Well hello Rebecca :o)

Now you know I believe in ethical behaviour as much as the next person ;O) I guess I just felt that this was a plant to put down a competitor of this website. I’ve seen a number of people make what appear to be light questionings of other people in the property market, and I personally think it’s a ploy to destroy credibility of the person- not merely an ethical dilemma that a person might have…

As you yourself are aware, whenever someone questions the ethics of Steve, for example, they are called “negative”, a “tirekicker”, pulling down a “tall poppy” etc… So I guess I just feel that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. I get suspicious and wonder what the person’s agenda is. I wonder why their post might not be edited or why a moderator might allow it- call me funny, but I relish consistency…

And where is my email, dear Rebecca? []

kay henry

se7en,

My oroginal post to you was not about mailboxes… it was about why you were trying to publicly humiliate someone… The mailbox/suite thing is not the issue for me- it’s about why you are hammering an issue and trying to denigrate someone. I think the obsessiveness with which you are pursuing this is kind of weird. Do you have some personal issue with rick otton?

kay henry

se7en,

We know what you were asking…

Here is some details for rick otton that i got from typing in “rick otton email” into google.com.

© RickOtton.com 2003 – All Rights Reserved, Privacy Policy
127/272 Victoria Ave, Chatswood NSW 2067 Ph: 02 9412 4122 /1800 003 588 Fax: 02 9475 4367

It’s a slightly different postal address, and there is no suite mentioned, although there is on another site of his.

Now you have the numbers there, why don’t you call him and ask him? This isn’t even his site, and the guy barely posts here. why don’t you just contact him and ask him, and maybe then you’ll get the answer that seems so important to you.

kay henry

Prop :+P

I was not deliberately scaring anyone. I was merely commenting on a post that I thought was a putdown under the guise of a “legitimate” question.

Remember, there’s a “no personal jibes” rulew on here that have had some people’s posts strongly edited.

se7en can post anything she likes if it makes her happy ;O)

kay henry

se7en,

If you can’t see what’s wrong with this, then it’s probably unlikely that it could be explained to you. It’s just one of those things that most people know.

kay henry

Rugby, yeah, i thought that was weird also. Anyone have ideas on how they do this? I think for OTP apartments in Melbourne, there is no stamp duty… but no CGT?? weird…

kay henry

Richmastery- Sugars and Jones’ baby? Aren’t they the “drought, death, dumb” etc guys? No wonder the properties are so undevalued… to get such undervalued prices, you have to be pretty ruthless.

Sell at a fair price, buy at a fair price and sleep fairly well, I reckon.

kay henry

Terry,

If you don’t sell, doesn’t some of your borrowing capacity dry up eventually, unless you have huge equity (I don’t), and a huge income (I don’t).

I am fairly highly geared right now (not in terms of LVR, but in terms of high repayments or capacity to pay). I don’t use tenants to merely pay off my places- their rent goes straight into the mortgage, so effectively, I pay double per week on the mortgage. I won’t be able to buy again for the next 4 years if I don’t rearrange my finance.

Waddya think?

kay henry

Pat,

Is there no body corporate fees for this apartment? No rates or water charges?

kay henry

Terry, you said:

“I didn’t inform the landlord, just did it! What I did was rent a few bedrooms out at a higher rent, an I paid nothing at all, because the other people’s rent cover the lot. Just becasreful the others don’t find out how much you are paying.”

I’m really trying to understand your perspective here. How does lying to your (equal) flatmates, and making them pay rents so you have to pay none, seem “ethical” to you? I always thought “ethics” was a proactive term that meant acts of kindness, and doing the right thing. Whilst I know you don’t want to think you did the wrong thing, I am not sure how you can tag this sort of practice as “ethical” behaviour, like as if it’s some kind of social work.

kay henry