by Nick Rainsford | 15 Jul 2018 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Our local area in Sydney’s upper North Shore has a very large elderly demographic. I’m talking a disproportionate number of people over eighty. I’ve been known to refer to the suburb as Club-Med for the dead. Almost on a daily basis I encounter strange behaviour from...
by Nick Rainsford | 18 Feb 2018 | General, Home loans
Last week, as part of a general de-cluttering of my garage – I threw out all my sporting awards that I had accumulated between the age of eight and forty. Over 150 trophies, medals, ribbons banners and certificates. They had been placed in a garbage bag and...
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 | 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...
by Nick Rainsford | 20 Nov 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, SMSF
Every now and then you find out why things happened sometime after they’ve already happened. At times these are minor things like why my son, who was near the top of his class for science, failed the end of year exam. I found out a week later and while a little...
