Hi sjl, I found the following link on the aiqs website:
Company
Neil Richardson – Quantity Surveyor
Address PO Box 3502 , Rockhampton Shopping Fair. QLD 4701
Phone 07 4936 1800 Fax 07 4936 1877
Email [email protected] Web Address http://www.njr.com.au

His website link didn’t work, so I don’t know if he’s still in business

The following company does monthly visits to Rocky:
Napier Blakeley Pty Ltd
Address GPO Box 703 , Brisbane. QLD 4001
Phone 07 3221 8255 Fax 07 3229 2340
Email [email protected] Web Address http://www.napierblakeley.com

You could try Deppro in Brisbane, but I don’t know which areas they do:
http://www.deppro.com/contactus.asp?location=Brisbane
hth
Jim

Aaron, weekly payments will make very little difference, and absolutely no difference if you have an offset account your pay goes into.
See the post: https://www.propertyinvesting.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3021
Jim.

[] Love it Pinkster!

Dang it Camviv, you said 24 hours! I’ve been tearing my hair out all afternoon, cause I didn’t see there was a page 2. Anyway here’s my solution:
(I promise I haven’t looked at your answer)
House 1: (Leftmost)
Norwegian
water
dunhill
cats
yellow
House 2:
Dane
tea
blend
horses
blue
House 3:
Brit
milk
pall mall
birds
red
House 4:
German
coffee
prince
FISH
green
House 5:
Swede
beer
blue master
dogs
white

I’m now bald. Thanks a lot.[][]
Jim

Try e-mailing this site using the “contact us” link and ask for a short list of names. They may be able to assist.

Michael

Simon’s got the right of it: you need a smarter or better informed broker. As you can see from the advice previously posted, this is what the broker should have come up with for you.

Dave and Steve’s story of wanting to borrow $100,000 from the bank went along the lines of the two bank lenders requesting that Dave and Steve deposit $100K in the bank and then they will lend them the money.

Dave summed it up, something like: “You mean to tell me you’ll lend us the money if we deposit the same amount in your bank? I don’t suppose you ‘sell’ many of these loans, do you?”

Just shows that dealing with the wrong people can be a huge barrier to reaching your goals. You’re not here to educate someone else who, supposedly, is competent in their industry, otherwise we’d all be doing it ourselves with no need of a professional.

You’ve created a trust and P/L as trustee, which is good, but my concern is you don’t seem to know how to go further with it. You got the concepts right, but not the practical side of creating and running the structure you want.

Please, I’m not having a go at you, I just want to point out if “how do I purchase the property in the name of the company/trust?” is a hurdle, what others are there that you don’t know about.

It’s not a conceptual hurdle, you obviously understand it. It’s a practical hurdle, a real one, and until you’ve got in place professional people who can help you through the process or the transaction, it will be a struggle.

As you can see, if you’re not sure about the how to go about it and you work with “professionals” who have no idea, your goals will not be reached. You’ll flounder.

My suggestion is find both a broker and an accountant who can work with you on this.

Take the ideas presented here when you interview these people. If they are not coming up with similar ideas, you need to go somewhere else.

Steve has a .pdf on the site somewhere about what to ask when interviewing an accountant.

Michael