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A person on the average annual wage of $73,000 will get a tax cut of more than $1500 a year under Labor’s revamped tax policy – more than double the cut they’d have received under the Coalition’s legislated stage 3 plan. In the government’s dramatic recalibration of stage 3, the proposed tax cut for those…
Maybe you’re too biased to become a successful property investor. What do I mean by that? Well…did you know that we can sometimes be our own worst enemy as property investors? It’s not because of the decisions we make, the opportunities we consider, or the investments we miss out on, but rather, it’s due to…
Do you remember playing pretend when you were little? Maybe you were a superhero, a dinosaur or a princess. It’s normal when you’re little, and it’s usually harmless. Most children know the difference between pretending to be a superhero and jumping off the roof thinking they can fly. But adults often forget. For instance, we…
Homeownership is looking further out of reach for anyone without family wealth, as over the last few years property prices kept growing and wages fail to keep up. Over the last decade or so property prices keep growing and wages failed to keep up and over the last few years affordability seems to have decreased…
Buy, renovate and hold is one of my favourite property investment strategies. I enjoy taking a dwelling that’s been a bit neglected and breathing new life into it, making it into a home my tenants will love and want to care for more importantly, it’s a great way of manufacturing equity for my property investment…
Zig Ziglar was one of my early mentors. He was one the most effective motivational speakers and authors of his generation. I remember that I wasn’t really sure about the concept of motivational messages when I first came across Zig Ziglar – but then I heard him say: “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well,…
I read somewhere that average Americans will spend more time planning their vacation to Disneyland than they will planning their financial future. I’m not sure that’s correct, but it wouldn’t surprise me. There are a number of reasons why we are hesitant to spend time planning for our financial future, but the biggest one is…
The surge in inflation coming out of the pandemic and its subsequent fall has been the dominant driver of investment markets over the last two years – first depressing shares and bonds in 2022 and then enabling them to rebound. But what’s driving the fall, what are the risks and what does it mean for…
Long-term success is never an accident. No one ever woke up in the morning to career or financial success without putting years of hard work into it. Do you know that one of the indicators that can highlight who is likely to become successful and who isn’t is language? Now, I’m not talking about positive…
Mistakes can be hard to admit because in doing so we have to acknowledge that we’ve somehow veered off course, and sometimes that’s a daunting prospect. Where does that leave us? How long will it take to recover and get back on track? Although it might be confronting, mistakes associated with a property investment worth…
