Property Management

24 Hour Service?

This is a question that many property managers discuss among themselves.  Do we provide a 24 hour service?  Emergencies can happen at any time, so is a property manager on call every moment of every day? When asking a property manager, the answer is ‘No, don’t be silly.’  But when you ask a landlord or

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Fraud on the rise!

Phishing scams and internet fraud is nothing new. We’ve probably all seen the reports on the news about the more vulnerable members of our society being duped out of their hard earned money by international gangsters who have used the old lottery win line or have catfished poor lonely people only to get them to

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Investing with Super

Now, please don’t take this as super investing advice, I just want to give you a window into my own experience arranging a SMSF and buying an investment property myself! If you’re not all aware, if you have a superannuation fund (everyone that works nowadays has to have one), you can arrange that to be

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Buyers Advocate – yes or no

There is a bit of a trend for savvy investors to source their next investor through a Buyers Advocate.  For those of you who don’t know; Buyer’s agents (also known as ‘buyer’s advocates‘) are licensed professionals that specialise in searching, evaluating and negotiating the purchase of property on behalf of the buyer. They do not

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Choosing the right agent

If you have ever had to buy, sell or rent a property, you’ll know that there is a wide range of agents to choose from.  When it comes to finding an agent to manage your investment property, who do you pick? Do you go for a franchise agent?  A boutique agency?  The cheapest one you

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Should you be an investor?

Here is a topic close to my heart.  Well, close to my frustrations more like it.  A question every investor should truly think about before jumping into the world of property investment is – should I be an investor?  It all sounds great, buy a  house and have the tenant pay off the mortgage, easy

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