Thanks D.

I will look more into some of those titles.

Do you know if any more recent books have been published (last couple of years), based around the market today?

Some of these are 8-10 years old.  I assume a lot have things have changed since then..?

Hi M.Investigator, thanks for your feedback.

They make money for you by replacing your working income. Positive geared properties have a main purpose to help you be financially free. Therefore, you need enough positive cashflow from properties to replace your current income. In that way, you could retire by your 40s-50s to achieve your goal. You could keep them forever, and as you do, you gradually increase rents every year which also helps to increase your cashflow.

This makes sense.  The only thing that concerns me is the type of property that we could get cheap enough to Positive Gear would typically be an old almost run down place (correct me if i'm wrong).  If we were to buy a place like this that we could make money on from day 1, that would be fine.  But what happens 5-10-15 years down the track when repairs and maintenance need doing (ie. Hot water, air conditioner, carpet, appliances etc).  As soon as these costs come into play, would the property not turn into a negative geared asset as it is costing us money (depending on return of course)?  How do we go with this? Just Negative Gear it for a couple of years until expenses have paid for themselves???