{"id":21793,"date":"2018-07-13T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=21793"},"modified":"2018-07-13T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:00:21","slug":"trust-me-i-am-a-banker-the-risk-of-diy-home-styling-smsf-and-property-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/trust-me-i-am-a-banker-the-risk-of-diy-home-styling-smsf-and-property-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust me \u2013 I am a banker! + The risk of DIY home styling + SMSF and property \u2013 the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><u>Highlights from this week: <\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t overlook a mid-year partial claim<\/li>\n<li>Setting up a property in a SMSF<\/li>\n<li>Sellers and agents disagree about auction<\/li>\n<li>Is DIY home styling worth the risk?<\/li>\n<li>Trust me \u2013 I am a banker!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Transcripts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t overlook a mid-year partial claim &#8211;\u00a0Brad Beer<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to brad Beer from BMT Tax Depreciation about the timing of tax depreciation schedules. He joins me once again.<\/p>\n<p>Good day, Brad. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Great, Kevin. Great to be here as always.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, mate. When an investor purchases a new property, it\u2019s rare that they\u2019re going to own that property for a full 12-month period before tax time comes around again \u2013 and we\u2019re just starting a new tax year now. As a result, many investors who have only owned a property for a short period of time will assume it\u2019s not really worthwhile ordering their depreciation schedule until the following financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Are there still significant deductions an investor can take advantage of even for a partial-year claim, Brad?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kevin, the answer is yes. The reason for that is if you do buy something\u2026 We don\u2019t just go and buy properties and settle on the first of July, do we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, some people do but you don\u2019t look for properties in order to do that.<\/p>\n<p>How depreciation kind of works is that if you owned it for half of the year, things get kind of pro-rated \u2013 well, some things do \u2013 and you kind of get half of that deduction in the first year.<\/p>\n<p>But because of some of the tax rules \u2013 they like to make intricate ways to make them not so easy \u2013 some things get a claim that\u2019s the same regardless of whether you owned it for 2 weeks or 50 weeks, and so when you get it in the first year, it\u2019s not like if I was to settle on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of June, some things still get a substantial percentage of the deduction straight away or in the early year that aren\u2019t sort of meaning it\u2019s not going to get any deductions in that first year.<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s always worth not waiting because if you do want to go back and get that deduction in a future year, then you\u2019d have to actually amend a tax return, which if there\u2019s a lot of money there to do that, it\u2019s worth amending a tax return, but if you have the number already and you have the deductions already, you might as well put them in a tax return in that year and not necessarily wait for the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good point. I wonder if you\u2019d explain for me immediate write-off and low value pooling. What\u2019s that about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Those are the two things that allow deductions in the first year to be a bit quicker. With a lot of things, as we said, if you owned it for half the year, you get half the deductions. But immediate write-off is that anything that you buy that has a cost of less than $300, regardless of 1 day or 364 days of ownership, it\u2019s an instant deduction in that financial year.<\/p>\n<p>So, when you buy right near the end of the financial year, all of the things that are worth less than $300 instantly get to get written off in that year. Things like smoke alarms, door closers, garbage bins, sometimes garage door controllers, and things like that get a quick claim in that first year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the second thing we mentioned there is around low value and low cost pooling, sort of the same thing somewhat. What this is is any item that\u2019s worth less than $1000 gets to be claimed at 18.75% in the first year and then 37.5% in the following years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a lot of items get claimed at 10%, 20% and they do get pro-rated under the normal type of depreciation, but there\u2019s no pro rata on this 18.75% in the first year. So if you had something and you bought and sold this property right in the last week of June and you had it available for rental and producing income, a $1000 item gets $187 for a few days. And if there\u2019s a few of those in that property with no pro rata adjustment, this is how those adjustments really add up in that first financial year as a part-financial year sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Gee, it\u2019s a complex thing. Brad, I wonder if you could just provide us with an example scenario of the deductions an investor could claim for a partial-year period of ownership. Give me an example, say, towards the end of the financial year before the financial year comes around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 I took a live example here and looked at a house that an investor has bought and they\u2019ve settled it with only 29 days of the financial year left, on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of June. It was a new house that they bought for a purchase price of $550,000.