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Winter is coming…Prepare your house for sale
Year on year you hear people talk about preparing their house to go to market in spring, but what about winter? Do all the buyers and sellers go into hibernation and prepare for the busy spring/summer sale season? Fact is, the serious buyers are always looking to buy, regardless of how cold and dreary it …
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How to make an offer on a property
After months of searching online, driving to every open house on a Saturday, Sunday and rushing to that mid-week open after work, you finally come across a property that ticks all the boxes, you want to make an offer, but you don't want to overpay, so where do you start? Having dealt with hundreds of …
2018! New Year, New Me! or something like that.
So far I've eaten poorly, missed the gym, not gone to bed at a reasonable hour, and already watched too much Netflix and it's only day 2. I guess some would say my start to 2018 has been a total failure, I might as well chalk this one up as a loss, but don't worry …
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Bitcoin 101: 5 experts who will educate you!
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, wherever I go it is all I hear. But what is Bitcoin?! and what is all the hysteria surrounding it? Cryptocurrency is complicated, I don't attest to being an expert, nor would I take the advice of the guy at the bar who says it is going to the moon. What I …
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Keep your coins, I want change
We've all heard the saying, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Unfortunately, I am not here to tell you it is a myth. Swiss bank Credit Suisse released its latest Global Wealth Report outlining the increase in millionaires and widening inequality. To save you the trouble of reading the report, it underlines …
To private health insurance, or not? That is the question.
Health insurance premiums have increased by an average of 54% since 2009, so it's easy to see why so many Australian's choose to re-evaluate whether it is worth it. Currently 47% of Australians have hospital cover, compare that to a decade ago where most Australians had full insurance cover. As insurance premiums continue to rise, …
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Where’s my money?
In the coming days, many of you will receive your PAYG payment summary from your employer. If you're anything like me (and I pray you're not) you will look at it and think where did all my money go? My first thought was, that can't be right, I didn't earn that much, but what I …
Taxing Times
The end of the financial year can feel like Christmas in July or your worst nightmare, a Tax Refund can go a long way to paying off credit card debt, treating yourself to that well deserved holiday or just accumulating savings. However, for some taxpayers tax time means another unwanted expense. For most millennials and …