Hi crjBefore I answer, thanks to Kylie for your advice and suggestions.Of course Yossarian I have taken the advice on board. That is why I started this in the first place. I wanted advice not criticism. Does anybody get themselves into this position by choice? We have found ourselves at this point, because we trusted a broker who promised e…[Read more]

Thankyou for that suggestion Erik and also for the encouraging comments about giving it a go. How easy is it to get a private loan and what sort of interest and payback time would we be looking at? Most people here seem to think that we just want to borrow money to pay debt. That isn't really what we want to do, we are in the situation where one p…[Read more]

Thanks for your suggestions crj. There was a sale for 725k last month and there is one across the road on the market for 650k. Ours were valued 2 weeks ago at 650k each. Valuations usually seem to be a bit lower, so we might get a bit more than that if we sold.I have thought about permanent rental too, but we won't get as much as we would if we…[Read more]

PullyYes everything was very different when we started. We were in a good financial position. Then the broker took forever to do things, didn't get what he said he was going to, made us trust him and now has disappeared. Told us he could do things that clearly he couldn't. And we believed him. We're not happy with ourselves about that.The property…[Read more]