The Clever Investor Property Podcast

What exactly is build-to-rent?

Over that last 20 years we have seen a steady increase in the amount of  Australian households that are setting up home in rented properties.

The stats show that in 202…

The Australian Greens party released a statement calling for private rents to be frozen for the next 24 months

And it got shot down and pulled apart pretty quickly and easily.

The Greens stated that …

Hello Clever Investors of Brisbane 

This is a personal invitation to all you lovely Brisbane listeners, your friend and family who are having thoughts about becoming a property investor…but

just don’…

With the price rises of lettuce, petrol, building materials, wages, rents, and just about anything you can think of lately, the topic of inflation keeps popping up the standard response by the worlds…

"What am I paying them for?....it can't be that hard...can it??"

Quizzed my friend from across the other side of the table.

" I mean you just get the rent.... What do they actually do? "

My friend wa…

We'd all love to think we are these highly organised machines, but invariably we still end up grabbing a shoe box full of receipts and dumping it on the accountants desk with a  "sorry....".

So for t…

What is a Trust?

In simple terms its a business structure....then after that it can get as complex as you want or need it to be.

Thankfully we have accountants in this world we live in and they love …

Are you having thoughts of buying a property with a family or friends.

Is the thought of halving all the costs appealing to you?

There are lots of great reason for doing it, there are lots of great r…

What are the 3 main things that banks look for in your mortgage applications? 

The 3 C's of Credit, Character, Capacity and Collateral

Our special studio guest this week is Dr Tony Nguyen, mortgage…

Unfortunately NSW has been hit yet again with widespread persistent heavy rain. The weather is always easy to complain about but this is bloody ridiculous.

There have been hundred and hundreds of eva…

So you've done the numbers, made the choice that you are going to be a Rentvester......but you still have the words of that friend of a friend from that BBQ you went too who's had to move 5 times in …

Well the interest rate talk has been going on for a couple of months now.

As we expected the banks are well under way moving their variable rates and at times like this the question gets asked aroun…

"The perception is that these landlords are are these rich people that sit back and collect the rent and drink cocktails all week......"

The high percentage of property investors are the everyday peo…

The deposit is a small initial contribution to the purchase price of a property, its like you've put it on lay-by. 

You don't actually own anything just yet.

You'll own the property on the agreed set…

The great Australian dream used to be, we move out from Mum and Dads house, rent while at Uni, get qualified, get a job in the mail room at the company you'll work at for the next 30 years, meet the …

There are certain things that are supposed to terrify us, things that go bump in the night, vampires in castles, clowns hiding in storm-water drains.

But Lenders Mortgage Insurance is as lovely as a …

Do you lay under the stars at night pondering the universe and what's beyond all that glitter in the sky and then thoughts like

"What is the difference between a Financial Planner and a Financial Ad…

"To fix or not to fix, that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them…

In 1939 the British government released a motivational poster that has become synonymous

"Keep calm and carry on"

It was intended to raise the moral of the British public, which at the time was great…