Thank you!

Thanks Terry!

Originally posted by Qlds007:
Allan

If you wish to breach State legislation that’s a matter for you.

No i am not getting on my soap box just slightly fed up when i hear people want to cheat the system to save a buck or 2.

Oh, I wasn’t being unethical – it just seemed strange to me, as it wouldn’t even cross my mind to let the government know I…[Read more]

… you would have to been crazy to have and miss out on the share market boom… that is currently happening…

Oh, I don’t know… When you don’t understand something enough, so that it seems more like gambling than investing – I call staying away from it a move of a very wise man.

I thought about getting into stocks/shares. After two…[Read more]

Hate to say the Act has made provisions for that.

Splitting the work up doesnt get you around it.

This has me intrigued and I just have to ask…

How would they even know someone has renovated their property? (And if they turned up to inspect it with the view of giving out a fine – how would they know what condition the property was in prior…[Read more]

Thanks Steve… To begin with I thought it might be for notes, etc. but there doesn’t seem to be anything there to indicate this. But there also doesn’t seem to be any “midway cutoff” of information that I can see.

Still waiting for Brent’s reply too, by the way.

Anyone else got blank pages on 54 & 62 of Buyer Beware?

Oh – just inserting an…[Read more]

Originally posted by Jerzy Balowski:
Try to think back if you can, when Johnny Dubya Howard was still in nappies under Fraser – Inflation at 15%, unemployment 12%…

Oh and I forgot to say – John Howard is claiming reduced unemployment levels.. Well, let’s tell the truth about this one.

1. First of all, if the PERCENTAGE of unemployed people…[Read more]

Originally posted by Jerzy Balowski:
Latham does say a lot of warm and fuzzy things. But I dont hear anyone calling them lies.

Oh, give ’em time… As we know, they ALL lie. : )

As for ‘where is the money coming from’ (add winey voice), how about we start with scrapping the FHOG (I never needed it when I bought my first house when interest…[Read more]

Originally posted by kay henry:
Of course, some parties preference noone. Always good to check who the minor parties are preferencing (if they are) before making your vote, I reckon.

I didn’t realise they could do this. Pity one of the larger small parties don’t do this – and advertise the fact they won’t be giving their votes to either major…[Read more]

Originally posted by geo:
My question to you all is who will be the one that will be in our favour – that will look after property investors, Latham or Howard.

Howard predicts that Latham will raise interest rates whereas Latham denies this.

Well, funny thing there… I remember quite a while ago, John Howard saying the government has no…[Read more]

Originally posted by ANUBIS:
Allan,

Think you may be confusing things a bit. It’s a long bow to suggest the FHOG caused the property boom – more like speculative investors and the FHOG was introduced as compensation for GST increasing housing prices.

Well, I didn’t exactly say that… What I said was, “kicked off” the property boom. (I’ve…[Read more]

I hated the idea of floorboards – then we rented a house with carpet that was rancid from previous tenants having fluffy white dogs living inside the house with them. DIGUSTING. Landlord (NSW government) wouldn’t replace it, so we ripped it out and threw it away before their inspection took place – so that plus some staff changes, means they…[Read more]

Thanks… I just wish they’d LEAVE THINGS ALONE long enough for people to actually get a foothold – and stop drilling holes in the boat, while telling us they’ve improved the drying time of silastic.

You mean – OUR – Australian government!?

LOL… [blink] [confused2]

Let’s not forget these are the same people who introduced the First Home Owner Grant – that kicked off the property boom, effectively driving up prices beyond the reach of most first home buyers…

The same people who recently introduced the new investor tax to “help” first…[Read more]

Thanks Simon…

I’m just wondering what kinds of things they check. We can’t afford to buy in the Newcastle area as you know, we don’t qualify for enough to purchase here. So was thinking of buying elsewhere, renting that out to tenants and remain renting here ourselves.

The government claims to be helping first home buyers by making changes…[Read more]

Just bringing this thread to the top… I found this site:

http://www.yowcow.com

Now I’m not 100% certain, but it seems genuine. It’s 50 cents (US?) to send any amount. I’ll have to look into it some more, but I thought there might be some people here also interested.

People we know in the USA were told by their bank it would cost $75 if a…[Read more]

You will need to check with Centrelink, however, I believe the asset limit is 125,000 for those seeking unemployment, but for aged pensioners it may be a bit higher….give them a call.

Definitely check with them, as I vaguely remember one of their so called “financial advisors” (yeah right – but that’s another story) mentioning to me, a figure…[Read more]

Originally posted by SteveMcKnight:
What about Western Union?

Most newsagents are agents…???…

Cheers,

Steve McKnight

I just phoned Australia Post – they said:

Sending from $301-$450 = $43 charge
Sending from $451-$600 = $50 charge

I don’t think I want to know much more above that. [eh]

Hm… Other suggestions anyone?

Thank you Steve, I’ll check that out now. Anyone else have any suggestions? I owe someone in the USA several hundred $. The last time, I used Paypal – who took a huge chunk of it.

Allan.

Ok, thanks Simon!