Recent content by Baguette

Hi all, thanks for your feedback! I read your reply 3 times Rolf and got it in the end :) thanks for that; and the book recommendation. Yes, I realise the most active and productive straetgies could or would be renovate, subdivide and develop, and that the two I am looking at at the moment...

Hi! Strategy, strategy, strategy... I'm new to property investing and I've been trying to get my head around the 'strategy' aspect of investing for the past couple of weeks/month. I quickly noticed on this forum that newbies requests for advice (about property or location) would almost...

Dave, do you have more information on what is the right way to actually do this. What do you mean by "fire separation installed" and "not legally converted"?

Hi molly, I had this done for my property 2 months ago in Melbourne. It costed about $2,500. We split the existing electricity into two separate meters, one for upstairs (3 bedroom, 1 bathroom), one for downstairs (1/1). We rent top and bottom separately. We did not upgrade the existing main...

Thanks Y-Man and Dazz for this And thanks for pointing to the Interviews Y-Man, I hadn't discovered that side of the forum yet. Dazz your story is incredible, it's pretty much the worse tenant story I could have come up with, if I had tried. I think these stories, with these details, put the...

Hi, this is my first post but I have been reading this forum for a while. Last year, my wife and I have invested in our first IP and are currently thinking about a second one. As we are starting our research, interviewing professionals for this next step, and reading this forum, it strikes me...