Australia Is At Breaking Point - Graeme Holm #141

Graeme Holm's figure: borrow 500,000 over 30 years and you pay back around 1.1 million. Stretch the term to 40 or 50 years and he puts it closer to 1.4. He calls that generational debt, and it is why he is now looking at America.

Graeme Holm is the founder of Infinity Group and has spent 25 years in Australian lending.

What you will learn:

- What he says a 40 or 50 year mortgage costs a family over its life, in dollars

- Why he moved his kids' savings into the offset, and how earning 6 percent by not paying it beats 3 percent taxed

- How white label lending products work, and why volume let him build four of his own

- The questions he asks about a region before investing: industry, healthcare, education, sport

- Why most people lack the emotional patience the investment period actually requires

Chapters

00:00 Four big banks, and who owns what underneath them

10:12 Hampers, flowers, and the client who was made redundant

18:45 The A Current Affair story, and why good news does not run

23:27 Whether the people who make money end up giving more

29:39 The offset accounts 600,000 families were never linked to

34:18 Nobody calculates interest daily, and what a statement hides

39:21 Cars owned outright, redraw, and restructuring around it

44:53 Live examples: commercial buildings, redraws and offsets

49:45 Thirty properties, or one very large tenant

54:44 Why rentvesting breaks if you cannot wait seven to ten years

59:31 Why he never closes a loan he has paid off

1:05:19 Where a 100 percent return actually comes from

1:10:05 Gladstone, mining, and the risk in a single industry town

1:15:09 Being prepared to be hated

Graeme Holm makes the debt work for the borrower. Property should work the same way.

Most properties only make money if the market does. The ones that pay for themselves from the day you settle are bought differently, and it comes down to four points.

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◼️ Infinity Group - https://www.instagram.com/infinitygroupau/

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General information only. Not financial, tax, legal or credit advice. Bothsides is not a mortgage broker or credit provider.