying to make. but you do it brazenly and without giving people the benefit of actually thinking about their stance in this matter. not all negative/anti sentiment is reactionary. since time immamorial intellectuals, artists, religious people, philospohers, poets etc have asked the same questions about materialism. but what you dont recognize is that the choice not to keep on accruing wealth is a legitimate choice and not one for underachievers. there are many examples in this life of people who have chosen to reject there so called talents and riches in order to be better people. shain gould, patrick rafter, hundreds of business people who are downsizing/seachanging etc etc. so whats the fuss if someone makes this decision!!
i still maintain that the GOSPELS say nothing with regards to this. if you can show me where then i will look. with regards to god blessing kings, leaders, rulers, wealthy people – this was a time in the world when the church managed to convince people that royalty was a blessing from god. that royals were somehow chosen from god. we now know this is not the case. theres nothing holy about charles although he seems like a half decent bloke. much of the bible is a reflection of the values and the culture of the time and most of it has little to do with whats going on now.
marc you can spin this anyway you want but you are crossing that line way over to the right with some other well know christian right wing fundamentalists. if you dont mind carrying that label then all the power to ya
keep rockin
nice one terry
your right marc 1. lets take it further and abolish all foreign aid and let all people and all countries fend for themselves. victims everywhere….cant anybody get it right..
helen – you have my vote – good thread!
marc youre a hard man. now im starting to think youre a DARWINIAN. survival of the fittest eh!! you make some good points but i would say this. there are many parts of the world that treat this type of thing much better than us aussies. norway for example – one of the richest countries in the world have a brilliant social system whilst maintaining the basis of a capitalist society. they are healthy happy and wealthy. as are us aussies in the main. but we can always do things better…
ps – what do you think of someone earning 50k a year struggling to get by – part of there taxed goes to funding a swimming pool at scotch college??? its absurd!!!
lathams got it right…(or should i say left)
btw way marc 1 – your name is biblical and you always say god bless but your moniker is obi 1 kenobi!! are you a christian or a jedi knight?? which box did you tick on the last sensus??
hehe marc, you make me laugh – your bible reference has nothing to do with investing and prosperity. it is a story about laziness. we dont listen to kings anyway. jesus says nothing about prosperity. you are the one who is picking and choosing. if the idea of jesus giving up worldy goods is a new CONCEPT for you then maybe you should do a little more soul searching.
and whats denomination got to do with it. you to me sound like a roman catholic!! they love money aswell.
nice try btw. no one has ever accussed me of being intelligent so dont start now…
ex – sorry but one more point – ‘show me the child at 7 and i will show you the man’.
ps – interesting to see lathams announcment today. and he went to a public school….
g’day emacdonald – it is my understanding that kids spend heaps of time and money these days trying to get scholarships. apparently there is even after school tuition groups designed to prepare children better for scholarship exams. so im not sure kids wont feel bad for not getting a placement. if you dont think kids feel resentment/embarrasment etc i think you should go and watch the under 7’s football on a weekend. and yes this will depend heavily on the parents, as do most things in a childs life. but parents dont help. in one of the weekend papers there was an article about how vcompetative ‘mothers groups’ are – so yes this type of thing starts at a very very early age..
ps – if they dont consider public schools as lowly then why are they trying to leave???
dont see too many private school kids getting really excited about the prospect of one day going back to a public school.
it just doesnt happen because of the perceptrion right or wrong, that one is better (and hence one is worse) than the other.cheers
theres alot of kids like luckyone who try and get scholarships to private schools and yet unlike luckone they dont get in because they are not deemed smart enough. spare a thought for these kids – not only do they realise pretty early they are not smart but they also realise they arent rich enough either. i hope they have nice teeth.
what a double whammy to handle at such a young age.
maybe this is the reason we (some parents) are so pro private school becasue some of us parents dont want our kids to feel as low as we did when we had to attend a lowly public school. again we are getting closer to the truth imho.
what a web we spin….
two choices – 1)feel bad that we arent rich or smart or 2) have a public system that caters for most kids and give them somewhat of an equal chance.. or atleast a better chance..
i told you parents need a licence to parent. hope all is well now luckyone.
