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GTRKat Grand Master

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I wouldn't rent if negative gearing were removed. The number of houses that would hit the market would be obscene, I'd buy one then.

I don't believe that's what happened in the 80s for the time they removed it.

Rents went up and costs passed on to tenants. I know that's what I'd be doing.

k_d Mentor

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My 2c. On low income its fkn hard to affort a deposit for a house. I looked into it and on my wage i need approx 50k min for a deposit and i can get at most 475k. Oh yeah, thats on top of paying 10k a year rent (roughly). Doesnt matter about first homebuyers grant, aparently only applies to new houses being built (may be misinformed?). f**k yeah

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My 2c. On low income its fkn hard to affort a deposit for a house. I looked into it and on my wage i need approx 50k min for a deposit and i can get at most 475k. Oh yeah, thats on top of paying 10k a year rent (roughly). Doesnt matter about first homebuyers grant, aparently only applies to new houses being built (may be misinformed?). f**k yeah

Yep I get that and I don't know your personal situation (married, single etc) and it's a hard slog but people do it. Definitely easier when there are 2 of you!

I know when we bought our first place it certainly wasn't easy.

That does bite that first home owners doesn't go towards established houses. Has that changed?

I guess the income part really comes down to the choices that you make in life though. I am far from low income however at times it comes with a lot of personal sacrifices and responsibilities.

Shell Grand Master

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I think the thing is you have to look at unit or townhouse, not a $475k house. Work your way up.

I feel like this is a lot easier in Canberra than Sydney (where I think average unit prices are about $400-500k lol!)

Sydney's just ridiculous. I don't know how anyone ever moves out of home. Even if you manage to snag a cheapie unit way out in the sticks, you have to think about your commute. At least you don't have that problem in Canberra!

Manuel Kasko Grand Master

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Yeah Canberra would be an awesome place to purchase a house or even a nice town house. A few of my mates have picked up nice little town houses for around the 300k mark. House and land packages out in Casey were reasonably priced as well.

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I agree completely with you both (kat and shell) and i wont be looking at a house here at this point in time.

Not 100% sure on homebuyers grant, just running off what i have heard from a few different people. May well be the opposite...

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Yeah man, I use to run the Canberra LANs - really fun place and the iM fellow is pretty sharrrrrrrp. I always outperform at LANs though and competitive matches (Not TMM)....I missed the last comp - my m8 who was going to enter our team didn't haha.. oh well Sounds like you had fun though.

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No, just a giant rip off lol. Can't buy a house for less than $900k-$1mil where we were living in Sydney... and no it wasn't anywhere fancy, it was Parramatta ffs

I agree with getting into the market but I think you still have to see a remote bit of value in what you are buying.... that's why I'd prefer so spend $500k on the same thing in Canberra or Wollongong or somewhere.

Not so easy if you work and commute in Sydney though :(

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Also have the option of renting where you want to live and investing elsewhere.

Plenty of ways to get in the market.

Agreed. i have plenty of friends that rent $2M apartments in Sydney but have properties in everywhere from Townsville, Darwin, Dubbo, Goulburn and the like. Diverse portfolios but also houses of all different price categories. Its not a hard game, just need to play it smart.

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