This is my first comment and I must firstly say what a valuable thread this has been + I love reading some good banter!

I went to seminar a couple of weekend in Sydney featuring Mark Rolten and couldn't believe the amount of people that went running to the tables after to hand over their cash without doing one bit of due diligence. 

The information that he provided during the seminar and the contacts I've got from reading this thread has been enough info to get started anyway. 

So since the seminar I've actually gone out and found myself a property, were the owners are interested in signing an option for 18 months, which will allow me enough time to get the DA through. <moderator: delete advertising>