no you dont, they (in 90% of cases) dont even have the listings. <moderator: edit>

shoooshoo wrote:
hi guys i heard that dalby has 200 vacant house & land packages that they cant rent because they flooded the maket, is this true?

Hi Shooshoo,

There is a lot of land on the market in Dalby, as well as 97 advertised rentals on realestate.com.au

Here’s the land sales for the previous years:
2008 = 195
2009 = 176
2010 =…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

New blog posted on Chinchilla & Wandoan.

Off to Mackay tomorow and to see Bowen, Mooranbah & Dysart

Thanks for following everyone!

katmat wrote:
Josh,
I’m loving the info you are providing! Seems you are getting a heap of interested followers!
Am also close to buying and after reading a lot about the pitfalls of investing in areas that you are not 100 percent familiar with, can really get you burnt! I have only briefly had a look at your website but what exactly does your…[Read more]

shoooshoo wrote:
hey guys better read below anyone investing in Moranbah/Dysart about Fly-in-Fly-out miners

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/forget-carbon-tax-fly-in-fly-out-raises-a-red-flag-over-mining-hubs-as-investment-destinations/story-fn9656lz-1226102792814

here is a portion of the article:

For those who own property -…[Read more]

shoooshoo wrote:
interesting just read Terry Ryder’s article in the Australian about the regional towns to benefit from the resource boom, compared to QLD’s capital cities:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/rich-harvest-in-the-golden-hinterland/story-fn9656lz-1226104351484

Shooshoo,

Thanks for sharing that, re confirms what I…[Read more]

Rod & Shooshoo,

I have a lot of information to go through and decipher about Chinchilla. I would not go and rush to buy anything there yet, I don’t have good news for you about Chinchilla I am sorry. Again, my opinion however it is a lot more factual than other people out there and facts are the only way to.

Unfortunately people are relating the…[Read more]

Gladstone blog finally posted ( http://ppiqldtour.blogspot.com ), its a long read but well worth it I believe. It is too long to post here unfortunately and has a couple of graphs that are important to the summary.

In short I have touched on:
– Projects and their current status
– Construction workforce population graphs
– Current property…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

I have been working on my final analysis of the CSG industries including Gladstone, Chinchilla etc. Some very interesting findings. Whenever I research an area I go through every companies EIS (Environmental Impact Statement). They are between 1000 – 10,000 pages each so it takes time to search them all for the information I need. I…[Read more]

you can run the risk but it is in no way worth it. All the properties that our clients buy through a SMSF do so through a leading firm on the Sunshine Coast who manages 500 SMSF’s. With their experience they plain and simply say it cannot be done legally. You forego not having to pay GCT or tax on rental income. It is not worth it at all.

If they…[Read more]

Hi jassouth

All investments and transactions through a SMSF must be made at what the ATO classify as an “arms length transaction”. That is you cannot buy from yourself or anyone related, rent to yourself or to anyone related or sell to yourself or anyone related. If you do, you run a very high risk of forgoing the minimised tax that comes with…[Read more]

GLADSTONE CENTRAL QUEENSLAND…..

Okay here’s what I think of Gladstone… Prices are a bit everywhere at face value (realestate.com, agents etc) which is synonymous with many regional centers in QLD. However when you dig that bit deeper you can see the consistency.

There are a few areas of interest:

1. Barney point and South: I looked at two…[Read more]

coalstar wrote:
if you buy house and land, furnish it, get a company lease for two years and you’ll get approx $800 a week in rent

Even more now coalstar. Apparently at $1000 (an agent rented three out this week). This makes a 9% return in most cases with today’s market value

Actually the historic trend is 10 years not 7. It has doubled in 7 years once in the past which is why people say 7 to 10 years. It has not and is never expected to double every 7 years. Well that’s what educated property investors knwow anyway because as you can see the difference is substantial.

hbbehrendorff wrote:
How could you go wrong Investing in Dysart ?????? As you should well know by now (if your an educated and experienced property invester)  property doubles every 7-10 yearsSo if you buy a 500k dog kennel today, your property will be worth approx :  $32,500,433.65  in 40 years !!! WOWSEE HOW YOU HAVE BUILT 32 MILLION DO…[Read more]

jamesw82 wrote:
How did you go in gladstone mate, anything intersting you stumbled across? Should we rush in and buy investments there?

I had to come home (only 4.5hrs away) for a couple of days. and will be going back leaving at 5:30 tomorrow morning. A big blog will come on Saturday I will promise you all that. Along with photos and…[Read more]

Wow no estate land in Gladstone available to investors. Only a select number of blocks for owner occupiers where a legally binding declaration must be made that you are one! This looks like it will change and i have learnt that an estimated 9000 blocks will be released over the next ten years. Well this is councils prediction anyway.

House prices…[Read more]

StevieC wrote:
Hi Josh,you are doing what I'd love to be doing myself if I had the time. I've been thinking about investing in either the Bowen Basin or Surat Valley now for almost a year and I'm ready to do something. There are possibilities for buying properties off the plan in Middlemount and Dysart that would give a 10 to  11% rental yield.…[Read more]

minichick wrote:
I would wait and see if the carbon tax goes through before investing in any mining area atm

how is the carbon tax going to impact coal mining exports?

jamesw82 wrote:
na ill keep the coast one for a bit longer, its doing alright. So josh u prefer emerald more so then Dysart? A safer bet maybe. Im looking for a rental yield of around 7% not getting to fussy haha. Im very new to this game, i just want early retirement,am currently living and working in Mt Isa and am very over it and want to get…[Read more]