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as I said, there\u2019s these immediate write-off items that they can claim, things like the garbage bins and bathroom accessories, smoke alarms. We found a few of those, and there was a $1288 claim against those items initially that were claimed at 100% in the first year.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have these low value pooled items, items worth less than $1000. We have in there range hood, blinds, cook tops, and these things, even though it\u2019s only that small amount in the year, we were able to claim $2274 only in that 29 days of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after that, you also have this claim on the building. Now it does get pro-rated in the first year. So, we have some Division 43, or that building component, and some dollars for the items that do get pro-rated outside of these ones that get claimed quicker. And we\u2019ve actually got a total deduction for 29 days of about $4852 in that first financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, from the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of June, you only have a very small amount of rent because you\u2019ve only had it for four weeks, so that\u2019s an instant deduction that\u2019ll come off the other income that you have that\u2019ll mean some good cash in only 29 days of ownership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow, it\u2019s certainly not to be sneezed at, $4000. That would be a nice mid-year gift, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 It would be. It\u2019s always worth assessing straight away in that year rather than waiting because I like $4,852 in deductions wherever I can get it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 There you go. That\u2019s another thing you might not be aware. Brad Beer from BMT Tax Depreciation.<\/p>\n<p>Brad, thanks again for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, Kevin. Always great to be here.<\/p>\n<h2>Setting up a property in a SMSF &#8211;\u00a0Ian Rodrigues<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>A few days ago, we released a video on the <em>Your Investment Property<\/em> channel. It\u2019s a video that I did with Ian Rodrigues from Bishop Collins in our continuing series as we look at self-managed superannuation funds.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of facts that you need to get on top of if you\u2019re looking at doing this for yourself, so I wanted Ian to come and join us in the show just to talk a little bit more about that, and maybe point you towards that video. So, go to the <em>Your Investment Property<\/em> channel website on Real Estate Talk and you\u2019ll see that video there. It goes into a lot of detail. And by the way too, we give you a download opportunity to get a lot of these facts for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Ian, thanks again for your time. I wanted to have you in the show just to give that a little bit more exposure, because I think there are some key points we need to cover that will help people understand whether or not putting property in a self-managed superannuation fund is for them, because as you pointed out in the video, it\u2019s not for everyone, is it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian:\u00a0 <\/strong>Definitely not, Kevin. There are a lot of these funds around. There are around 600,000 of them in the country in the moment, constituting over 30% of all superannuation money. Those are enormous numbers, and it\u2019s been growth year on year that\u2019s been coming there. But I am adamant that they\u2019re not for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>No, they\u2019re not. And that\u2019s evidenced too by one of the stats that we give you in that video, and that is that about 11,000 to 12,000 funds are actually wound up every year. And I think you said that that\u2019s probably the result of people realizing this is not for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes. In my experience, some of those funds in theory could be people getting to the point that the members have died and the funds are wound up \u2013 there would be an element of that, but in our experience, there are a lot of people who have set these funds up, they\u2019ve jumped on the trend, everyone\u2019s got one, maybe they\u2019re keeping up with the Joneses, and when you look at it, you think \u201cWell, why do you even have this? You don\u2019t have enough money in it, you don\u2019t really want to make decisions about where to invest the money, and it\u2019s not big enough to really justify the cost of running it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>The cost of running it and also the cost of setting it up. So, if you do set one up, it\u2019s not easy, it takes time, but it also takes money, and then if you wind it up in a year or two, you really have lost a fair bit of money, Ian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian:\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely. And I think the danger with these things is that people haven\u2019t thought through before they do it what\u2019s involved in running it. It can be easy for the member because it\u2019s easy to make your accountant or financial planner set it up for you. You just write them a check and fill in some forms and away you go, you\u2019ve got the keys. But they are complicated.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of obligations, and your advisors should be looking after all of those for you, but it does mean cost, and the cost is really great when the fund is big enough, but the cost is very fixed. So, when the fund is small, it can be quite a big number.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes. How big are the funds generally? What\u2019s the average size?