If you shared a property with someone other than your spouse, you’d account for only your share of the capital gain. ie if you owned 40% and held it for more than 12 months, then using the same eg above, your taxable capital gain is 40k x 50% x 40%.
I hadn’t thought of doorknocking the neighbours. That’s a good idea. So far we’ve spoken to a builder who reckons that there shouldn’t be any problem and an upside may be that we don’t have neighbours on one side. Anyway will have to find out a bit more first…
I reckon go for two cheaper properties in Armadale. I recently read that vacancy rates over there are about 1%. I don’t know what it is up North though.
Personally i’d go for two because the collective rent is higher than one property of the price of two. Armadale should go up in capital growth but that’s only my opinion. I’ve recently got a property in Medina and if you drive up that way which is past Armadale, there’s a whole lot of new estates going up for sale. So in the long term Armadale should have growth.
Hope that helps.
There were some rental vacancy figures in the recent issue of Australian Property Investor’s magazine. I don’t know if they always have them in every issue though.
Yes Aussierouge is right. If your wife has already bought property in her name, then you aren’t eligible for the $7,000 grant. I’ve applied for the grant myself which is how i found out.
For the benefit of people who read this in the future, i thought i’d feedback on the accountants i spoke with.
Firstly i couldn’t contact Enynon. His business doesn’t seem to be in the phone book so i tried the email in the original thread recommending him. (ie bigpond not bOgpond as in my first post ) No reply so far and its been a couple of weeks.
Ken Tatam is a nice guy and seems knowledgable enough. He does offer a free first meeting and is happy to offer advice during that meeting. My husband and i felt comfortable with him and will be using him as our accountant.
After seeing Ken and another accountant recommended by someone else, we decided on Ken and didn’t go ahead to meet Bert. However on the phone Bert sounded nice and knowledgable. He offered only a half hour free first meeting after i asked him.
Thanks Darryl.
How often do you do inspections? The saving in costs sounds great but i’m not sure if i can do a good job of managing the property and how much time that’ll take me. I work full-time and would prefer to leave the management of the property to someone else. Then again if they don’t do a good job…
Those management fees in Victoria are nice and low. I’m in Perth and so far the fees are around 8% to 9% which seems high. Is there anyone out there in Perth who is getting a lower rate and who’s your agent?