Cool Marisa! comes complete with tenant? Or do you have to find one? If so, hopefully they are in numbers for you![]

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Mel

Welcome bmulrooney

Steve’s focus is postive gearing, rather than using any negative gearing to make things work – hence you’ll see no enthusiasm for negative gearing from him.

Don’t buy a property just to save on tax. A property valued at $300K that rents for $400pw I would buy. Are you sure it will cost $100 per week? Even if you borrow the…[Read more]

Not quite the gumball style (I can have gumballs though) – they tend to only have one type of lolly. I can have 4, 8 or even 12 depending on the machine.

Profitable – yes if you have good locations (of course). The profit level is about 50% on cost of lollies. Of course the prices vary, Jelly Beans are far and away the cheapest and most…[Read more]

Tip:
If buying Off the Plan, with a year or several until settlement, apply for finance at LEAST 3 months before settlement if you didn’t have approval (whatever it was worth 12 – 24 months previously) on signing of the contract.

Tip:
Get a really good solicitor – not one who only deals with the Mum and Dad ‘bread and butter’ type of…[Read more]

qwerty, I reckon I might have seen it too. Had a look inside, but didn’t think I’d want to live there at the moment……

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Mel

I think he’s mentioned in a post that it will be for sale shortly….

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Mel

Cel, that’s true – although they do get to claim it on tax. My little brother is forever buying new toys – I mean equipment for work. Plus they have to have a ute or a van or 4WD to carry all the stuff – and the extra petrol.

I’ve seen my brother get zapped by the electrics when fixing next doors power point – he goes through a lot of those…[Read more]

Depends what you call ‘food’ Rob! My machines have four canisters, that accept 20c, 40c or $1 coins, that give one crank of the handle for a handful of ‘whatever’.

Not the packs of chips, lollies etc.

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Mel

How typical that the investigators will be called rats!

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Mel

Yes Miss Kay?

Another member and I have also been discussing vending machines. It looks like he is able to buy one the same as mine for about half price. If he can get a good site, it would easily return his invested money inside of about 6 months – plus he could eat all the lollies he liked and call it a business expense!!

I must say, 10kg of…[Read more]

Hey Leigh

I’ve spent a lot of time with Bill, and I will vouch for the fact that he is very positive…. generally. However, he is negative on real estate at the moment, and Wraps also as we well know. I’ve had words with him several times about how negative he is on the forums….. So much so that when his brother and I discuss buying real…[Read more]

Unless the auctioneer is going to give a kickback to the ‘friend’ it shouldn’t matter, as they are out to get the highest price possible.

this will benefit ALL of the beneficiaries – and the agent may work harder as it is a mate, rather than just doing it for the public trustee and having no real interest in the price etc…

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Mel

Hi Misty

I’m guessing, but it sounds to me like it would be a capital cost – that is, it’s not helping you to increase/keep income, but is adding value to the property etc.

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Mel

Misty, I haven’t done it, but I believe it adds value to a place. Because it takes time to do (in some instances 12 months), and costs money, for a builder developer who can get straight in and build it’s great.

Even for an owner builder it would be good. However, the price still has to leave some value in it for the buyer to make their own…[Read more]

Guys, guys, guys (and girls, girls, girls)

Shoud I clarify, and say that the $50 per hour is WAGES to be employed FULL TIME. That’s right, 5 (or 5 1/2) days per week, 8 hours per day x $50. Without any overtime, that’s $2K per week!!

I certainly understand the plumber I call out to my house will charge more than that, as he is not working 8…[Read more]

hey guys, I’ll bet you $1000 that the 15-60% Govt approved is the tax lien certificates (extremely favoured by American investors – and profitable too!) that are similar to our rates. Thing is, if they go unpaid there, the Govt whacks the payer with the % interest, but onsells the debt to investors. Investors earn that interest when it is paid…[Read more]

Hi Getting There

It’s true unfortunately. Is there no way you could make it available now? Advertise as available now, see if you get any prospects….

They may take one look – and say, no way, not fit to live in, but at least it would have been available…. although I think you could still only claim for the time it was ‘available’..

As was…[Read more]

Jaffa – A list of acronyms

ie. TLA Three Letter Acronym
LMAO Lauging My A$#e off
LMI Lenders’ Mortgage Insurance
PPOR Principal Place of Residence

etc. etc. etc.

If we had them all in one place – it would save the newbies having to ask the question….

Don’t you like my suggestion of Scott’s tips on what to look for when inspecting a newly…[Read more]

A HDT can be both sorts of trust. If you borrow the funds to buy units in the trust, then rent the property from the trust, and claim a loss on your tax – that is the bit the govt doesn’t like.

If, however, the trust buys the house, and borrows money from you (in the ‘normal’ way, ie no issuing of units) and the trust makes a loss, then it will…[Read more]

Manoj, if I had that last tenant, I would never ENTER that investment property[biggrin]

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Mel