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Ed

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The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

Okay, and just to come back to Opus Plus for a moment, if you go to the compare properties feature, then you can add in a couple of properties that you're looking at and look at them side by side.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

First of all, in terms of like how many bedrooms do they have and how high is the opportunity?

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

And it looks like this one over here, the 516 Richardson Road, appears to have a higher return on investment or projected return on investment than

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

compared to this other property, which I've just happened to put in in Mangane Bridge at the moment, right?

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

Oh, sorry.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

Someone asked about readiness score as well, just while you're there.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

Oh, cool.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

So the readiness score is on your dashboard.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

And what that does is it actually runs the same calculations of the spreadsheet that I gave you

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

and it tries to figure out how ready you are to invest.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

So if you're 66% or above, that suggests that you've got a pretty good shot at being able to purchase an investment property.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

If it's below that, then there might be some things to work on.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

Now that doesn't mean that it's an automatic no and you're not able to invest at all.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

It just means based on the numbers you put in, of course we should always be working with mortgage advisors to see is there a way that we can tweak our mortgage application

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

to be able to make it more likely the bank says yes.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

I'll give you like one small example.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

Let's say that you've got that $30,000 credit card that we talked about just earlier on in the evening, but you haven't spent any money on it.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

One option might be to reduce that credit card limit down to $10,000.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

A mortgage advisor might be able to see that and say, hey, look, this is what we're going to do because this is going to help you get that mortgage across the line.

The Property Academy Podcast
5 houses in 5 years: How many can I actually buy?

But Opus Plus, as it stands, isn't smart enough to say, hey, this is what you could potentially do, mainly because it's not a financial advisor.