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Property management is essential for success as a property investor, yet it is much harder than most expect. Bushy Martin shares his key insights, traps to watch out for and top tips. If you’re a long term property investor who is focused on securing high capital growth properties that are cash flow positive, where will most of the time, energy and cost be spent on holding and maintaining your property?  If you spend between 3 and 12 months securing your investment property and then rent it out, maintain it and hold it for 15 years plus to enjoy maximum capital growth, what key skill is required for the majority of the time to ensure you last the distance? What property expertise is most needed but least considered and appreciated? Now, the answer to all of these three questions is the same: property management.  In this episode, I share my property management insights from 30 years in property, in the lead up to my interview with property management guru Deniz Yusuf. If you’d like an hour of power to talk wi

The conversation with property negotiator Scott Aggett continues, focusing on how negotiation can help you navigate a hot property market. Given the limited supply of properties compared to the massive current demand, finding good quality properties and then being able to outsmart the competing hordes to get the property, many of whom are still prepared to pay way beyond expectations, is proving to be slow painstaking, stressful and very frustrating hard work. So how do you separate yourself from the FOMO buying pack? How do you successfully outsmart your competition and level the playing field with sellers agents to find, negotiate and secure a property in hyper competitive conditions? How can you position yourself to ensure that your offer is more appealing to the selling agent and property seller than anyone else? What should and shouldn’t you be doing to best position yourself in these highly contested conditions? If you’ve already listened to part 1 of Scott Aggett’s conversation on last week’s episode a

Powerful people impress by saying less. Bushy Martin talks about why silence should be one of your most important strategic attributes.  As the old saying goes, even a fool can appear wise if they keep their mouth shut. Silence is a powerful negotiation tool, it encourages active listening skills and helps you absorb what you're hearing, and there are many other benefits of strategic silence. How can you successfully apply the silent treatment? Listen to find out more about the power of silence.  Join the Get Invested community: And if you want to continue investing in your knowledge, join me and many other like minded investors in our Get Invested community right now. I send a free and exclusive monthly email full of practical ‘Self, Health and Wealth’ wisdom that our current Freedom Fighter subscribers can’t wait to get each month. It’s full of investment and lifestyle tips, my personal book recommendations, apps I use to enhance life and so much more. Just visit bushymartin.com.au and sign up at the bottom

This week’s show has a strong property management flavor. We kick off with leading property manager Jamie Billerwell from the Code Property Group who has found that rental enquiry is declining in Qld despite recent figures recording the fastest national rise in rents & demand in the Sunshine State.  As an investor, how do you make sense of the confusing & conflicting deluge of data to find the best property for you? Mickael Roger from proptech disruptor Prop Hero joins us to show how AI is transforming property search and selection. And to close out the show, Bushy starts a series on the importance of property management to your success.  First up - self-management vs professional management. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportun

Property negotiator Scott Aggett talks about the power of transparency to unlock opportunity in property and life. And as you heard in the previous episode on transparency, Scott has disrupted the property industry by becoming the first dedicated property negotiator to cost effectively help you get the best price for the property you want to buy. Scott and his Hello Haus team are professional property negotiators who have successfully negotiated over 3,000 property purchases and they charge you a comparatively low fee results based fee to do all of the negotiating on a property that you want to purchase. And he continues to achieve great results for property buyers.  Scott and his team save you and other property buyers and sellers money, stress and time with transparent processes that work for you. Leveraging over two decades of real estate agent experience, and having operated on all sides of property transactions as a vendor, purchaser, agent and investor, Scott understands all sides of the property purcha

Property author and industry leader Nicola McDougall have been announced as the new Chair of the Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA).  Nicola joins Bushy to discuss PIPA’s continuing growth vision to protect property investors. Upfront deposits of up to $300k are a major hurdle that is preventing many Aussies from getting on the property ladder, but industry disruptor Ownhome has created a buy now pay later deposit model backed by the Commonwealth Bank that uses rent to own to get you into your home now. Cofounder James Bowe joins us to discuss the details. Since the onset of Covid, remote virtual video technology is now being used by top property managers to help both landlords advertise the property as well as tenants explore them. Jamie Billerwell from Code Property Group discusses the innovations and the benefits in this area.   RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s l

In this episode, Bushy Martin talks about the importance of transparency in property dealings, business and life.  The Business Dictionary defines transparency as a “lack of hidden agendas or conditions, accompanied by the availability of full information required of collaboration, cooperation, and collective decision making.” In other words, as Maggie Campbell explained in an article about transparency, you need to ‘say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’ll do." This sounds simple, but in practice it proves much more difficult. People and organisations often struggle with consistently following through on all three elements of this transparency equation. For me, I would go further to say that transparency is not about providing all of the information, as this would bury people in endless complexity and confusion, but its about providing enough of the right information for another party to make good and fully informed decisions. Hear more about transparency, and how it can transform yo

