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- 0:00Speaker 1: She's on the Money. She's on the Money.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to She Is on the Money, the
- 0:14Speaker 2: podcast for millennials who want financial freedom.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Today's episode of.
- 0:18Speaker 2: The show is brought to you by Upbank, the digital
- 0:20Speaker 2: bank designed to help you organize your money and simplify
- 0:22Speaker 2: your life. As regular listeners to the show would know,
- 0:24Speaker 2: my name is Georgia King, a twenty something with stacks
- 0:27Speaker 2: to learn when it comes.
- 0:28Speaker 1: To navigating cash.
- 0:29Speaker 2: To help me find some answers for the very last
- 0:32Speaker 2: episode of season two, we back soon, though, guys, don't worry.
- 0:36Speaker 2: I am joined as always by millennial money expert Miss Victoria.
- 0:39Speaker 3: To Fine Hello, Hello friends.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Now today on the show, we are going to be
- 0:43Speaker 2: talking about rent investing, which puts simply, is the choice
- 0:46Speaker 2: to invest in a property somewhere while renting somewhere else
- 0:50Speaker 2: instead of the more traditional trend of buying property is
- 0:52Speaker 2: your big investment and then living in it. Before we
- 0:54Speaker 2: do dive deep into today's topic, though, Victoria, let's chat
- 0:56Speaker 2: our own money wins, money confessions.
- 0:58Speaker 1: How did you go this week?
- 1:00Speaker 3: I have a money win that I am silly levels
- 1:04Speaker 3: of excited about it that no one else is going
- 1:07Speaker 3: to care about, So share with us on season one.
- 1:10Speaker 3: I talk to you guys about how much I love
- 1:12Speaker 3: my pantry and I have these beautiful containers. You've probably
- 1:16Speaker 3: seen the picture on our Facebook group. Have beautiful containers
- 1:20Speaker 3: really well, like I'm the queen. Yeah, look calm down,
- 1:25Speaker 3: i am the Queen of the spice rack. And recently
- 1:29Speaker 3: I have been looking to make sure that all my
- 1:31Speaker 3: oil bottles match, because that is not a sign of
- 1:34Speaker 3: having OCD at all. So I found some oil bottles
- 1:38Speaker 3: that I really like. They are beautiful, they are well designed,
- 1:40Speaker 3: but they are eighty dollars each on the internet and
- 1:43Speaker 3: I am not having it. It is not an option.
- 1:45Speaker 3: But I still really like the design of them. So
- 1:48Speaker 3: I went onto Ali Express this week and I have
- 1:51Speaker 3: ordered them all for fifteen dollars each instead of eighty
- 1:55Speaker 3: dollars per bttle. That's a pretty good deal.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Still seems expensive to me for an oil bottle, butt.
- 2:00Speaker 3: It is, it's a ridiculous amount. I bought six of them.
- 2:03Speaker 3: I will probably post photos once I've labeled them, and
- 2:07Speaker 3: for me, I feel like that's a money win. But
- 2:09Speaker 3: it also could be a money loss because I've never
- 2:12Speaker 3: ordered something off Ali Express, so who knows. It's Ali Express.
- 2:16Speaker 3: It looked good. It's just a website. They ship directly
- 2:19Speaker 3: from China, no judgment, But what if it doesn't arrive?
- 2:23Speaker 3: I might have a money loss for you next season anyway.
- 2:26Speaker 3: Oil bottles. I know no one's as excited about that
- 2:29Speaker 3: as me, but I don't particularly mind.
- 2:31Speaker 1: I think that means you're an adult now like that?
- 2:33Speaker 3: Does it?
- 2:34Speaker 2: Like when you're starting to be interested in homewares and
- 2:37Speaker 2: towels and oil bottles.
- 2:39Speaker 3: That's in vacuums. I'm looking for a vacuum right now?
- 2:41Speaker 3: Or recommendations welcome anyway? Exciting guys, if you are still
- 2:47Speaker 3: listening to the show after all of that, Georgia King,
- 2:49Speaker 3: do you have a money win or confession that you'd
- 2:51Speaker 3: like to share that isn't as dry as mine?
- 2:53Speaker 2: Mine is a win, and it's not a dry one.
- 2:56Speaker 2: I recently went to the Great Ocean Road with my
- 2:58Speaker 2: boyfriend for a little.
- 2:59Speaker 3: Bit dayeh, boy boy, and.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Instead of staying in a ritzy hotel, we decided to camp.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Found beautiful a free camp site in like the hinterland,
- 3:11Speaker 2: so gorgeous. Didn't spend a cent except for on food
- 3:14Speaker 2: and petrol and stuff like that, but.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Not on age, not on accommodation.
- 3:17Speaker 2: So we saved that and shout out to my friend
- 3:18Speaker 2: Lily Pope who recommended that to me.
- 3:21Speaker 1: So what a.
- 3:22Speaker 3: Delightful human being. I love it.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Okay, So now let's take a quick look at the
- 3:27Speaker 2: Facebook community, which was impressive, as it literally always is
- 3:30Speaker 2: week on week.
- 3:32Speaker 1: The witch post stood out.
