Hi C-Money,
Good to see you have your head screwed on the right way at the young age of 21. As a first timer make sure you read & re-read this whole site over as it will give you a wealth of knowledge & borrow every book you can get your hands on from the library.
My partner & I are also Gold Coasters and have I.P.’s here so we really know our ‘stuff’.
I actually work for builders & developers(who I might add are great!)but there are a lot of them on the Coast that aren’t so can’t stress to you enough to make sure you do every bit of due diligence you can. A few of us “Gold Coasters” get together once a month to discuss investing,on all levels,it’s free, if you’d like to join us just e-mail me [email protected]
‘Go for it kid’

How dodgy!!!
I’d be very interested to know just which small town you were refering to as I live in S.E.Q. and have a couple of I.P.’s in small “out of the way” towns. When one town we were purchasing in was running hot we had a LOT of trouble with an agent who couldn’t give a R…,so I wonder if perhaps it was the same agent?
Curious.