The Tax Strategy That Gets Your Property Loan Declined - with Davie Mach | Ep. 1
The Smart Property InvestorShow Notes
In the debut episode of The Smart Property Investor, your host, Naveen Merani, sits down with Davie Mach from Box Advisory Services for a wide-ranging conversation about what actually happens behind the scenes when a client applies for a loan. They work through the 5 C's of Credit framework, then spend most of the episode unpacking three real client scenarios. Fair warning: this one gets surprisingly honest about where brokers and accountants sometimes pull in opposite directions, and why tha...
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