To ensure success it is important to create a strategic and structured plan, scheduling your objectives and goals - not only to accelerate your wealth but also to create the life you desire. Before successful people write down their goals firstly they write down what their ideal life would look like - visualise in their mind images of how they want their world to be. They then use this to [...]
No matter where you are on your financial journey you need to know it is possible to turn your financial life around. Making small changes in your life can fatten your savings and help you budget better. Follow these tips to save more money. Change One Habit and Save Using a Budget is Beneficial Use a Savings Goal Calculator Reduce Your Bank Fees Be Conscious About Money Change One Habit [...]
Halloween often involves telling scary stories, kids dressed up in home-made outfits running up and down the street trick or treating and of course the unusual tradition of carving up pumpkins. I was reminded recently of a scary story a client (John) told me about his Mum and Dad who divorced when he was about 27 years old. Mum used her share of the settlement and brought a little three bedroom house [...]
Property investment can make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. It’s a great way to end wage slavery and build a future without money worries and here’s why. Control and leverage are the property investor’s friend. They allow you to investment more money than you have or could normally borrow by investing only a small sum of your own money. There are no other investment classes which offer the investor [...]
Passive income means making money without work. Of course, there’s no such thing as 100% passive income. You’ll always have to do a little bit to take care of your money but you can get very close to passive income through investment. Why Does That Matter? If you want to be wealthy, there has to be a time when your money starts to work for you. High earners often aren’t [...]
Leonie Fitzgerald, the Voice's Tim McCallum & MC, Peter Fitzgerald Lots of people and lots of businesses too, talk about social responsibility today. Sadly, for many it stops at talking about it. They love the idea of social responsibility, they’re just hoping that somebody else will take care of it for them. I believe that social responsibility is more than just a phrase. The Definition Of Social Responsibility [...]
So, you’re thinking about investing in property to create wealth for yourself but you’re not entirely sure how the money side of things works? That’s OK. It might seem a touch confusing but really financing on a mortgage basis is quite straightforward. Let’s take a quick look at what you really need to know: You Need A Deposit A deposit is a percentage of the purchase price that you will [...]
I’ve recently had the good fortune to sit down with Peter Mastroianni of Rentvesting to talk about property investment. Peter encourages a brand new model of home ownership on his website and he wants to share his tips on successful investing with our readers. Peter’s heroes in life are people that we can all look up to. He is a fan of Elon Musk’s innovative and creative approach to the [...]
Millennials are those born in the 1980s and up to the mid-1990s. They found themselves hitting the job market as a major financial crisis hit the world and major changes were being made to the world of work; changes over which they had very little control but which affected their generation most of all. While many paint this generation with doom and gloom because of this – I think they’re [...]
Thinking about getting into property investment but wondering how the positives and negatives balance on the scales? No problem! Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of property investment and how to make the most out of your investment in property. Let’s take a look at the cons first: It used to be that your rental income wouldn’t cover your mortgage payments but in Australia’s funny property market [...]