- 3:33Speaker 3: To you, okay, So I have one from Rebecca, who
- 3:37Speaker 3: I love. It is hilarious. She says money win, but
- 3:40Speaker 3: I would really have thought it was funny if she
- 3:42Speaker 3: put like honey wind, because it totally is about honey,
- 3:45Speaker 3: and that's honey. Anyway, She said, my mum and I
- 3:48Speaker 3: have been beekeeping for about a year, and today, quite dramatically,
- 3:52Speaker 3: she found out she was allergic to bees. On the
- 3:54Speaker 3: plus side, she said, we sold our first two kilos
- 3:57Speaker 3: of honey to the nurses in emergency, therefore making our
- 4:00Speaker 3: first money win with our b slash honey business. And
- 4:03Speaker 3: she posted a really cute photo of her with two
- 4:06Speaker 3: jars of honey, but also a swollen shut eye, and
- 4:10Speaker 3: I feel like that's maybe a loss, but she also
- 4:13Speaker 3: made the first sale in her small business. So he's
- 4:16Speaker 3: to Rebecca and her honey business. I love it. What
- 4:19Speaker 3: have you got for me jk okay.
- 4:21Speaker 2: So mine is from a Sunky who has written in
- 4:23Speaker 2: money Win was paying near five dollars for a packet
- 4:26Speaker 2: of bliss balls and going through about two to three
- 4:28Speaker 2: packets a week. Me yops, we've all been there. Decided
- 4:32Speaker 2: to make these at home and it took me fifteen
- 4:33Speaker 2: minutes to make. They taste even more delicious than the
- 4:35Speaker 2: store board ones. They're plastic free, saving money, saving the environment.
- 4:39Speaker 2: They're also vegan friendly and healthy. She then posted the
- 4:42Speaker 2: recipe as well as a photo of some delicious looking
- 4:44Speaker 2: protein balls there as well.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Awesome Georgia dish used any emojis.
- 4:47Speaker 1: She did, Sorry, she used several emojis.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Let me just talk you through them. There were four
- 4:52Speaker 2: with the big teeth like a big grin.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Beautiful, beautiful, and they're important to visualize these exactly.
- 4:57Speaker 2: There's also two more of those and then a wink face.
- 4:59Speaker 2: I think quite small, so it might not be a
- 5:01Speaker 2: wink face, but I'm.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Appreciate it's go with a wing pase. Should we move
- 5:04Speaker 3: on V We should absolutely move on today's wild.
- 5:10Speaker 2: And now into the main part of today's show, rent Festing. Now,
- 5:13Speaker 2: it's no secret that the property market in Australia is
- 5:16Speaker 2: a tough cookie to craft, with the average home price
- 5:18Speaker 2: in Sydney just shy of one million dollars at nine
- 5:21Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five thousand dollars right now in Melbourne
- 5:24Speaker 2: the median price is seven hundred and thirty seven thousand,
- 5:26Speaker 2: which we're.
- 5:26Speaker 3: A little bit more reasonable down a low Melbourn a.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Little bit, still little bit. That still seems astronomical to me.
- 5:31Speaker 2: So even the millennials refusing Avalon toast and opting instead
- 5:34Speaker 2: for Bland Breckeys are battling to break in and the
- 5:36Speaker 2: old Australian dream of owning our own home seems like
- 5:39Speaker 2: it's only getting a further and further out of each
- 5:41Speaker 2: So what are our alternatives? Some say that rent festing
- 5:45Speaker 2: is the way to go, That is renting in the
- 5:47Speaker 2: suburb you want to live in while buying a home
- 5:49Speaker 2: in a more affordable location, perhaps a little further out,
- 5:52Speaker 2: and using that property as your investment Victoria. Firstly, is
- 5:56Speaker 2: rent festing something we should actually be considering? And why
- 5:58Speaker 2: do you think so many millennials are using this strategy
- 6:01Speaker 2: to break into the property market.
- 6:02Speaker 3: I love this strategy because I feel like everyone that
- 6:06Speaker 3: I talk to after we've had a really good discussion
- 6:08Speaker 3: about investment and they have decided that property is the
- 6:11Speaker 3: asset class they want to be investing in. Rentvesting allows
- 6:15Speaker 3: you to buy a property in a location that has
- 6:19Speaker 3: good capital growth, good rental yield and the ability to
- 6:22Speaker 3: create wealth while still living in an area that gives
- 6:26Speaker 3: you the lifestyle you want. So, for example, we live
- 6:29Speaker 3: here in Melbourne and I have a couple of clients
- 6:32Speaker 3: who live in apartments in Peran. They couldn't afford to
- 6:35Speaker 3: buy in Peran, so they've bought a little bit further out,
- 6:37Speaker 3: they rent those properties out and they still get the
- 6:41Speaker 3: lifestyle that they want at this point in time, and
- 6:44Speaker 3: a lot of the time, rent investing is a great
- 6:47Speaker 3: idea because it turns a property that you purchase from
- 6:50Speaker 3: an owner occupier asset to an investment asset, which means
- 6:54Speaker 3: you can now claim tax on that asset and it
- 6:57Speaker 3: becomes a little bit more of a sexy option when
- 7:00Speaker 3: it comes to returns. So whilst there are a whole
- 7:03Speaker 3: heap of different rules and regulations, such as living in
- 7:06Speaker 3: the asset for the first year so that you can
- 7:08Speaker 3: get some concessions on capital gains and then moving out.
- 7:11Speaker 3: There are a lot of moving parts to this, but
- 7:13Speaker 3: at the end of the day, rent vesting is essentially
- 7:16Speaker 3: where you purchase a property that you do not live
- 7:19Speaker 3: in that has a rental yield. You take that rental yield.
