woah woah woah, all this card A, card B, card A did this and then Card B did that. Whats going on here. Im totally lost here, can someone explain the whole situation between these cards(that in my opinion want to murder each other).
About the only way a car can assist is by getting you to the properties you are going to buy.
You are best off with the cheapest vehicle possible.
Hmm, getting me to the properties and cheapest. Well I guess mine fills both of them. As i will be travelling heaps i will use more fuel and my car runs on an oily rag or even on its own fumes so i wont be having to pay as much for fuel. Another plus with my new car is that i take so much care of it(its my pride and joy) and that will prevent me having to fork out money for repairs(lowing my expenses).
Joshadelsa what do you mean by this?, I dont understand it.HOW?
3. stronger A&L – if you have a unencumbered car it may strengthened you asset and liability statement slightly.
less than 8 hours. That would be great. Though my idea is to search around and if i find some really good ones get valuations done on them by independents and if they are highly underpriced i will snatch em. It will take some searching but i’m not going to give up for anything, nothing can stop me now.
I would just like to add, since the 10th of august I have purchased 14books on investing(and finance stuff) and i have read 7 already. I got them all from ebay, great prices(lol, i got 100 bucks value for only $12, ooh yea). I’m like obsessed reading for hours and hours and canj’t get away from the book. Ive always had a bad attitude to books, i blame my teachers making me dam shakespeare, that reminds me i have to read hamlet very soon, dam.
I’d also like to add in, rich dad poor dad was the first one i read.
Love it and am planning to read it again soon.
Thanks.
Why the hell is everyone going on about the % of prices of houses. If you can read this is a post about saving money or buying.
Well heres my advice Sarah.
You definetely need to get rid of that personal loan, so all the money you are saving pays off the loan, you have to get rid of it quick. Also If you have any credit cards outstanding, pay them off.
Then i suggest you get a cash management account(CMA) which has about 5times more interest than a savings account. Get one with interest calculated daily and paid monthly.
Have your pay from work direct debited into the CMA. Now grab a credt card with a free-interest period of more than a month(40-55days), and use that for all your living expenses and when it comes to the interest-freee period finishing then you just pay it all off the card from the CMA.
This means you will have all your available funds working for you to generate much more interest than a savings account. And with the credit card it will be in their longer allowing it to compound some more.
Hope this helps. I have been reading about it lately and have finally understood it all. I like it, i hope you will to.Thanks.
Hm, well today she got a call to start early for work, and coz its a sunday its extra pay(time and a half), but she said she doesn’t care about money.
I am just waiting for the sentence “money doesn’t buy you happiness”. Hmm, my reply to this is something like this, “so you would rather have little and struggle all your life”.
I don’t want to be the one struggling, i want to retire nice and young and be able to enjoy the rest of my life.
We have to do this, the pension will not be there when we are old, Supperannuations are crap as people live much longer. You cant live off a crap pension and your supperanuation for 20-sometimes even 45 years.
I get it now. But i dont get why you said that you pay interest on your CC from day one, there is a 55-no interest free thingy.
Also with that offset account, that is used to help calculate the loan, what if you fill that with money from the CC’s(with free days in em), and that will like lower your repayments.
Is this right??, or should i just do what you said elkam.
What you don’t want to do is become like a religious zealout and try and “convert” her with books etc. (altough all the books mentioned in this thread are great reads) If you have a real passion and it is part of your life then seeing you “doing” it and enjoying it will hopefully be contagious.
I don’t want to be a zealout either. I hope its contagious.
Thank you everyone for your help, it was greatly appreciated.
Thanks queengucci. Yes i must do all of this gently. Hmm, i will give her rich dad poor dad to read. That was my first book that i read this month(like financial kind of books).
Yes, Thats right I am trying to set us up for life, so we can enjoy it without having to be at work all the friggin time.
Also these days both parents have to work. I think she will like the idea of retiring 20 or more years earlier and enjoying a much better(and longer) retirement.
When she sees my motives she will want it badly. But until then i must work hard to get her into it.
Thank you alot for your quick and helpful reply Tizzy. Um, Well I am planning to buy my first IP when im 22. And she is saying that she wants to get married at 25 at the latest. So if all goes to plan, I can buy the IP at 22, then get married at 25, use the equity in my IP to get a deposit for my PPOR. Your very right with that statement you made about “He doesn’t love me enough to buy a home with me to live in”. She will say something along those lines.
What if she is just so stubborn. She is!, and so am I!!!.
Hmm, well thank you, i’ll leave it to rest for a while, i don’t want to attack her with it, it may make the situation worse. Hmm, i might lend her some of my investment books after the HSC.
BTW i have only jsut gotten into the investing in property thing this month. And i already have a collection of 13 books, 8 of which ive read already this month. I’m obsessed. yea i’ll lend her some and she what she thinks. Hmm, some she wont like as she hates numbers, whereas numbers are my friends.
No, no no no Amy I dont go to uni, I am only in year 12. hmm, I don’t thin this fee paying stuff is good at all.
Ok, so say i have a 19k bill iwth full fee, but with hecs thats like 6500, then I pay upfront and thats about 5k. So If i put away 100 bucks a week during my uni, I should be able to get rid of the uni fees easily and before I finish. Also I will be getting more pay as i move through uni so I will be able to begin with my saving of deposits.
This is rubbish. A full fee place is always at least 3 times the amount of a HECS place.
Are you 100% sure on this. If this is true thats crazy.
So a fee place in commerce at sydney would be 3 years at around 19k, whereas in the HECS one its like just over 6k each year.
Hmm, um this 20% discount that you get for paying upfront. Does this come with hecs or with feepaying, If its with feepaying does that make it seem atleast reasonable.
Make sure you get an independent valuation, and a building check(i dont know what they are called, dam!). That would save having to go to the actual house as the valuer can tell you alot.
Also make sure you use a independent valuer and if you use one that is assigned from the bank you are recieving finance from they can sometimes be dodgey.
Note:I have not yet bought an investment property and am only 17(18 in 6days). So keep that in mind. Though I do show genuine interest and over the past 15 days I have read 6 and a half investment books(2Kiyosaki,2Jan Somers and 2 others).
I also advise you to read this book by Chris Gray called go for your life. Thats where I got the info about the independent valuer.
Also whenever you buy a property you need to get a value done on it to see if you are getting a bargain, you dont want to find out later that you paid more than it was worth, when you could have found one that was underpriced and snatched it up. Hmm ive gone off topic here. Well good luck with your ventures outer state.
Well personally I am planning to never sell, just buy, buy, buy.
And reap the rewards. Refinance is the word:).
Hmm, to be able to get the finance needed for this loan i would need this $8,000, so if I get HECS on my uni fees and not upfront(20%off), then I should be able to save quicker, as at the end of the year I am going to look for a more paying job that is flexible. And Um, yea that job will be an essential part as i will need it to show the bank I am earning (i hope)enough income to satisfy them.
Also in regards to the FHOG I dont think I will worry about living in there for 12months(or whatever) and renovate. I will just starting renting it out. As I will need to rent to help service the loan.
I’m so eager, I hate the HSC bring the property market along, i’m ready to tackle you head on.(when i get my monies in order).
Ah nice, discounts i like it.
Hmm, the rebate agreement, ah can you please post one to me, so i can fully grasp this idea.
It will show me what sort of investing forms need to be filled out aswell.