In hypercompetitive conditions, how do you overcome tight seller's markets to find and secure a good property? Pete Wargent from Buyers Buyers joins us again to show you the way. Overworked Property Managers are often the meat in the sandwich so to uncover their pain points, the trends that are affecting them and the new platforms transforming their lives and improving your experience, we’re joined again by property management supporter Adam Hinds of Sorted Services. Many property buyers make common negotiating mistakes that end up losing them properties.  So to help you make successful offers we’re joined by property negotiator Scott Aggett from Hello Haus. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insights. Check out Re

It can be incredibly difficult to recover from divorce, emotionally and financially. Financial expert Helen Baker talks about how to bounce back. Relationship problems often start with money. According to the finder.com.au survey, 1 in 4 Australians has lied to a partner about money or been lied to about finances. The Finder survey also found that men are twice as likely to lie about their money, with 20% of men saying they have been untruthful to their significant other, compared to 9% of women. While men are impacted, women are hit hardest. Unfortunately, the gender pay gap and maternity leave alongside increasing rates of divorce and separation, mean that one in three women stop work with no retirement savings at all and those that do manage to save, often end up with less than half the retirement funds of males.  So what can hard working Aussie women and those that care about them do about it? This is where today’s special guest Helen Baker and her great book On Your Own Two Feet comes to the rescue. Hele

When it comes to what’s likely to happen with property in the future, given its meteoric rise across the board last year, it seems that everyone’s an expert but none more so than Pete Wargent from Buyers Buyers who shares his thoughts on where the property is heading this year. What’s the cost of ignorance? In hyper-competitive seller's markets, many property buyers end up buying anything they can get their hands on close to home, without having an investment plan and without understanding the risks, so to help you avoid these common property mistakes, Lloyd Edge from Aus Property Professionals concludes Part 2 of our special feature.  Have slippery shoe salespeople selling substandard properties using your super tarnished the benefits of securing properties in an SMSF? To round out the show Super Guru Darren Kingdon of Kingdon Financial Services joins us to discuss the good, bad & ugly of purchasing SMSF properties. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular onli

One of the biggest barriers to growth for property investors is access to cash. So if you’re out of savings, equity or ideas, what can you do? Our guest Godfrey Dinh shares his insights. If you’re an investor who wants to build your portfolio but have hit a cash wall, you could start saving furiously by living on a budget of baked beans and dog food … but this is likely to take years unless you’re getting large lumpy and consistent bonuses. You can wait for your existing properties to go up in value sufficiently to create the equity deposit, but this generally takes years as well. You can roll the dice and investigate the time and headache of refinancing with the possibility that another lender’s valuation will come in higher and give you enough equity for your next deposit. Or there’s risky loans from family or friends, expensive personal loans or selling one of your existing properties, but all of these strategies are fraught with danger. So what do you do? This is where Godfrey Dinh and his disruptive indu

As property around the country has enjoyed the strongest growth in over 30 years, everyone is wondering what the future holds so contrarian Simon Pressley from Propertyology completes our 2 part special with his surprising predictions for 2022.  When it comes to opinions on property it seems like everyone’s an expert - but who can you trust? Lloyd Edge from Aus Property Professionals questions the true cost of free property advice.   In the current hot property market, how can you leap the queue and access off-market properties? Property Negotiator Scott Aggett from Hello Haus joins us to share his secrets on how you can access 40% more off-market and pre-market properties.  RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.  RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’s leading search and social property distribution platform that helps investors like you beat the crowd, giving you the earliest access to property opportunities, listings, and insig

In this episode, we change the way we look at stress and talk about how to harness it with expert guest Paul Taylor.  Paul is an Exercise Physiologist, Nutritionist and Neuroscientist, and a former British Royal Navy Aircrew Officer. He is currently completing a PhD in Applied Psychology where he is developing and testing resilience strategies with the Australian Defence Science Technology Group and the University of Newcastle. He is also the Director of The Mind-Body-Brain Performance Institute, where he delivers resilience, leadership and executive performance workshops to companies such as NAB, CBA, J&J, Oracle, SAP, PWC, BUPA, Medibank and the Australian Military just to name a few. In 2010 Paul created and co-hosted the TV series Body and Brain Overhaul and has appeared regularly on The Biggest Loser TV series. Paul’s BioAge software is used by a number of Australian and international health club chains and his latest venture is The Resilient Mind, an online program and app that is currently used by

Last year was a truly remarkable year in property, so what lessons did we learn from it that will guide us in the year ahead? To discuss the year that was and then the year that will be, Realty Talk regular Simon Pressley from Propertyology joins us for part one of a 2 part special feature. Most investors tend to focus on how much money they’re likely to make without properly considering the risks and how to protect their investments, so to balance the books, Darren Kingdon from Kingdon Financial Services does a deep dive on property risk management. In the cut and thrust world of property management, the old days of tenants responding to letting ads in the paper have long gone as social media and tech continue to transform the industry. To discuss this tech transformation and close out the show, we’re joined by Adam Hinds from Sorted Services who works closely with property managers and are Australia’s first all-in-one home services marketplace. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Aus