- 7:23Speaker 3: For example, if someone was paying you three hundred and
- 7:25Speaker 3: fifty dollars in rent each week at the property you own,
- 7:29Speaker 3: you then go and spend that three hundred and fifty
- 7:32Speaker 3: dollars on renting the apartment or property that you want
- 7:35Speaker 3: to live in the area that you want to live in,
- 7:37Speaker 3: and you then go and pay the mortgage. But you're
- 7:40Speaker 3: getting a tax deduction on that mortgage. Therefore you're able
- 7:44Speaker 3: to pay it off faster as well. So there's a
- 7:47Speaker 3: number of benefits to rent vesting that aren't just I'm
- 7:50Speaker 3: not living in the property, so there are tax benefits
- 7:53Speaker 3: associated with it, there are lifestyle benefits associated with it,
- 7:57Speaker 3: and also the ability to pay off a mortgagehag faster,
- 8:00Speaker 3: which to me is really important because it does two things. One,
- 8:04Speaker 3: getting out of debt is priority to me and making
- 8:06Speaker 3: sure that we don't have assets that cost us money.
- 8:09Speaker 3: But two, the faster we're paying off a mortgage, the
- 8:13Speaker 3: faster we have access to what is called equity, and
- 8:16Speaker 3: equity allows us to build other assets. So it allows
- 8:20Speaker 3: us to leverage to purchase another asset if that is
- 8:23Speaker 3: what we wish to do.
- 8:25Speaker 1: So would that be like buying another house, Well.
- 8:26Speaker 3: It could be buying another house, It could be you
- 8:29Speaker 3: purchasing a property because it is a really good asset
- 8:32Speaker 3: in a well diversified investment portfolio, so that you can
- 8:36Speaker 3: then go and buy some shares and you've got your
- 8:38Speaker 3: rent covered so that you're in a position where you
- 8:40Speaker 3: are making the most of the income that's coming in.
- 8:44Speaker 3: So rentvesting isn't for everyone, but it's a really good
- 8:46Speaker 3: conversation to have because now that we are in a
- 8:50Speaker 3: position where the average house price here in Melbourne is
- 8:52Speaker 3: seven hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars and in Sydney
- 8:55Speaker 3: it's nine hundred and fifty five thousand dollars, those numbers
- 8:59Speaker 3: are incredibly hard and very very unrealistic for most first
- 9:04Speaker 3: home buyers. So we need to look at other assets
- 9:07Speaker 3: that we can invest in in the interim before we
- 9:10Speaker 3: are actually able to buy our family home. The Australian
- 9:14Speaker 3: dream over the last fifty years, fifty plus years, let's
- 9:18Speaker 3: call it forever has always been to buy your family home,
- 9:22Speaker 3: live in it, pay it completely off, and that is
- 9:24Speaker 3: what we've all worked towards. But now it is not
- 9:28Speaker 3: financially viable for most of us to actually own the
- 9:31Speaker 3: property that we live in. So renvesting gives us the
- 9:34Speaker 3: ability to purchase a property that is going to help
- 9:37Speaker 3: us create future wealth while also giving us the ability
- 9:40Speaker 3: to live the lifestyle that we want to live right now,
- 9:43Speaker 3: because historically, let's call it, our parents were able to
- 9:46Speaker 3: buy a property that they could move into and afford
- 9:48Speaker 3: and pay off, whereas we don't have that grace. I
- 9:51Speaker 3: know if I look at myself, I live in the
- 9:53Speaker 3: inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The prices of properties there
- 9:57Speaker 3: are insane and there is abs no way that myself,
- 10:02Speaker 3: included as a first home buyer, will be able to
- 10:04Speaker 3: buy a property in that location and to have it
- 10:07Speaker 3: be my dream property. So I think that it is
- 10:10Speaker 3: a really important thing that we actually reiterate here is
- 10:14Speaker 3: that first home buyers are now not able to purchase
- 10:17Speaker 3: their dream property as their first property.
- 10:19Speaker 2: So we've spoken about using this strategy to get our
- 10:22Speaker 2: foot into the property market.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Door.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Would you say people are mainly using rent vesting as
- 10:26Speaker 2: a stepping stone to eventually getting their dream.
- 10:29Speaker 3: A lot of people talk about rent vesting because you
- 10:30Speaker 3: can get into property now. I think we really need
- 10:33Speaker 3: to be thinking about the long term strategy. And an
- 10:36Speaker 3: important thing when it comes to property for me is
- 10:39Speaker 3: that we take the emotion out of the investment. Too
- 10:42Speaker 3: often do I see people coming in to talk about
- 10:44Speaker 3: property with us and they're like, I really just want
- 10:46Speaker 3: to buy my perfect home, and it's like, okay, cool.
- 10:49Speaker 3: So this is an emotionally driven purchase, and to me,
- 10:52Speaker 3: we can't have that because you are going to make
- 10:55Speaker 3: a decision that is not going to be in the
- 10:57Speaker 3: best interests of long term you. Yes, you might get
- 11:00Speaker 3: your white picket fence and you might get the perfect
- 11:03Speaker 3: front door, but does that actually help you generate wealth
- 11:07Speaker 3: over the long term. So yes, some people are using
- 11:10Speaker 3: rent vesting as a way to get their foot in
- 11:13Speaker 3: the property market, or they are purchasing a lower value
- 11:16Speaker 3: property the property is increasing in value and then they
- 11:19Speaker 3: are either selling that property so that they are able
- 11:22Speaker 3: to then buy what we deem their dream home. Or
- 11:25Speaker 3: there are a lot of people who are purchasing properties
- 11:28Speaker 3: to rent vest They're paying interest only on their loans,
- 11:31Speaker 3: and they are purchasing more properties with the goal of
- 11:35Speaker 3: having the rental yield as an income source. So a
- 11:39Speaker 3: lot of people, and I'm not saying that this is
- 11:42Speaker 3: right or wrong. It is just a strategy that we
- 11:44Speaker 3: are having a chat about. A lot of people are
- 11:46Speaker 3: purchasing property with the intention of gaining the rental yield
- 11:50Speaker 3: and creating a property portfolio that sustains their that sustains
- 11:56Speaker 3: their living expenses, and that could happen for their entire life.
