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    I think Steve Dover (one of John Burley’s Aust graduates) teaches something like that. Surely you would have an enforceably contract with the vendor if they agreed.

    Either that, or you charge them a fee for doing the reno, get your money back at settlement, and half of the extra sale price achieved.

    Would certainly save on your borrowing costs, your interest costs, no stamp duty for you etc. etc.

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    Nathan, just quickly.

    A serviced apartment is similar to a hotel in that all furniture, linen, crockery, cutlery (I think the crockery bit) is supplied (by you), for a higher rental.

    Pooled income is where there are many such units/apartments, and a management company who looks after them. Say there are 10. If only 6 are rented for the week, then it doesn’t matter if yours was or wasn’t, you would get 60% of the income.

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    Jay, I’m afraid I have to agree with xyzzy on this one.

    By only buying one copy with the intention of making a copy is in my book ripping someone off. Your first post said that you were going to get the copy from your friend – suggesting he was keeping the originals, and you were buying a pirate copy.

    You say the author sold AN extra copy that he wouldn’t have otherwise. That copy now belongs to the buyer on ebay who got a discount. You guys subsidised his purchase. Well done.

    I think it’s safe to say that you ‘got what you paid for’. If I were you I’d ask for all of your money back from your friend, and write it off as an error in judgement.

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    fullout, I would definitley get a solicitor to type it up for you.

    You can put in plain english the terms and conditions, but get a solicitor to make it legalese.

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    Don’t fret Poltergeist, I don’t think Paul was having a go at you![;)]

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    Chris, I would say it’s common practice. I can tell you that every loan of mine is IO, as is almost all investors that I know.

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    Still in school, I don’t believe that you get ‘flamed’ for what you say. I know that I myself have questioned some things you have said that certainly didn’t match other things you had said, and some others have gently corrected the way you calculate some returns, but it’s all about helping everybody to learn, and most of all to help you so that you are not ‘fooling yourself’ with some of the ‘returns’ you have been achieving by using those flawed calculations.

    I accept and welcome comments you can make. I am impressed that you have been able to do so much at 21 – in fact, I am jealous. Especially if you are ‘still in school’. I think people of all ages could benefit from some of your strategies.

    While we’re on the subject though, can you please please put your g’s in when you are typing. I can understand if you talk and drop them, but I cringe every time I read what you type (and I often wonder if your ‘g’ key on the keyboard is missing[:P])

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    Brent, so far so good. Time will tell though. I for one believed the ‘we’ll be down for 24 hours’ when you locked us out at six, and just checked in as I had logged on on the off chance.

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    Congratulations Brett!

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    Thanks Erika[:)]

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    Nice odds Bill![;)]

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    http://www.citypac.com.au

    I think it’s 8.75% at call!

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    I only spent about 3 minutes at the site. I know it would have been fairly easy to find, but I had a quick look, and then closed it.[:I]

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    Hi C2

    We’ll have our conversation in between the betting scandals that are going on![:O]

    I personally would be looking to make strong cashflow. I’ll state now that I am looking at cashflow investing at present, as I am asset rich and cash poor and want to even things out (plus I don’t want to have to work![:P])

    I probably have said before that if you have more properties you have a chance of more gain. But I do agree with Bill on the current market, so wouldn’t rush out and buy 10 ‘just cos I could’.

    Although, having just reread your question, I probably would not put down any more deposit than I had to, but I don’t really want to pay MI at the moment. So a 20% deposit would be where I’m at. If that enables me to buy more or less, than that’s either good or ‘the way it goes’. I would not look to overextend myself, and would be planning on further rate increases when looking at my serviceabilty.

    My whole strategy has been to buy and not sell, but recently we’ve sold a couple of dogs to alleviate some of our cash poor problem.

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    Foodie, are you associated with NAF at all? You have made only three posts, and everyone of them has mentioned this site!

    I hope you are not, and that you are just posting where your interest is focused at the moment, but you have to be careful these days with the anonymity of forums and all.

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    Hi Foodie

    On quick inspection, it looks like all this company do is place your ad onto realestate.com.au. I think someone mentioned in an earlier post that you do not pay to advertise ‘per ad’ on this site, but instead pay a subscription fee, which is really expensive if you’re not selling too many houses in a year.

    If NAF have got that subscription already, they just place your ad on there for you, and collect your $$$, and that’s their business. Quite a good idea methinks. I didn’t see how much they charge you though.

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    Yes Powmow all that is true. But if you follow Bill’s plan, you would probably only need to pay for ads a couple of weeks running, and if that costs up to a $1000, you’re still way in front. I wouldn’t necessarily drop the price either – it just gives you more negotiating range I think.

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    Me too Poltergeist!! Her first name was also Melanie, so when we had classes together at school we sat next to each other! I don’t think the teachers were ever too thrilled though.

    Although it did make it easier for them when they wanted to tell us both off![:I]

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    Phil, often I have the same problem. Also have broadband, so it’s not the connection. I think there is an upgrade coming soon to the forums, so hopefully problems will be fixed then.

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    Hi C2

    I am always looking, but not really buying at the moment. If I do buy now, it will be for absolute cashflow (I will not care about growth).

    I have been thinking to buy any really good deals that I see, but other than that to sit back and wait to see what happens with the market. Part of my extra borrowings will also provide me the cash to subsidise any future interest rate rises if necessary.

    I expect the rate rise to be in December, so there’s probably not much chance of beating it. Having said that, all bar one of my loans are variable interest. What I’m looking at doing is refinancing some of my loans that are with non bank lenders to a bank that offers the professional package, to ensure that I’m getting at least a .5% discount from current markets anyway.

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