I have noticed when in WA recently that their is a lot of fencing that appears to be asbestos. Does anyone know what its made out of and is it costly to remove. It seems to be every where. Currently I am looking at WA property but the local agent seems a bit over relaxed about it. I was just thinking of any risk it may be to the tennant or possilble future law suits. Any comments?
Traci
Hi Helen, Luckyone,
Q- What do they do?
They provide information about many different ways to invest in the property market. They provide support and motivation for you. They help you set your own plan for what type of investing suits your circumstances. The format is a one-hour mentoring call or mindset call on Monday night (recorded and can be accessed 24hr/day for 1 week), plus a real estate coaching call on wed night.
The mentoring calls go into depth about the different aspects of investing. To make a list would be exhaustive to do now but a short list is
-Subdivision, development processes
-How to do Feasibility, and cost benefit studies
-Ways to secure property
-Taxation issues, SMSF, Trust structures
-Types of investment property-pros and cons
A number of special guests have spoken to us about their particular fields eg Pest Reports, Wraps specialist (not Steve unfortunately), Solicitors, Interior designers, Developers etc
The Real Estate coaching call answers any Q’s we have directly. You may ask Q’s about anything you don’t understand or need guidance on. This covers the more hands on real time stuff like contract conditions, property management- how to screen, How to use Property Investment Software (part of Package), What to look for in a property etc..
The 10 cd’s mentioned above is Dolf de Roos- “Property Investors School”
Dolf also follows the success of the program and gives us live via teleconference calls during the weekends to let us know what he’s up to in Phoenix. As I understand it he is not actually involved in the programme just good mates with the ladies running it.
On the weekends away you do pay for your food and accommodation but they do deals with the hotels to keep prices down. You can also buy the recording if you don’t want to attend.
Helen,
How has it improved my property investing?
Simply, it has widened my idea of how and what I can invest in. Prior to the program I had 2 IP’s and was searching for +ve cash flow. Problem is I would have quickly run out of equity and have to wait till they increased in value. My goal now is to have lots of properties and have cash flow. To do this I only consider properties that I can quickly increase the equity in so I can go on to my next deal. At the moment I am using renovation and strata titling to do this. There are many other ways. This just suits me at this moment.
Since joining the program I have purchased 2 duplexes and went unconditional yesterday arvo on a property in Qld with a +ve cash flow of 83.00/wk, which has the potential to increase to $220/wk +ve. I hope this helps, as it is a lot of money to spend on something if you’re not ready to commit to it or simply cant direct the time. As for my original quote sounding like an ad, it does a bit but that’s because I’m definitely an advocate for the program. It may not be for you, but if you have any other Q’s just ask. Sorry about the length.
Traci
HI,
So I can still use the redraw in my PPOR as a deposit for my IP and claim the interest on the deposit amount. I was told i could no longer do this?
Tadine,
Often negetive comments are the result of a lack of knowledge of those offering it. If you have researched and conducted due diligence completely then you are armed to make an INFORMED decision. I myself recieve little support from family and friends regarding my property portflio (except hubby), so what!. When we purchased our first IP you should have seen the fear on everyones faces. When we bought the second the reaction was more like “How Can They Afford That” almost like we were Real Estate Greed Mongers. I won’t be mentioning 3,4,5,6 etc, but once i reach 20 or so i might drop some numbers over a family get-together– Just for my own enjoyment []
Regards,
Traci
It’s seems like a hard slog but it can be worth it!. We bought the classic “worst house in the best street”. A hard go but the time and money paid off. After 5 months we have an extra 50k of equity to now invest elsewere. Had the termite, strashed 3 layeres of carpet, bright yellow paint and multi-coloured tiles to overcome.- HANG IN THERE!! If your calculations are OK, you’ll do it.
Our’s only cost 3k to accomplish.
It’ll be OK
Hi,
In the past when I’m looking at a property in a certain area I ask the local RE for a list of recently sold properties. They suscribe to a site that has the info (sorry I can’t recall the name). They will give it to you for free.
Also http://www.domain.com.au has a previous action results link within their site, although for smaller areas it rarely has too much info on it but you might get lucky.
Regards
T.
LYNNEM
Hi I ask these questions of my accountant all the time Note- I’m not a proffessional but I think-
* You must own the property for at least 12 months to claim a 50% CGT exemption.
* If the property is your PPOR for that time CGT exempt.
* if PPOR and IP it is pro-rated (as polar bear stated) to the proportion of the time it was an IP
Hope this helps.
You get good ones and you get bad, as they say a leopard rarely changes it’s spots. I’ve had a tenant call at 9.00pm to tell me, quite distressed that his dog escaped from the side fence and that he was an expensive pit bull (arn’t they illegal) and was quite “put out” when I reminded him that they rented under the contract of no pets allowed.
You can only please some of the poeple and the majority of the rest want to much!
If a tenant, you know what you would need, so you know what you need to fix, or not
Hope it helps.
T.
Bear,
I too am looking at rural areas but assumed with a 20% deposit or equity in another property then location wouldn’t be too much of a problem. I will have to look into it.
If you have equity in another property you should be able to split the loan and add the new property to it at the same rate you are currently on.
Which Bank!!! ha ha[]
I,m sure the RE agent is quite comfortable with it. I wonder how little properties he/she manages.
Do holiday rental generally come with higher management fees? I only have residential IP’s and feel that the management fee level is OK
Regards
A neat little tool I found at the bookstore for getting a feel of a country town or to locate a particular street is-
UBD Australia Country Cities & Towns (Digital Mapping on CD-Rom) ISBN-0-7319-1320-5
Costs around $50.00
Also has some cool tools for working out distances between places within a town eg- distance between IP and public school, hospital etc.
There is also a version for Aust Cities Called “Six Cities”, This one is due to be updated in Nov.
Regards,
T.
Being sorta new to investing in general, hense the “newbie” status, I think the key to any investing strategy is Education. My main motivation for starting my investment portfolio in property was the comfort that;
“Even though property can go up and go down, it can never actually become worth Zero.
In the future I intend to examine share investing as to balance the whole portfolio but with a great deal of education in between.
Traci.
Thanks for the info, looking at properties in WA but finding it difficult to evaluate “good” areas from my office in NSW.
thanks
Traci[^]
quote:
Valuer General (fax 0894298460) in WA will fax back last purchase date/price on a particular property and sales values of 70 others for $14 or 110 properties by e.mail for $22. The “other” properties can be split over two areas ie 35 around two different properties. My search yesterday was answered within 1/2 hour.
To Karren
Hi,
My understanding is that you pay CGT on the proportion if time the property is an “investment” ie 1 yr out of ten in your case.
So CGT= profit X 1/10th X your tax rate Divided by 2
Should give you an idea of CGT.