Gatsby, I love it!!

Oh, the things our little human minds to to try and know the unknowable.

Brenda, it makes perfect sense to me. Turn on the light and the darkness is gone. Turn on the light and the dark things scream and have nowhere to hide.

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um, i’ll stake one of my properties on the fact that Steve is NOT diddling the forum stats.

The environment, however, needs more people to care about it….

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Del,

“I will look fwd to reading your book one day soon!”

Ahm, well I guess that means I better start writing it one day soon!! hehe

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Oh yeah!! They are the real thing all right and totally legit and their achievements make me look like a.. ahem…Minimogul. hehe.

Read the book and there’s a whole chapter on John and Rhonda. They actually did ahhhhmmmm without spoiling the surprise MIND BOGGLING things in their Map year like you would not believe. I hung out with JD after one…[Read more]

I used to sign them up as (for example) “minimogul corporation and/or nominee, or as directed at settlement”

but I have since learned that the ‘as directed at settlement’ is not necessary.

HOWEVER. Our original lawyer said that the party that goes unconditional (the nominee) should be the identical name of the party that settles otherwise it…[Read more]

Hi there,

re: is it worth all the trouble?

Hmmmm hard to answer. I said to my business partner that I’d do it as long as it was either at least a) fun or b) profitable.

and nearly a year later, i’m still doing it. The more deals you do the easier it gets, like with anything, because you have a system and a team of people who are used to the way…[Read more]

Del,

I salute you

sincerely-
Mini

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Yes quite right I think there are risks as you mentioned. I know there are still CF+ve places for sale in NZ like 10 percent and over and still in CG areas to boot, or at least stable towns. That is, ones that you buy as a ‘going CF+ve concern’. I also see prices in Aus dropping across the board which means that CF+ve properties or close to it are…[Read more]

roger that!

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“just a time when you can buy”

yes agree with monopoly, you can buy always. It’s just that you think you can’t all the other times for ‘reasons’….but all the reasons could be solved no matter what they are. i.e. no equity but serviceability, get vendor to leave some money in the deal
no time – get a time partner and supply the money

no money -…[Read more]

Use a debt collection agency and keep your hands clean! You will lose a percentage though, but perhaps it is worth it to get someone else to do the running around. To delegate it.
You are already mentioning things like ‘short of putting a hit on this person’ – which sounds to me a teensy bit ‘consumed’ by the matter.
joke or no joke?
Well, if…[Read more]

After going to Steve’s mini-seminar and book launch and reading almost half the book so far I *finally* get how cashflow properties are created not bought.

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I don’t see myself stopping.

I think the more you make the more you can do, the more effect you can have.

Why would you want to limit that?
I do agree though that putting deadlines on yourself to achieve certain things by a certain date works for sure.

Once upon a time I said ‘If I can meet (my musical hero) I can die happy.’ I think I was…[Read more]

though I haven’t got to that part yet I heard that there’s a bit about it in steve;s new book, shaune and rachel from the MAP did one

I can’t wait to read it. I too just bought vacant land and intend to do a mini-development on it this year or early next. it’s in a capital gains area and I am even looking into putting a two storey re-located…[Read more]

hmmmm….well, what can I say – but farm life is not for the squeamish. I think with all our tetra-pak chilled supermarket aisles we forget that milk is from a whompin’ stompin’ cattle breast, eggs are from chicken bums, etc etc…

Yes, it might have ‘germs’ but none different from those we inhale all the time.

….
*but i just love…[Read more]

Interest rates rising maybe. OK here’s the effect I reckon it will have.

Home-owners who occupy their home – i reckon all who can afford to will grumble and wear it, maybe fix rates, and others will have to sell.

Negative gearers – will be even more out of pocket and “save even more tax”. Haha. half of them who reckon it’s good to lose money and…[Read more]

wow, I’m impressed….

19 November 2001

Small businesses and consumers are losing millions of dollars in foreign exchange transactions each year by dealing through Australia’s uncompetitive mainstream providers, according to Australia’s fastest growing provider of online foreign exchange services, OzForex (www.ozfo…[Read more]

I really consciously try to fear or judge less, stop myself when I do, etc.
Fear means you temporarily forgot to love.
And so does judging others.

So I try to think what is the ‘love’ answer to these questions? And leave the rest (judgements etc) up to God.

Focus on the similarities that unite the world not the differences which divide.

joy to…[Read more]

marc, I just read a few pages of the book online and it looks brilliant! very ‘richest man in babylon-esque!’

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hi Ken,

I’m not steve either but I am gonna have a crack. “I wasn’t born here and English is not my first language, although communication shouldn’t be a problem.”

totally not, your english is great. hats off to you.

“I came from a different culture so something “ordinary Australians” think quite natural could be quite weird to me.”

like what?…[Read more]