Thanks Paul, I appreciate your help!I found a lot of people were very cagey about it when I talked to them about how they normally went about it .Vanessa

Its located in Victoria

Does anyone know of an insurance broker that can help me? How does everyone else arrange their insurance or am I asking too much of a sticky question seeing no one else has replied so far.

Thanks for your reply Mark. I'm glad that you have had a positive experience and it seems we might have a good one here too.I talked to my solicitor who suggested that I put the partner with the part 9 as a guarantor to circumvent any problems refinancing down the track. I use the 35% rule as well and they are definately well below including…[Read more]

Thanks for the advice people. Particularly Derek. Yes its been very problematic with the agent in particular. I think that is the biggest problem. We will definately agree to put the tenant in and re-evaluate the situation. We are doing wrapping in Victoria as well as the buy and hold strategy. We currently need to free up some money and selling…[Read more]

potential rent on the house is around $165-170/month more if we update the house a little. if the bungalow is serviceable, we plan to do it up put a fence between the house and the bungalow (which is attached to the garage) and rent it out for $110 per month. Our house is worth $370K (conservative estimate) and our mortgage is $250K with no other…[Read more]