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- 0:00Speaker 1: She's on the Money. She's on the Money.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to She's on the Money the podcast
- 0:16Speaker 2: Millennials who Want Financial Freedom Surprise Surprise. House prices in
- 0:21Speaker 2: Australia are high shocking and as everyone listening would be aware,
- 0:26Speaker 2: over the last few months, in certain pockets of the
- 0:28Speaker 2: country at prices seem to have skyrocketed even further. Our
- 0:32Speaker 2: mate Ryan John V was telling us the other day
- 0:34Speaker 2: about a house he was looking at that went for
- 0:36Speaker 2: about four hundred k more than it was listed for,
- 0:39Speaker 2: which makes me want to vomit.
- 0:40Speaker 1: And you and I actually from the Peninsula complete side note,
- 0:44Speaker 1: property down on the Ninch went for one point six
- 0:47Speaker 1: million dollars over reserve last weekend.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Jorge, Yeah, crayon, and so reserve means.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Means said for well, kind of what it's listed for,
- 0:57Speaker 1: but what the owners want to let it go for. Right,
- 0:59Speaker 1: So it was it was a very expensive property to
- 1:02Speaker 1: begin with. But the real question here is who has
- 1:04Speaker 1: an extra one point six million dollaruies to be like,
- 1:06Speaker 1: you know what, that house is so nice, I'll buy
- 1:08Speaker 1: it twice? Like what not me? Anyway, that happened? Carry on?
- 1:13Speaker 2: Well, the long story short there is that the property
- 1:15Speaker 2: market is a tough nut to crack, especially if you're
- 1:18Speaker 2: cracking it solo.
- 1:19Speaker 1: And don't have an extra one point six million dollaries
- 1:22Speaker 1: to spend it.
- 1:23Speaker 2: So what are our other options? V? Could we buy
- 1:26Speaker 2: with a friend or a sibling, What are the benefits
- 1:29Speaker 2: of doing that? And more importantly, what are the risks
- 1:32Speaker 2: joining me? As you would know now because she's spoken
- 1:35Speaker 2: multiple times in this.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Introduction and she just gets involved, she just butts in.
- 1:39Speaker 2: It is award winning financial advisor Victoria Devine. V. I
- 1:43Speaker 2: want to start by asking you if you would ever
- 1:46Speaker 2: buy with your little sister and my good friend Alex
- 1:49Speaker 2: Devo Divine.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Alex Devo Divine, I think I would. I don't have
- 1:53Speaker 1: heaps and heaps of dolaries though, Like it's not like
- 1:55Speaker 1: I can be like, oh, let's just go, let's let's
- 1:57Speaker 1: buy a house together. But if she was a situation
- 2:00Speaker 1: where she wanted to purchase and I happened to want
- 2:02Speaker 1: to invest in a property at that time, she's a
- 2:04Speaker 1: pretty responsible gal.
- 2:06Speaker 2: To be honest, really, I thought you'd be like absolutely not. Oh,
- 2:09Speaker 2: I mean jumed, she would say.
- 2:10Speaker 1: I mean she's the responsible goal and we are very
- 2:14Speaker 1: like I'm a financial advisor, So I would probably have
- 2:17Speaker 1: a lot more education going into a process like that.
- 2:19Speaker 1: I'd be like, Okay, cool, no problems, Let's put a
- 2:21Speaker 1: contract together, let's do this. Let's work out what point
- 2:25Speaker 1: we sell, what point we do this, who's going to
- 2:27Speaker 1: live in it? What is this look like? So I'd
- 2:29Speaker 1: probably be a lot more pragmatic to try and take
- 2:31Speaker 1: the emotion out of it so that she and I
- 2:35Speaker 1: could actually do it together if we wanted to. But yeah,
- 2:38Speaker 1: maybe maybe I would. I like the idea of it,
- 2:41Speaker 1: but as this episode is going to discuss, it's maybe
- 2:44Speaker 1: not the best idea even if I would like to
- 2:46Speaker 1: do it right.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, Devo, if you're listening, get in touch
- 2:50Speaker 2: with your sister.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Probably don't have no money. It's a hypothetical question.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Bye, Okay, let's talk pros and cons.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Hear me.
- 2:57Speaker 2: I know someone who is planning at the moment, actually
- 3:00Speaker 2: on buying with his brother twin brother. Fun fact, anyway.
- 3:04Speaker 1: They can playlex switch ERU, pretend it's they're apart, not identical.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Oh okay, they can still give it a go, be
- 3:12Speaker 2: like parent trap.
- 3:13Speaker 1: But we're adults and we are in our own property.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Did it ever trip. You out that was just Lindsay Lohan. Yeah,
- 3:18Speaker 1: it was very much of them as an eight year
- 3:20Speaker 1: old that it was a trap. For a very long time,
- 3:23Speaker 1: I thought she had a twin turn out.
- 3:25Speaker 2: No, same, just great camera effects. Let's move on, be
- 3:30Speaker 2: talk to me about the benefits of this process.
