Is she charging too much? Depends on what she’s doing Marck. Is she removing cancers? Or is she doing lip implants so movie stars can look like this: :+(|)

There are lots of people I think are overpaid- pro basketballers in America… actors in America.. oil barons in saudi arabia… the royal family in England.

Childcarers in Australia, nurses…[Read more]

I know nothing about many aspects of property- trusts and finances to name but a few. However, I do feel confident about other areas, or more importantly, confident about finding out what I need to know. but that’s only because I’m compulsive about looking stuff up and I look up anything I’m interested in.

I love property, and have lots of ideas…[Read more]

Well, that’s a pity about your friend, trish. She mustn’t have gone to the same public school that John howard went to (Canterbury boys’ school). Howard is the first Prime Minister to have only attended public schools in his education- seems now though, he has the same feeling as forum members- he just doesn’t like ’em.

If we think a bit…[Read more]

hehe Yorker… Yeah, but we could always teach this man to fish instead of feeding him a fish. So we could send him to all the sites we know of, so that he could know what we know… ya know what I mean?

Of course, you could always sell him a report What price are you going to charge anyway, Yorker?

Chris_J, I am sure there will be many people…[Read more]

OK Steve- when’s the launch? Dates and venues, please [cap]

kay henry

Nothing worse than the nouveau riche, I reckon. Old money doesn’t have to scream about it- at lerast there’s a bit of dignity there. I find the nouveau riche to be embarrassing.

kay henry

Sounds decent, Yorker… and I’m just trying to have a go at you here… but one can find details of past sales on realestate.com.au or through a RE for free. One can find details of median prices through a variety of home price indicators on the web- for free… and rental yields and trends and percentages from API, for example- for every town,…[Read more]

Yorker,

If you want to see what people will pay for the report, you’d probably have to be more specific about the contents. If it is a two-page report, how comprehensive is it? What’s it got in it?

And thanks, Yorker, for the offer. I’d also be happy to meet up to chat about investment stuff with anyone interested. Yorker, there are some sydney…[Read more]

hehe rogue.. I think you were referring to David, but as I am also a pedant, thought I’d make comment on the spelling thing… if one can spell, one doesn’t need to “run a spell check” on anyone else )) The spelling mistakes just hit ya in the head when reading them. hehe. Nice use of the word boffin too, rogue!

kay henry

MissKiss,

Your solicitor should work all of this stuff out for you- you shouldn’t have to haggle with PM’s and strata managers about it. Disbursements to the solicitor include such things as them transferring water costs to you and you having to pay any levy outstanding or any cost outstanding to former owners. But all this should come out of…[Read more]

rogue,

Fortunately, that article has been widely disseminated on activist circles, and who knows… it might become as big as “yes Virginia, there is a santa claus.”

I really enjoyed Shane Maloney’s speech. (Here’s where I got it from:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/31/1093938920514.html

I enjoyed his use of irony- that the privileged…[Read more]

Well, Yorker, I rewckon people are making choices re where to buy. Some prefer Liverpool, penrith, kellyville, and the bible-belt, than buy in the city. My city property didn’t cost me much, but the rent is v. high in $ terms. Actually, mine cost me MUCH less than a place would in Kellyville, but I kind of like buying places that I myself would…[Read more]

hehe Yorker… wouldn’t that info belong to your employer? :+P

By the way, I read the news article with your hotspots mentioned. I know they are probably going to be valuable, Yorker… in that suburban kind of way… but would you ever live in those kind of suburbs? They are so far out of sydney they’re in the middle of nowhere! I reckon if you…[Read more]

mgr,

No problem with asking this question. Minter Ellison is one of the top 10 Law firms in Australia- by size and reputation, and are renowned for their commercial knowledge. They also do a large amount of pro-bono work, so they have a progressive basis and are giving back to the community.

kay henry

Originally posted by alwayscurious:
thanks Kay. Some people I talk to basically say that selling a property is equivalent to abusing kittens and so forth.

That’s hilarious, always! hehe. Actually, selling off underperformers at the top of the market is not a bad idea. It really depends on where your property is (booming suburb?) ands how long…[Read more]

alwayscurious,

I think your situation would be similar to many people’s. I wouldn’t panic. There may be other options to selling.

* Can your wife get a job?
* Can you take on some overtime?
* Are your rents at market rental or is there room for some increase?
* Are you due for long service leave or some other cash payment that you could use to…[Read more]

mslod,

$50 a week on each property would be doing well these days. Hotrod has achieved such returns on buy and hold CF+ properties, but if you use Jaffasoft’s calculator (on this board) you’ll find that many such properties in Australia are achieving maybe $10. That’s all good- mine are losing about $50 a week, so that’s $60 a week more than mine…[Read more]

Marc,

I am saying I am familiar with the ideas you are pontificating. It doesn’t mean I agree with them. These ideas about subconscious and illness, wealth etc, have been around at least since the 1980’s and a heap of books were written around them- sheesh, I don’t live in a vaccuum. But just like any idea, they don’t represent “truth” to me-…[Read more]

Jenny,

This post pobably belongs in the Help Needed Forum. If you already have 2 IP’s, then you’d have some experience in maintenance/repair expenditure from those. If this new property is similar to those in condition/area/price, you could just think how much you’ve spent on the other two properties and average it out. That’s one way.

kay henry

Francois,

If you go to http://www.residex.com.au/index.php you can type your property addresses into a free “prediction” / property performance tester thing. It might be useless or might not be. It will tell you what Residex thinks the property will be worth in 5 years time. You can go to their FAQ’s to see how they get their predictions on CG.…[Read more]