Sometimes you come across DHA houses for sale on real estate sites with a few years of the lease remaining that are quite reasonably priced, but I'm not sure if you can negotiate price or not.

Also Occasionally Defence Housing sell them on through there site with a few years on the lease remaining and the lease extension option

Could be an…[Read more]

Tegan,

Just bought in Goulburn, … settles 30th Oct. Seems to be a town that is being discovered by first home buyers and investors especially since it's solved it's past water issues and its affordable compared to Canberra.

Goulburn Seems to be on the radar of a few so called property experts predicting that the town has a future. Good…[Read more]

Tegan,

Just bought in Goulburn, … settles 30th Oct. Seems to be a town that is being discovered by first home buyers and investors especially since it's solved it's past water issues and its affordable compared to Canberra.

Goulburn Seems to be on the radar of a few so called property experts predicting that the town has a future. Good…[Read more]

I'm fairly sure this company contacted me a while ago and offered their services. It was going to cost something like $24,000 to handle the sub-division process including plans, council stuff etc, but didn't include council fee's and some other costs which I can't remember. I think from memory by the time everything was factored in it was closer…[Read more]

I can't really answer your question, but when I do a quick feasibility for any of my development opportunities. I base all my figures on today's values, … there is no way I can accurately predict what is going to happen down the track. If the numbers based on today's values work with good profit/equity margin, then I seriously look at taking the…[Read more]

dhodgson wrote:
thanks for your help, turns out initial selling estimate was way more than market value (spoke to other estate agents), once that was factored in the deal isn't any good, in fact it only just about breaks even. Nevermind, onwards and upwards

Look don't take this the wrong way as I applaud your enthusiasm ….. but shouldn't you…[Read more]

Tupuraki wrote:
Hi,we just purchased our 1st house in Ipswich qld, on a subdividable block…. we were wanting to subdivide and put a removable house at the back of the block….. Has anyone had any experience with removable houses????? also, i have friends who buys of the plan properties, they seem to be doing really well…. just wondering….…[Read more]

marco_install wrote:
hi james and michelleif you need help in asemble and instalation of kitset kitchen i can helpi do tilling plastering an carpenty work allsoihave done 100s of flat pack kitchens iam in melb so email me

marco_install, …… I think you are about 3 years too late. James and michelle's post was written in June 2006.

The council may allow you to do a dual occupancy development, ….. give the council town planning dept a call and have a chat.We had a similar issue with Ipswich council, …. they wouldn't allow us to do a sub-division, but dual occupancy/duplex was fine. Crazy really …… we can build a 4,2,2 second house (existing is 3,1,1) on the land as a…[Read more]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you take the time to research property investing over a few months, read books, join forums like this and read magazines like API … Then why would you need to pay others to make decisions for you and hold your hand.Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but for me part of the enjoyment of property investing is the research…[Read more]

I'm pretty sure if you go onto the Carly Crutchfield website you should be able to buy what you are looking for.http://www.cclub.com.au/Or at least they should be able to tell you if it's still available.

Lightyrs wrote:
Hi All,Has anyone from the Forum had or have business with Custodian Wealth. I have a friend who seems to be doing quite well from it and his portfilo is groing nicely with very little hassle. Im wondering if anyone here is buying property through them or an equivilant company and how it is working for them?

I'm pretty sure t…[Read more]

Tupuraki wrote:
We have a house in ipswich on a 1027m2 block, we can't subdivide it but we can do dual occupancy, we were looking at doing this and spending around $130,000-$150,000 to build a 3 bedroom home at the back, just wondering if anyone has any experience in this and if it is a straight forward process to strata these two homes. and how…[Read more]

We are happy to sit tight at present. We are concentrating on building up the cash savings and happy to sit on the sidelines.  Several of our IP's are on large development size blocks. This is where we see our next IP's coming from. No hurry, .. the land isn't going anywhere.Martin

lopetha wrote:
Hi all,Im due to settle on a property tomorrow at 11:30 but apparently the vendors are not ready as the bank has lost the title. Since their bank and my bank are both the same bank, Ive been told that I can settle without the title and that the bank can put something in writing agreeing to locate the title or obtain a new one…[Read more]

Anrobel wrote:
This will be the first time I have sold anything and i am a little nervous about regretting it in the future – i don't want to be one of the sheeple jumping on the bandwagon but with the rezoning i think it will be a very long time before i get the same money … and with zoning change i would have to build two storey untis which…[Read more]

Scamp,You are just a big bundle of joy aren't you? …. Not a bad ego either.I've been investing in property since the mid 1980's (as I imagine have quite a few others)…. I've seen a few downturns and managed to get through them without you being there to hold my hand. Your assumptions that us "suckers" are all blundering along blindly into the…[Read more]

Does it really matter which one is supposed to be better ? … As long as one or both of the options can give you the wealth you desire. Share traders will say shares are better and property investors will probably argue theirs is the way to go.I couldn't get shares to work for me. Share trading just didn't suit my personality whereas property is…[Read more]

blogs wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23599751-661,00.html"MELBOURNE'S property prices have plunged 8.4 per cent, or a record $40,000, since the start of the year"But of course property prices will keep sky rocketing in price with record debt, petrol prices, interest rates and inflation up up up….

Have a read of this…[Read more]

SandiebTry contacting a town planning consultant in your state and preferably in the same council area as your development site. They handle these sort of residential dual occupancy/subdivision applications to council all the time. I am flying up to Brisbane this week to meet with one who we are looking to engage in stepping our application…[Read more]