This strange comment had me intrigued, so I went on a search to the humble dictionary to assist.
Ironic: containing or exemplifying irony: an ironic novel; an ironic remark.
Hmm…not a big help, so my search led me further.
Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

Ahhh… there we go. A definition to work with. Now the next challenge, fitting that definition somehow to your strange comment.
No dice. There is no way I could incorporate the commonly held definition or irony into your statement. Quite the conundrum I think you will agree.
Grasping at straws, I began searching for random words in an attempt to find something to fit the statement. Perhaps instead of I, he meant to type MO? lets see:
Moronic: a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment.

DING DING DING!!

ok here we go:

“you don’t have the right to say that just cause we are young that we have an highly unlikely chance of sucess together in a relationship over 12 months”
It is not me that is saying it is highly unlikely you will be together, it is statistics. As I said, it is not impossible that you will, but highly unlikely.

“Yes I know i’m only 18 Woodrow and that I have no real investing experience, what do you expect me to have tones of properties or to have lived through it all.”
No, no one expects you to have “tones” of properties or have lived through it all – unless of course you decide to give your girlfriends father, who probably has lived through a fair bit, advice about where to invest his money when you have no experience of your own to draw from. If you dont know what you are talking about (and lets be honest, you dont) then it is completely arrogant to think you have any right whatsoever to give this man financial advice without any knowledge or experience yourself.

“Its obvious the poster was in a similar situation to your Girlfriends Dad – and someone like you came along who was young and enthusiastic and made him feel like an idiot. “
Yes, that much is obvious from my post. I feel like a complete idiot. It couldnt be that I am simply annoyed at the complete and utter arrogance of the question. To paraphrase ‘wahoo, I am in high school and have read a book or two about property investing, and all of a sudden I think I am in a good position to be dishing out financial advice to someone far more experienced than myself.’
Another poster (sarcastically for the slower among you) referred to it as “the infinite wisdom of youth”. Seems a fairly apt phrase in this instance.

“I would like to just say that I will be asking many more questions on these forums whether they be huge or even as tiny as what colour socks should I wear. I’m going to ask and learn and nothing or no-one with any view is going to stop me. “
And that is why this particular property investment forum is a pile.
Yes, post about what colour socks you would wear. It would be as relevant as “should I put a rain water tank on my rental property that I am going to buy for $200,000 (but will actually be worth $900,000 because I will buy in the mountains and put a rainwater tank in it, and put a carport on it, and these figures are actually conservative given my vast knowledge of the property market, great experience in buying below market value, tremendous renovation expertise, and psychic ability to know what the property market will be like in 10 years when I buy a property).”

Sure this post is about as nice as my first one. Perhaps it is not “sugarcoated” like some other posters like. You just get upset because you got offended by it, not because there is anything particularly offensive about it but because it hits close to home.
The fact is, I never once crushed your hopes and dreams. I basically said stop thinking you are so crash hot as to give someone advice when you know nothing, and spend time on actually learning for yourself. I challenge you to go speak to your girlfriends father about it. Tell him how much you know about property, how much you know about shares, why he should invest in property, how it can help him reach his financial goals. Then when he slaps you down for being an insolent, you can come on the forum and ask what is the best treatment for facial cuts and bruises.

Draconis
considering you have absolutely no investing experience whatsoever, have not been interested in property through a single property cycle, have in all likelihood absolutely no idea about the share market (or even any experiential idea about the property market), are not that widely read, have only been reading a few investment books for a couple of months, have no solid foundation on which to build any sort of argument about what anyone should do with their money, have absolutely no idea on market prices at all (i.e. “would go for 270K(if an obsessed buyer bought it). An investor would buy the same for 220K” – what basis do you have for saying this??), maybe you should keep quiet and not say a word to him?
Maybe give him a book you found informative, and ask him if he would mind reading it and giving you HIS opinion on it.
Maybe you are not really in the best position to be selling an investment strategy to your girlfriend either. First of all, at your age it is highly unlikely (though not impossible) that you will even be together in 12 months time. Second, I am sure she is just as intelligent as you are (maybe more so) and perfectly capable of drawing her own conclusions and judgments about what is best for her future. Again, give her a book, ask her if she would mind reading it, then discuss it with her (not coming across as the expert you clearly consider yourself to be).
On that note, perhaps you should take a bit of a reality check – enthusiasim is great, but either decide you are going to invest in the very near future, or stop asking ridiculous questions about whether you should buy in the mountains or whether you should put a rainwater tank into a property you are intended to buy 3, 4, or 5 years into the future when the market will likely be completely different, as will your own plans, maturity, understanding, and logic.
These questions are completely and utterly useless unless you are considering a propective purchase in the very near future (ie months). No one can hope to predict a market of any sort 12 months into the future, much less whenever you finish doing hairdressing at tafe and can buy a property.
Some advice: decide if you are going to do any investing immediately. If you are, make a plan and do it. if no, no worries, read a LOT of books by a lot of different people, and actually start to get some understanding of what you are talking about. Then, when you finally decide to do something, you will have lots of knowledge to draw on in making your decisions, you will be able to do it, and maybe make some money. Then you might be in a position to put forward your point of view to your father in law (notice i said “put forward your position” not argue or advise, you are a long way off that).
Thanks very much for your time and informative questions and replys.

i read on a renovating website from america (i forget the address of the website though, lol!!) that adding a rainwater tank can increase the value of the property 4 times the price of the tank. So if the tank costs $5000 then the property automatically goes up by $20,000. Also i heard that rent goes up by at least $30 per week.