- 11:59Speaker 3: So they might create a property portfolio that returns enough
- 12:03Speaker 3: to pay off all of the mortgages or pay the
- 12:05Speaker 3: minimum on their interest only loans, as well as me
- 12:08Speaker 3: their daily and monthly money needs. So I think it's
- 12:12Speaker 3: important to see that there are a number of different
- 12:14Speaker 3: reasons we would rent vest but the reason we are
- 12:17Speaker 3: rent vesting is going to be personal to us. So
- 12:20Speaker 3: a good example of this is, let's use me as
- 12:23Speaker 3: an example. I would love to purchase in the area
- 12:26Speaker 3: that I live. I can't afford it, So I might
- 12:29Speaker 3: go and purchase a property in an area that I
- 12:31Speaker 3: can afford that I believe is going to have really
- 12:34Speaker 3: good capital growth, really good rental yield, I'm not purchasing
- 12:38Speaker 3: a property that I'm in love with. I'm purchasing a
- 12:40Speaker 3: property that is a good financial decision, and I am
- 12:44Speaker 3: waiting for that capital growth to kick in and me
- 12:47Speaker 3: to have an asset that enables me to purchase the
- 12:50Speaker 3: home that I would like. It is not the only
- 12:52Speaker 3: wealth creation strategy that exists. There are a lot of them,
- 12:56Speaker 3: but it is one that you can use to leverage it.
- 12:59Speaker 3: But it's not going to take twelve months. We know
- 13:01Speaker 3: that property takes about ten years to double in value.
- 13:05Speaker 3: So this, as much as it seems like a really
- 13:07Speaker 3: quick fix, because a lot of the articles and the
- 13:09Speaker 3: communications that are out there about rent vesting make it
- 13:12Speaker 3: seem as though you can get into your dream property
- 13:14Speaker 3: faster using rent vesting, it's actually a little bit of
- 13:18Speaker 3: a myth because you still have to wait for that
- 13:20Speaker 3: capital growth to happen. You still have to be paying
- 13:23Speaker 3: off a mortgage, you still have a really large financial
- 13:26Speaker 3: commitment that you need to consider whether is actually going
- 13:29Speaker 3: to help you create wealth in the way that you
- 13:31Speaker 3: want in the timeframe that you have.
- 13:33Speaker 2: So I'm rent vesting, Victoria. Can I just move into
- 13:36Speaker 2: that property whenever I want to?
- 13:37Speaker 3: Technically guess because legally you can kick your tenants out
- 13:41Speaker 3: and you can move in as the owner to become
- 13:43Speaker 3: owner occupier. There are a number of things that you
- 13:46Speaker 3: need to take into consideration when making that decision, though, Ye,
- 13:49Speaker 3: because if you switch from being an investment to an
- 13:52Speaker 3: owner occupier, you are now not able to claim it
- 13:55Speaker 3: on tax. Things are going to increase, and there is
- 13:59Speaker 3: a very large probability that you cannot afford to live
- 14:02Speaker 3: in that property. So I have clients where we have said, look,
- 14:06Speaker 3: you can buy the property that you really want to buy,
- 14:09Speaker 3: but you cannot move into it until you've paid a
- 14:12Speaker 3: specific amount off your mortgage, so that we have debt
- 14:15Speaker 3: repayments that are really manageable once you move in, So
- 14:19Speaker 3: more often than not, your debt repayments will increase because
- 14:23Speaker 3: you no longer get those tax deductions on that property
- 14:27Speaker 3: if you move in.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Now we all know that rent money is dead money.
- 14:30Speaker 2: No, we do not, g king, well, is that a
- 14:33Speaker 2: thing in this case?
- 14:33Speaker 3: Is it a thing?
- 14:34Speaker 1: Generally?
- 14:34Speaker 3: You need to stop saying things wildly inaccurate on this podcast.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Look, expert, well, I try to be.
- 14:41Speaker 3: You don't help me know, so I think that rent
- 14:44Speaker 3: money is dead money. Is such an outdated concept that
- 14:48Speaker 3: never existed to begin with. Like, paying rent to me
- 14:52Speaker 3: is paying for a lifestyle, and if that is of
- 14:55Speaker 3: value to you, then pay more on rent. I know
- 14:58Speaker 3: people and have clients who say, no, oh, I don't
- 15:00Speaker 3: really want to spend a lot on rent, so I'm
- 15:02Speaker 3: just going to rent this place. It does the job.
- 15:04Speaker 3: It's a place that I have that I live, and
- 15:07Speaker 3: I'm going to spend all my money on entertainment, Whereas
- 15:09Speaker 3: the opposite is true for a lot of my other clients,
- 15:12Speaker 3: where they say, no, I really want to have a
- 15:13Speaker 3: beautiful home that I love living in. I entertain at
- 15:16Speaker 3: home a lot, and that's their values. So it all
- 15:19Speaker 3: comes back to values. But rent money is not dead
- 15:22Speaker 3: money if you're getting something out of it, so if
- 15:25Speaker 3: you're getting the lifestyle that you want, or you're investing
- 15:28Speaker 3: your money elsewhere. So mortgages are really expensive, and I
- 15:33Speaker 3: won't be breaking any news here to you. Everybody knows that.
- 15:37Speaker 3: But more often than not, a mortgage is really expensive.