- 3:32Speaker 1: So obviously it gives you access to the market sooner
- 3:36Speaker 1: than you would have otherwise been able to do it because,
- 3:38Speaker 1: as we know, juel incomes mean that you have double
- 3:41Speaker 1: the money to spend or save or invest with. And
- 3:44Speaker 1: here in Australia it actually takes an average of four
- 3:47Speaker 1: point six years to save for a house deposit, and
- 3:50Speaker 1: that's according to the statistics from the Australian Government. But
- 3:53Speaker 1: I ah, just side note, I think most of us
- 3:56Speaker 1: would agree it takes much longer than that, like four
- 3:58Speaker 1: point six years. Like what we're buying buying somewhere warehouses
- 4:02Speaker 1: a two hundred thousand dollars and definitely definitely not in
- 4:06Speaker 1: Melbourne or Sydney, I believe. So speeding up that process
- 4:09Speaker 1: by combining two sums of savings is definitely a way
- 4:12Speaker 1: to perk up the property buying process and make sure
- 4:14Speaker 1: that you know you can afford a house that maybe
- 4:16Speaker 1: you couldn't have otherwise can also help you get into
- 4:19Speaker 1: a preferred location because the more money you're able to
- 4:22Speaker 1: put towards that, it means you're able to, you know,
- 4:24Speaker 1: spend a bit more, get in a better location, whatever
- 4:27Speaker 1: you're doing there. In the Facebook group this week, ge
- 4:30Speaker 1: you asked a question. We heard a positive story from
- 4:32Speaker 1: a woman called Joy who said that she brought a
- 4:34Speaker 1: holiday home with her in laws and that went really
- 4:36Speaker 1: well and you know, apart from a few minor disagreements,
- 4:40Speaker 1: they say it's a really good decision. So for many Australians,
- 4:43Speaker 1: buying a property is their major money goal and that's
- 4:46Speaker 1: what they've been working towards forever. So I think that
- 4:49Speaker 1: it's definitely a thing that people would want to put
- 4:51Speaker 1: together for to buy because it just feels elusive if
- 4:54Speaker 1: you're on your own sometimes. So it's not a bad idea,
- 4:57Speaker 1: it's just something we really really need to consider deeply.
- 5:00Speaker 2: So the main benefits would be getting into the market
- 5:03Speaker 2: sooner and perhaps buying somewhere that you would prefer to
- 5:08Speaker 2: live in.
- 5:09Speaker 1: That's pretty much it, absolutely and I think it's just
- 5:12Speaker 1: around that flexibility piece really, like obviously and property is
- 5:15Speaker 1: a massive investment. It kind of gives a little bit
- 5:17Speaker 1: of that responsibility to someone else, like it could be fun.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Like I don't know. I always have this idea of
- 5:22Speaker 1: buying a house with all of my friends when we're
- 5:25Speaker 1: old and all moving into it, just having this mega
- 5:27Speaker 1: mansion with all our pets and all our partners, and
- 5:30Speaker 1: we just have sleepovers every night. Like that's not the
- 5:32Speaker 1: worst idea, right, Probably not, It totally is. Let's move
- 5:36Speaker 1: it on. Gee, what's your next question?
- 5:37Speaker 2: Well, so I guess money and family and money and friends.
- 5:41Speaker 2: That's difficult territory to be trapesing. Generally speaking, it is
- 5:46Speaker 2: so risky. G well, what are the risks?
- 5:48Speaker 1: So many risks because often your goals aren't as aligned
- 5:52Speaker 1: as you think it is. So I could be like, gee,
- 5:54Speaker 1: let's buy a house together, and you'd be like great,
- 5:55Speaker 1: I love houses. And then we pick a location, we
- 5:59Speaker 1: buy it together, and we haven't deeply discussed exactly what
- 6:03Speaker 1: our priorities are. And maybe my priority, because I'm a
- 6:06Speaker 1: little investment friend, I want to buy it as an
- 6:08Speaker 1: investment property. So the market goes up significantly and I go, great,
- 6:13Speaker 1: this perfect time to sell. We're going to make a
- 6:14Speaker 1: really great profit on these, and you go, but I
- 6:16Speaker 1: wanted to hold it forever, And then we're going to
- 6:18Speaker 1: have a disagreement about whether to sell it or I'm
- 6:21Speaker 1: buying it as an investment property and you've said that,
- 6:23Speaker 1: but then later down the track you want to move
- 6:25Speaker 1: in and I go, okay, cool, will you paying rent?
- 6:27Speaker 1: And you go no, because I own the property, and go,
- 6:29Speaker 1: but that's not fair. So there's all of these things
- 6:32Speaker 1: that can pop up during the journey where our values
- 6:35Speaker 1: don't align. And it's not necessarily things that you can
- 6:39Speaker 1: predict either, Like I might come up against some financial
- 6:42Speaker 1: troubles and go, oh my gosh, I actually can't afford
- 6:45Speaker 1: the mortgage or payments on this anymore. I really want
- 6:47Speaker 1: to get rid of my part of this property, which
- 6:49Speaker 1: ultimately means you've got to sell your property as well.
- 6:52Speaker 1: I can't just sell my part, so you're lumped into
- 6:56Speaker 1: my financial problems then. And it's just as much as
- 6:59Speaker 1: the response ability is diluted, the issues are then diluted
- 7:02Speaker 1: as well. So what becomes my issue financially is also
- 7:05Speaker 1: your issue. And I think that that's a really deep
- 7:07Speaker 1: thing to discuss. But money, family and friends never mix well. Never, never, never, never, Like,
- 7:13Speaker 1: I feel like when you lend money to a friend,
- 7:16Speaker 1: you'll get only one thing back. You'll either get your
- 7:19Speaker 1: friendship back or the money back. It's hardly ever both.
- 7:21Speaker 1: So I genuinely believe we need to be so careful
- 7:24Speaker 1: when making decisions around money and friendship and money and
- 7:29Speaker 1: siblings and money and parents because it's just so convoluted.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Now I've said this so many times. My biggest piece
- 7:36Speaker 1: of advice. You know, this is not the Business Bible podcast.
- 7:39Speaker 1: If you would like more business advice, head over there.
- 7:41Speaker 1: But never go into business with your friends is my advice.
- 7:45Speaker 1: I don't care how smart or how great they are,
- 7:47Speaker 1: or how you know, successful they are. I really struggle
- 7:51Speaker 1: with the idea of going into business with friends because
- 7:54Speaker 1: it becomes so much more convoluted, becomes really messy, and
- 7:59Speaker 1: money and business and everything like that is actually really challenging.
