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I bought my 1st house at 18 with a boyfriend - when I left him I took half of the equity to buy my 1st refurb that I lived in for a bit - I then refurbed and rented it out in my early 20s Up until I was about 25 I did a few part refurbs and put in a few bathrooms & kitchens etc. I then had...

Cutting someone out of their bit is a shame. I believe if someone has done work for somehting you should pay them well - then they will come back and do more. If you try and get out of the payment it could tar you with a reputation that you dont think people deserve paying. My personal...

LOL - hair ok so I have one, Im 29 I think I'm meant to have one.

really LOL - I am not buying at inflated prices most of the time - I buy bulk so get genuine discounts. I do sometimes. We do use the list price on the contract - but often I am getting say 30% off list price - which can equate to say 18% off real current market - established by 3 local...

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Anywhere Jamie - I am doing it in the UK - but am asking anyone from wherever they are - for a general opinion. Asy - for me a gifted deposit is when the developer of newbuild property offers me a discount - and I ask them to do it as a gift - ie it will say the full ££ on the contract for...

Hello Something I have been thinking about a lot recently - food for thought. I used to have a portfolio of property that was based around cheaper ex local authority 2 bed flats. I realised after a fair few years that the type of tenant I was atracting was doing my nut - doing runners, not...

WOW Thankyou so much sunstone for requoting my question. It is appreciated very much. Thankyou for all your responses too So what are my chances of moving a Scottish Castle to NZ? LOL I think it will take me a few weeks to process all of the info here! Lady Lea

so if my Husband is resident and passport holder it could be possible? I am interested in what I can do now to prepare for this - ie if I plan to come over in Sept 2004 - what things do lender like to see a record of - should we get a NZ credit card and use it regularly to make a nice...

Thankyou everyone for your posts Yes Luke - my hubby is a Kiwi - so I have been preparing myself over the last year to move by sept 2004 (I hope) Seems by business grew overnight and so not sure of exact dates anymore - would like to think I would be there by Sept 2004. I will be going over...

hiya I sold all of them because there was more money in them that I could use right now to make a lot of money fast - than I could ever get in rental income. Plus the areas I had bought in had severly dropped in rents but increased in equity. It was the right thing for me to do at the time...

Hi there I have emailed loads of people and followed other boards and have still ben unable to find 100% funding for me (in UK) to buy in NZ or Australia. Am I missing something? Does it happen? Is anyone creative in financing? Is there a broker or lender that likes to do this. I am...

Hello - This is my 1st post here (did you have a different board before?) I was wondering a bit about the market in Australia and also New Zealand. I have been renting property for several years in the UK, we have recently - last 2 years - had what I can only describe as a flood of...