Reading Time: 4 Minutes Hi guys! How’s everyone coming along, we all having a good week? Bit of a mad rush for meself to be honest. Lets out a BIG gulp of air – wheeeew. I think it’s got something to do with Xmas just around the corner, damnit if I ain’t looking forward to some quality R&R. Despite all this, it’s hard to not feel a bit of Christmas Cheer, you can see it in the faces of strangers everywhere you go. Tell you what ain’t so cheery though, something which is hammered again and again with increasing frequency by the media… …The Sydney housing market of course! We’ve…
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The One That Got Away – A Missed Property Which Would Have Shaved YEARS Off The (FIRE) Dream (Part 2)
Reading Time: 6 Minutes What’s up guys! How’s everyone’s weekend? Thanks for coming back to your favourite Frugal Samurai. We continue today with the story about how I let the one (ring) to rule them all slip through my grasp. If you haven’t read the first part – do so here. If you have read the first part, you’ll notice that it’s overwhelmingly emotional and yes I may have been blindsided by the superior numbers on offer such as the 13% gross yields or $70k asking price below my perceived value. So why didn’t I pull that trigger then? You snooze you lose! Technically this is true as I did…
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The One That Got Away – A Missed Property Which Would Have Shaved YEARS Off The (FIRE) Dream (Part 1)
Reading Time: 4 Minutes “Argh!” Yells the frustrated young man in front of his laptop screen, a painful wince crosses his facial features. “What’s wrong?” His wise yet still sexually attractive wife calls out, hurrying over. “It’s SOLD already #*@(%&#”, he shouts – slamming his fist down. “Oh… don’t worry, there’s always another one”, she responds… glad her husband is just over-reacting again. He’s just a boy at heart, still throwing those kiddie tantrums – she tells herself, before resuming the latest Korean drama series on Netflix. Her husband continues to yell and curse in the background. ~~~ Sigh. Hi guys – that was the little conversation MrsFrugalSamurai and I…
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What to do in a Bear Market (Part 4)
Reading Time: 4 Minutes What’s up guys! How’s everyone’s week been! December is here, can you believe it?! I know I can’t, was only just remarking to MrsFrugalSamurai that I don’t feel like I achieved anything at all this year. Then she not-so-subtlely reminded yours truly that we did GET MARRIED this year. Oh yeah…that. “It’s what happens when I’m with you babe, time just flies”, is what I was obviously thinking but didn’t quite say out loud. Hindsight eh? Which brings me to the topic of today’s post, Step 5 of a continuation on my friend’s Light Beam question: “How to survive a bear market” BTW have a read…
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What to do in a Bear Market (Part 3)
Reading Time: 5 Minutes “Rrrrraaaaagghhhh!” “Oh help, run away, run away” (the villagers run away). But not Bob, Bob stayed. And then Bob got eaten. The end. ~~~ Whoa what an abrupt and sad story… hey speaking of! I knew a Bob once… he never got eaten by anything… but he was a builder come to think of it. “Rubs chin ruefully”. AHEM. ANYWAY the moral of the above story is if a hungry bear comes looking for food in your village – sometimes being a hero doesn’t work, because being a hero can make you someone’s lunch. This is especially true in the financial markets as well – yknow…
