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How home staging can help you sell your home for more!

Posted by Chris Collard on 16 September 2016
How home staging can help you sell your home for more!
Designs to Inspire Selling your home can be one of the most stressful times of your life. Investing more money into a property that you will be selling may be the furthest thought from your mind. However, property styling, also known as home staging, is one of the ways leading real estate agents advocate to help you sell your home faster and for more money. Does your property stand out?

In Melbourne, there can be over 85,000 homes sold in a year*1. It's, therefore, imperat...
Posted in:RenovatingSuccessHome stagingstylingsellingDesigns to InspireBuilding WealthUpgrade My Home  

10 years to retirement checklist

Posted by Mark Attard on 13 September 2016
10 years to retirement checklist
A checklist for the unprepared. We spoke to financial planner Stuart Skidmore from Saracens about preparing for retirement. Check out his seven key questions and considerations for everybody who has retirement on their mind.    By Stuart Skidmore Understand that time is your enemy. 10 years equals 120 months. If you are paid monthly and have 10 years before retirement, you will be paid 120 more times so what are you going to do now to achieve what you would like t...
Posted in:Financial planningSuccessRetirementBuilding WealthReducing Debt  

What successful people wish they'd known in their 20's

Posted by Chris Collard on 13 September 2016
What successful people wish they'd known in their 20's
We don't all learn from our mistakes. If you're in your 20's (30's or 40's!! :) Check out this Business Insider article which shares insights from influencial people who have built wealth over the years. Read here to find out what they had to say.   First step to managing your money better, take a look at Your Smart MoneyTool. ...
Posted in:Financial planningSuccessmistakesSmart Money ManagementBuilding Wealth  

8 tips to build wealth like millionaires do

Posted by Mark Attard on 13 September 2016
8 tips to build wealth like millionaires do
Make it a game! We've all had a genius idea at one point and wondered if and how we can make money from it.  Turns out we maybe onto something, we just need to sell it - simple!  Liz Davidson from Financial Finesse gives us 8 ways we can build wealth like millionaires. Put aside some of the american terms and focus on some the simple ideas put forward in the article. Remember often the best business ideas are the simple ones. We love the idea of throwing parties and s...
Posted in:Smart Money ManagementBuilding WealthReducing Debt  

3 mistakes to avoid when choosing a low doc loan

Posted by Chris Collard on 31 August 2016
3 mistakes to avoid when choosing a low doc loan
Taking out a low doc home loan can help self employed borrowers get ahead if you avoid these common pitfalls. Now, the real truth about low doc loans is that they provide self employed borrowers with flexibility.
Just because you are self employed shouldn't mean you can't have the business and home of your dreams. Right? Put simply, low doc loans are a financial solution when you either don't have the financial documents required by banks to take out a full doc loan, ...
Posted in:Small BusinessesSelf Employed Home LoansLow doc loanBuilding Wealth  

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