Hi Janelle,

In the end, we also pushed pause on the investment property. I was firm from the beginning and to be fair the “Property Coach” was quite open and left it there for now….said he would follow up in 2015, but still no word from him. No idea whether he is no longer there or not, but it seems that they aren’t interested in us any…[Read more]

Benny, I think this is what I am really looking for….information about the various ways that investing in IP’s can be done and the relative merits of them, which then allows educated decisions with firms like Yale.

In the end I feel good about putting the brakes on pushing forward what was initially presented to us by Yale. With further…[Read more]

Thanks Richard, fired off a PM last night.

You are in control of your financial future. You can engage professional help but if they are hard selling or rushing you then I am hearing alarm bells.

Not sure I would have called it a hard sell, ie. this is the one thing to set you up for life, but you NEED to sign now etc!! Not sure I can put into words without sounding negative, what it…[Read more]

Thanks Benny,

I think one of the things that has thrown us a bit is that the timeline to start pushing things along is a lot shorter than we probably wanted or expected. That is why the brakes will go on and we can think more about what is best long term.

Cheers
Brett

Hi knightm, thanks for the reply.

What you have said basically captures the way my wife and I are thinking. The Yale Property Coach has told us that he gets paid on the # of properties they sell, not the value. So it does sound like a “working for the developer” situation. Not to say that it ins’t a good deal, but like you say, without our own…[Read more]