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How to Retire on $2000 a week

This time on the Today Show, Ben Kingsley was asked to talk about his and Bryce's book: The Armchair Guide to Property Investing. One of the key goals of this book is to showcase how to retire on $2000 a week by investing in property and build up their property portfolio. Ben will be talking about the Property Investment Formula, investing strategi...

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So you’ve bought the property… What’s Next? (Part 2)

The next step is, "Well, ok, once I've settled, the next biggest anxiety I'm going to have is whether or not I'm going to get a tenant." So you really need to start thinking about property managers and interviewing a range of property managers. Ask them some key questions because they are going to be in charge of looking after your asset. For me, t...

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So you’ve bought the property… What’s Next? (Part 1)

What I find is when people are buying an investment property, they use a lot of mental fuel in the decision to actually, will I or won't I buy one. And I kind of think of it like.. Do you know when a plane is on the tarmac and it's just about to take off. That moment when it leaves the tarmac and gets up to say 30,000 feet before it levels off. Tha...

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Which is more important | Property, Location or ….?

Look, it's always interesting when someone is making a decision on investing in property but how do they actually decide on which one makes for a great investment for their portfolio? For me, I think they got the focus in the wrong area. I think the focus on the property first where else I think there are a couple of other things that the need focu...

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How to Buy an Interstate Property

I'm always a really strong advocate that property investors should be buying outside of their own backyard if their city or their state isn't in the right part of the property cycle right now. So that's what we call a Borderless Investor but it's important that people don't just flippantly buy a property interstate because there are lots of things ...

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What’s the most Neglected step by most Property Investors

Whenever some is interested to buy an investment property, I'm often intrigued at how they kind of see it as an event rather than a process. Now, I've talked about it a lot where I think there is 5 Critical steps that you need to go through when building a portfolio and try to create some form of passive income for retirement or whatever sort of fi...

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Why is a Property Valuation so Important?

So you're ready to make your next step on the property ladder. You might have one property or you might have an owner occupier home and were looking to release equity out. Or you might have a portfolio of properties already and is looking to potentially release that equity. Enter the valuer, they are the most important person in the conversation be...

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The Buyers’ Decision Quadrant

I'm always finding when people are buying real estate whether they are buying it for themselves to live in or they are buying it for an investment property, they are faced with some form of compromise. We've thought about this a lot and usually it is one of four things. So we've come up with what's called the Buyers' Decision Quadrant. It's really ...

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Why Decision Fatigue could make you a Poor Investor

One of my favorite author is Tim Ferriss, the author of Four Hours Workweek and he talks about this concept called "Decision Fatigue". I was thinking about that recently and how that applies to my life but also how that applies to everyone else's life as I'm in the business of helping people invest in property. The concept is really simple. He said...

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A Home Is Not Just a Home: The Process of Buying a Home with an Investor’s Mindset (Part 1)

Buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions you’ll make in your lifetime. Some people live in the same property for the entire life and build a lifetime of memories in there while others tend to move from one property to another depending on their life circumstances ie: an expanding family or a change in career. Whichever group...

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What Happens Once the Contract Proceeds Unconditionally?

Once the Contract proceeds unconditionally, we know that our clients got their finance approved or an approval is in place and we now have a settlement date that we must work towards. So the next step for us is we contact the Mortgage Broker or the Banker and provide them with a range of documents we believe they will need to provide to the banks...

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The Process of Buying an Investment Property

It may sound relatively simple but what's the process of buying an investment property? If Emma or Uncle Bob told you at last week's barbeque that there is this amazing property near their house up for sale, and they think its a great investment because its in the same suburb that they live in, would you jump straight into it? Well, we certainly ho...

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Income for Life

Putting together a great property portfolio is as easy as A, B, C and D. In the August 2014 issue of Money Magazine, Bryce Holdaway wrote about the simple formula that he used to create an income for life with a property portfolio plan. "I stumbled on a quote last year that made me reflect on how well I actually understand the very topic I am so...

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