thankyou for everyone who posted to this. after reading a few books and doing some more research, i have decided to save for a deposit while i am researching a few areas and then as soon as i feel i know 90% of the theory and the proacticalities i will go for it… i am looking within the next 3 months.

Giraffe thanks heaps for your wise words, dad has passed on but he has moved away, but thats cool i re read what i wrote and yeah it could have been misconstrued that way… hehe… sorry

I think mum may move out into he partners house in which case i would be able to live here and rent some of the house out. However at this stage the house is looking fairly run down and could probably with a bit of TLC fetch a substantially higher pirce than first thought.

once again thankyou to all, your knowledge is appreciated.