I know people use cashbonds, for purchasing IP, though still, you have to come up with the money in time. Most people who use this type of bond will use it on an OTP purchase which will not be built for a few years at least.
Though my understanding of annuity program is that you have a contract, but you have to pay a set amount of income anually, though this will depend on the policyholder, while their alive, not putting it bluntly but i dont know how well these will go down. Most annuity prgrams are designed for a retirement plan income.
Though back to the bonds and OTP, the idea is that they will sell the IP in time, when there is capital gain and use those funds to self fund their retirement. (self funded retirees)
Another too is, many banks and lenders will not look at you, till you can show some evidential proof that 90% of the properties are sold or under contract on a OTP purchase. In your case.
You seem to be able to get the finance up, but again like Stuart has said the deal looks to weak. For 90% of the development to be under contract, you have to have all 7 of them as you cannot have 6.3 propertis purchased. Unless you were going to decide to develope a complex of 10.
Sorry for not much help, but do agree the deal looks very week.
To be honest, i would not worry what your friend says.
An old saying “Out with the old and in with the New” Over time, the place will clean up and improve. Many areas in Brisbane and Sydney you might remember, were well noted and heard of to be real rough areas, today many of those places still exist yet are some of the more expensive areas.
Good Example. Inala in Brisbane, very rough at the time houses were under 50k, over a few year period the properties are now worth over 200k. Over time, things will change and improve. A good investor will see these problems and wont be discourage, cause eventually suburbs will improve, due to government bodys, government funding and big developments and investments opportunities that larger corporations and companies can see.
If your interested in the crime area, go visit the police in that area, ask them, what is the crime rate like? Is this similar to other suburbs? What is the government doing to improve this area of crime?
Simply questions they are, but, they can hold the answer to what is happening to that area to control and prevent the crime waves that happen.
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Positive Cash Flow properties are out there, they all dont come at cheap bargains, some can be found at reasonable price for particular suburbs. Mainly the cheaper properties are more +ve cashflow as the rental yeilds are much higher than average prices.
Though, they are out there, just spend some time looking, you will find them.
Anyone can rent your property, even you can rent the property to yourself if it was structured in a trust.
When ever renting to a family, ensure that the correct legal process is in place, best to have a third party such as a real estate agent to handle and distribute the rental to you. Or still you can setup an Escrow Trust, though this is doing it privately and is probably more costly to setup, unless your are dealing with commercial property, then it would be visable to do so.
Yes Stamp Duty is deductible on a IP, though you cannot claim it all in one tax return, until you sell, but you can claim it over a 5 year period if your intentions are to keep the property for this length of period or if you dont ever want to sell it.