Dear Luke,

I believe import more tradies is the key to turn the balance of suppy in favour of demand. All my tradies are from China, they do not speak a complete English sentence, but they do great jobs, totally competent . I used them until they get more and more Aussie and charge more and more.  

So, I have to move on to find new and young overeseas ones, I hope they will keep coming from overseas.

All yound generation from every developed countries like US, Japan, Europe and Australia do not want to get their hands dirty, nor do your/invester's kids, why not bring in more tradies from third world countries like China, Mexico or even Korea who are hunger and desparate for our work.  I know majority of tradies in Japan and US are from these overseas, and their living standard have improved dramatically. Even in develping countries like China and India, the living standard of middle and higher classes are been kept high due to all those jobs are been done by migrant worker from regional areas cheaply. I laughed my friend worth over A$10 mil is still doing concrete or painting jobs himself, I know he will not lift a finger for this in China!!!!! 

He's not along, I lived in Malvern (Vic) and see many highly paid executives, doctors and professionals are doing these odd jobs too, it's really a waste of human resource, it must be a structural prolbem in our society!
 
For all our poor property investers and average homeowners who strugglling with tradies job, I plea to open our floodgate to let those precious overseas tradies into our society, we will see our investing experience and living standard greatly improved and will never see this topic been discussed here again!!!

Michael