- 15:39Speaker 3: So to live in the property that you own can
- 15:42Speaker 3: often be just out of the question, especially in the
- 15:45Speaker 3: area that you want to live. So paying rent enables
- 15:49Speaker 3: you to invest the surplus cash that you have in
- 15:52Speaker 3: another place, so you can create wealth while you're paying
- 15:56Speaker 3: money to have a roof of your head. At the
- 15:58Speaker 3: end of the day, I think rent my is dead.
- 16:00Speaker 3: Money is a really terrible saying, because we all need
- 16:03Speaker 3: somewhere to live, literally, and paying rent is a part
- 16:06Speaker 3: of that. It is an essential. So it's like saying, oh,
- 16:10Speaker 3: spending money on food, what a waste? Like that's not
- 16:13Speaker 3: a thing that we can say because we all know
- 16:15Speaker 3: we need food. We all know that we need to
- 16:16Speaker 3: be paying money to have a roof over our heads. However,
- 16:20Speaker 3: we have the opportunity to choose how much that costs us,
- 16:24Speaker 3: and that comes down to our values.
- 16:26Speaker 2: So, as a millennial, if one of my values is
- 16:29Speaker 2: to have a property break into the market, would you
- 16:31Speaker 2: say this is the best way to do it.
- 16:32Speaker 3: It's not necessarily the best way to do it. But
- 16:35Speaker 3: if you are a millennial who says, well, you're just
- 16:39Speaker 3: a person who wants to get into the property market,
- 16:42Speaker 3: and you know that property is one hundred percent what
- 16:44Speaker 3: you want to purchase out of all the asset classes.
- 16:47Speaker 3: If you've done your research and you say no, it's
- 16:48Speaker 3: still want to invest in property and Victoria it's not emotional.
- 16:52Speaker 3: I just want to choose this. I'm here for it.
- 16:55Speaker 3: I think that it is a really great way for
- 16:57Speaker 3: people to purchase a property so that they can build wealth.
- 17:00Speaker 3: But again, I need to really reiterate buying property needs
- 17:04Speaker 3: to not be such an emotional decision. I can fall
- 17:07Speaker 3: in love with so many different properties, and it is
- 17:10Speaker 3: so easy to go through the domain website and be like,
- 17:13Speaker 3: oh my gosh, look at that one. It's got a
- 17:14Speaker 3: full God. It makes me so excited, I know, and
- 17:17Speaker 3: we really need to stop doing that, because it's not
- 17:20Speaker 3: that it's not going to happen. It's just that it
- 17:22Speaker 3: is unreasonable for us to be choosing an asset that's
- 17:26Speaker 3: meant to be generating us wealth if we're choosing it
- 17:29Speaker 3: based on face value. We need to be making sure
- 17:32Speaker 3: that the properties we buy are in areas that have
- 17:34Speaker 3: good capital growth, in areas that have good rental yield,
- 17:38Speaker 3: that have good infrastructure around them, so that we are
- 17:41Speaker 3: actually getting the growth that we need to create financial freedom.
- 17:45Speaker 3: It's really important here as well, Ge to mention that,
- 17:48Speaker 3: like every single other investment asset that we talk about,
- 17:52Speaker 3: property is not something that you purchase with the intention
- 17:55Speaker 3: of getting rid of in one or two years when
- 17:57Speaker 3: you find your dream home. If we are purchasing property,
- 18:00Speaker 3: we are choosing that asset for a minimum of ten years.
- 18:04Speaker 3: And if you don't want to commit to something for
- 18:06Speaker 3: ten years, you are not meant to be purchasing at
- 18:08Speaker 3: that point in time. Because there are so many things
- 18:11Speaker 3: that you need to take into consideration there. We need
- 18:13Speaker 3: to be talking about capital growth, We need to be
- 18:15Speaker 3: talking about rental yield. We need to be talking about
- 18:18Speaker 3: how much money you are spending on stamp duty and
- 18:20Speaker 3: transfer costs, and all of the fees and additional costs
- 18:24Speaker 3: associated with buying and selling property. For example, how much
- 18:27Speaker 3: are you going to pay your real estate agent? So
- 18:29Speaker 3: all of those need to be built into the actual
- 18:33Speaker 3: property price. And because property is such a tangible asset,
- 18:37Speaker 3: so many people forget this. So so many people will
- 18:41Speaker 3: turn around and say, well, I've made money on this
- 18:43Speaker 3: property because I purchased it for five hundred thousand dollars
- 18:45Speaker 3: and I sold it for seven hundred thousand dollars a
- 18:48Speaker 3: couple of years later, and you're fantastic. That sounds like
- 18:50Speaker 3: a great return. But what they didn't tell you was
- 18:53Speaker 3: how much they paid in stamp duty, how much that
- 18:55Speaker 3: kitchen and bathroom renovation costs them, how much all of
- 18:58Speaker 3: the additional things that they've added to the house actually cost. So,
- 19:02Speaker 3: when it came down to it, and I've done the
- 19:04Speaker 3: numbers before with clients where they've bought for five hundred
- 19:06Speaker 3: thousand dollars sold for seven hundred thousand dollars, but they've
- 19:09Speaker 3: actually only made ten or fifteen thousand dollars profit because
- 19:12Speaker 3: they've put so much money into the property to actually
- 19:15Speaker 3: get it to that stage. So we need to be
- 19:18Speaker 3: really cautious of where our money goes. It's not like
- 19:21Speaker 3: a share. A share doesn't cost us additional money. They
- 19:24Speaker 3: don't call up and say, hey, Victoria, SA, it's three
- 19:27Speaker 3: o tinto. I'm just wondering we've ruined our hot water system.
- 19:32Speaker 3: Could you throw us fifteen hundred dollars to fix that?
