Thanks for your reply,

I work fly-in-fly-out, based in Perth. The minesite I work is a closed town (ie the company owns all the houses in it, and only allows people to live in the town if they work there or have family who work there.)

Perth is too expensive to get into buying – the boom here has sent prices to astronomical heights. There is virtually nothing (not even 1 bedroom apartments) in the entire metro area for under $200k. Hence why I am looking at buying a place to rent out elsewhere.

I will investigate this trust thing however…

Cheers