- 8:03Speaker 1: And the same is going to happen with property. And
- 8:04Speaker 1: you should really see property purchases as a very similar
- 8:08Speaker 1: asset acquisition, so that you you know, it's a big responsibility.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I've never seen it work super well. Unless everything is
- 8:14Speaker 1: sunshine and roses. I'm gonna have to go hey, gee,
- 8:17Speaker 1: we can't afford rent this month, Like that's going to
- 8:20Speaker 1: cause conflict, It's going to cause resentment. And as much
- 8:23Speaker 1: as you go no, like we'll get through it together,
- 8:25Speaker 1: Like at some point or another, it's not going to
- 8:27Speaker 1: work out well. In saying that, I come across as
- 8:31Speaker 1: someone who works with their friends, and I absolutely do,
- 8:34Speaker 1: because I think that everybody in my team has now
- 8:37Speaker 1: become a friend as well as a business you know, associate,
- 8:40Speaker 1: and I feel like that has come from a different place.
- 8:43Speaker 1: So I think it's different. If your relationship started as
- 8:46Speaker 1: a business relationship and then it flourishes into a friendship,
- 8:49Speaker 1: that's very different than going to school together and then
- 8:52Speaker 1: going into business. I see that as very different. So
- 8:55Speaker 1: you would know, I have a really great relationship with
- 8:57Speaker 1: Ryan and Jess and you and you know, Tony and
- 8:59Speaker 1: everyone in there our team, and I love them desperately,
- 9:03Speaker 1: but that has started at business. So that's what it
- 9:05Speaker 1: always boils back down to. It's always like, okay, cool
- 9:07Speaker 1: when it comes to business. This is business. We need
- 9:10Speaker 1: to just get this done. Let's go grab a drink.
- 9:12Speaker 1: That's very different than oh yeah, but you said, and
- 9:14Speaker 1: remember when I went to my mum's house, and you
- 9:17Speaker 1: know your mum said this, and we grew up with
- 9:19Speaker 1: these values. It's it's disgustingly convoluted. And that's my blunt opinion.
- 9:23Speaker 2: So I'm skipping ahead a little bit here, but that's okay,
- 9:27Speaker 2: you're allowed. What is the difference then, between buying with
- 9:30Speaker 2: your best friend and buying with your boyfriend or your
- 9:34Speaker 2: partner or whoever it may be, but that someone that
- 9:37Speaker 2: you're romantically attached to.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Why is that different?
- 9:39Speaker 2: Because we see that obviously every day people are buying
- 9:41Speaker 2: houses to get their partnership. Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Absolutely so, in my humble opinion, it's because when you
- 9:47Speaker 1: buy with a partner, it's because you expect that relationship
- 9:50Speaker 1: to grow together and have the same goals essentially forever.
- 9:54Speaker 1: And let's use me as an example. I bought with Steve.
- 9:58Speaker 1: I have every inten of staying with him forever. I
- 10:02Speaker 1: hope that one day he's taking his sweet time. But
- 10:05Speaker 1: we get married and you know, we have kids, and
- 10:07Speaker 1: our goals are aligned, and that property purchase is aligned
- 10:11Speaker 1: to the goals that we are creating together. I can't
- 10:14Speaker 1: predict that for you, and so I guess it's easiest
- 10:16Speaker 1: to use you as an example. Bit off I said, gee,
- 10:19Speaker 1: right now, it makes a lot of sense to go
- 10:21Speaker 1: and purchase a property together, and you go, yeah, V,
- 10:23Speaker 1: like that's great. We're really close. You know, we've got
- 10:26Speaker 1: this great relationship. We talk about money all the time,
- 10:28Speaker 1: so I don't see that as an issue. And then
- 10:31Speaker 1: a year later, you and Harper decide to go and
- 10:33Speaker 1: move to London. Yeah, and then you're saying, oh, look,
- 10:36Speaker 1: I'm going to move to London. I can't really afford X,
- 10:38Speaker 1: Y and Z or you know, you come into some
- 10:40Speaker 1: financial troubles. We aren't a team in the same way
- 10:43Speaker 1: that my partner and I are a team and go
- 10:46Speaker 1: through those things together. And in my experience, if my
- 10:51Speaker 1: salary was completely cut and I couldn't contribute to the mortgage,
- 10:54Speaker 1: it'd be a us problem, not your problem. And it's
- 10:58Speaker 1: just a very different ballgame in mind opinion.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so it's all about that goal alignment. Yeah,
- 11:03Speaker 2: peace if you will. Okay, have you seen this in
- 11:08Speaker 2: your place of work? Turn wrong?
- 11:10Speaker 1: Yeah, your clients, Yes, I have, I've seen it. Turn Look.
- 11:13Speaker 1: As a financial advisor, we get to see people at
- 11:15Speaker 1: their greatest. We also get to see people at their
- 11:17Speaker 1: most desperate, and I've seen a lot of people who
- 11:20Speaker 1: have gone into property purchases with siblings who they now
- 11:23Speaker 1: don't even talk to anymore because it's just gone so awry.
- 11:26Speaker 1: I've also seen guaranteur relationships completely fall apart because there
- 11:31Speaker 1: was a mismatch between what one person's expectations of the
- 11:35Speaker 1: deposit being and the other person's expectations of the deposit being.
- 11:39Speaker 1: So to quickly define, a guaranteur isn't where someone gives
- 11:42Speaker 1: you money. It's where they put their asset up as
- 11:45Speaker 1: security for your loan. So it means that in the
- 11:48Speaker 1: future they potentially can't get another loan because there's a
- 11:50Speaker 1: security being held over the top of their property. So
- 11:54Speaker 1: it actually is a lot of risk. It's not just
- 11:56Speaker 1: someone signing a bit of paper being like, oh cool,
- 11:58Speaker 1: like if she can't pay her mortgage, I'll for g
- 12:01Speaker 1: Like they're actually putting a caveat over their own mortgage.