- 19:35Speaker 3: You don't have that when you are investing in shares.
- 19:39Speaker 3: So we need to make sure that when we are
- 19:40Speaker 3: buying property, we are taking into consideration all the additional
- 19:44Speaker 3: fees and charges that are going to be associated with that.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Alrighty B.
- 19:47Speaker 2: So it sounds like there are benefits of plenty to investing,
- 19:50Speaker 2: which I hadn't really heard.
- 19:51Speaker 3: Of apparently, so given the conversation we've had, yes.
- 19:53Speaker 2: Exactly, But are there any quants?
- 19:57Speaker 3: There are a few things that you need to take
- 19:59Speaker 3: into ca consideration here. So first things first, are you
- 20:03Speaker 3: buying property just because you feel like property is the
- 20:05Speaker 3: asset you should have without having taken into consideration any
- 20:08Speaker 3: other asset class that exists. A property, whilst rent vesting
- 20:13Speaker 3: sounds really sexy, is a mortgage that you have to
- 20:16Speaker 3: pay regardless of what is going on in the economy.
- 20:19Speaker 3: You have a mortgage payment that you are obligated to pay.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Unlike shares, where you can choose to just not contribute
- 20:26Speaker 3: that month, a mortgage needs to be paid and if
- 20:29Speaker 3: you don't pay it, the bank is coming for you.
- 20:31Speaker 3: So we need to remember that whilst this sounds like
- 20:33Speaker 3: an attractive opportunity, it is a financial responsibility that you
- 20:37Speaker 3: are taking on. Another one is buying an investment first,
- 20:41Speaker 3: so so many people are hung up on buying their
- 20:44Speaker 3: dream home and purchasing a property that they own and
- 20:47Speaker 3: that they get to live in. And if you are
- 20:49Speaker 3: purchasing an asset to rent vest you don't actually get
- 20:53Speaker 3: to do that. And whilst I don't think that's a
- 20:55Speaker 3: negative thing because I'm very pro renting. I think a
- 20:59Speaker 3: lot of people might say, but I'm sacrificing the goal
- 21:02Speaker 3: of living in the property that I own. Another thing
- 21:05Speaker 3: to add to that is that you can't make a
- 21:08Speaker 3: home that you rent your own. It's something that a
- 21:11Speaker 3: lot of my clients talk about. They're like, oh, but
- 21:12Speaker 3: I can't paint the walls, but I can't do this,
- 21:15Speaker 3: or I can't have a dog. And a lot of
- 21:17Speaker 3: that is changing. We're now seeing the rental industry actually
- 21:21Speaker 3: trying to keep up with us because they know that,
- 21:24Speaker 3: unlike thirty years ago, renting these days is far more
- 21:28Speaker 3: long term, so people are offering longer leases. There have
- 21:32Speaker 3: been rules passed here in Victoria that you are allowed
- 21:34Speaker 3: pets and that they can't be declined. And I think
- 21:37Speaker 3: that landlords are now being far more flexible if you
- 21:40Speaker 3: are a good tenant. For example, if you call up
- 21:42Speaker 3: and just say, hey, could I paint a wall? Could
- 21:45Speaker 3: I get permission to hang out? I think it is
- 21:47Speaker 3: really fair to ask those questions. However, if you don't
- 21:50Speaker 3: like the tiles in the kitchen, you don't get the
- 21:52Speaker 3: opportunity to change them. So I think it's important to
- 21:55Speaker 3: be if you're renting and you're going to choose to
- 21:58Speaker 3: rent for a long period of time, not picking a
- 22:01Speaker 3: property that you want to tinker around with, but picking
- 22:04Speaker 3: one that does meet your expectations is important. But being
- 22:08Speaker 3: aware it isn't your home, so you don't get the
- 22:10Speaker 3: opportunity to change it. For me, that's not enough of
- 22:13Speaker 3: a deterrent to change my decision. However, it is worthy
- 22:17Speaker 3: of note, it's worthy of having that conversation. And last,
- 22:20Speaker 3: but not least, Georgia, it's really important to remember that
- 22:24Speaker 3: just like every single other asset, there are ebbs and flows,
- 22:28Speaker 3: So the property market can increase in value as much
- 22:31Speaker 3: as it can decrease in value, and if we are
- 22:34Speaker 3: going to be committing to a long term financial responsibility,
- 22:38Speaker 3: we have to be in a financial position to be
- 22:40Speaker 3: able to ride that out. And that means if your
- 22:42Speaker 3: property is valued at less, being in a position where
- 22:45Speaker 3: you are not forced to sell is essential. So making
- 22:49Speaker 3: sure that you're talking to a good mortgage broker about
- 22:52Speaker 3: your serviceability and about how to purchase a property that
- 22:55Speaker 3: aligns with your goals but also your financial abilities is
- 22:59Speaker 3: really really important, and a broker is going to be
- 23:01Speaker 3: literally your best friend here when making sure that you
- 23:04Speaker 3: are making decisions that are in line with not only
- 23:07Speaker 3: your values, but your financial situation.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Do we need to be chatting to brokers if we
- 23:11Speaker 2: want to make this happen.
