Paradigm shift

It has been a very long time since I updated here & there’s a reason for that. The property in Townsville left us over-committed & then the escape vehicle of our dreams popped up. We went for it using a short term loan, believing that we could easily pay it off by re-financing our whole portfolio. [...]

The Universe is Your Dog

Fascinating article by Christine Kane, whom I have been following online for some time. Perhaps this is why everything seems to be coming together so quickly.

“Start by becoming a pack leader in your own world and healing your own world, and [...]

Outback IT Service

Wow, when the idea & timing are right, the universe combines to make it happen.?? Here’s the new Outback IT Service website, which coincidentally looks remarkably like this one.

Meanwhile, back on the property front, we have commenced negotiations for a major re-finance, so that we can put all of what we are doing into one portfolio [...]

The retirement job

It has also occurred to me that while travelling around Australia as we intend to do in around 3 years’ time, I could follow my passion for repairing computers by establishing a mobile professional IT service that is happy to come to you, wherever you are. What a perfect excuse to visit an isolated cattle station! [...]

Property to outshine shares

Positive Real Estate reports:

The meagre share market returns, rising property values and increasing yields in Australia???s current economic market is encouraging investors to return to the residential property market during 2008.

Craig James, Chief Equities Economist at Commsec, has been quoted saying that residential property prices will grow by 10 to 15 per cent in most capital [...]

The Retirement Project

OK, so I want to retire, sooner rather than later. Hey, how about we put some of that workplace training into effect here? If it???s good enough to run multi-million dollar projects for the company (not that I did any of those), then it???s good enough to use towards planning for retirement. Come to think [...]

The Great Australian Dream

A term that has been around for a very long time – The Great Australian Dream, which, along with the Great American Dream, is owning your own home.

OK, so how important is it really ??? to own your own home? More important, for example, than being healthy? Or happy in your relationships? [...]