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Hi All, I am selling a commercial office in Crows Nest on behalf of my parents. I'm in Melbourne & know sweet FA about the Sydnet market. Can anyone recommend some good (aka "not as bad as some others") selling agents for that area? Thanks, Jade

Those who watched the series may remember Frank Valentic purchasing the first house for a client. This snippet from the recent AdvantEdge newsletter suggests that there may be opportunities where they are least expected, even in a down market. Now, before people reply with , "Yeah, but if not...

I know SFA about timber laminate etc flooring, as all the houses I've done with polished floors actually had solid timber floors. I'd like the same look for a project I'm looking at, which is a large house on a slab. From what I've seen, I'm not overly keen on pre-finished flooring as you...

I already have a HDT (currently has no properties), but due to limitations on borrowings I have set up a new standard discretionary trust as well. They have the same corporate trustee. I've been quite slack & haven't got around to opening a bank account for the trust as I wasn't planning to...

Apologies to everyone for whom this old news; but if, like me, you thought a Visa debit was a good idea - read on. I recently had some unauthorised transactions on my account which totalled over $3000. In the process of dealing with the bank (the dragon, in this case) my eyes have been...

I've been spending less & less time in the economics forum the past few months, after realised that I has started to analyse too much instead of taking action. Came across this article in The Age today. Not ground-breaking; but worth rememberingh nonetheless.

I believe that punks were born from the disaffection of youth in the UK in the '70s. Perhaps because we in Oz don't have enough big problems, Gen Y is widely regarded as politically lazy. Obviously that's a generalisation. But you don't see streets full of marching uni students these days...

As per the title, really. I haven't seen Bill for a while but did go to one of his investor briefings recently & found it very interesting. Just wondering if anyone has gone ahead with the new passive cashflow financial plan, or thinking of doing it, and whether you have any comments? I am...

Perusing the auction results this morning i noticed a house on 606 sqm sold in Box Hill South yesterday for $565k. This is not a suburb I follow intimately but that looks pretty cheap to me. Hope that a forumite picked it up: Box Hill South

Well, I am in the middle of the reno of the hell but one issue at a time: My current issue is wet rot in the corners of cedar awning windows. I can dig out the spongy bits but then what? I guess I need to kill the fungus with something & then fill it. I vaguely remember someone telling me a...

I did a search & couldn't see this Q being asked before. I have the usual discount off SVR with St George but wondering whether anyone has ever been able to negotiate anything off their fixed rates?.. Seeing WP at least give me 0.2%

So, a couple of weeks ago I was at a conference where the CEO of a very large Japanese manufacturer of electric goods spoke about the supply & demand gap regarding particular commodities. Actually, the speech was not about this but he mentioned it. This company is mainly concerned with Indium...

OK, just s'pose I rented out a house that will be my PPOR next year. I am guessing tenants signed a 12 mth lease for this house. At least, this is what I was told by the PM. No lease has ever been sent for me to sign. Given that the tenants probably signed a lease & definitely paid the...

OK, believe it or not we want to restore the cedar windows in our early '70s house to look like timber. They currently have layers of paint on them. Once i get past the nightmare of stripping the paint (not sure how, yet) - what do i use to dress the raw timber? I like a natural look like oil...

Actually the lead story in the Age this a.m. Melbourne median apparently up 6.1% & Sydney 5.2%. More here: http://business.theage.com.au/business/melbourne-in-housing-recovery-20090630-d3uk.html

I have posted this thread title so that it can be found in future by anyone searching for a PM in the Elwood / St Kilda area. Apparently they also operate from Port Douglas (guess they have a holiday house there). If you are a landlord or tenant PLEASE beware of Friedlaenders - aka...

Well, at a price of $200-$250 per sq metre my plan for terrazzo flooring is now on the backburner. I have heard of "quartz carpet" as a type of seamless floor and apparently it's a brand name product. Costs about $150. I found another supplier much cheaper & I think that stuff looks quite good...

I'm sure that this has probably been suggested before, but my recent experience, coupled with many stories here of outright incompetence, leads me to ask about this. Why don't we have a sticky for each state where people can "out" bad PMs? I have one exceptionally good PM, so I am not a "PM...

I $hit you not. http://www.rams.com.au/files/pdf/Rates%20%26%20Fees/CRS_Fixed_24%20Apr%2009.pdf

Well, despite the fact that I have been expecting that the worst of the GFC is yet to come to this country, and thinking that unemployment will probably impact negatively on property prices, AND that this is probably a time to pay down debt rather than take it on….. I have done the previously...