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You’ve landed on RealEstateTube to find a housemate, place to live or tenants – or just to browse. If you have a couple of minutes to upload a listing, it’s fast, easy and you can use your smartphone. The first step is to create a login, either using your Facebook profile, Google account or email address and password. Then, choose a photo of yourself for your profile picture, which will be one of the first things people see when they look at any listing you make. You can take a quick…

If you need a flatmate that can help pay the rent, you’ve come to the right place. Creating a listing with Real estate Tube is free and easy. A bad housemate can cause a lot of problems and headaches, it definitely pays to prepare and do some research. Here are a few things you need to consider before deciding to share your residence with someone else. Initial Research Prior to inviting someone into your home, you need to do some a little research. You may, for instance, want to ask…

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s 2017 Federal Budget was startling not for its dollar distribution, but a blatant call to the private sector to step up. It was a stark acknowledgement that if we want things to change, we have to look not to our politicians, but ourselves for change. For example in property, where we are seeing so much entrenched disadvantage and worsening affordability, there is ample room to shake up the status quo. RealEstateTube.com is an example of a business acting as a social enterprise and service, via founder and…

Countless articles and listicles have been published about how many CEOs and squillionaires wake up before the sun and exercise. Endorphins blah, blah, health et cetera – this isn’t that, but it does come with a happy clappy exercise content warning. In our first hours in Manhattan, the RealEstateTube team did a Soul Cycle class – and by the end of it, we found ourselves still far from home, but in a very familiar place. The first thing you’ll notice when you step into a Soul Cycle studio is the sense…

I have come to the conclusion I will rent forever, but bring me poached eggs, not pity – I’m good. Do you know which expression turns me into ‘old man shaking fist at cloud’ most rapidly? “Just buy an investment property, get your foot in the door” Maybe I don’t want to jam my impoverished foot into “the door” for the sake of overextending myself financially to secure a depressing apartment for the imaginary tenants who will miraculously want to live in aforementioned dump. And for the love of all…

At first glance, the rows of tents look quaint, they conjure images of early settlers’ life in a new country – but there is nothing nostalgic or poetic about being homeless. A tent isn’t good enough for a person, and it’s certainly not good enough for a family. For too many people, though, a tent is home. In the middle of one of the most affluent pockets of the world, I found this little tent village, and I learned about the people inside. Oliver doesn’t have a surname. He doesn’t have a lot…

How would you like to save yourself some money (& stress) by paying off your home sooner? Whether you’re sick of renting someone else’s place (& paying off their mortgage) or tired of stressing about making mortgage repayments, the key to your future could be as simple as renting out a room.   The concept of renting out your spare room has been around for thousands of years. Here in Australia, a lot of the immigrants that arrived in the 1950’s and 1960’s bought their first home and would rent…