- 23:12Speaker 3: I am a very big believer in putting your money
- 23:15Speaker 3: in the hands of experts. I am not on the
- 23:18Speaker 3: page of just making decisions for yourself. Too often do
- 23:21Speaker 3: I see people going and getting loans that don't actually
- 23:25Speaker 3: benefit them, that are structured incorrectly, that don't have the
- 23:29Speaker 3: flexibility that my clients need. And more often than not,
- 23:33Speaker 3: when I do see a client that has finally realized
- 23:35Speaker 3: that they are actually locked into a fixed term that
- 23:38Speaker 3: I can't do a lot about for maybe one or
- 23:40Speaker 3: two years. So I think it's important to get a
- 23:43Speaker 3: professional on your side. A mortgage broker does this day in,
- 23:47Speaker 3: day out and make sure you are in the best
- 23:50Speaker 3: possible financial position. They will be able to weigh up
- 23:53Speaker 3: all of the pros and cons. They will be able
- 23:55Speaker 3: to make sure that you're not missing any of the fees, chargers,
- 23:57Speaker 3: stamp duty, anything included that you might miss Because you're
- 24:01Speaker 3: not a professional investor, you are not a professional property buyer.
- 24:04Speaker 3: Talk to someone who is and they will be able
- 24:07Speaker 3: to hold your hand through that process. And more importantly
- 24:10Speaker 3: here that service is free. It does not cost you
- 24:14Speaker 3: anything to see a broker. Because a broker gets paid
- 24:17Speaker 3: by the bank that they end up taking the loan
- 24:20Speaker 3: out with, it doesn't actually change that broker's decision to
- 24:23Speaker 3: go with a particular bank, unless you see a broker
- 24:26Speaker 3: who works for a bank, which I would discourage because
- 24:29Speaker 3: they don't have the ability to weigh up every opportunity
- 24:32Speaker 3: in the market for you, which I think is very,
- 24:34Speaker 3: very valuable. But seeing a broker, they are going to
- 24:37Speaker 3: be able to get the best possible deal for you
- 24:39Speaker 3: and put you in the safest possible position that you
- 24:42Speaker 3: can be. The world is a pretty strange place to
- 24:48Speaker 3: be at the moment, and social media and our Facebook
- 24:50Speaker 3: group are absolutely flooded with information about COVID nineteen. Our
- 24:54Speaker 3: number one priority, as it always has been, is to
- 24:57Speaker 3: protect the health of our team and our community, So
- 25:00Speaker 3: we made the decision this week to not record with
- 25:02Speaker 3: our Money Diarist in light of this ever evolving situation,
- 25:06Speaker 3: though we have recorded a COVID nineteen podcast that'll be
- 25:09Speaker 3: released later in the week. Whilst health is incredibly important
- 25:13Speaker 3: and we need to protect that fiercely. Finance and money
- 25:17Speaker 3: are so closely tied to what's going on, and whilst
- 25:20Speaker 3: there is so much going on in this world, feeling
- 25:23Speaker 3: financially prepared will hopefully help you feel a little bit
- 25:26Speaker 3: less stressed and a little bit more in control at
- 25:29Speaker 3: a time when not much is in our control at all.
- 25:32Speaker 3: So keep an eye out for that because it'll be
- 25:34Speaker 3: uploaded later in the week. But keeping in tradition of
- 25:36Speaker 3: our Shes on the Money podcast, we still have a
- 25:39Speaker 3: listener question, so let's jump into.
- 25:41Speaker 4: That, Hei Victoria. I've always wanted to purchase the property,
- 25:46Speaker 4: and of the last eighteen months, I've started to collect
- 25:48Speaker 4: a really great deposit. Just wondering if I rent vest
- 25:51Speaker 4: instead of living in the home I purchased, do I
- 25:54Speaker 4: need less of a deposit and what other costs do
- 25:57Speaker 4: I need to take into consideration? Thanks?
- 26:00Speaker 1: Where does she begin? Victoria?
- 26:01Speaker 3: So there are a lot that people just don't seem
- 26:04Speaker 3: to take into consideration when deciding to purchase a property.
- 26:07Speaker 3: And this is why I am a massive advocate once
- 26:10Speaker 3: again of having a good broker on your team, because
- 26:12Speaker 3: they're going to be able to outline all of those
- 26:14Speaker 3: fees in chargees for you. Yep. They actually have access
- 26:17Speaker 3: to really really wizard like calculators that can spit out
- 26:21Speaker 3: exactly what you're going to be up for if you
- 26:23Speaker 3: purchase specific properties, and I think that's incredibly valuable. But
- 26:27Speaker 3: something that applies to everybody, regardless of whether you are
- 26:30Speaker 3: rent vesting or buying the property of your dreams to
- 26:33Speaker 3: move into, is that you need a strong deposit. So
- 26:37Speaker 3: we always, always, always at Zella recommend that you have
- 26:40Speaker 3: about a twenty percent deposit because anything less than that
- 26:43Speaker 3: puts you at more risk. We're not saying that you
- 26:46Speaker 3: can't get a loan with less of a deposit. We
- 26:48Speaker 3: all know that that is not true. We can actually
- 26:51Speaker 3: access loans for five percent, it happens. We don't necessarily
- 26:55Speaker 3: get behind that, though, because if you only have a
- 26:58Speaker 3: five percent deposit, you're putting yourself at a lot of risk.
- 27:02Speaker 3: If the market declines and property prices decrease, you could
- 27:06Speaker 3: quite easily put yourself in a position where the debt
- 27:09Speaker 3: you owe on a property is higher than the actual
- 27:13Speaker 3: value of the property. So I would never want a
- 27:16Speaker 3: client to be in that position. And I think that
- 27:18Speaker 3: having a really strong deposit is essential. Having a strong
- 27:21Speaker 3: deposit also means you've really worked hard to get this property,
- 27:25Speaker 3: and you've taught yourself how to save and how to
- 27:28Speaker 3: allocate funds, so when you finally do get that mortgage,
- 27:31Speaker 3: it's not as painful to service that. So for everybody
- 27:35Speaker 3: that is getting a mortgage, I spoke before about additional
- 27:38Speaker 3: fees and charges. It's not just the total property purchase price.