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian:\u00a0 <\/strong>There are funds ranging everywhere, but the average size of a fund is over $1 million now. And the typical member is in their 40s, so they\u2019re still in the accumulation phase. This is a massive growing part of the market. There are funds that are still in growth phase. There are net new funds every year of around 20,000 or 25,000 funds \u2013 net of closedowns.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be looking at this in another five years and it won\u2019t be 30% of super money; I\u2019d suggest it may be a lot more than that again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019ll do a \u201cword to text\u201d of this interview, so just scroll down, and I\u2019ll make sure that our producer puts a link to that video, because in the video, we offer you the opportunity to download a whole lot of material about this so that you can become more educated yourself before you can go and see your own accountant about whether or not you should do this.<\/p>\n<p>All of that comes, of course, from Bishop Collins. They\u2019ve actually supplied that to us. A lot of the information came from the ATO I believe, Ian. Is that right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian:\u00a0 <\/strong>That is correct. The ATO put out some great numbers, and for people who like the numbers, there\u2019s a lot of data in there to digest. For the accountants, we love it, we look at it every year, but it does tell you a lot about funds. They have some good guide books if you\u2019re an aspiring trustee, and if you are a trustee, you\u2019d probably read them and give yourself a sleepless night.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t that bad. The point I make is it is complicated, it is difficult, there are lots of rules, but that\u2019s not for the members to worry about. They just need to know the most important stuff to not do, and their advisors need to look after the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest concern the ATO have with these funds is people taking their money out of it before retirement age, so basically lending money to themselves. That happens on a small scale relative to the size of the market, but it is the major concern the ATO has.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay. An opportunity, once again, go to that link, watch that video that I did with Ian. A lot of information inside the video. It runs for about 10 or 12 minutes. But also opportunities to download some links and get a lot more information for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Rodrigues has been my guest from Bishop Collins. Ian, once again, thanks for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian:\u00a0 <\/strong>No problem, Kevin. Our pleasure.<\/p>\n<h2>Sellers and agents disagree about auction &#8211;\u00a0Justin Nickerson<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Interesting that a survey of Sydney and Melbourne real estate agents, which was conducted by Gavel, who we had on the show for you last week \u2013 they\u2019re a live real estate auction streaming and bidding technology company; they commissioned the survey \u2013 and among those, 100% of agents in Sydney believe that properties get the best result at auction compared to 87% out of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>I want to talk to Gavel\u2019s spokesperson on this, Justin Nickerson. Justin is well heeled to be able to talk to us about this. He is the Australasian Auctioneer of the Year, sold more than 5000 properties at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Justin, thanks again for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 My pleasure, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to have a talk to you about this, not necessarily supporting the survey, but just highlighting a couple of issues. I was at a function recently amongst a group of prospective sellers who were questioning whether or not they believe in auction because so many buyers will dismiss an auction simply because it doesn\u2019t carry a price range or a price indication, Justin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that gets raised a lot. We do a lot of training with agents around this, and that\u2019s a real fear in an agent\u2019s mind as well, that vendors or buyers have passed onto them.<\/p>\n<p>We always say to ask the question if that is the case to that person and say \u201cFirstly, are you actually looking at the market right now as a prospective buyer, or are you looking at the market as a seller or potentially a researcher?\u201d because I think you look at it differently.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a seller or a researcher and it hasn\u2019t got a price, you\u2019re not that engaged in it, so you\u2019re very easy to flip past it. But if a property comes up and it suits your exact wish list, that it has to have four bedrooms, has to have a pool, has to have at least a 600 square meter block, and it\u2019s in the exact location that you want to buy a property, and it comes up without a price, it\u2019s a pretty thick-skinned person who is going to dismiss that just because it has no price.<\/p>\n<p>What most people will do, we believe, is they\u2019ll send an e-mail to the agent saying \u201cGive me a price,\u201d or \u201cGive me a price guide\u201d and then it\u2019s up to the agent to have the skill to be able to transfer that inquiry to give that buyer enough meaningful information that they come through the property.