Thanks all,It is zoned intensive agriculture.(it is actually advertised as balance rural with every agent, but I called the shire to check the zoning, and they told me it is intensive agriculture…recently changed from balance rural)It is in the Donnybrook Balingup shire – orchard/hobby farm country.By the way current IP loan is with CBA.  Had pr…[Read more]

ASSUMING that there IS a demand for furnished rental places in your area, I would look at it like this:

Apply the good old 11 second rule –
If furnishing you place would cost you say, $5000 for new/good 2nd hand furniture, and you could generate and extra $40 a week in rent:
$40 per week, divided by 2, mulitiplied by 1000 = $20,000. Which is…[Read more]

And one more:
Pretend you have a hearing problem and keep asking the caller to repeat themselves. eg “Sorry dear, you’ll have to speak up a bit, I can’t hear you” Once you’ve said it about 10 times they get a bit frustrated and give up.

~jo~

At work, on a mine.
However, did not become an item until a couple of years after I had left. Then I dragged him home from a nightclub at 6am.
The funny (weird) part is that when I was working at that mine, a clairvoyant told me that the reason I was there was to meet my soulmate. She even told me when his birthday was. After I had left, I…[Read more]

I would be positive about the future for Hedland despite the impending Boodarie closure. Someone mentioned other BHPB expansion projects coming on line, I believe this is the case.
The recent massive increase in demand for iron ore for China is only just beginning to create positive spin off effects, the end to this demand is no where in sight.…[Read more]

Hi Zen.
I’ve a bit of an interest in the perth apartment market.
My PPOR at present is an East Perth apartment and in the short time I have owned it I am confident of it doing well. I have the sale history for the entire complex of 60 units since construction 7 years ago all charted, and the CG has to date been damn good.
If I leased my place now…[Read more]

Hang on, going back to all the stats presented at the start of the thread… Re, housing construction figures.

Is there any numbers available on dwellings DEconstructed, how would this change the figures? Eg, if alot of the new dwellings are developments of residential blocks with an old residence demolished to make way for 2, 3, or 4 new…[Read more]

A few more:

1)Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and the English will never win back the ashes in our lifetime
2)Trying to see into the future is like looking for a black cat in a dark room that might not even be there.
3)If you fall off a donkey seven times, you must climb back on eight times. If you fall off a donkey ten times,…[Read more]

Assuming the two are mutually exclusive at the time of the decision (ie he absolutely can’t come OS with me at any stage of the job posting), I’d stay here with my partner and us work together setting ourselves up financially/professionally for as long as it takes.

Question:
If you could meet one famous person, dead or alive, who would you…[Read more]

Hee hee hee, Merredin. I was born and bred there!!! Have friends who grew up in some of the houses listed on realestate.com!!
(PS I have been looking at it too. Not too sure yet.)

~jo~

One of my local agents must have read that book too, I got one worded EXACTLY the same a couple of weeks back!!! Very pathetic effort.

~jo~

While I am not a single mother investing in property, I am the daughter of one who did, with reasonable success.

In the late 1980’s, My Mum bought and we lived in an old (very crappy!) house an a big block, while sherenovated it and found a financial partner to help her build 2 more strata units out the back. This resulted in enough of a return…[Read more]

2)in my case the offset account on ppor loan is my day to day account, that my income goes into and my expenditure comes out of. It doesn’t “earn” interest, just saves it off the loan balance. So, I guess the bank just does with it whatever they usually do with an ordinary savings account…. Make more money out of it by means I am not sure I…[Read more]

Hey it was worthwhile asking anyway. Made me go and scratch the dozen cards I had thrown in a drawer to see, never bothering to look at them for obvious resons. (nope, can’t help sorry) Gave up on that after I never got that missing paddle pop stick that would have taken me to disneyland when I was 10.

~jo~

I like the idea of buying at or around median house price.
I have done on both my Perth properties, and both seem to be performing in line with median over time. For example, IP in redcliffe originally bought as PPOR. Bought at median house price then, is still bang on median house price now. Lived in it for 1 year, then achieved a rental…[Read more]

Where is Byford? You would have right to claim ignorance… Its on the very southern Perth fringe, directly inland from Kwinana. Semi rural. Too far from the city but not far enough, if you know what I mean!

~jo~

There are some zoning changes happening around Midland too to allow higher density housing. Also plans for “inner city” style HD developments modelled on Subi, east perth and the like, from what I can gather.
Should be good news for the area.

~jo~

I get mine emailed and print them myself – no paper copy mailed every month.

~jo~

HEY, I am ‘only’ 28 and it all rings true apart from the lead paint…

We were more terrified of Mum’s rubber double plugger than of anything else in the whole world. She only had to reach towards her feet to grab a thong and we would be on our best behaviour.

TV- in regional WA all we had was ABC.

And I still drink from the garden hose. Always…[Read more]

Home: East Perth, Perth WA, 1 week out of 3. Love it!!

Other: Yarri, 2 weeks out of 3 (used to be Shay Gap) North west WA, 200kms ESE of Port Hedland. Hot as the fires of hell at the moment. 38 degrees at 7:30 this morning.

~jo~