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Property Investment Reality Check

Hit your home loan for six. Here’s how.

As you see your money drift into your mortgage every fortnight do you knowingly look forward to that glorious final…

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Reality Check

Are you financially fragile?

Commonwealth Bank survey data reveals that more than a third of Aussies are spending more than they earn each month*…

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Property Investment

Why your property investment strategy is flawed?

You’ve heard the ads and sat through a few dreary seminars. Now you’ve got a handle on the same ‘strategies’…

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Reality Check

Will the bank own your home when you retire?

Hopefully not. But are you paying off your home at a rate that will leave you mortgage-free when you decide…

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Property Investment Reality Check

The Debt Sentence: How the Banks Have Got You For Life

Banks are—not to put too fine a point on it—creeps.  You think you’re getting a terrific deal, but you’re actually…

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Property Investment Reality Check

Is superannuation a trap?

The Australian superannuation system forces your employer to contribute 9.5% of your gross salary to a super fund of your…

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Property Investment

What’s happened to the Australian Dream?

After more than eight years of feedback, we think the Aussie Dream is: Paying off your home Having your Super…

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Property Investment Reality Check

The reason you’re always broke

Last week I met a lovely married couple in their mid-thirties earning around $110,000 per year, clear.  Two kids, two…

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Property Investment Reality Check

The refinancing con you need to know about

Your mate Mark’s throwing a Bubble Ball party for his kid. You’re there, beer in one hand, plate of fairy…

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Property Investment

Own your home outright in 45 minutes

Here’s what you’ve got to do today.  Rank them in importance from 1-5 where 1 is most important and 5…

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Property Investment

How to get rich with leveraged long/short global equity funds

Avoid them. I’m here to burst your bubble.  The only people getting rich from too-technical-to-understand investment products are the fat…

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Property Investment Reality Check

Are mortgages set up to rob $100,000’s of your cash?

The nation’s largest lender, the Commonwealth Bank, earns more than $1.2 million in cash profit every hour, every day. Yep….

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