<\/p>\n<p>If they\u2019re really stubborn and say, \u201cWe definitely wouldn\u2019t inquire if there\u2019s no price there,\u201d that\u2019s okay because the way that auction works anyway is there is usually three stages to it. There\u2019s pre-auction, there\u2019s on the day, but then there\u2019s post-auction which means if that buyer is still in the marketplace at that time, then the seller is actually going to reach out to that buyer at that point because they\u2019re going to put a price on the property. And that price will be set by the market rather than by the seller and the agent, which is what traditionally happens on the first day of a listing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 With any property, you can only ever sell it once, so in theory, you really only need one buyer. Yet in an auction, to get a premium price, you do need at least two engaged bidders, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely preferable to have two. We always said the two key ingredients to get you the best possible price are an emotional buyer and then placing them in a competitive environment.<\/p>\n<p>I think that private treaty has competition in that it\u2019s perceived competition. If it\u2019s a multiple offer situation, you have to sit down and you have to anticipate what the other person is going to be doing and then you react accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Auction definitely exists to add competition, but also, auction works with a deadline. So, what you can actually use, even if you have one buyer, is the fact that you have got a looming deadline there that this is the day the seller wants to sell their property and if it doesn\u2019t sell today, then we are opening the door to people post-auction who can come in with terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>So, you also have that perceived competition element there even if you just have the one buyer, which is pretty common, actually, at the moment, with a a lot of auctions. Particularly around the South East Queensland market, we get very used to negotiating with one buyer on the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 A couple of tips from Gavel in the release about giving sellers peace of mind about going to auction. The five points they make are choose an agent with a good track record, choose a realistic reserve price or an expectation, ensure there\u2019s good marketing, ask your agent to invite off-site bidders, and have a strong open home strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I would put to you that with exception of maybe number four \u2013 which is off-site bidders \u2013 all of those can also be applied to sale by private treaty. You definitely need a marketing budget. Would you agree with that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, absolutely. I think Gavel is spot on in their research and the five tips they\u2019ve put out there because it all ties back to that first one, Kevin. I think if you choose an agent with a really good track record, they\u2019re going to give you enough information so that you can set a realistic reserve price, they\u2019re going to run an equity marketing campaign, and they\u2019re going to have a strong open home strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I think, actually, that first decision that the seller has to make is sometimes a bit of a funny one because sometimes they choose it based upon price or based upon who\u2019s going to do the marketing for free or timing. But really, if you really want to make sure you nail your campaign, you have to choose a strong agent.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re an independent auctioning company, so we freelance out, as do Gavel. Being independent, they work with a number of different brands, and we see the difference between agents that do this job really well and agents that just do it to a mediocre level. I think that\u2019s the most critical we\u2019re seeing. If the sellers make that decision correctly in the first place, all those other things fall into line behind it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Many sellers will tell me that there\u2019s a certain amount of uncertainty with an auction. I think even Gavel pointed out in their release it\u2019s high-risk, high-reward stakes. But also, the fact that there\u2019s a concept that auction costs more to sell, and that\u2019s mainly because auction requires a level of marketing that in some cases, private treaty doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m going to take the contrary view with you here, Kevin. I actually think that auctioning campaigns and private treaty campaigns should cost exactly the same amount of money. I don\u2019t understand why\u2026 Your goal in both of them is to get as many people interested as you can and present the property in the best possible light. Why would one method of sale require you to do more? You want both of those things on both private treaty and auction.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the difference you get is an auctioneer\u2019s fee and other than getting a charming professional at the top of their game, Kevin, as you and I both know, with the auctioneers, the role they play is that of paid negotiator. So, that\u2019s really where that extra cost should come in.<\/p>\n<p>But outside of that, I actually think that auction campaigns and private treaty campaigns should cost exactly the same, because I think you\u2019re trying to do the same things irrespective of what the method of sale might be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Week after week, we look at auction results in our weekly program with Dr. Andrew Wilson, which is called The Auction Insider, and week after week, we see the auction numbers in Brisbane, say, compared to Sydney and Melbourne, lagging way, way behind. Is that agent-driven, or is that the fact that people in certain parts of Australia are not comfortable with the auction concept?