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See normally I would insult you for your lack of comprehension and inability to read my post. An apparently relatively common behaviour here. However I recognise that this forum has slightly different denizens to the ones I do post at (such as GHPC) where they allow a bit more leeway in...

Thanks for the welcome and I certainly try to stay interested in a range of stuff (staves off the alzheimers) hehehe. Certainly we tend to agree on indexing. The morningstar research on the listed property index is, in fact, one of the reasons I am slightly confused by decisions made by some...

Which bits do you have an issue with? Index investing? Me doing well in a really obscure martial art (like not enough people even know about it to be that good at it)? Me being in Attack of the Clones (which got me a reference on wikipedia, every nerds dream and, in IT, it is cool to have...

Make it past the first paragraph of my post or not? "Truth of the matter is I like being able to do stuff. So I spend a lot of my free time learning things to a level of basic competence (i.e. I probably could get a pretty bottom of the ladder job doing them)."

Really? Oh well another thing to learn. TAFE love me hehehe. As to why I would want to learn these skills. The official grown up answer is that I minimise my reliance on other people, reduce outgoings, increase skill base for covering off on if I lose my job blah blah blah. Truth of the...

Plumbing (at a normal maintenance level) is not illegal to do without a ticket is it? Certainly will need to upskill there too but for most stuff my welding cert will get me through (we had to do lots of brazing). Pest license again I don't think you need a license for. But yes again I will...

2003 or 2001? Don't mean to quibble, maybe it is just a typo. Fairly significantly different periods in the boom though. Seriously a place you bought for 105K either 4 or 7 years ago is renting out for some 270 / week? Even if it was 7 years ago I find that a bit hard to believe. But okay, maybe...

Despite the bifurcation in your questions I will simply answer them all. I doubt my answers will be simple true/false enough to satisfy either branching: I invest in commercial property via indexing using dollar cost averaging. That probably doesn't count in your eyes. I have recently...

Thank you, I am awesome :) I told you. I work hard and focus on providing my skills to people, as I get better they pay more. I thought I made that pretty obvious in my post. Perhaps I should reiterate: 1. get skills people want 2. hone those skills 3. do it more and work really hard at...

@HiEquity Have the values of your houses gone up more than inflation / average wage (pick either one, I assume unless you actually lost out the answer is yes for either)? If so it is by definition harder now than it was when you did it isn't it? If you can think of way in which houses costing...