Thank you everyone – i have spend the last 2 nights up til 1am researching different companies etc and still haven't decided and its giving me a headache! :o/   I have been recommended "Honan" which i have emailed – and then EBM and Terri Scheer are the others everyone seemed to talk about…  Im wondering whether i should just lower my sum…[Read more]

We have IP in WA mining town and find the rent to be great – however we monitor the market and the work closely as you always need to be careful as if the work goes then the market and rent will drop… so just be cautious… dunno about Qld mining towns though sorry?

Thanks Nato! I will give them a call today! Can anyone else recommend to??? So i can call a few different ones to compare???

Yeh i agree Ryan, do watch it like a hawk… we are lucky my hubby works over there and is in the crux of it all so he monitors ours from there as do i from here…. we will definitely get rid of ours before it all starts going down hill, but they anticipate that we should be right for at least 5-10 years!! fingers crossed… but yep everyone else…[Read more]

I would say Karratha although both would give you good returns… the only thing is the properties there are have risen so much that im not sure what the mortgages would be like… so maybe check that out first and see whether the rents vs the mortgage repayments etc would be worth it??? But we have one in Karratha which we were lucky to get…[Read more]

Hey there, we use Northwest Accountancy in Karratha.

Sorry me again!!!!  Also does anyone know how the whole 90 days notice thing works???  Obviously once i have found a new agency that i want to go with i let them know but do they have to wait until the 90 days is up to???  Do i let the old agency know who the new agents will be? or do the new agents just take over and do the whole thing on our be…[Read more]

Thank you everyone for your comments and recommendations so far… really appreciate that.Now my next question is…..  does anyone know if there is or can give me some idea (ie: template) as to how to write the "termination property management" letter???  Im a bit stuck and am not sure what to say or where to start with that one…  Thanks.

Hi MelsyJust wondering how you went with your townsville research etc?  We are looking at purchasing our first investment property and have pretty much seen from the API mag that townsville, cairns are the places to buy now…  but whereabouts in those areas i ask????  Would love to hear how you went!Also Lousie (Frangipannitea) hows Mackay go…[Read more]

Hi Qlds007Well i went to see an Accountant today and to be honest i am still a little confused…Basically the property looks like it will be negative geared…  however "i think" he said to put it in my hubbys name?  He reckons either way has its benefits so im kinda still stumped about that….The unit is like 20-30 years old so he reckons t…[Read more]

Hi L.A Aussie!Thanks for your advice!  Well hubby wants to keep the property for only that amount of time as we are in a mining resource town and at the moment the prices are very high up here to buy property so the unit that we have been offered is fairly cheap for the prices that are going up here…. we can get pretty good rent on it and so he…[Read more]

Hi there!If your wanting to look down the Gold Coast way Coomera is going to be the next big place to boom – well its already on the rise now….You would be able to pick up a nice 3-4 bedroom house there for $400k just… its going up so quickly so i'd hurry…They are intending on building a massive shopping centre there – bigger than Pacific…[Read more]

I heard Morayfield and Coomera are good areas to invest in… although Coomera is pretty pricy and you probably would find it hard to find something around $300k housewise that is.  Morayfield has some really nice houses – fairly new for quite cheap – thats just by looking on realestate.com.au to see whats going there….  i just heard that M…[Read more]

Oh yeah and bank loan wise too – how would that work??  His name, my name, both names???