Yep, but we didn’t take his advice. So instead of buying four properties in Melton, we got one in Toorak.
Toorak sounds nice.
It is a nice place, not a great investment, but this was our first tenant, so I did pay a close interest to all tenant complaints.
Sadly Sherri moved to Perth to be Channel Nine weather girl.
Geez with a tenant like that I would have been doing daily inspections at a minimum.
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If you have ever rented a place and had the owner hanging around, then you would know how creepy that is. Only met her once, and she did look as good as in the photos. There are some good things in Perth.
That isn’t entirely true. The government would only have to compensate transurban if it built a freight railway that damaged citylink’s profits. A passenger train wouldn’t trigger any compensation.
TBH, it feels like the feds are trying to wedge state labor on this, like they did with the east-west link. The fact is that this money is owed to Vic anyway. If the project was in western Sydney, they’d hand over a blank cheque to the state - no questions asked.
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When I was little, mum rented a house off Mr and Mrs Pini, Karen’s parents. I was young but still knew who she was. Sadly Karen never came around to collect the rent.
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Assuming we’re talking about an Albion route (though it is not clear they’ve thought this through), the best contribution they can make to an Airport line is via Metro. Otherwise you just end up reducing peak commuter trains to fit the new run in.
But that would wedge their state equivalents.
The first playmate in Australian Playboy. Very handy.
Karen Pini was a very attractive young lady, and I reckon it would have been OK for you to leer at her, when you were little, and she might have found it cute and given you a hug.
Alas in my case, old bloke leering at beauty queen, would be more likely to result in a kick to the nuts than a hug.
Have always said that many things get wasted on the young.
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That last line is very funny.
Pfff.
‘Security cameras’ dude.
That really is creepy.
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Not the only factor but one of them.
Aust. Skilled migration program brings in between 100k to 200k middle income workers every year. Either perm, temp. Doesn’t matter they need to be housed.
As for lots of flats on train lines…doesn’t work people still want their car and buy/use them.
Quite simply you need better government policies which develop smaller cities. SA, ACT. NT and Tas should all be special economic zones with a lower tax environment to.encourage migration to them. Both business and individual.
It’s nuts that Sydney has just topped 5 mill people and Melbourne must be something like 4. Wouldn’t it be much more healthy to have 4-5 cities with a million each instead? Economically and socially.
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Successive Governments both State and Federal have been trying for years to get business/ industry to move into regional areas, and they have tried moving Government departments to start the process.
However very limited success and mostly to do with the added costs of freight and the ability to actually get your staff to move to have a business in Ballarat, Bendigo, Albury etc.
My business was offered an incentive to move to Qld, with a 99 lease for $1 a year on land at an university technology park near Gold Coast, a 20 year interest free loan to build a factory, and support with moving costs for the business and staff, plus no State or Local taxes for 10 years.
Great deal for me, and I was happy to move, but Mrs Fox was not keen, none of the staff were keen and while I could have moved and employed all new people, and found Mrs Fox IV, decided it was too much pain.
A better idea is for greenfields industry, like they did all those years ago with a smelter at Portland, but it is very expensive and this Government is not keen to support any industry, and have not seen much from Labor either. For a business person, it is easier to build your factory in China or Vietnam.
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The Hot Chicks thread still lives!
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More talk today about accessing Super for first home buyers. I think if it’s linked to building it works on a few levels, stimulates that side of the economy, creates more homes helping with the shortage and doesn’t effect exsisting house prices as much as other plans do
Melton.
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Is there a shortage though?
or just a “shortage”, like with gas supplies?