An improving trade picture……you gotta be kidding me.. 

Japan on Thursday released trade data for the fiscal year through March, which showed that exports to the US rose 10 per cent from a year earlier to Y11.4tn ($116bn), while shipments to China slipped 9 per cent to Y11.3tn.

If that's surging (China) I'll eat my hat. But wait what's that about the US you say… oh no!!! their Durable goods PMI is crashing… oh wo is me…

Moments ago the Commerce Department reported the latest Durable Goods numbers which were a total disaster: the headline print plunged by 7.3% on expectations of a -4.0% decline driven by a drop in Airplane orders (to be expected following last month's noted bumper Paris Air show spike as Boeing reported only 90 new plane orders compared to 273 in June). Well, airplanes orders did indeed slide by 52.3%, but it was weakness in Transportation (-19.4%) and Computer (-19.9%) orders as well as Manufacturing (-9.8%) that took the market by surprise. This was the biggest miss to expectations since August 2012.

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So let me see if I've got this right. Japan is going great guns even though it 2 largest markets are tanking. Sounds about right in this BS world.

How about we try some real information rather than the MSM BS you dredge up.

NOTE THE SOURCE!!!! Japans own  government data doesn't support your story.

Go to their stats page and you see their forecasts for the remainder of this year are negative.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/industrial-production

Credit doesn't drive the property markets these days. Cashed up foreign buyers initially drove prices after the GFC followed in recent times by hedge funds. That momentum is almost gone and given current moves by Funds to try and monetise portfolios through derivatives there is every chance that we will see property retrace in the next few years if not crash once again. My bet is on a crash worse than 08 with no recovery for decades.

Your market in KC is particularly vulnerable to recessions. Unemployment has started to head back up since Jan13 and everything I see in the US economy says recession.

The US economy has literally stalled if M2 is anything to go by. 10 year treasuries are rising and the FED is struggling to retain control of the bond market. It's buying everything trying to prevent interest rates from rising. 

Not long now I think. A year until this thing goes pear shaped would be optimistic. 

Putting all your eggs in the US market is financially suicidal. The smart money has been leaving for the past 12 months or more. 

Picking when the US economy tanks will always be difficult but tank it will….

Each successive correction is worse than the last and the causalities of these corrections take out an even greater proportion of the populace.  Every recovery has been predicated on CB support that simply sets the US up for the next wave of Wall Street induced chaos. Meanwhile the economies ability to recover reduces with each cycle. My instincts tell me that the next crash will be the clincher mainly because past recoveries have been able to utilise remaining system capacity both locally and internationally. The effort gone into preventing total collapse this time around has largely exhausted remaining global capacity.

I tend to think a correction regardless of how severe (and that will vary from area to area) will be more profound this time coming on the back of a mini boom straight after a bust. The large institutional players will change how this plays this time. It looks like risk is about to get offloaded to the market in the form of derivatives. That's ominous and doesn't bode well for the average Joe who doesn't have that ability. Lot's of variables though so things could or will play out in unforeseen ways.

There are those now who are entering at what is virtually the top of the market with lots of downside risk. I see nothing in the US economy or global for that matter that could even remotely be construed as positive for the US market. Quite the contrary. If the property market retraces like I think it will it could signal a tipping point in the US economy that triggers a negative feedback loop.

Your decision to exit will prove correct and none too soon I think. Better a year early than a day late as they say.

So do you have a detailed investment proposal with examples of your work, costings, projections, etc etc that potential investors can look at.

Crowd funding is your best route. A lot of small first time type film makers get started this way.

http://www.pozible.com

http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/05/15046-9-australian-crowdfunding-web-sites

The above should get you started.

Good luck.

There is a counter to populations moving to the fringes in search of cheaper accommodation and that's the cost of transport. Sydney's a bitch of a place to commute around at the best of times let alone rush hour. One of the reasons I left in 06. 

This report on Australia's energy profile might interest a few. It's easy to see from the table below that AU's reliance on imported oil has only increased. Energy costs are rising fast and set to go much higher over the next decade. That's going to affect the population dynamic when its likely the economic situation is only set to deteriorate over the next decade and beyond. Understanding the financial pressures on the population should help the canny investor make the most of it.

Full report

West Sydney like many fringe areas tends to run hot and cold. A few years back they couldn't give them away after the initial FHB grants sucked many a newbie west only to find the living/commute costs where worse than living closer in and paying higher rents or mortgages.

I would expect to see the outer Sydney become attractive again as economic conditions tighten. 

The following link gives some interesting property and rental data for Sydney and regional NSW

Economic Indicators NSW

(January 2013)

Sounds like a tile roof…most of this stuff is not difficult to fix. Almost impossible to replace ceiling batons without taking out the interior ceilings, rebattoning and then regibbing though. It comes down to the extent of the work, cost, time etc as to  how you might revalue a property if you still want to take it on. You could end of with a better valuation if you can get the property at a discount and complete a reno on it for a reasonable price.