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By Julia Hartman
(Download PDF) Educating yourself and seeking advice is something you associate with property investing but not buying a home to live in. Well, it didn’t take long at all for me to come up with 12 mistakes I have seen people make when buying a property to use as their home. I list them below, …
Download PDF Last Updated: 28th January 2025 Expats Beware the Australian Government is After Your Main Residence Exemption Again! The bill to remove the main residence exemption for expats made its way through both houses in the final days of the 2019 parliament. It is a little tamer than the 2017 version but can still …
Last Updated: 7th January 2025 Download PDF There are many changes affecting people purchasing a property after 30th June, 2018. My aim here is to give you a check list to make sure you understand what has changed for you. Note the first 3 points apply equally to people who buy a home to live …
Claw some of that interest back off your bank and use it to make principle repayments. Interest rates are low, really low, especially if you have a principle and interest loan secured by your home. In fact Westpac are offering competitive interest rates and even rebates to cover the costs of transferring and setting up …
I hear people living on acreage saying that they only sell a little of their produce at markets just to cover costs and of course not declare it in their tax return because it is really just a hobby. They are concerned if they use the property to produce income in any way they will …