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Resource Links: The Investor Lab Website ( https://theinvestorlab.com.au ) The Investor Lab on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/theinvestorlab/ ) Dashdot Buyers Agents Website ( https://www.dashdot.com.au/ ) [FREE BOOK] Limitless: The Renegade’s Guide to Building Wealth Through Property ( https://www.renegadespropertybook.com ) 10 Tips to Combat Uncertainty and Overwhelm – FREE Resource...

Resource Links: The Investor Lab Website ( https://theinvestorlab.com.au ) The Investor Lab Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/theinvestorlab/ ) Dashdot Buyers Agents Website ( https://www.dashdot.com.au/ ) [FREE BOOK] Limitless: The Renegade’s Guide to Building Wealth Through Property ( https://www.renegadespropertybook.com )   The industry is going through a market shift, and it’s unders...

The current SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic is a world-altering issue. Aside from the obvious morbidity and mortality, the fear pandemic seems out of proportion to the infectious pandemic. Consequently, there has already been a severe impact on the share market, shop fronts, consumer expenditure as well as the social ramifications resulting from isolation. Now more than ever people need a critical anal...

Here at The Investor Lab, we are always spruiking property, both residential and commercial, as investment opportunities. But what about looking at the business of building itself? Who better to chat to than a successful builder come entrepreneur who has built high-end homes and a high-yield business. Further to this, she has consciously decided to cap yearly profits in order to maximise her enjoy...

March madness is well and truly upon us: stock shortages, Coronavirus, rates cuts, and property price surge. This creates turbulence in the investment market resulting in both misfortune and opportunity for wealth. Separate to the direct effect these events have on the market is the psychological impact - the emotional human reaction - which often far surpasses the expected logical outcome. Predic...

Everyone needs a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal (or BHAG) - a term coined by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their classic business book, ‘Built to Last’. These are not your ordinary business goals - these are meant to seem unattainable. They are meant to scare you and push your limits. The journey may seem fraught with peril but the destination occupies a high-ranking spot on your bucket list. But we...

The braver investors among us have fantasised about diversifying their portfolio to include not only residential investment cashflow but also commercial. However, making the step into the commercial investment property market can be a formidable one and one that must be well informed. For the average investor, this may not be possible due to the high deposits and commercial loan interest rates inv...

Transformation and change can often be born out of adversity as many listeners, I’m sure, can attest to as well as our own Investor Lab host Goose. Learning life lessons in unexpected places can afford you great benefit .if the life lessons are in fact learnt Our guest today is Andrew Sparks, Goose’s co-business mastermind and the street-smart entrepreneur behind FitGro with an unlikely beginning....

What is the single biggest determinant of success in any field? Resilience! This is the ability to adapt to adversity, accepting a delay to gratification to achieve your desired outcome, approaching challenges as opportunities. Goose and Gabi get philosophical in this episode and draw on the stoic teachings of Socrates to interpret emotional resilience in the context of real estate investing. They...

Who among us can truthfully say they haven’t been sold a lemon? Whether it is a car, a skincare range from that talkative exotic mall worker, or an inflated bid for your first property. We are all of us fallible and this is known to those less-than-reputable folk who seek to exploit it to their own benefit. In the world of real estate, they can take many forms and distinguishing those that are tru...

The legislation of tax depreciation is our topic for today. Does that make you want to switch this podcast off immediately? We wouldn’t blame you, but this is definitely a conversation you’ll want to stick around for. It’s no secret that not a lot of people get super excited about tax and depreciation, but if you take the time to get to know the facts, the benefits can be absolutely huge. There ar...

For virgin property investors, the first step is often the hardest. The sheer volume of unsorted information at your fingertips and the conflicting advice it often harbours stuns the novice investor like a deer in headlights. Never-buy-new versus First Home Owner Grant; people end up immobilised with fear and confusion with a growing list of unanswered questions. Is this the right next step for me...

When we talk about investing, we’re not just talking about real estate, shares, or business, we are talking about investing in life. Finance, spirituality, social life, family, health, education… there is a world outside of real estate waiting to be conquered. Like any goal, it is best approached with a system. Enter the four stages of investing in anything: dream, team, acquire, empire. Analyse y...

Joining us on today’s episode is a close friend and mentor Ben Slater. At age 16, he witnessed his father - an entrepreneur - lose everything despite being an initially successful businessman. This destabilising event led to drug use and psychotic episodes. Ben then pursued mentorship highlighting the big questions no one had ever asked him and leading to paradigm shifts in his thinking. He succes...

When you first decide you want to buy a property, what’s your process? Do you even have one or do you just start looking through realestate.com.au for something that’s within your budget? This is a very common pitfall that we’re here to discuss today on The Investor Lab. We’ve found that the vast majority of people start their property investment journey by looking at property, and although this m...

So, you’ve decided you’re investing in property. The news says it’s a good time to buy. Your Uncle Tony at the family barbecue says you should have bought 20 years ago. What if you’ve already bought - do you sell? There are websites, podcasts, books dedicated to this stuff and all the researching is driving you bonkers. But you’re paralysed by indecision. What if you make the wrong decision? What...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Investor Lab brought to you by Gabi and Goose at Dashdot . We’re a buyer’s agency helping people invest in real estate and find wealth in property. Our core values centre around honesty, transparency, and integrity – and we are committed to ensuring your best interests are put first. But here’s the thing, this podcast is about more than real estate investin...