by Nick Rainsford | 28 Jan 2018 | General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF
As I’ve written in previous articles, some clients either have a bias for or against a particular brand of lender. When they’re against a brand, the words “never again” are often used. Some of you may recall a couple of articles from this site. One was about...
by Nick Rainsford | 3 Oct 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
We hear a lot about people getting ripped off by banks, financial planners, builders, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, tradesmen…the list goes on and on. One could be forgiven for thinking that our entire society is based on ripping one another off. In the US and...
by Nick Rainsford | 6 Mar 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
I see many on-line distributors of various products spruiking their wares digitally. As many people have come to realise if you’re selling online you better be the cheapest. Or at least cheaper than someone who offers service. In our game, it’s the same thing. You can...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Aug 2015 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
We’ve heard a lot of bad news in recent years. Now the mining boom is over our economy is more normalised. Some of the slack has been taken up by the extraordinary boom in property prices – and so the cycle continues (as my favourite economist, Don Stammer,...
by Nick Rainsford | 9 Jul 2015 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
How many of us know someone in this predicament? They barely have enough cash to buy their own lunch but go home to a million dollar home each night and have an SMSF in the hundreds of thousands as well. They feel they cannot access any of that cash. Why? Because it’s...