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    Brisbane PPOR

    You might be able to pick up a half decent house in Keperra or Ferny Grove area, for that price. Or a townhouse in somewhere like Morningside. Nothing is standing out to me for good investment property potential though on your criteria.
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    Springfield Lakes Qld ??????

    I live in Springfield Lakes and follow the infrastructure construction and prices relatively closely. I bought a brand new home (3 bed, 2 bath, 1 garage on 330m2 land 2.5 years ago for 355k. Prices have remained flat since then and have not seen an increase. Rents are around the level you...
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    Borrowing Power with Dependents and a single income?

    Thanks everyone for the replies so far. Here are answers to some of the questions that popped up: My income won't be increasing above 80k for at least the next 12 months. House values have stayed stagnant for the past 2 years so no capital growth. We can do some minor changes but theres...
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    Borrowing Power with Dependents and a single income?

    This question is probably more geared to the brokers but I thought it's worth posting publicly for the benefit of all. I'm hoping someone can comment on whether it would be worth trying to get finance to upgrade to a larger PPOR or if the bank sees our application with our new financial...
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    Selling - determining market value of house?

    Thanks for the replies. Don't need to sell right now, it'd be ideal but not essential. We could wait a bit longer if we had to. We won't have the option to convert this to an IP unfortunately so our only option is try to sell now and hope for a high enough price or delay until its certain the...
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    Selling - determining market value of house?

    I am considering selling our PPOR. We bought it brand new (spec home newly built), for $350,000, 2 years ago. We are only really able to bite the bullet and sell it, if we can achieve a sale price that will allow us to roughly 'break even' on the house. To do this, we are going to need to be...
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    FHOG Change

    it's designed to spark the construction industry, probably to try and create more jobs in QLD given Campbell has sacked so many people!... I don't think it's a good move by the govt, scrapping it for established houses...
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    Converting second living area into 4th Bedroom

    Just wanted to ask everyones opinion, we have a near new family home (18mths old), it is 3 brm, 2 bath, SLUG, large living area off the kitchen (3.5mx7.5m=26m2), it also has at the opposite end of the house a second living area of 5mx3.5m=18m2. I am trying to think ahead both in terms of...
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    Unsuccesful Lease by Agent

    My thoughts after reading this thread are, why don't you call the property manager, tell them all of your concerns and tell them you are no satisfied with their service/effort and if you don't see results in the next 7 days you will be enlisting another agent to lease the property and ripping up...
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    Commercial Property Education

    Mimoza - commercial lending costs are higher than residential mortgage rates, say resi is 6%, commercial would be say 8-9%. So a great buy would be something like a yield / cap rate of 9.5-10%++ this is very generally speaking and obviously the market varies in different capital cities, I am...
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    Listing my factory unit for lease - any other hints

    I suggest you get some higher res/better quality photos, wide angle lens and decent lighting (bring in additional lighting for the photos). Maybe even get an aerial photo or pole photograph so people can see your property in respect of vicinity to highway / etc. I don't know the area but is...
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    Springfield Lakes - new station, hospital, shopping??

    I don't disagree with your statements one bit, it's what we are already seeing. They have no problems with developing more land and sprawling the city, this is one main point that is currently stopping values from climbing at present. In the future I am hoping values start to rise for those with...
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    BCC Resumption

    I don't know of any generous valuers, but was curious why your property is getting resumed??
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    Springfield Lakes - new station, hospital, shopping??

    Springfield Lakes, Greater Springfield, Springfield Central etc: I have lived in Springfield Lakes for 12 months now, and believe infrastructure and growth is one of the best in Qld. Yes prices have dropped in Springfield and everywhere close by, investment property wise if you hold for...
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    Security Deposit on Commercial Properties

    yes you can either get a bank guarantee, which is a piece of paper from the bank basically like a blank cheque the landlord can cash at any time - make sure it has no conditions preventing you from cashing it (should be unconditional guarantee). or security deposit - where the tenant pays...
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    1/2 price land?

    maybe the land floods?
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    Commercial Property Vacant 6 Months Whats Everything I Can Do To Solve This.

    now that I read this whole thread, the first post you can now tell it came straight out of a book or homework or something, lol...hats off for trying to get someone else to do his homework,,nice try :)
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    Finance - work dilemma

    Hi Lisa First of all, good on you for making such a great start with the 2 properties you have. I can see in your current circumstance it would be very risky and possibly irresponsible for a bank to give you credit, given your current income from employment would not really be sufficient to...
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    Building and pest inspection

    ive had a building and pest done in NSW before, which from memory cost me $600 (combined) but with 2 separate inspectors. I just had one done in QLD and it was $450 for both reports. From memory I think NSW is a bit dearer but then again that was a country town.
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    Optus manhole in the backyard

    telephone or cable internet/tv/fibre optic pit/termination point? I was just googling, don't know if this site is legit/worth looking at but you never know: http://www.telcocablesearches.com.au/cable-search-service.htm
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