- 12:04Speaker 1: So then they can't release as much equity as they
- 12:07Speaker 1: might want to if they want to go buy an
- 12:08Speaker 1: investment property, or they have to get rid of that
- 12:11Speaker 1: guaranteur before they can sell their property, because how do
- 12:13Speaker 1: you sell a property that has their security over it.
- 12:15Speaker 1: So there's a lot of attachment that I don't think
- 12:18Speaker 1: people understand when it comes to guarantor's because often people
- 12:21Speaker 1: flippantly say, oh, just get my parents to guaranteur. It's like,
- 12:24Speaker 1: do you know how big that responsibility is? Actually? Do
- 12:27Speaker 1: you realize what the financial implications for them are? Because
- 12:30Speaker 1: there are some It might be to you just signing
- 12:32Speaker 1: a piece of paper, but it's not actually in reality
- 12:35Speaker 1: that can feel that way.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Just on that guaranteur, don't v. I used to live
- 12:40Speaker 2: with Devo, Victoria's younger sister, and.
- 12:42Speaker 1: When her name's actually Alex Alex Sandro.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Louise, but hate being called Devo, doesn't she.
- 12:47Speaker 1: It's so upgrade. Everybody should now call her a Lexi
- 12:50Speaker 1: lou because their middle names Louise and lex. She hates it.
- 12:53Speaker 1: I love you, Alex. Anyway.
- 12:55Speaker 2: We used to live together, but before we live together,
- 12:57Speaker 2: we had to get a house. We had to find
- 12:58Speaker 2: a house and it was good.
- 13:00Speaker 1: House mate, great house mate, You're alive.
- 13:02Speaker 2: No, no, she was one of my favorite worst housemates
- 13:04Speaker 2: I ever had. She was savage, she was very neat.
- 13:08Speaker 1: I was listening, I know she is so organized woman.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Anyway, love your d if you're listening. So basically we
- 13:17Speaker 2: when we were trying to look for a house. No
- 13:18Speaker 2: one would take us because we were twenty or something
- 13:21Speaker 2: and we didn't.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Have Melbury income.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Yeah, we were loose units. Anyway, we wanted our parents
- 13:27Speaker 2: to go as Garan took and Mum was like, no, girl,
- 13:31Speaker 2: definitely not. And I was like, Joe, why not?
- 13:34Speaker 1: It's simple, like I'm not going to let you down.
- 13:36Speaker 2: But she wouldn't do it, and I thought, I just
- 13:39Speaker 2: I was. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't do it,
- 13:40Speaker 2: And now it makes sense because it was would have
- 13:42Speaker 2: been huge risks.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that that's it's different when ranting though,
- 13:46Speaker 1: so same level of risk because it all falls back
- 13:49Speaker 1: to her if you guys mess up, but it's very different.
- 13:53Speaker 1: There wouldn't be a caveat over the top of her
- 13:55Speaker 1: mortgage for you to do that. It would just be
- 13:57Speaker 1: her signing on to say, if g king decide not
- 14:00Speaker 1: pay her rent, I'm gonna have to cough it up.
- 14:03Speaker 1: And I think that that's a really big responsibility to
- 14:06Speaker 1: take on for someone else's child. So if you were
- 14:08Speaker 1: leasing on your own, maybe they would have been like, yep, cool,
- 14:10Speaker 1: we've got cheese back, But like, what if my sister
- 14:13Speaker 1: didn't pay her rent, or you know your other housemates
- 14:16Speaker 1: didn't pay. That shouldn't fall back on your mum. And
- 14:19Speaker 1: that's where I would have been saying exactly what Joe
- 14:21Speaker 1: King said. No, thank you, good on your shoe.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Still a bit salty about it. Let's move on and
- 14:28Speaker 2: move back to chatting about buying with someone other than
- 14:32Speaker 2: a signific Now I really.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Wanted to talk about how salty you are on your mum.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Love your mum. So yeah, as we said, I did
- 14:39Speaker 2: post in the community, and we did see it that
- 14:42Speaker 2: most of these people did have negative experiences in going
- 14:45Speaker 2: through this process. There was a story from tweet I
- 14:48Speaker 2: think it was who bought an investment property with a relative.
- 14:52Speaker 2: She put down the deposit and that relative was meant
- 14:54Speaker 2: to match that deposit with other expenses. But once all
- 14:58Speaker 2: of the paperwork was signed and they were sified as
- 15:00Speaker 2: tenants in common which we will go into later, the
- 15:03Speaker 2: relative refused to pay a cent and it was all
- 15:06Speaker 2: left up to our community member to foot. She then
- 15:10Speaker 2: finished the post by saying that she no longer classes
- 15:12Speaker 2: the person as a relative, which is heartbreaking. Do stories
- 15:17Speaker 2: like this surprise you?
- 15:19Speaker 1: It definitely does not. Surprise me gee at all. This
- 15:22Speaker 1: is a story I've heard all too often, and all
- 15:25Speaker 1: of my friends in real estate have heard all too often.
- 15:28Speaker 1: We actually heard from someone who was on the other
- 15:30Speaker 1: side of this, wanting to buy with her partner, but
- 15:32Speaker 1: he locked into a mortgage with his mum a few
- 15:34Speaker 1: years back. So it not only impacts those people directly involved,
- 15:38Speaker 1: but also the people on the periphery, which kind of
- 15:41Speaker 1: sucks and not kind of actually really truly deeply sucks.
