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    Trust structure

    Have been searching for information about trust structures and wondered what the most common one people use for investment in NSW is for asset protection without making finance difficult? My wife and I own several properties in Sydney tenants in common, but they are units so still under land tax...
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    Joint venture structure for buy and hold finance

    Hi, I have just bought a property and used up all my spare cash & equity for deposit, but still have borrowing capacity. I have a family member who has cash to invest in property but does not want to use their overseas business income on their loan applications. They would like to do a...
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    Developing residence on back of retail

    Hi, I found this tenanted retail property and the agent told me there may be potential to develop at the back of the property because there is a lot of space with rear lane access, or maybe build on top of the retail. Is this easy to get approved? Thanks in advance for any help...
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    Unapproved student housing

    Hey Guys, what do you think about unapprved student housing? I saw one online http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-newtown-115049543, return is high at $2,200 pw, not sure the yield because it's for auction, would it be ok to buy and keep renting this way?
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    Building Insurance

    When getting building insurance quotes should I put 'rebuild value' at around the purchase price of 250k(buying in west Sydney), or should I estimate a more realistic value of actually replacing the building component in case of fire etc? If I overestimate rebuild cost and pay a higher premium...
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    Investing with JV partner from overseas

    I want to buy an IP jointly with an overseas family member(from China). I am an Australian citizen. Do they have to sign the contract in person or can they do it from overseas? And would they have to get any government approval from foreign investment review board?
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    Self employed finance

    I have been working self-employed since 2008 in the sales industry, but in the previous financial year did a brief stint as an employee(also in sales industry), and am now working self employed again in similar job. I want to use 2 years tax returns to apply for finance as self employed, but...
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    Why would anyone ever even consider investing in commercial!?!

    Apologies for the provocative title, I was hoping it might help elicit a quick response:D It seems like many investors start and resi, and move into commercial when they have the experience/ capital. From looking at real commercial etc, commercial properties aren't advertised with superior...
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    Creative contract pricing

    Read a Jenman article about Jason whitton mentioning a technique where contract price is artificially inflated for the benefit of bank valuation, but the actual price is lower because of a vendor rebate, eg buy property for 200,000, contract price 240,000, with 40,000 rebate, so can get loan on...
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    Campsie gentrification?

    G'day, everybody! What do people think about campsie's potential for gentrification? It's borderline inner-west, decent shopping street currently full of too many bargain fashion sort of places but with some trendier looking restaurants etc starting, demographics here are low socio-economic...
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