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    Capital Gains

    Thanks Geoff, Yes I did have a new house to move into, now the fact that the place was 100% actually in my wife's name and she is a stay at home mum on no income would this affect the amount we would have to pay ta Jezza
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    Capital Gains

    Hi all, I bought a property in July 2000 for 180k, I lived in it until March 2007 and at this point it was valued at 400k. In March 2007 I rented it out until January 2013. The property was vacant from January until March 2013 when I sold it for 600k. I am trying to ascertain what...
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    4hrs of Joy this morning

    This has been my day so, I have recieved phone calls from 2 PM's about 3 different properties Property 1. Hot water system blew last night. As it is indoor very few companies now make indoor ones so now looking around to find someone to fix it quickly however not the best time to be needing...
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    How much do you pay for property management in PERTH?

    Are you happy with the service, I have 1 PM that looks after 3 of my properties and the reality is I would actually pay them more but I started at 7.7% with them, then when I gave her another they charged 6.6% and with the 3rd they made it 5.5%. I don't pay for any inspections, condition...
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    Heading to VCAT

    Wow crazy Chicken I think I got a stitch just from reading that. I am fortunate after 12+years of investing to have never gone to VCAT, but I would think its pointless you lodging anything with them. My feeling would be the damage will come down to wear and tear with the tiles not too sure about...
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    Is this a good deal from Optus ?

    Learning man Seems like are a reasonable deal. I changed to the iPhone last year as I went through 3 blackberry's in 3.5 years. I would see if you can get the deal for 12 months. Jezza
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    overdue rates - who is at fault

    Would you wait 2 years before checking to see if your rent had been paid? You need to fill in a form to pass this responsibility over to pm Jezza
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    Why Houses Being Unaffordable is a Myth...

    Let me clear it up I am not on that income. I was using those figures from sash's op that seems to mention that 2 figures do not have any correlation. My final figure of $224 per week is what you would have to survive on if you used those 2 figures, which I know I could not live on and afford...
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    Why Houses Being Unaffordable is a Myth...

    Couldn't agree more DAZZ, single income family with 3 kids and wifee hasn't worked since the first one is born. People think I live in the 60's. Wife stays home, cooks, looks after kids. I get home have 1 beer and as there is no house work to do I get to spend 2 hours with the kids. While I...
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    Sydney VS Melbourne

    Any comments? Yes Are we comparing apples with apples? Not even close, in fact your comparison is not even on the fruit scale your comparing apples with landing man on the moon Your drawing a very long bow if you use this analogy to ascertain which is the better city and which is the better...
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    Management Schedule

    NBS You have to align to what the tenant pays for it to be weekly. Generally for example Tenant pays on 3rd, agency flufs around sometimes for day or 2, they minus all fees and sundries and you get paid on 5th. Tenant also has period of leeway of when to pay, although they may be required to...
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    EA to work in clients best interest ?

    Obviously!
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    Agent Fees - Opinions Please

    JOdy Ican see you are trying to do something different to others but neither of these would work Extreme 1. 12-13%, the only person who would pay this are those that buy properties off Henry Kaye Extreme 2. Are you saying you are going to wear the maintenence costs, so when a pipe under a...
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    EA to work in clients best interest ?

    MrCrumbpacker Let it go, what do you hope to achieve out of it, either a "I told you so" or that the landlord may want to leave that agency. Tribunal won't do anything about it, even if it got that far. You have a child and a baby and your up against 1 male. Landlord may not want to have his...
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    What determines house prices by Alan Oster Chief Economist NAB

    He forgot to carry the 3 over Wonderful if came up with a magical formula when ultimatley house prices are determined by A) Person walking into Real estate and putting a figure on a peice of paper B) Person putting hand in air at auction Jezza
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    The Art of Stupidity

    Yes I believe these are all urban myths as oppose to the lady who was on the news yesterday. She suing a shopping centre for posting a video of her on the net. It is very very funny, she is texting on her phone and walks straight into the shopping centres water fountain Jezza
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    Painting- getting the colour right?

    lDriver Have painted a few ip's and 2 PPOR's and here are my 3 tips. - Just make a decision, although it is for your PPOR you can put a bit on every wall/roof in every room and they will look a bit different - When it comes to adding colours, you can never stir the paint enough. I made a bit...
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    what would you consider "average growth" in an area to be-

    Rookie What a question, how do I find high growth areas, it something just about everyone on here chases. You can look at back API mag and there are some sites that show medium growth. I tend to really look at neither as it is very basic info units/houses. Then on the other hand growth in a...
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    Advice where to buy Limit $300000.00

    Bac What deposit do you have or the bank will allow 300k. Let's take away 30k for stamp duty and fees. For 270k have a look around corio, newcomb and bridgwater in Geelong and also Melton. Jezza
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    Question about my 11yo daughter

    Time to hit a bit of reality Gordo, 13 is not young at all Cute is a lot of things, one thing it isn't is having your daughter awoken to a boy 2 years older than your 11 year old daughter at some time in the middle of the night. Like others have said your relationship with your daughter is...
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