- 15:44Speaker 1: And I think that that's something you really need to
- 15:46Speaker 1: understand when you go into one of these relationships with somebody,
- 15:50Speaker 1: is that this could happen. And nobody goes into a
- 15:53Speaker 1: relationship or an agreement with the expectation that this is
- 15:56Speaker 1: going to happen. We all say, ah, it had never
- 15:57Speaker 1: happened to me. And it's like getting a boyfriend, right,
- 16:01Speaker 1: you know, getting married. Nobody gets married with the intention
- 16:03Speaker 1: of getting a divorce, with the average cost of a
- 16:05Speaker 1: wedding being like I think it's like thirty four thousand
- 16:08Speaker 1: dollars now in Australia. Like, you don't just accidentally get
- 16:11Speaker 1: married to then go nah, but we'll problems get a divorce. Yeah,
- 16:14Speaker 1: Like you don't choose that. No one chooses that. So
- 16:17Speaker 1: I think that it's really important to remember that if
- 16:20Speaker 1: you are going to do this, let's see it as
- 16:22Speaker 1: a business transaction. Let's stop going. You know what, I
- 16:24Speaker 1: love ge King so much. I trust her. Let's go
- 16:26Speaker 1: all right, gee, if we can buy a house together one,
- 16:28Speaker 1: let's understand our goals. Let's put a contract in place.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Let's actually go to a lawyer. Might be expensive, might
- 16:36Speaker 1: be one thousand dollars to have a little contract written up,
- 16:38Speaker 1: but that thousand dollars could save your butt laid down
- 16:41Speaker 1: the track, and five hundred dollars each to make a
- 16:44Speaker 1: commitment is really not that much money when you think
- 16:47Speaker 1: about it in the grand scheme of things.
- 16:49Speaker 2: Okay, so financially speaking, then v what happens if we
- 16:53Speaker 2: do buy with a friend and then three years down
- 16:54Speaker 2: the track they decide that they want to buy with
- 16:57Speaker 2: their partner instead.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've actually got to have some of other
- 17:00Speaker 1: friends who are kind of scary looking that are happy
- 17:02Speaker 1: to go to their house, knock on their door and
- 17:03Speaker 1: be like, give us our money. But if you don't
- 17:05Speaker 1: have those friends, because no one should have those friends.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Let's be honest in Australia. When you do buy a
- 17:11Speaker 1: property with a partner or a family member or a
- 17:13Speaker 1: mate whoever, you will still have entered into either a
- 17:16Speaker 1: joint tenancy agreement or a tendency in common agreement. They
- 17:21Speaker 1: have very different rules and they are both legally binding,
- 17:24Speaker 1: which is terrifying. And what happens if you decide to
- 17:27Speaker 1: go your separate ways will be very different depending on
- 17:30Speaker 1: which agreement you opted into at the start. So let's
- 17:32Speaker 1: have a chat about what each of those are. Joint
- 17:34Speaker 1: tendancy is the more common option of the two, especially
- 17:38Speaker 1: with couples, and that's where each of you owns equal
- 17:40Speaker 1: parts of that property, no matter who contributes to the mortgage.
- 17:44Speaker 1: It's an even split. So say you get a high
- 17:46Speaker 1: flying job, George and have the capacity to pay more
- 17:48Speaker 1: on the mortgage than your partner Harps. Would that would
- 17:51Speaker 1: therefore mean that you don't actually own more of the property.
- 17:54Speaker 1: You did pay more of the mortgage, but like he
- 17:56Speaker 1: still owns his thirty percent. Yeah, does that make sense.
- 17:59Speaker 1: By the same you're both equal owners of the property,
- 18:02Speaker 1: so you're both equally responsible for the debt even if
- 18:05Speaker 1: you are paying more. Or just said to Hups, don't worry.
- 18:07Speaker 1: I'll pay off extra whatever it is. So I want
- 18:10Speaker 1: you to be aware that if you are entering into
- 18:12Speaker 1: this kind of agreement and you are paying more of
- 18:14Speaker 1: the mortgage, when it comes time to sell that property,
- 18:17Speaker 1: you aren't actually entitled to your quote portion of that property.
- 18:20Speaker 1: You're only going to be entitled to fifty percent of it.
- 18:22Speaker 1: So just be aware. Also, in a joint tendancy, there
- 18:26Speaker 1: is a thing called a right of survivorship, which means
- 18:30Speaker 1: that if one of the joint tenants actually dies, the
- 18:33Speaker 1: property passes directly to the other tenants. So if you know,
- 18:36Speaker 1: you and I purchased G and I passed away yesterday,
- 18:41Speaker 1: you would get my entire property, not my family, even
- 18:44Speaker 1: though it was one of my assets. Yeah, so I
- 18:46Speaker 1: think that's important to take into consideration because if you're
- 18:49Speaker 1: buying it with a partner, yeah, you might want it
- 18:51Speaker 1: to go to your partner, But if you're purchasing an
- 18:53Speaker 1: asset with a friend to you know, create wealth individually,
- 18:56Speaker 1: and then you know in your will you wanted your
- 18:58Speaker 1: wealth to go to your family, that wouldn't actually happen
- 19:02Speaker 1: in this situation, which is a bit sad. You know,
- 19:04Speaker 1: you might be a good guy, and be like, yeah, cool,
- 19:05Speaker 1: let's sell it. That's split it. You give it h
- 19:07Speaker 1: fifty percent to victorious parents. But not everybody is a
- 19:10Speaker 1: good person, and we need to remember that, especially when
- 19:13Speaker 1: things like that happen. In comparison, though, a tendency in
- 19:16Speaker 1: common agreement, by contrast, means that it's not need even split. Instead,
- 19:21Speaker 1: your stake in the property is going to depend on
- 19:23Speaker 1: your financial contribution to it. So you might own thirty
- 19:26Speaker 1: percent of the property instead of fifty percent, which would
- 19:29Speaker 1: be the case in that joint tendancy we just discussed,
- 19:31Speaker 1: and your co owner might own seventy percent. You know,
- 19:34Speaker 1: Harper is a baller in that situation. When it comes
- 19:37Speaker 1: time to sell, you would both be owed the percentage
- 19:40Speaker 1: of the asset that you owned rather than the even split.
- 19:43Speaker 1: Does that makes sense?
- 19:45Speaker 2: It does make sense.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Side note, the right of survivorship that I explained just
- 19:49Speaker 1: before does not exist in a tendency in common agreement.
