It is late one evening and you receive a call from the Fire Service. They advise that one of your rental properties has been seriously damaged by a...
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It is safe to say that as investors, we are obsessed with deals. We stay up all night cruising the Internet for good deals while avoiding the bad...
*Burrrgh* The chill is about to hit. Now is the time to start winter-proofing your rental property. Houses are vulnerable to weather and water...
Here at APIA we are all about critical thinking and pushing our members to take a big picture approach to property. There are many ways to build...
We own a unit on a fee simple cross lease title. There are over 20 units in two blocks with an operating body corporate (covering common area...
Back in 2004, two young 30-somethings pooled their savings together into a $275K run down Whangaparaoa bach yielding at 5%. After reading from...
Since the announcement last year of minimum standards being introduced for all rental properties, there has been a lot of demand within the landlord...
1. Are you ready? Whoever told you that property investment earns you a passive income is lying. The buy-and-forget strategy makes a deposit not an...
The week starts of normally enough, you wake up with a massive case of Mondaytitis that no amounts of coffee will cure. You get into the Grind...
Seven years ago a quietly spoken Jimmy Ho reached out to us. He had just signed up for an APIA membership and heard that we were looking for a...
The Health and Safety at Work Act came into effect on the 4th of April 2016 leaving the landlord/property management community with a lot of anxious...
Though networking is a much valued tool in the business community, it is also a form of quasi-social-quasi-business interaction that fills introverts...
A reply to those who claim investors have a tax advantage by APIA Vice President Peter Lewis: Consider the analogy of a Motel owner verses a...
From Monday next week, the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) comes into effect putting landlords under a positive obligation to ensure the health...
In this week’s Conveyancing Q&A, Hilary Jenkins shows you how to minimise your legal fees. What is a cross-lease title and what should...
Since making her investment debut 16, Lisa Dudson has been a busy lady. These days Lisa is being celebrated in the business community as a...
