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>>If you’d like Steve’s MAP protege living in NZ to leverage your time and find the deals to build your portfolio quickly, just ask me!)
<<Well, in the interest of an informed decision what is the difference between yourself and people like Westan and Minnie ?
Lower fees ? Better type of properties ? Provide
guest facilities ? (Breakfast in bed ?) [wink]Pisces
If the story is correct that is :
So is this shining light going to be let loose on other trauma cases Richmond ?
Is he going to keep his job ?
Is he going to be sent back to school to brush up on sensitivity ?
As it is likely that the story wasn’t live is the producer going to be sent to the doghouse as well for allowing such insensitivity to remain ?
It reminds me of a story when I was about 16.
At work someone’s wife had just passed away so someone working with him who wanted to comfort him said : “well, you are going to find someone else aren’t you ?’I am sure the person didn’t realise how insensitive the statement was and obviously ‘it just came out of his mouth’.
So much for putting a bit of thinking behind what one says.
Pisces
>>I was taught that you cant go broke making a profit.<<
That is the greatest bit of nonsense I’ve ever seen.
Taking small profits, taking all the risks and
making a good size loss here and there will soon send you broke.Oh, I know, if you don’t sell you don’t realise the loss, is that it ? [laughing]
Pisces
Pisces
Is anyone happy for the First Home Buyer?
Does not seem to be much focus on this forum about the benefits of the tax/duty changes.
Is it perhaps because everyone on this forum owns 2-130 properties?
This is my first post – usually just a casual observer. Couldn’t help but reply to the knee-jerk reactions to the Mini-Budget changes. sounds so reminiscent of GST and even Y2K doom and gloom predictions.>>I don’t think Carr can influence the decisions of the NZ gov so you’re way off base.<<
Baloo, it looks to me as if you don’t appear to have grasped what I am saying.
The decisions by the New Zealand government don’t come into the equation, it is the NSW decisions we are concerned about.
What I in effect am saying is that if Mr Carr acted on information about an impending new form of taxation which isn’t publicly available then he would have acted on insider information which is illegal in this and many other countries and therefore he would have obtained an unfair advantage.
I understand that in the US for example the President when he takes up his position divests all his investment into a trustee so as to be not just be doing the right thing but, just as important, to also be seen as doing the right thing.
Perhaps such new ways of raising revenues were foreshadowed in Labor’s program and therefore Mr Carr’s actions possibly cannot be seen as having a blemish attached to it.
I don’t know as I am not a lawyer.
I do however think my question is a fair question to ask.
Pisces
Bear’s sentiment (‘Personally I really don’t know if all the work, time and expense are worth it, not to mention the risk.‘) seems to me to be spot on.
On the one hand, the amount of work you, as a spotter, are required to put in deserves more than just $ 1,000 [unless such properties are so plentyful that every second or third property (or even every tenth property) is a goer].
On the other hand, increasing the spotters fee may stop people dead in their track.
Given either one of the scenarios is correct the real question is whether it is or isn’t worth one’s while to be a spotter.
Pisces
Perhaps Steve may be prepared to allocate part of his book’s profits (which he has already
said that he is donating to charity) to be used as seed money to get a new Property Owners political party off the ground ?What say you, Steve ?
Pisces
Keep the rage alive
This government is so bankrupt, both morally and physically that this isn’t likely to be the end of the tax raising. Without a shadow of doubt, there is more to come.
Keep the bastards honest.
How many concerned property owners do you think there are in whose interest it is to protect themselves by supporting a grass roots movement in parliament which holds the balance of power ?
So where do we go from here ?
Pisces
>>Im ready if you are Pisces, let’s start a revolution, Im sure we can find support!<<
Support ? On this site ?
Well, where are the supporters ? Just watch to see how many (few) will respond to your suggestion.
I doubt that the population on this website is any different from the general population.
Too apathetic. They just stand by whilst they are being sliced to death, bled dry.Pisces
Mysta, I note you have only just joined this site.
If you want to make a change one is able to edit one’s post.
I note that I was unable to email you !!! nor did the ‘Private Message system’ appear to work (please take note Mr WebMaster).
Pisces
Is there such a thing as an asset register whereby politicians have to declare their interests ?
If so, is this accessible by the public ?
Pisces
>>Just a simple balance of power is sufficient to keep, whatever government is in charge, under control.<<
Yeh, I am so desperate that I have now come down to quoting part of my own post.
All I read is complaints.
I don’t however see anything about how to combat
being robbed, how to stop being used, how to get these absurd decisions reversed.Decisions reversed ?
Yes, yes, yes, that CAN be achieved but not by being quiet, sitting on one’s hands, silently crying about being bled to death.
ACTION is needed.
Organised action.
Act now or repent later at your leisure.
If you aren’t prepared to act NOW do you really
think you will do something about it later ?Who do you think you are kidding ?
Pisces
Blah, blah,blah, so many people so upset, yet come election time that miserable Carr and his morally bankrupt government of his will be put back into office.
All because next month all those people up in arms will be fast asleep again, having forgotten all about the matter.
