Thanks Tim, that’s a great idea, I’ll look into it.

email: g e n e r a l g h e r k i n @ y a h o o . c o m
phone: 0405 411 098

Thanks for the answers, Rossco!

Edited by – generalgherkin@yahoo.com on 09/01/2003 12:24:59 PM

Louise:
thanks

AD:
Yep, gotta get those…[Read more]

Hi Steve, yep I hear you. of course, i work long hours at my job during the week so i’m trying to squeez in whatever time I have to do this. last night’s effort was just a poke of my toe in the water! I intend to spend a decent amount of time on the weekend getting into this. Of course, I’m still spending whatever time I can spare after work researching.

Thanks Hilary! I’ll give him a call

Hi Tara, thanks for the tips. My main concern is that I don’t think I can get a loan right now, as I have credit card I’m paying off that got cancelled last year after I was unable to pay the repayments for a while during a period of unemployment (actually I was self employed but my workload disappeared and eventually I had to go and find a job,…[Read more]

no enthusiasm stifling here, I just want to make sure I understand wht I’m doing! Thanks for taking a look at what I did, though. The loan interest rate on the allhomes site was about 6.7% I think, and me, not knowing the difference between a P&I loan and an interest only loan, chose the lower of the two. I assume the P&I loan simply means a loan…[Read more]

Oh, also, two other questions:

1. I am interested in getting my own home but obviously I do not have a deposit. What do you think of the idea of me buying my own home via a lease option, thereby getting experience as the tenant side of the deal, plus seeing how a deal is worked out?

2. In a lease option, according to some material I’ve been…[Read more]

Ok, I did a little bit of investigating by using allhomes.com.au which is a really good resource for the ACT and surrounding areas. It has past sales information for practically every property in the ACT for the last 12 years plus growth charts, etc.

I made a spreadsheet to do some calculating (Excel 2000) and have uploaded it to http://www.hep10.…[Read more]

thanks for the advice / homework! I’ll get right on it