We have a tendency to get attached to our homes, as if they were living beings. Whenever we have to move to a different location, we get emotional, thus ignoring certain important to-do stuffs. Here is a functional checklist of the things you need to mind while moving house –
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Is Your Bargain Home Worth the Bargain?
In my years of plying the buyer’s agent’s trade, I have come across many wonderful people who bought an apparently wonderful fixer-upper only to be duped non-so-wonderfully. On the contrary, I have also seen some of the bargain deals turning into renovators’ delight.
How To Choose The Right Buyers Agent
I know that most of you are well versed with the essential difference between a buyer’s agent and a sales agent. For the aid of a few who are uninitiated on this, a buyer’s agent works exclusively on the buyer’s behalf whereas a sales agent is paid to represent the best interests of the seller. Why then am I bothered if you already know the difference? Let me explain you why and I am pretty confident you will find my line of reasoning appealing.
Behave As A Landlord When Renting To Family
I feel that the path which mixes personal life with the professional is among the most difficult paths to tread. Yet, willingly or otherwise, we let the paths converge at times. An instance- landlords often have to take the tough decision of renting to their own family. At times, it might even be out of sheer love and quite a fancied decision.
However, it might be bent; there is no denying the hassles which can raise their ugly heads on a later day. Let me share with you a few tips to lessen any emotional or financial damage that such an arrangement can bring.
Buying A First Home Remains A Possibility
Strong investor activity in the First Home Buyer segment means that the dices are loaded against that 28% population which is yet to own a home. Already, they are feeling ‘hammered’ auction after auction and to add to their plight, media is pronouncing the last decline of the first home buying fraternity, guided by statistics which show lowest level of FHB activity this quarter since the time records are being maintained.
Issues of Negative Gearing and Depreciation Claims
Investors love the idea of capital growth. This said they are not averse to the concept of high rental yield either. In fact, things boil down to how a particular investor is planning his portfolio. Negative and positive gearing both have their merit after all? I will be none the poorer by elaborating on this subject….hasn’t gearing caught public attention for a long while?
