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Hi all, I am cleaning out my bookcases and have some property investment books and magazines to sell so I thought I would offer them here before ebay or similar, as I have been a regular reader here for years, and less frequently, a poster. If you are interested, please send me a PM. (I...

The API magazine publishes median house and unit prices and rents courtesy of Australian Property Monitors. My question is, how are townhouses categorised by these reasearch companies? As houses or units? Given (we are told) the family unit is becoming smaller and the demand for smaller...

Many experts say never sell your IPs, or sell only those underperforming IPs. My question is, what constitutes "underperformance"? One of our IPs was purchased as a PPOR in 2002. With our move interstate we kept the PPOR exemption until next week when we settle on a PPOR in Sydney (well, 6...

Hi all, My husband and I looking at the possibility of buying a PPOR in an estate that is community titled. It is in the north shore area of Sydney. I have no experience with community schemes. We have had a bad experience with the body corporate of a strata titled property we bought some...

Community Titles - Pros vs Cons Hi all, I have no experience with community titles. My husband and I looking at the possibility of buying a PPOR in an estate that is community titled. It is in the north shore area of Sydney. We have had a bad experience with the body corporate of a strata...

Hi all, Didn't know where to post this - feel free to re-direct. I just received my renewal notice for buildings insurance for one of our residential IPs and noticed that the buildings sum-insured goes up significantly every year. I did a calculation and noted that it has been a 7% rise...

The ABS has just released its Australian Demographic Statistics, Sep 2006. You can find it on this link: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/3101.0?OpenDocument Of interest (well to me anyway :rolleyes: ) * 8% increase in net overseas migration (NOM) since Sep 05, which was about...

Hi, I have an IP in SEQ and my PM has double billed me for a repair done. I notified them of the error some months ago now (about 6 months) and they keep saying they will refund the money, but nothing has happened. I keep hassling them about it and they keep saying they'll do it straight away...

Hi All, I've been a long time reader and recent poster on the forum. My partner and I have two IPs (one in Melbourne and one in QLD). We also have a SMSF (self managed superannuation fund). Our super fund balance is not exactly huge and hence we don't have any property in the SMSF at this...

Hi All, Not sure if "competent" and "property management" exist in the same sentence based on my experience, but my partner and I have recently purchased a property in Edens Landing (near Beenleigh) in QLD and had engaged a property manager that we thought was competent. However, they have...