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    Recommended Western Sydney PM?

    Hope you can help Existing PM agency is disappointingly slow with their communication and we constantly have to chase them up and a lil tired of that :mad: Not to mention we're contacted by at least 5 different people (property managers?) in the firm so there's no one contact who knows the...
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    Granny or Dual Living?

    so thinking out loud to self: we've got a place in Perth, part of Canning council There's an old brick house on it which sits centre of block so not really good use of space rooms are small, tiny, houdini-esque we want to have 2 living spaces on it one where we stay in, other for...
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    Investment for baby: Offset vs Index fund

    Howdy somersoftenites! Our lil monkey (baby) has just turned one and we want to set aside an automated growing money tree for him Have a basic "fund" with the ASF - Australian Scholarship Fund and now thinking if that was a good idea... Like to ask for your wise advice and pick your...
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    Go rent or Build Granny to live in?

    I'm babysitting a house at the moment and probably by the end of the year, the dream run will end and will have to move out :( So now we have to look for a roof somewhere. Options: 1. Go rent a place (not easy with tightish market and limited) 2. Move into our IP (oldish house)...
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    Not an everyday Question for you

    Hi SS'ers Hoping you can help me out for a moment. Got an unusual question for you. I'm doing a research project on helping people make their personal/work/biz life easier, fun and/or more profitable How? By seeing if we can help solve their problems/frustrations. From the...
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    Can't sleep! The Q:Buy 'bargain' stocks or Let funds stay in offset?

    With the recent unfolding of events - GFC MkII rah rah, I've been totally thinking myself into a spiral and would be great to hear some wise feedback from Somersoftians re money management/opportunity cost The Question: We have a little doosh in an offset account - offsetting interest ~ 7% I'm...
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    Advice Needed: how to help Mum with 10 years left to retirement?

    Howdy folks I've been tossing and turning for the past few days over an issue running through my head and thought I'd lay it down in the open and see what you experienced folks would or have already done... Here's the situation: Have always wanted to help Mum setup (retirement age in 10...
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    How to do a Cost-Benefit analysis of paying rates full/part

    Howdy Somersofters! Not sure if this is the right place... Being new to the property investment game and always subscribing to making the dollar work the most for us, we've just got an investment property with an offset account and lo and behold have to pay more rates :) Have you...
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    Wanna chill out to some music? try Mr VJ!

    Hi peeps I'm a noob here and just wanted to share something light, groovy and funky. I put on music while writing, surfing, researching Check out the video and amp up your computer speakers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVxe5NIABsI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBN-CAhOYQ0 P.S...
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    Can you help? Newbie Real-Life Case-Study questions

    Howdy all Thanks for reading this thread and posting your thoughts from your experience in property-investing. Mods, I'm not sure if this post belongs here or is out of line. If so, please let me know. Really appreciate everyone's feedback as we're very new to this game. = = =...
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    YAY! an opportunity to post!

    Howdy all! I'm a newbie shyster, all green behind the ears with nary an IP to my name. Thanks for giving this opportunity to post and thanking all of you who've shared your experience, advice, wisdom along your property journey. Hope I can be of some help further along the track and...
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