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Afternoon, Quick rundown. My partner and I recently bought a 3500sqm block to build our family home for $380,000. Similar blocks in the estate with houses are selling for 990k up to 1.3mil for decent sized homes. We have saved up 50k towards our build but have thought about selling our...

Looking for opinions. Was not sure which section I should post this in so thought I would try here. For a while now my partner and I have been looking for a PPOR, we recently sold off our last place and used the profits to clear up all our debts and now have a deposit of to 110k, with another...

Hi Everyone, Currently looking at a property that has some unique problems that I wish to solve. If I can do this cheaply enough, I could secure a nicely positive geared property. At the moment rental return is around $540 a week with the purchase price of the property being around 400k...

Hi Everyone, Well my partner and I recently decided to sell our PPOR. We had bought a house on a large block that had 2 titles. Was on the market for a while before we bought it due to a few tricky issues, but we worked through them - sold the land off and after sale of the house we made a...

Hi Everyone, Quick question. Looking at a property that has had an extension on the original property, long story short I have worked out a way to turn the front half into a 3 bedder and rear into a 2 bedder. Purchase price will likely be around the 300-350 mark and potential rent is $600+...

Hi Everyone, Wanted to see peoples thoughts on buying property in the Gloucester region. My partner and I are looking to sell our PPOR and relocate not only to get out of S/W Sydney and bring our little girl up in the country but also to buy, renovate and hold some more property in a...

My wife and I have been offered the opportunity to build a second house on her parents property. The idea behind this being that her parents are starting to look to downgrade, they want to stay where they live but the house is too large for them. It's completely renovated, the whole property is...

Hi Everyone, We have recently purchased another place, that we now plan to renovate to increase the value and also rental return. It's in quite a nice location, close to a high school, preschool, primary school and short 10 minute walk to main street with all the shops, doctors etc. So I...

Hi Everyone, Just a quick one. Deceased estate. Asked agent last week to gain access to property to excavate to inspect potential contamination issue They said yes but on the condition that we provide a ballpark of what we are willing to pay - apparently the vendor had received low...

We are currently looking at a 2 titled block, house on one side and half vacant block on the other. Overall there is a total of 1400sqm and it's selling at land value after not being able to sell for 6 months. We now know why it hasn't sold and we are currently working through how to solve this...

There is a property we are currently looking at, it involves 2 titles with a house on one block and the other is vacant land. Had a look through the house today and it was quite impressive, old style home but had very nice large rooms in good working order! So after inspecting the site we...

Hi Everyone, Have come across a property that is of interest to us and need some advice in terms of capital gains. Basically we have found a property that is selling 2 seperate titles on the one sale, one with a house and the other is vacant land. Both resi zoned. The plan would be to go...

Have been looking for our next IP after getting pre-approval from the bank to go ahead, keeping an eye on particular areas there is one house that has popped back up for sale. It is a 5 bed, 2 bath, 2 car on 400sqm block. Other 5 bedders are renting for $560pw in the area. Price wise, it was up...

Hi Everyone, Been posting a few threads lately but the help has been great! We are back into the market, and have been given the pre-approval from our bank for up to $375,000! So we have been keeping an eye on the market where we want to buy lately, and have to say we have seen some good...

Hi Everyone, Well back in the market and we are currently searching around for properties in our area that present a good building base for renovating, good price and overall a decent looking place. Main reason isn't because of plans to sell but because it will be our PPOR for a number of...

Around 2 months ago, my partner and I moved into the city to get closer to work. We are in a new (<1year) unit that has an underground carpark and storage. Everything has been going smoothly except for an outstanding issue with out underground storage area. After we signed the tenancy forms, we...

Hi Everyone, Just a sad day, after a final decision to move into the city for a unit alot closer to work - we had to make the heart breaking decision of finding out special children a new home. I think we made the right decision, the bloke who is taking them is very nice and seems to love...

Hi Everyone, Well it's been almost a year since i have actually been on here, quite disappointing really. Was hoping to have IP no.1 + 2 by now but to no avail. I'm sure I could try and come up with a million reasons but that's not the point of this thread. Basically, my partner and I are...

Just been looking around lately and I am curious as to how everyone on the forums pays for a new vehicle purchase if it isn't through cash. I always see the personal loans that you can get but at a interest rate of 12% or higher, it seems way too much. I don't really know how novated...

So we are planning to get the bathroom done, we were deciding whether to or not but it's old and needs replacing so we might aswell do it now while we are in it, not while tenants occupy the place! I want to add a toilet to the bathroom, our other toilet is in the laundry and personally I...