by Nick Rainsford | 20 Jan 2018 | Business, General
In April last year an old school friend contacted me. He had, quite deliberately, placed himself in a very stressful and quite dangerous financial predicament. He was working with his accountant to find a solution but he wanted to double check with us as trusted...
by Nick Rainsford | 14 Jan 2018 | General, Home loans, Investments
Last week I used an online trades quoting site to help find a tradesperson to replace a benchtop in my laundry. The financial cost will be measured in the hundreds of dollars (it’s a very small benchtop). The emotional cost was much higher than that. Here’s why. The...
by Nick Rainsford | 7 Jan 2018 | Business, General
Happy New Year to all our clients, referrers, readers and friends. On New Year’s Eve we had our usual family bash at our house. This year we invited some people that we’d banished from our lives some 15 years ago. I am not known to be a forgiving person. I hold...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Dec 2017 | Business, General, Home loans
There are many mornings when I drive over to Nick’s place to pick him up. As he climbs into the passenger seat of my car and states “I love my life”, I know then that it’s going to be a day of laughter. Even when Nick announces “I hate my life” we still end up finding...
by Nick Rainsford | 27 Nov 2017 | General, Home loans, SMSF
I’m a great believer in crawling before you can walk. Walking before you can run…you get the picture. I say this because a couple of months ago I started an exercise regime that I had abandoned years ago. I started walking 8kms per day. For a change, my exercise...