What in the world is going on in global and local investment markets? Top analyst Pete Wargent provides his outlook. What is likely to happen in the world this year? What does this mean for global and local equities and property investment markets? How does this affect you as an investor? What do you do, and what don’t you do this year? On the surface these appear like relatively simple questions but the answers are never easy and are increasingly difficult to predict given the complex and growing myriad of interdependent dynamics that are constantly changing at break neck speed, given our global connectedness and ‘always on’ world that we currently live in. Now despite media commentary trying to keep us scared, nervous and anxious, I believe there's a growing air of optimism about 2022 as we climb out of the pandemic. That said, many challenges remain globally. So where does this leave us as investors? We need to turn off the noise of mainstream media and turn to wise investment specialists who have a long

Buying a home during the boom continues to be challenging, particularly if your purchase relies on the sale of your current house. No one is interested in the subject to sale conditions. To get around this, emerging lender Techlend is disrupting the bridging loan space with a new solution that can be preapproved in an hour! So to continue our discussion on this lending innovation in the second part of our 2 part feature, the CEO of Techlend Aaron Bassin completes the picture. A lot of property industry commentators slam the idea of investing in new build homes in new fringe suburbs.    Is this criticism well-founded or perhaps misguided?  We discuss that with the CEO of The Property Mentors, Luke Harris. And with so much scare-mongering hitting the news about rising interest rates recently, the show closes with Bushy balancing the books by exploring if and when rates will rise and what it means to you. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice for property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show. 

Where can you find the best independent forecasts and information for the year ahead in Australian property? As we continue our summer series in partnership with Realty Talk, Australia’s top online property show hosted by Bushy Martin, where we’ve been talking with independent industry leaders about where Australian property is heading in 2022, this episode we share insights from the 2022 Bricks & Mortar Media Property Market Forecasts report. We kick off with an introduction and overview of the report by BMM’s Nicola McDougall, before sharing individual property projections by the Chair of the Property Investors Council of Australia, Ben Kingsley. This is followed by a great chat with Kevin Brogan from national valuers Herron Todd White who makes us aware of VESPAs, so you’ll have to listen in to find out what this is. Rich Harvey from Property Buyer then rounds out the show with his forecasts on what’s likely to occur on the east coast and beyond, in contrast to pessimistic outlooks by many bank econom

Many investors continue to get caught up in FOMO chasing property rewards without considering the risks, so to add some balance to the equation, successful active investor turned Buyers Agent Rasti Vaibhav from Get RARE Properties joins us.  If you want to optimize the financial performance of your rental property, reducing your vacancy rate is critical. But how do you do this? Leading property manager Lauren Robinson from Rental Results in Brisbane joins us to share her secrets.   In the current rapidly moving sellers market, property buyers that purchase properties subject to the sale of their existing home are being left out in the cold, and bank bridging finance is usually difficult, complex, and time-consuming – until now, because emerging non-bank lender Techlend is disrupting the bridging space with interest free 1-hour pre-approvals and CEO Aaron Bassin joins us to lift the lid on their game-changing innovation. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular onlin

We so often hear talk of property ‘boom’ or ‘bust’ in the mainstream media, but what’s the reality? As we continue our summer series in partnership with Realty Talk, Australia’s top online property show hosted by Bushy Martin, where we’ve been talking with independent industry leaders about where Australian property is heading in 2022, this episode we share insights from Louis Christopher.  Louis is one of Australia’s most recognised and respected property analysts, whose objective, candid and honest approach to the real estate market continues to put his company SQM Research at the forefront of property prediction.  In this episode Louis outlines the findings from his team’s latest annual Housing Boom & Bust report that makes for great and interesting reading and contrasts with many other outlooks, so this chat will broaden your perspective.  And if you’re a real estate professional or a serious residential property investor looking to make fully informed decisions in the year ahead, you can’t afford to

What’s driving property growth, what regions will continue to outperform and what changes are likely to impact property markets? Arjun Paliwal of InvestorKit buyers joins us to reveal his projections. Buying interstate is not as easy as it sounds and can come with significant challenges.  Katie Richards, from Virtual Legal explains how she is helping meet and overcome them. Just like we approach our personal fitness, there’s a proven process to getting your property investments into shape to achieve peak performance.   Luke Harris of The Property Mentors opens our eyes to the opportunities. After massive growth last year, what does the future of commercial property look like? To put some balance back into the commercial property discussion on what’s likely to happen this year, we’re joined by commercial buyer’s agent Scott O’Neill of Rethink Investing. RealtyTalk is your trusted voice in property investment and Australia’s most popular online property show.   RealtyTalk is brought to you by Realty, Australia’