- 19:52Speaker 1: So if the person in your agreement passes away, So
- 19:55Speaker 1: if I've passed away, then you just won't receive my share.
- 19:58Speaker 1: So you need to make sure or the wheels updated
- 20:01Speaker 1: and you actually have an estate plan in place and
- 20:03Speaker 1: that you are doing all of this stuff before you
- 20:06Speaker 1: even enter into the agreement. But I'm going to stop
- 20:08Speaker 1: talking about that now because one, it's not actually that interesting.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Let's just touch on the definitions. But two we're going
- 20:16Speaker 1: to discuss it in way, way, way more detail in
- 20:18Speaker 1: the Property Playbook podcast, which is coming out next month.
- 20:21Speaker 1: Is it yeah, actually two weeks or something? It's sat right,
- 20:25Speaker 1: Tony two weeks. Tony is nodding her head and giving
- 20:28Speaker 1: me a big thumbs up, saying that it is definitely
- 20:30Speaker 1: coming out in two weeks, which is like really exciting,
- 20:33Speaker 1: but from my part, slightly, Jeremie, get excited, guys.
- 20:37Speaker 2: I think we'll have a little break now. But on
- 20:40Speaker 2: the other side of the break, we will be chatting
- 20:42Speaker 2: about how we can minimize the risks of buying with
- 20:45Speaker 2: a power if we do feel like we need to
- 20:47Speaker 2: do that, and we will hear more on Vikid's take
- 20:50Speaker 2: on Guaranteur's Don't Go Anywhere.
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- 21:21Speaker 1: You So you got more questions about garacies? Do? Okay?
- 21:24Speaker 2: So if we are set on buying with a sibling
- 21:26Speaker 2: or a mate, how can we minimize.
- 21:28Speaker 1: The risks that you spoke about earlier?
- 21:30Speaker 2: On?
- 21:30Speaker 1: All right? So get everything in writing, get receipts, take
- 21:33Speaker 1: your screenshots. You cannot rely on just conversations no matter
- 21:37Speaker 1: how much you trust a person like I don't even
- 21:40Speaker 1: care if you trust them so deeply that it feels
- 21:42Speaker 1: awkward to bring it up. Blame me, be like, oh, well,
- 21:45Speaker 1: I was listening to this podcast and they said Victoria
- 21:48Speaker 1: the Devil. She said that you have to get it
- 21:51Speaker 1: in writing. So you know, I'm just doing this. I
- 21:53Speaker 1: was told love it like. I will happily be anybody's
- 21:56Speaker 1: scapegoat when it comes to making decisions around finances. I
- 21:59Speaker 1: don't even care. Blame me. I'll be that mum that
- 22:01Speaker 1: you've got that code word that you text to be like,
- 22:03Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm doing okay xoxo. But it means come
- 22:06Speaker 1: and pick me up right now, like I'll be that
- 22:08Speaker 1: parent for you. Love that I've got you. But I
- 22:11Speaker 1: really recommend getting the assistance of a property lawyer or
- 22:14Speaker 1: a conveyancer just to help make the process a lot easier.
- 22:17Speaker 1: But the main thing you want established and written down
- 22:19Speaker 1: before you even take it further is six things. And
- 22:22Speaker 1: I'm going to list them off because I've written them
- 22:24Speaker 1: all down. Are you ready? G I'm ready? So? Number one,
- 22:27Speaker 1: who will live in the house? Is it tenants? Is
- 22:29Speaker 1: it one of the owners? Is it no one who knows?
- 22:32Speaker 1: Is it a house for your dog? Let's get our
- 22:34Speaker 1: goals on the table. Two what percentage of the property
- 22:38Speaker 1: are either of you going to own? Are you fifty
- 22:41Speaker 1: to fifty with me? Am? I thirty seventy? Because you
- 22:43Speaker 1: have more money than me, because I spent all of
- 22:45Speaker 1: mine on dog accessories, I don't know. Three what happens
- 22:48Speaker 1: if you can't meet payments? What happens if one month
- 22:51Speaker 1: we can't do it? What's the agreement there? How is
- 22:54Speaker 1: that going to work? How do we have that conversation?
- 22:57Speaker 1: Just liking business? I want you to think, I think worst
- 23:00Speaker 1: case scenario, what happens if we can't pay the bills
- 23:04Speaker 1: have the hard conversation hypothetically because it's so much easier
- 23:08Speaker 1: to have it hypothetically. Same goes with relationships. If you're
- 23:12Speaker 1: entering into a marriage, I think one of the most
- 23:14Speaker 1: important conversations you have with your partner is what happens
- 23:17Speaker 1: if we divorce. Get on the table exactly how you
- 23:21Speaker 1: want to be treating each other. You say, OK, gee,
- 23:23Speaker 1: I'd want it to be treated with the respect. I'd
- 23:25Speaker 1: want to make sure that we're on the same page.
- 23:27Speaker 1: I'd want this to happen so that if ever you
- 23:30Speaker 1: do go through that process, you don't have to have
- 23:32Speaker 1: an awkward conversation during the heat of the moment where
- 23:34Speaker 1: you actually really don't like the other person. You can
- 23:37Speaker 1: fall back on a conversation and a document that you've
- 23:39Speaker 1: created together to say, you know what, when we were
- 23:42Speaker 1: both level headed and so in love with each other,
- 23:45Speaker 1: this is what we wanted the outcome to be. Let's
- 23:48Speaker 1: go down that route because it's treating each other with kindness. Yeah,
- 23:51Speaker 1: that's my opinion.
