Recent content by Chooke

Thanks for your time and commitment in maintaining an excellent site. It will be missed. It is one of the few places where we could source the more realistically priced Perth PMs.

I dunno, in my decades of experience, a higher fee schedule is no guarantee of better property management (good marketing ploy though). Some of the worse PMs I've come across were the more expensive ones. Sure, below a base line, a PM has to earn enough revenue to cover costs of exceptional...

They should do as they manage my properties south of cannington. Give them a call and ask... btw, their 10% all inclusive fee is truly all inclusive as it includes letting, inspection, even appearing in court/tribunal on your behalf if you find yourself in that unfortunate situation with a tenant.

Like I said, I don't have a precise figure nor do the far more qualified scientists working in this field. Its a bit like saying you will only accept that constantly bending a sheet of steel will break it if you are provided a figure on the exact amount of bends. As for the rest, all the...

No, but institutional investors are reducing their exposure to companies that are dependent on the former and increasing it in those focusing on the latter.

Cute choice of words... consistent with the scientific evidence to date I don't know the proportion, just that it does and it is the major contributor to the rapid climate change that has occurred at least since the 1980s. In any event what I believe is irrelevant. The world is moving on and...

Wow, this thread is still going? It is really a waste of time. There will always be a small hard core group of climate change deniers, motivated either by monetary reasons or just plain ignorance of the science. You know the saying about leading a horse to water... We have seen this...

My observations are to inject some objectivity into this mania. Objectivity? Your opinion vs the scientific community and scientific method? If I was 13 years old, I might just believe some of it, but I'm not. Almost everyone I talk to of my age and older take all this with a grain of...

The climate change debate kinda reminds me of the "smoking is bad for your health debate" in the 60s and 70s. The majority of peer reviewed papers demonstrated the ill effects and there was a consensus among scientists that this was the case. The tiny minority of scientists were typically...

Been my experience too with Nuno from D&R. I have two properties managed by D&R, always responsive, meeting with tenants personally etc. They don't charge letting fees (saving over $1k in that alone) which at first caused some concern that corners would be cut. They actually were better than...

Heh heh - totally agree.

If that is what you think you need to do what your clients pay you to do, then so be it. I have come across PMs who's first solution is to call a tradie however trivial the issue is. I don't keep them long. Fortunately most have some nous and are willing to drive to the property or at least...

Yep, and I also deny science, scientists and their left wing climate change conspiracy. I don't believe the world is round as they tell us nor that other scientific concept called evolution. The modern technology we have these days are all figments of our imagination.

Perhaps the question should have been does the real value of property rise over the long term (put simply the rate of price growth minus the rate of general inflation). The answer to that, based on history, would be a yes - though it would be foolish to predict what the property market would be...

They probably realised that with a probable one term government, there is now no need to move.