Ah lucky you.  Milk it for all it's worth!   You've got a great head start then.Yes please, we're always keen to learn of new investment opportunties.  CAn I ask you if you know anything of lease options?

I know of a guy that is married to a lady from the Phillipines and he said the real estate over there is a lot better than here.  Much higher returns, which is what you have said too.  Might be worth looking into.  Does it look hard to get into given that we're out of the country ??  Or actually, I think the guy that we spoke to mentioned that the…[Read more]

The market is flattening out now.  House prices were really high recently but they've started to slow down.  The NZ dollar was a lot stonger over the past few months.  You're right though, it's been doing crazy things lately.  Up one minute, way down the next but recently it's looking ok – more middle of the road rather than extremely high or low…[Read more]

I get paid a finders fee at a set price regardless of how much the property sells for.  I don't own the property or have any interest in the property apart from finding a buyer.

Hi EmmaI'm new to investing but I had a discussion with my partner today re financing.  Before we met he looked into getting a second house using Southern Cross Finance (http://www.scfl.co.nz/)  He said they were very open to investors who didn't meet the standard criteria set by other lenders.  Just a thought.Best of luckColleen