Using Joint Ventures To Jump The Affordability Hurdle
Posted by: Rob on
Dec 9th, 2008 |
Filed under: Strategies
With housing affordability at its current levels people are finding that the old way of saving a deposit to enter the market will no longer work for them. By the time you have saved that large deposit, house prices can again move up and out of your reach. The longer that you are out of the market, the longer it will be til you get rich. Joint Ventures, commonly referred to as JV’s are a great way to enter the market sooner, and purchase better quality properties than you might otherwise have been able to afford. A JV involves two or more people teaming up to purchase a property usually with the purpose of using a value adding strategy like renovating or developing it and then on selling the said property for profit. The best JV’s involve members who can bring different skills or strengths to the table, such as a cash rich, time poor person partnering up with a time rich, highly skilled person. JV’s are also an excellent way for parents to help their kids enter the market by using the end profits to enable them to purchase their very own property down the track. A vital key to achieving a successful joint venture is attitude, focus on abundance not lack, as the name of the game is to make enough profit to happily share around. After all, would you rather have half of something or none of nothing?


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