- 23:51Speaker 2: So it's like a little bit of awkwardness now for
- 23:53Speaker 2: a whole lot less awkwardness.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Yea later and it's totally not awkward going Hey, ge
- 23:57Speaker 1: what happens if I can't pay the mortgage? And you go, like,
- 24:00Speaker 1: if it was just one month, like i'd you know,
- 24:02Speaker 1: i'd pay it, but then you know you'd owe me
- 24:05Speaker 1: or okay, well maybe my parents might help me or
- 24:08Speaker 1: my partner, do you know what I mean? Like, have
- 24:10Speaker 1: that conversation now to talk about what's reasonable to expect
- 24:14Speaker 1: versus not because you might say, oh, v if you
- 24:16Speaker 1: can't afford the mortgage, You're like, I actually don't have
- 24:18Speaker 1: any extra cash, Like you can't rely on me if
- 24:21Speaker 1: I can't pay it, because like I'm just budgeting so
- 24:23Speaker 1: that I have exactly what the mortgage repayments are and
- 24:26Speaker 1: like I don't have any more flexibility in my budget.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Like it's really important to have that conversation up front.
- 24:32Speaker 1: The next is number four. Who pays for house maintenance,
- 24:35Speaker 1: who's gonna pay the insurance? Who looks after the rental
- 24:38Speaker 1: income tax? Who's gonna talk to the real estate agent
- 24:40Speaker 1: if your tenant's hot water system is broken and it
- 24:42Speaker 1: needs replacing, who's gonna make that decision around how much
- 24:46Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for it? And bra hrah, like have
- 24:48Speaker 1: that conversation. Number five is how you make decisions about
- 24:51Speaker 1: the property, like if you want to extend or you know,
- 24:54Speaker 1: someone knocks on the door and says, do you want
- 24:56Speaker 1: to sell the property? How are you gonna make those decisions?
- 24:58Speaker 1: How are you gonna make them together? And how are
- 25:00Speaker 1: you going to make them well? And then number six
- 25:02Speaker 1: I've written down was what will the structure of ownership
- 25:05Speaker 1: look like? So back to that joint tendancy or tenancy
- 25:08Speaker 1: in common agreement? What does that look like? How does
- 25:11Speaker 1: that work? And also are you owning it? Me being
- 25:14Speaker 1: a financial advisor, are you going to own it individually
- 25:16Speaker 1: or are you owning it in a family trust? Or
- 25:18Speaker 1: what does that actually look like? What are the benefits?
- 25:20Speaker 1: You need to talk to your accountant about a property
- 25:22Speaker 1: purchase like that, so have a chat. There's plenty more
- 25:25Speaker 1: that you need to but I think those six are
- 25:27Speaker 1: probably a good stuff.
- 25:28Speaker 2: Very well put their v and there is so much
- 25:31Speaker 2: to consider. So if anyone listening is a little bit
- 25:33Speaker 2: stressed that maybe they don't have a pen with them
- 25:35Speaker 2: to note all of that down, I will put together
- 25:37Speaker 2: a bit of a blog post so you can refer
- 25:39Speaker 2: to that.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Oh you're so generous. You also really like riding, so
- 25:43Speaker 1: I'm not surprised to joy. Thanks you Joy. Thanks.
- 25:46Speaker 2: If someone has bought with a friend or a family
- 25:49Speaker 2: member and the five years in and it's not working
- 25:53Speaker 2: for whatever reason, and maybe they didn't ask themselves those
- 25:55Speaker 2: six important questions, what are they meant to do? Now?
- 25:59Speaker 1: Don't feel bad about it having listened to our podcast,
- 26:01Speaker 1: like you don't know what you don't know, So don't
- 26:04Speaker 1: you know, crucify yourself because I'm now saying, oh, you
- 26:07Speaker 1: should not have done it that way. That's not what
- 26:09Speaker 1: we're saying. We're saying. If this is a decision you're making,
- 26:11Speaker 1: here are some handy tips, here's how you should be
- 26:14Speaker 1: approaching it. But I think just take a deep breath,
- 26:16Speaker 1: potentially sit down. I always really like writing down what
- 26:19Speaker 1: my intentions were when I made a decision if I'm
- 26:22Speaker 1: not feeling comfortable about that decision anymore, just to really
- 26:25Speaker 1: create a little bit more clarity and be like, Okay, cool,
- 26:27Speaker 1: I purchased this because I really liked working with George.
- 26:29Speaker 1: I really really liked this. I really liked that, and
- 26:32Speaker 1: you know what did I want to get out of it?
- 26:33Speaker 1: And you can refer back to that and just remain
- 26:36Speaker 1: level headed. Like one thing that my dad taught me cheers. Dad,
- 26:40Speaker 1: is that if you lose your temper, you lose your argument.
- 26:43Speaker 1: So don't lose your temper. You won't lose your argument.
- 26:46Speaker 1: So just be really pragmatic and that point of self
- 26:48Speaker 1: reflection where you get to sit down and go, okay, cool,
- 26:50Speaker 1: what were my intentions? What do I want the outcome
- 26:53Speaker 1: to be? Write it down, because if you can write
- 26:55Speaker 1: it down, you're more likely to be able to properly
- 26:57Speaker 1: articulate it to the other person because you've had that
- 27:00Speaker 1: reflection time. So for me, that's really important. And then
- 27:03Speaker 1: also get some professional advice. Go see a solicitor, go
- 27:06Speaker 1: see a lawyer, Go have a chat with somebody about
- 27:09Speaker 1: what that is. And if you're really really stuck, I
- 27:13Speaker 1: think the National Debt Help Line. They've got some financial counselors,
- 27:16Speaker 1: completely free epic service. Give them a buzz and we'll
- 27:20Speaker 1: make sure that in the show notes their number is there.
- 27:24Speaker 2: All right, bit of a change of pace here, v
- 27:26Speaker 2: If we have listened to this podcast, we were planning
- 27:29Speaker 2: on buying with a mate, but now we're like, hmm,
- 27:31Speaker 2: maybe not such a great idea. Talk to me more
- 27:35Speaker 2: about guaranteurs, Like, are they a helpful way of getting
- 27:38Speaker 2: into the market or are they kind of just a trap.
