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So you just got your first SMSF property

Now What?

The plain-English handbook for paying off your super fund's property years early.

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Making it pay 28 chapters 71 pages Australian edition 2026–27 Ebook · Audiobook · Calculator

You bought a property inside your super with a loan. Now you're on your own with a debt that will quietly take half a million dollars out of your retirement.

One email to your lender is worth more than $120,000 on the worked example. Most people have never heard of it.

What's inside

  • Why the bank gets the first decade, and what to do about it
  • The instruction that stops your lender quietly undoing your lump sum
  • Repairs or improvements — the line that can cost you your fund
  • Airbnb or a normal tenant, with the occupancy break-even
  • Doubling down: what $1,000 a year actually buys you

How it's laid out

Part oneWhat you actually own
Part twoThe maths, made simple
Part threePaying it off years early
Part fourMaking it earn more
Part fiveAdding value
Part sixHow it ends

The honest bit

Every handbook in this series shows you where the strategy loses, not just where it wins. If the numbers don't beat leaving your money alone, the book says so plainly and shows you the comparison. That's the whole point of them.

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