Thanks for your advice Jamie and Jac. Sounds perfect for me, I don't mind emailing/phone whatever. My broker is in Melbourne and that worked out for me. Great to see I can do the same with a solicitor and an accountant!

So if I bought a property it would be better to use a local solicitor to do the conveyancing? Doing contracts and organising settlement? 

That's my problem, because I live in the country, the solicitors are quite old fashioned and don't really deal with property investors in the capacity that I need.

That sounds great JacM. I didn't realise you could do that. Do you have to scan all of your receipts and stuff?

I've got one name of an accountant, are there anymore out there, just in case?!

This is my new job! Finding a great accountant. You're right, you don't need to live near them, but how do you go about doing tax returns and whatever, do you just email back to and fro? I just want a good recommended accountant who is a specialist in investment properties.

My local solicitor was flabbergasted when I asked him to set up a trust to buy properties in. He thought the idea was not worth the paper it was written on. So, I also need a good solicitor who is experienced in working with property investors!

Thanks everyone for replying. So to clarify, once I move into my new PPOR and rent out my old one. I will have to pay capital gains if I decide to sell it. That's what I always thought and a guy I was speaking to confused me and told me I might not have to.

Thanks!