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think in that Gavel research that you quoted before, it\u2019s interesting that just 17% of Brisbane respondents believe properties sell best at auction. That\u2019s the people who the agents are going in to talk to. So, I think in a lot of cases, what happens is the agent goes in there and they get met with some resistance around auction or \u201cDon\u2019t talk about auction, we\u2019re not interested in auction,\u201d and obviously, the default position for every agent is \u201cI just want to get the listing\u201d because if they don\u2019t get the listing, they don\u2019t get paid, and that\u2019s why everyone does the job that they do.<\/p>\n<p>So, I think that it\u2019s actually driven predominantly by sellers and buyers, and then agents carry that out of an obligation of not wanting to upset them but still wanting to win the business.<\/p>\n<p>I think what you find is the stronger agents or the agents who really believe in what they do, they\u2019ll go in there with a plan and say \u201cI understand you might feel like this, but let\u2019s actually talk about the reasons why you feel like that. Let me try and answer that, and then you can make a balanced decision across both of them rather than based in your fear or you\u2019re not liking auctions out of an isolated particular incident that might have happened 10 or 15 years ago with an agent who isn\u2019t me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, it requires a lot of skill and belief from the agent to be able to sell that proposition, which is what you\u2019re talking about. I\u2019ve even seen in some situations in a soft auction market, you\u2019ll find that one office in particular is very strong with auctions. I know this is a national show, but let\u2019s look at the Brisbane market for the moment. There are some offices that are almost totally driven on auction and others that are simply not in the same marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes. It\u2019s an interesting study. It comes from the top down, so it\u2019s usually led by a principal or the sales manager who has that attitude. But one thing we\u2019ve always subscribed to is the theory that whatever area you\u2019re in, whatever suburb, whatever town that you\u2019re in, whoever the dominant agent is in that area, what the attitude is towards the vendor-paid marketing in particular, open homes, method of sales \u2013 so auction or private treaty \u2013 that\u2019s generally what dictates to the rest of the town, because they actually influence more sellers and more buyers than anybody else.<\/p>\n<p>So, if their attitude is very pro-auction, the town actually then, by proxy, becomes pro-auction because they become more exposed to it. So, you actually can trace it back in a lot of cases, to whoever has the dominant market share in an area.<\/p>\n<p>But it is always an interesting study, and we always think that the best businesses that we deal with have a balance, so they have a strong auction element but they also have a strong private treaty element, because if you put all your marbles to one side and you go all-in on one method of sale, the problem is when you go into a listing presentation and you meet a seller who doesn\u2019t want that \u2013 they want the other side \u2013 you\u2019re either going to be pigeon-holed as someone who doesn\u2019t do it or you\u2019re not going to have the requisite skill and they\u2019re going to go to someone who does. So, I always think that one is a good thing for agents to strive towards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wonderful talking to you, Justin Nickerson. Justin, well-qualified to talk on this subject, of course, as I said at the opening, is the Australasian Auctioneer of the Year. Good talking to you, Justin Nickerson. Thanks for your time, mate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0 A pleasure, Kevin.<\/p>\n<h2>Is DIY home styling worth the risk? &#8211;\u00a0Melanie Grace<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>More and more, we\u2019re seeing television shows that are focused very much on improving a property, flipping it, turning it over, selling it. There\u2019s just so much information available in some of these shows. And one thing you will notice is that more and more, we\u2019re finding that styling, decoration is a key factor in moving these on to become successful.<\/p>\n<p>So, how does that relate to you as a buyer and\/or seller of property, not necessarily a TV show? I\u2019m talking now to Melanie Grace who runs Grace and Co. They are property styling experts.<\/p>\n<p>Mel, thanks very much for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie:\u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019re welcome, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Now, I know you\u2019re very experienced in this field, you\u2019ve been doing it for a long time, you have a lot of really good clients who are getting great satisfaction. I want to find out some real values here. But where do you see DIY decoration going wrong? Have we gone past the DIY? Has it got to be a lot more professional nowadays?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie:\u00a0 <\/strong>The DIY, as you said, to do with the TV shows, there\u2019s a lot of DIY decoration going on. However, there\u2019s a lot of wrong DIY decoration going on. As a stylist, things that really go wrong, things like colored feature walls, the old red, yellow, purple color pops really don\u2019t work for buyers. Things like buying every item of furniture in a matching set throughout the house is definitely one that is a no-go for styling when you\u2019re selling your property. And then, of course, the big one is the Kmart effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>What is the Kmart effect?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie:\u00a0 <\/strong>Kmart as we all know is a very big company, and they have brought a lot of home d\u00e9cor market onto the market at a very cheap price. But it\u2019s not just pops of Kmart; it\u2019s the whole house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, it gets back to what you said earlier about just decorating in the one style throughout the house. Is it more about styling into zones so that the zone is very much about what\u2019s going to happen in that area?