What would be considered an 'active' investor? 

Including council costs, approvals, designs and everything else, the cheapest I found using a builder was $2000sqm in Western Sydney.

Which is why I'm looking for alternatives which work out MUCH cheaper. 1 worked out great, the other one not so much

Goals by Brian Tracy

and

How To Find Property HotSpots by Jeremy Sheppard.

Just add the words free and e-book after the titles in google, should do the trick.

As Jamie mentioned, there's a large thread with quite an extensive recommended reading list. Hope it helps

Use to live there and worked on the capital projects in the area. Have a flood map showing lidar analysis of the entire area on a cd somewhere which isn’t readily available to the public. If I can find it and figure out how to upload it I will.

Central: Close to everything except university. Prices are steady and some flooding along Fitzpatrick St. University and professionals rent here.

Wagga Wagga North: Flood area, a lot of the developments here are not approved.

Mt Austin/Tolland/ Ashmont. Housing commission, some great bargains, though need to know the area as certain streets are really bad and to be honest, and every street is different from the next. Spent a lot of time doing community work here, actually nowhere near as bad as they make it out to be, definitely worth a look. Most of the local agents are a little ‘too close to home’ to know anything about the area and provide non bias feedback – may as well be another world with a giant fence and flaming sword blocking the entrance. Talk to indigenous liaison officer and police, may be more specific about which streets are which.

Kooringal: Where I would say majority of the average folk reside, some good bargains at $300k is mark. Average familys rent here.

Bourklands/Tatton: Tatton from memory was the more expensive of the two suburbs, nice looking area, poor soils in Tatton, could find your house will have cracks in the near future (beware agents talking up the area). Though the community was incredibly nice and friendly.

Glenfield Park: Newer-ish developments, $400k nice new houses, big blocks. Not sure if I would invest here as there is plenty of land to be developed further back on church land. A lot of home-owners.

Springvale: Larger blocks, kinda far from everything. Expensive for Wagga. Most residents like to keep to themselves.

San Isidore: Considered far out of town by locals, and residents are generally against any new development.

Forest Hill: Close to airport, and army barracks. Seems to be a spot to look at.

Estella: Close to university, shops are being built/have been built there last I spoke with the local developer. Prices already seem a bit steep. University students rent here, and in central.

Cartwrights Hill: Near abattoirs, smells, close to all industrial area.

Areas further out like Ladysmith etc, have flood issues.

Also when i scroll over the achievments icon the text appears behind all the writing so I can't read it.

Yeah, pretty much.

Need to connect electricity to main switchboard, can keep water together and just increase rent to include the water bill., tho I prefer to keep them separate at the extra cost to myself. You will need a licensed electrician with some sort of special extra accreditation to do the job. Make sure you call the electrical company first to set up the connection reference (takes about 10 mins).

When you call electricity company for reference number they will ask you how you want to name your new place. eg. if its 26 AWESOME ST, you can name your GF 26A Awesome St, and your bills will be sent there.

Am building a couple of granny flats now myself in St Marys. Where abouts are yours?