Hi there, I’ve been lurking for a short while & love this board so far . Please excuse the following essay/ignorance of my youth.

I’m nearly 19, and have a great interest in investing – particularly property. As yet I don’t own any properties (only $$$ in the stockmarket), & I was wondering if a strategy for young people ‘starting out’ would be a possibility in an upcoming newsletter? My apologies if this kind of material has been in a past issue, I just think it’s pertinent to my generation of investors who are looking around with blank expressions – trying to figure out where to put their money & how to go about it. Perhaps from a different angle altogether, to aid parents in educating their kids on the topic of property investing in this day & age.

For example what kind of income you’d need, what lenders would be looking at differently because of age, type of property to invest in etc.

As a personal personal example, whether joint-mortgaging a less-expensive residential property would be the go (combining two youth incomes to gain an advantage)? Just another idea I’ve been toying with.

I realise one could pen an entire book on this topic (ie. Rich Kid, Smart Kid by Kiyosaki), but a rough guide to youth investing in Oz would be fantastic…as well as one on how to construct a semi-intelligent post
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Regards,
Richard