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie:\u00a0 <\/strong>It is. And also, the way we style our homes is very different when we\u2019re selling them versus the way we style a home that we want to live in. You need to make an emotional connection with a buyer when they walk through the door. You have eight seconds to make that emotional connection when the buyer says \u201cI need to live here, I want to live here.\u201d And that\u2019s what property styling is all about. It\u2019s not about styling your home to how you would like to live in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>I guess it comes down to whether you\u2019re styling it for a person who\u2019s living there now or styling it for a future buyer. You have to understand what their motivations are, I guess, and then particularly if you\u2019re looking at selling a property, it\u2019s understanding what buyer is going to be attracted to it and how you decorate the home to suit that buyer, not necessarily the people who are living in it now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie:\u00a0 <\/strong>Very much so. 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Can you give me some practical examples of how getting a professional in\u2026 And one of the points I\u2019d like to make about this too is if you\u2019re looking at selling, we all love our home, we all live the environment we live in, and we sometimes think \u201cWell, if that\u2019s good enough for me, it\u2019s good enough for a buyer.\u201d But it needs to have a professional look.<\/p>\n<p>Can you give me an example of how you\u2019ve come into a property, you\u2019ve styled it up, and you\u2019ve achieved a much better result than anyone thought?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie:\u00a0 <\/strong>Back in 2017. It was a waterfront property. This house had great potential, it had boat access, it was a big block of land, however, the property had been let go due to personal issues with the owner. We were hired to step in and help, but it didn\u2019t turn out to just be a styling job. 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I\u2019m going to discuss that now with Veronica Morgan. Veronica is a buyer\u2019s agent, she\u2019s from GoodDeeds.com.au, and is also a cohost of <em>Location, Location, Location Australia<\/em> with Bryce Holdaway.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica, nice to have you on the show again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veronica:\u00a0 <\/strong>Hello, Kevin. Nice to be here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, a sensitive subject, this one, about trusting the banks or even trusting anyone. It\u2019s really very concerning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veronica:\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s shocking, actually. When you hear the Royal Commission, some of the stories that have been coming up, it\u2019s absolutely mortifying. 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In fact, obviously, the mortgage brokers are being to some degree, I think, thrown under the bus by the banks as well and are being blamed, where there are a lot of very good brokers out there, a lot of very good financial planners out there as well.<\/p>\n<p>And I think that hopefully at the end of all this, it will be possible for consumers to easily distinguish between the two. And I think the idea of independence is very important, and I think that needs to come out loud and clear. But there are unfortunately some unscrupulous people who are always going to prey on the desire of some people to get rich quick, false promises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>They are in every industry. And it\u2019s not just the banks and it\u2019s not just the brokers; there are lots of people who shouldn\u2019t be there. But I think the companies who are taking this seriously, Veronica\u2026 And I had a meeting just today with someone who heads up a very large brokerage firm in Australia, and they are treating this extremely seriously, so much so that they\u2019ve been terminating some of their agreements \u2013 and they have been for quite some time \u2013 if they found that everything\u2019s not going the way that it should be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veronica:\u00a0 <\/strong>Which is great. I think it has to be hit hard. It\u2019s funny; on the real estate side of things, there\u2019s a Pathway to Professionalism Initiative that has been gathering momentum. It\u2019s been spearheaded now by the REIA. 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We\u2019ve interviewed a number of agents \u2013 Shannon Whitney is one we\u2019ve interviewed as well \u2013 where we\u2019ve really dug into this whole idea of professionalism and why it is that the real estate industry has such a terrible reputation and what needs to change and the attitudinal changes, but also the whole standards of the industry and how success is measured, all of those things.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of excellent agents out there who really do the right thing, and I think John Cunningham is one of those people who is a beacon in the industry, but there\u2019s a lot to be done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/strong>There is. But thank goodness there are people doing it, and thank goodness too for the Banking Royal Commission, because it has unearthed lots of things that we were not aware of that no doubt are going to be fixed, and I think all of that is great stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica, thank you so much for your time. Wonderful insight. 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