Woh!!!! man that was quick!!

Systems are easy… finding something to sell that somebody wants is the challenge. The alternative to selling is developing a site with sufficient traffic to drive advertising revenue. 

$90 to find out that the odds of becoming the next inet mogul is next to zero is probably worth it. I've had more expensive hangovers.

For $89 jump at it. Claim back GST and tax it'll be closer to $60 true cost. Take note though that like all modeling tools they're only as good as the inputs. 

Everything you need to know here including rate categories and costs

http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/57528/23july12_special_budget_cl12.pdf

JacM wrote:

Freckle !  Do you have a crush on the lovely DWolfe ? 

Shusss! You'll give her ideas. Mrs Freckle reads this she'll smack my ears so hard they'll ring for a week.

It's good to see the blind helping the blind here. 

Nope. They're tradies who've stopped selling their services for a pittance (comparably) and subcontract their services. Basically you set up a company ($600 on the net all done and dusted takes about an hour at most) and subcontract to the many and varied clients available in the mining areas. 

I used to do it with trucks and know many up your way and Hedland who sub themselves at $120 +/hr. Your investment will run to about $60k initially (mine spec'd vehicle) and up to $100k as you get geared up. You get that back within the first 6 months usually.

Most of the guys I know who do this pull around $8 -10k /wk. Add staff to that and you start to see where 500k/yr comes in.  That's a really basic operation.

So instead of farting around with property why don't you figure out how to leverage your trade into a self employed opportunity, run your own business and really make serious money. 

You put money into property to diversify your investments (surpluses from business) and to store your wealth somewhere at relatively  low risk.

The real money is in business not property.

Here's a choice for you. Would you rather invest whatever you save into property and make virtually zip over the next 5 years (may even loose out) or would you prefer to invest in yourself and triple your current income doing what you already do? It's less complicated than property, considerably less leverage and risk and you can grow exponentially if your that kind of person. In 5 years I would expect you to be making in excess of $500k/yr. 

It appears so JP. I don't under rate the value of coaches in any sphere of life but that's not where I see the problem. A significant ramping up of defaults isn't a sign people need more coaching services. It suggest employment dynamics are changing faster than people can adapt and that budgeting and debt management services would be far more useful.

Then there's those people no amount of help will encourage them to make sensible choices and decisions.

Glad to see you guys missed me. Shale oil isn't anything to get too excited about. It'll take them 10 years or more to get the stuff out of the ground if ever. Lotsa hurdles.

• Studies conducted so far suggest that oil shale extraction would adversely affect the air, water, and land around proposed projects. The distillation process would release toxic pollutants into the air—including sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxides. Existing BLM analysis indicates that current oil shale research projects would reduce visibility by more than 10 percent for several weeks a year. And NRDC states that in a well-to-wheel comparison, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil shale are close to double those from conventional crude, with most of them occurring during production. According to the Rand Corporation, producing 100,000 barrels of oil shale per day would emit some 10 million tons of GHGs

Over excited MSM hype at this stage. If in the future shale looks to have legs buy into the drilling and servicing companies.

Rough rule of thumb. Only 10% is considered recoverable with todays technology. Value per barrel is only rated at US$10 for shale oils.

Even Linc are playing down the hype.

• This is very early days and it's no where near certain there's actually anything that's recoverable yet. As the consultants wrote: ‘‘There is no certainty that any portion of the prospective resources estimated herein will be discovered. If discovered, there is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resources.’’

Linc are talking the prospects up because they're looking for a partner to take it to the next stage..

• But Linc is now looking for a ‘‘farm-in’’ partner to spend up to $300 million to develop the resource and prove up reserves.. 

Sorry guys. Nothing to see here. Move along please.