- 27:42Speaker 3: For example, if you're spending five hundred thousand dollars on
- 27:45Speaker 3: a property, that is not all you are up for.
- 27:48Speaker 3: It's actually a percentage that you need. So the deposit
- 27:50Speaker 3: needs to be a percentage of the total cost of
- 27:53Speaker 3: the transaction, not just the property, and that includes a
- 27:57Speaker 3: whole heap of additional fees and charges above and beyond
- 28:00Speaker 3: that purchase price. For example, stamp duty, lender's mortgage insurance.
- 28:04Speaker 3: If you take it out, valuations, conveyances, pest inspections, the
- 28:09Speaker 3: list goes on. And that's why again I'm going to
- 28:12Speaker 3: reiterate having a broker on your team is going to
- 28:14Speaker 3: make sure that you are covered for this because I
- 28:16Speaker 3: have had clients that have been approved for mortgages, been
- 28:20Speaker 3: really excited about it, gone and put an offer in
- 28:23Speaker 3: on a property and then had to pull out because
- 28:25Speaker 3: they actually didn't have the funds to meet the transaction.
- 28:28Speaker 3: They had the funds to literally meet the value of
- 28:31Speaker 3: the property, but they didn't have the funds to make
- 28:33Speaker 3: sure that they could actually afford the property. If you
- 28:36Speaker 3: are a first time purchaser, which it sounds like our
- 28:39Speaker 3: listener is because she says she's been thinking about getting
- 28:41Speaker 3: into property, it's important to know that there are a
- 28:44Speaker 3: number of different concessions available to first home buyers if
- 28:48Speaker 3: they move into their property. These often, and whilst I
- 28:51Speaker 3: can't talk about every single state, these and everything does change,
- 28:56Speaker 3: these grants aren't available for first time investments. But as
- 28:59Speaker 3: it stands at the moment, if you're buying a property
- 29:01Speaker 3: here in Victoria, you can purchase an investment property and
- 29:05Speaker 3: still get the stamp duty concessions and concessions on your
- 29:09Speaker 3: first home that you move into later down the track.
- 29:11Speaker 3: It's not to say that they won't change the rules
- 29:14Speaker 3: right now. You could buy an investment property and then
- 29:16Speaker 3: also go and buy your first home and get a
- 29:19Speaker 3: whole heap of concessions on the home that you eventually
- 29:21Speaker 3: move into. Ye if you're not a first home buyer,
- 29:23Speaker 3: though everything else in terms of additional fees and charges
- 29:26Speaker 3: still relates to you. You are just in a position
- 29:29Speaker 3: where you might be able to use some of the
- 29:31Speaker 3: equity in your property to leverage getting into a property.
- 29:35Speaker 3: It just means you're pulling a deposit from somewhere else
- 29:38Speaker 3: rather than just saving up for it. Again, so I
- 29:40Speaker 3: think it's important to note that, yes, if you've got property,
- 29:43Speaker 3: it could be helpful, but it doesn't necessarily mean that
- 29:46Speaker 3: it's going to get you into your next home asap.
- 29:49Speaker 2: So would you say that the deposit would be the
- 29:50Speaker 2: main thing stopping people from getting into property.
- 29:53Speaker 3: No, sadly not. There are so many different hurdles that
- 29:56Speaker 3: I'm sorry, there are so many different hurdles that need
- 29:59Speaker 3: to be yumped over when getting into property. But I
- 30:02Speaker 3: believe that there are two main ones. Yes, you are correct.
- 30:05Speaker 3: The deposit is the number one thing that we actually
- 30:07Speaker 3: need to make Saving for it is really hard. But
- 30:10Speaker 3: once we have our deposit and we've got enough money
- 30:12Speaker 3: for all of the additional fees associated with that transaction,
- 30:16Speaker 3: their second, really big issue is actually being able to
- 30:19Speaker 3: service that loan. And it is so heartbreaking when I
- 30:23Speaker 3: have clients come to me that are on lower salaries
- 30:26Speaker 3: that say, hey, Victoria, I have worked my life away
- 30:29Speaker 3: to save for property. It has been my goal, and
- 30:32Speaker 3: I go, I am so here for this. Congratulations. They'll
- 30:35Speaker 3: have a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar deposit, they
- 30:37Speaker 3: will have saved epically like it is so impressive. But
- 30:41Speaker 3: then they earn sixty or seventy thousand dollars and the
- 30:44Speaker 3: property that they want to purchase because they've calculated that
- 30:47Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is like one point
- 30:49Speaker 3: two million dollar property, you actually can't have that property
- 30:53Speaker 3: because you cannot on your income service that debt. So
- 30:57Speaker 3: being aware that you need to one save for the deposit,
- 31:01Speaker 3: but then two you also need to meet the criteria
- 31:03Speaker 3: of servicing that debt is really really important and it
- 31:06Speaker 3: can be the one thing that once you've gotten over
- 31:09Speaker 3: that you've been saving for that home deposit, it can
- 31:11Speaker 3: be the thing that gets you out of the game again.
- 31:17Speaker 2: That is all we have time for today, but before
- 31:20Speaker 2: we head off, we need to wrap the boring but
- 31:21Speaker 2: important stuff. But before we do that, there is also
- 31:24Speaker 2: some exciting news that some of you may already be across.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Victoria is writing the shehes on the Money book, which
- 31:30Speaker 2: is going to be our ultimate finance Bible, and honestly
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- 31:33Speaker 3: Wait me either.
- 31:36Speaker 2: So that means that we'll be pressing pause on the
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