- 27:41Speaker 1: They are absolutely not a trap. Having a guaranteur is
- 27:44Speaker 1: such a special thing. If you've got a parent that
- 27:46Speaker 1: is willing to put that level of risk on you
- 27:48Speaker 1: getting access to the property market, that is so great,
- 27:52Speaker 1: and I think that it's really important to consider how
- 27:56Speaker 1: you feel about that before going into it, but also
- 27:59Speaker 1: just being really grateful for that opportunity, because there's an
- 28:01Speaker 1: opportunity that most of us don't actually have access to.
- 28:04Speaker 1: It's very limited amounts of people who are actually able
- 28:07Speaker 1: to do that because their parents have to be in
- 28:08Speaker 1: the financial position where they can actually afford it, and
- 28:11Speaker 1: that often comes with like, you know, good money, habits
- 28:14Speaker 1: that have been ingrained over a long period of time.
- 28:16Speaker 1: And so if you're in that position, like that's great,
- 28:17Speaker 1: but it is a very privileged position to be and
- 28:19Speaker 1: you can't just go, oh, just get a guaranteur, like
- 28:22Speaker 1: it's not available to everybody, and you know, I think
- 28:25Speaker 1: that a lot of parents actually feel a lot of
- 28:28Speaker 1: guilt because they're not able to provide that to their children,
- 28:31Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty one where properties are going for
- 28:34Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars over reserve consistently. Parents are like,
- 28:37Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it was so much easier getting into
- 28:39Speaker 1: the property market when I was getting in. I wish
- 28:42Speaker 1: I could help my child, but it's just not an
- 28:44Speaker 1: option for me. Might limit them too much. It might
- 28:46Speaker 1: stop them retiring as easily. It might stop them, you know,
- 28:49Speaker 1: buying an investment property to help them with their financial success.
- 28:52Speaker 1: So I think if your parents aren't able to do that,
- 28:55Speaker 1: or they're saying no, there's a really good reason they're
- 28:57Speaker 1: saying no. It's not just because they don't want to.
- 28:58Speaker 1: It's because maybe they're not financially able to. And it's
- 29:01Speaker 1: actually none of your business what their financial lives are.
- 29:03Speaker 1: In my opinion, it's not your business what your parents earn,
- 29:06Speaker 1: what they spend, what they own, what they own not
- 29:08Speaker 1: your business unless they decide to share that with you.
- 29:10Speaker 1: And I think it goes for everybody right, But definitely
- 29:14Speaker 1: an option still if you want to do it. But
- 29:16Speaker 1: I think it's also really important to just take into
- 29:18Speaker 1: consideration how big of a responsibility that is. But also
- 29:23Speaker 1: getting the ground rules in place again before you move forward.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Are you going to have that guaranteur for a couple
- 29:29Speaker 1: of years and then refinance your loan so it's one
- 29:31Speaker 1: hundred percent in your name. Are you going to be
- 29:33Speaker 1: making extra mortgage repayments so that happens sooner rather than later,
- 29:36Speaker 1: or are you just planning on cruising along with minimum
- 29:39Speaker 1: repayments because you actually can't afford additional repayments to get
- 29:42Speaker 1: out of that guarante period first, Because a guaranteur is
- 29:46Speaker 1: essentially in place of a deposit, so if you don't
- 29:49Speaker 1: have a deposit, someone can guarantee a portion of their
- 29:52Speaker 1: property to become in quotation marks your deposit. So once
- 29:57Speaker 1: you actually reach a point of having equity in your property,
- 29:59Speaker 1: which is essentially means that you've got enough money paid
- 30:02Speaker 1: off your mortgage to refinance it so that you would
- 30:04Speaker 1: have that quote twenty percent, you can release a guaranteur,
- 30:09Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. But are you working towards
- 30:11Speaker 1: that on a fast chech or are you just making
- 30:13Speaker 1: minimum repayments and you're not really planning on doing that,
- 30:16Speaker 1: or you're planning on only paying interest off, which is
- 30:18Speaker 1: going to take a really long time. I think it's
- 30:20Speaker 1: just important to know what your parents' expectations of that
- 30:24Speaker 1: are as well, because they might go Noah, don't worry
- 30:25Speaker 1: about it, like we've got absolutely no intention of doing
- 30:28Speaker 1: anything at all, So just take your time, enjoy it.
- 30:31Speaker 1: Or they might say, Yep, we really wanted to get
- 30:32Speaker 1: you in the property market, but you know, in the
- 30:34Speaker 1: next five years, we really do want to retire or
- 30:36Speaker 1: we really do want to create some more wealth ourselves.
- 30:39Speaker 1: So you need to buckle down. And we've given you
- 30:41Speaker 1: this opportunity because you don't have a deposit, but that
- 30:43Speaker 1: doesn't mean you get to be lax. So I think
- 30:46Speaker 1: that's really important. But again, we're going to be talking
- 30:48Speaker 1: about these more closely on the Property Playbook in two weeks.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Friends, Hey, but was there anything else you wanted to
- 30:55Speaker 2: add there?
- 30:56Speaker 1: Are we ready to wrap the show? I think we
- 30:58Speaker 1: nearly are ready to wrap the sho show. But as always,
- 31:01Speaker 1: before we wrap the show, we'd like to acknowledge and
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- 31:07Speaker 1: They're the traditional custodians of the lands, waterways and skies
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- 31:53Speaker 1: Hallakya we to have her.
- 31:54Speaker 2: She's in the room right now, Toto to say, Yeah.
- 31:57Speaker 1: She's got nothing to say. She's shaking her head. She
- 32:00Speaker 1: is not nodding her head. She is shaking her head.
- 32:02Speaker 1: I got in trouble for that before. But yeah, I
- 32:03Speaker 1: really like Tony. Good acquisitions are from the team. Glad
- 32:06Speaker 1: we stole her from Radio Life. Yeah. Are you happy
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- 32:12Speaker 1: with that, see you next week. Bye, guys,