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The Cost of Cancer

Posted by Ash Mackinnon on 31-August-2010, 01:08 PM

Tags: Finance, Refinancing, Property, Home Loan Help

My wife needed cancer treatment not available in Australia. So off she went to USA. It cured 9 brain tumors but cost us about $80,000 which we had to pay upfront. Personal loan, credit card but with 2 wages was easy. Banks were throwing money at us. However she died about 6 months later of liver failure. I was left a single dad of 2 youngsters, a moderate mortgage but $80,000 unsecured debt. I applied for gov’t funding thru MTOP (medical treatment overseas program) but some 4 yrs on and a couple of appeals I have still been rejected even though I help many others get this to get life saving treatment in places such as malaysia and USA.

Be the change you would like to see

Posted by Tim Neary on 27-August-2010, 11:53 AM

Tags: Finance, Refinancing, First Home, Investment, Industry Insights, Gen Y, Property, Home Loan Help

In the last couple of weeks I’ve heard heaps of people talking about how much it sucks that the major bank lenders are making the kind of super profits they do, and yet the only gratitude we as consumers seem to get in return is healthy dollops of below-average service. Now, it strikes me that it’s one thing to be irritated by that, but another altogether to take a stand against it. And it also got me to thinking about what we as individuals can actually do to stand up in the face of the might of such corporate giants.

It’s property not a PlayStation

Posted by Kristy Sheppard on 20-August-2010, 02:31 PM

Tags: First Home, Industry Insights, Gen Y, Property, Home Loan Help

Sick of all the talk around how difficult it is to get approved for a home loan? How it’s almost impossible for first homebuyers to get their foot in the door? With so much negativity out there it’s no wonder many potential buyers are fearful and are resigning themselves to a life of renting.

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JB Tue August 24, 2010, 12:11:41 #5

Interesting

Your report all makes perfect sense and something we have abided by yet something you neglected to comment on.
First Time home owner’s grant. When we started saving it was $14k then it was reduced to $7k and now its limited to a home below $750k . In the time we started saving we have had to re-adjust our target Oh and by the time we did have enough saved guess what the property prices suddenly increased so again our Budget was shot. Yes it’s difficult to plan or save for a home if the government would only leave things alone for at least a year it may be possible, they have changed the grant 3 times within 1 year that’s just absolute madness when someone is trying darn hard to save for their first home.

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