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I put 500 a week into telstra/CBA stocks. I am much poorer than property speculators in sydney. especially with all the fees I pay.
 

I think TechA has a point here - Time and time again it has been proven that those who are wealthy got there through cost controls, not through an inflated wage. And if they can couple this with strong business knowledge, they're well ahead of anyone else.

Even if that 100k factory job is not available, those with discipline will come out ahead in the long run. And in the long run, these people can afford a house.
 

Problem is that these are just words based on nothing.

I am saving.

I am careful with what I spend.

I am well and truly behind Sydney home buyers over the last 2 years.
 
Problem is that these are just words based on nothing.

I am saving.

I am careful with what I spend.

I am well and truly behind Sydney home buyers over the last 2 years.

You're right - I didn't provide any evidence. I'll try to do so when I get home and have time to find it.

I might also add that 2 years isn't a very long time.
 
I put 500 a week into telstra/CBA stocks. I am much poorer than property speculators in sydney. especially with all the fees I pay.

Lots of speculators in property have made money, lots of speculators have lost money.

CBA stocks have out performed property since 1995 (that's the date you picked), not to mention the higher dividend return if compounded into more cba shares means that since 1995 Cba has really out performed property.

To the point that a long term property invested ended up in a better position than a long term CBA shareholder might be explained by the property investor probably using leverage to increase their return. But there is nothing immoral about using leverage, by doing so they also took more risk, so the extra gain was not free.
 
You don't understand how the world works you are detached from reality.

Reality is simply a perception.
No one said its easy or common
to all---

I'm sure my kids and grand kids
are thankful that my perception
of reality is vastly different to yours.

Good luck Magoo---you maybe
lucky and one day the light will
flick on.---You'll crawl out of your box.
 
Problem is that these are just words based on nothing.

I am saving.

I am careful with what I spend.

I am well and truly behind Sydney home buyers over the last 2 years.

Who cares, who you are behind, run your own race.

If you are investing $500 per week in Telstra and CBA, I think you have done fairly well over the last 2 years, and you should have a decent capital base that is compounding for you now.
 

More meaningless words. I understand though. It can be hard to let go of your ego, especially with all the real estate agents and property managers constantly telling you how great you are and how hard you've worked ect.
 
More meaningless words. I understand though. It can be hard to let go of your ego, especially with all the real estate agents and property managers constantly telling you how great you are and how hard you've worked ect.

Sorry I seem to have stumbled into Romper Room.
 
Problem is that these are just words based on nothing.

I am saving.

I am careful with what I spend.

I am well and truly behind Sydney home buyers over the last 2 years.

You and your friends need to get political and stop being the generation being trampled on.
You saw Abbott just made a comment that he wants prices to continue to climb and he is not planning on correcting any of the imbalances in the system. Labor also will do little. The reason they will do little is that that gen Y aren't a voting force in politics.
 
I put 500 a week into telstra/CBA stocks. I am much poorer than property speculators in sydney. especially with all the fees I pay.

If you keep doing that, it will enable you to break into the property market, when the opportunity presents.

Which it will.
 
I put 500 a week into telstra/CBA stocks. I am much poorer than property speculators in sydney. especially with all the fees I pay.

As others have said, if you can set aside $500 a week for a few years, you'll be in the market soon enough.

Why are you paying high fees? Are you purchasing units in both stocks every week? Might be better off accumulating cash and making a purchase once every month or two, to reduce brokerage costs.
 
Worst trade deficit on record, the share market doesn't like it , surely housing will follow shortly.
 
I actually think this is good - escalates and speeds up the bubble process

Hehe. I have a lot of friends who are sitting on the sidelines not buying anything. It is pretty amazing how simply many generation Y chose to live compared to the stereotypes and the lavish excess of the baby boomers.
 
Hehe. I have a lot of friends who are sitting on the sidelines not buying anything. It is pretty amazing how simply many generation Y chose to live compared to the stereotypes and the lavish excess of the baby boomers.

Circumstance necessitate choice.
We all have them
We all make them
 
Circumstance necessitate choice.
We all have them
We all make them

Don't worry the next generation will be too ignorant and poor to know about the boomer excesses and how good things actually used to be. You can just lie to them. They won't know any different. They might even admire you for being a "hard worked". LMAO.
 
It's official - it's a bubble?


There has been some discussion recently about property investing being such a no brainer for those who are smart enough or for those who are diligent in their methodology and commitment etc etc. It doesn't take any brains at all to get a loan and buy an IP in a rising market. It has very little to do with 'smarts' and a lot to do with the complicity of political law changes created to placate the whinging populace mostly with keeping the status quo with negative gearing and allowing one to use their retirement savings to buy IP's, along with all the other baby boomer created laws and systems which mostly benefit them. (The influence of 'black' Chinese money on the bubble is another big factor, but that's another story....)

Unfortunately for the rest of society it is those who made and make the rules who have benefited most from the property bubble ie the baby boomer generation, through the various schemes brought into play over the years - mostly negative gearing and superannuation - the rule makers have been able to feather their collective nests at the expense of all other levels of society.

And no doubt it will be they who will whinge the loudest when it pops.

At least The Greens now have one decent policy???

 
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