Recent content by JCat

Purpose- to put his money where it's safe (comparitively). Strategy- buy and forget about it.. Goals- grow a bit of wealth over time. How active- not very, he's a chippy all week and cant be stuffed on w'ends. Y G-town?- Cause he loves the Cats!!

Yes, he will be using the whole 100k as a deposit, but remember his employment is a little up and down being a subby so are the banks going to lend for 2 properties??

Not sure he wants to get in that heavily straight up, mmm they'd be pretty close to positive too. Yeah, fair point! So you think just a single property? House or unit?

G'day, i'm after some opinions...I'll try and keep it short and sweet. A mate just received above amount of money through a will, he has no assets and still lives at home with Mum:rolleyes: He is a sub contractor chippy so work can be up and down, so borrowing may be limited? He wants to...

Thanks for the reply..very interesting. After doing a search, i've noticed in one of your posts CG figures for regional cities in vic between 97-07. Horsham was one of the lowest performers. Whats your thoughts on that? Is it that Horsham will catch up, or already has? RP data shows...

Whats peoples thoughts on an IP in Horsham Vic? Population around 14000, main industries seem to be related to farming and hospital and schools. Anybody have any info on upcoming projects or major bussiness plans for Horsham? Any idea on vacancy rate? Some very affordable homes with good...

I too used to live opposite a freight train line and got very used to it to the point of not noticing it after a while.

Well done mate, very inspiring indeed. I hope you achieve your goals for next year. We hope to buy our second IP next year, fairly minor compared to your goals though.

We decided to take the plunge this year and we will be settling on our first IP later this month.:o We practically new nothing six months ago, i took advice from a work colleague and wammo, read a couple of books, magazines, this site, mentored by another work colleague who has 8 IP's. We will...

I will look them up, thanks.

Thanks Paul. It seems its the same accountants as sMAckY has reccomended , same address and phone number, LOL.

Thanks, I'll give her a call.

Thanks for that.

Excuse my ignorance, but is it worth having a schedule prepared if the property is (to my observations) in original condition with no improvements, that i can tell anyway. The only item i think has been added since it was biult is the pergola. The house is 15 years old. Being a very standard...

Thanks, lol. Is it easy to tell i'm new at this??:D