Or at least forgotten so much about it that they
will be too apathetic to take to the streets, too apathetic to speak up at election time, too apathetic to start a political party called (for example) ‘Enough is Enough’.Remember that one doesn’t need a majority in parliament to have the power.
Just a simple balance of power is sufficient to keep, whatever government is in charge, under control.
Pisces
Wow, so much venom from so many people about that man.
I too didn’t like the wig he wore at one stage, nor the cut of his suit, nor the colour of his eyes nor the fact that he carries a bit of weight, nor his type of humor and the only difference of opinion between some of the people here and myself is that in my opinion that isn’t enough to condemn him as a hungry, money grabbing, bastard.
Yack, do yourself a favour and go and see your friendly bank or morgage broker and find out what the interest rate is and any extra costs for say mortgage insurance (if one can get a loan that is) under the following circumstances :
1. no deposit
2. $ 3 K deposit
3. just one single default of say $ 800 on a Telstra billAfter , in the interest of an informed discussion, you have gathered those details then have a look at Elves’ post (the one where she talks about her brother) and thence let us know whether you still think that a higher interest rate for a wrap is still ‘unfair’ and
‘unreasonable’.BTW, I am not a wrapper.
Pisces
The question makes me wonder how possibly the rent can be increased from $ 100 to $ 200 in one hit.
And, yes, if the rent is the correct value then that will certainly influence the value of the property. (though there are other factors which come into play as well).
Pisces
Russ said : ‘Well I don’t know if I would implement this rule myself, but a professional painter once told me that rented properties should never allow smoking inside.’
I wonder whether it is legal to refuse a tenancy based on whether or not the tenant has a smoker in the family.
Does anyone have any idea about that ?
Pisces
Thanks, Kay
Pisces
>> How would we build roads, schools, hospitals, public transport, if there was no income tax? <<
Congratulations Kay. With one sweeping statement you have now solved all the ills of the world, and all that is wrong with the system has now been justified.
There doesn’t appear to be any room in your thinking to see what is wrong with the system.
The system allows pressure groups to milk the government’s resources to the detriment of the greater good.
Just one very relevant example : Health. The government KNOWS what can be, should be, done to improve the public’s health but aren’t prepared to take the steps necessary to attain that worthy goal.
As a consequence people make themselves ill (yes, they do it to themselves) with a lot of help from the government.
Isn’t it the government’s task and responsibility to educate people so as to discourage them to continue to take and eat certain harmful substances which cause such serious illnesses like heart problems, diabetis, cancer etc etc.
Billions are spend on subsidising medicines whilst the illnesses themselves could by and large have been avoided in such an easy way.
Whilst on the one hand the medical profession comes up with more and more discoveries to extend one’s lifespan at the same time it isn’t in their interest either to educate people.
How would they otherwise pay for their tennis courts if their waiting rooms are empty because the populations’ health stanfard has been improved so as to all but eliminate many of the social illnesses of the last 80 years ?
Still not convinced ? Walk into any club and have a look at the multitude of older people, all very busy pulling the poker machines.
Bloody monkeys. Sorry, that is probably offensive and unfair to monkeys because I would think that monkeys eventually would wake up to themselves.
Why would the government encourage such a scourge on society ?
Yeh yeh yeh, I can already hear some idit pundits saying ‘Oh, but the government isn’t encouraging this as they have strict control over the number of machine licences.’
Yeh, that would be right. They are really interested in the quality of life of the older lonesome people, give them something to do.
It sure isn’t because the government wouldn’t be able to function without the poker machine tax revenue they collect.
Pisces
I understand that early last century there wasn’t any income tax in this country.
When income tax was introduced it was supposed to be a temporary measure only.
So much for politicians’ promises.
Until people stand up for themselves they will continue to be played for a sucker.
The government continues to grow its expenditure, it will always find ways and means to spend the money. Indeed it always appears to have a shortfall thence the continuing looking for new ways to raise revenues.
Yet, essentials are by and large overlooked.
We will shortly have another election. Have a look how, in a desperate attempt to get into (or remain) in power, promises are made which can only be funded by desperately looking for additional ways of raising revenues.
This world, this country, is sick. The politicians for making irresponsible concessions and promises and the public for being so shortsighted that they don’t appear to want to
know about the fact that there is always a price to pay, there aren’t any free lunches.Apathy costs.
Pisces
I have, in the past, stood up against a couple of crooks on a website ripping people off with a lot of misleading information and expensive seminars and software.
The end result was that I received a death threat and the innocent suckers didn’t, couldn’t, even be bothered supporting me.
(just two people chose my side of the fence).
I do however understand why everyone was so apathethic because they were living in a dreamworld, thinking they were going to learn from the guru how to become rich so why should they support someone who wants to destroy their dreams ?
It made me realise that standing up trying to wake up everyone is a thankless (and even dangerous) task so why bother other than issuing a simple warning (like I did about sharks possibly lying in wait at the Expo).
Should one make it one’s life ambition to become
the exposer of crooks ?I don’t think so any more.
And neither should anyone else considering what both S.I.S. and Chan mentioned about the people on the bus i.e. that they had ample and open warning and that talking to them was an absolute waste of one’s breath.
Pisces
