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Reflections on 2017, my first $US 100,000+ year from translation
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
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I assume ... Jan 29, 2018

... he was thinking along the lines of "for richer, for poorer".

 
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Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
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Confusion, confusion... Jan 29, 2018

everybody has a certain interpretation of marriage and what their duties are... in DJ's wife's shoes, I would have found rather difficult to deal with a "non-husband"... money isn't everything... I hope this explains it, at least my POW...

 
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Hamish Young
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Buying a house on translator's income Jan 31, 2018

Great post DJ!

I have shared many of your experiences. One thing that interested me particularly was the buying a house aspect. Not sure if you have actually given up there but judging from my experience it is perfectly possible to do this as a freelance translator.

I moved back to China for a couple of years to save up money for a house in Auckland. I returned home with a substantial sum of cash for as deposit but ran into a similar problem as you - I had no proof of
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Great post DJ!

I have shared many of your experiences. One thing that interested me particularly was the buying a house aspect. Not sure if you have actually given up there but judging from my experience it is perfectly possible to do this as a freelance translator.

I moved back to China for a couple of years to save up money for a house in Auckland. I returned home with a substantial sum of cash for as deposit but ran into a similar problem as you - I had no proof of regular income. None of the regular banks would touch us but I did manage to get a 'low-doc' loan with a "2nd tier lender", which came at a high interest rate but got us started in a small house. A few years later we moved to a new house and I was able to show the banks two years worth of IRD documents that proved beyond doubt that I did have an income that was both regular and healthy. By this time we had also built up quite a bit of equity, and now the banks were falling over themselves to give us a loan.

Not sure if it works differently in Australia, but certainly I found here that banks will deviate from their official policies if you give them enough reason to.
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Dylan J Hartmann
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Tax Returns Jan 31, 2018

Hamish Young wrote:

Not sure if it works differently in Australia, but certainly I found here that banks will deviate from their official policies if you give them enough reason to.


It all comes down to tax return statements here. Even though I could provide years of Thai bank statements, I need to provide an Australian tax return. As we just returned last year, still haven’t stayed a full tax year and am readying myself for the big bill.

However, still wondering if it’d be worth it. We’re in a suburb where 3 bedroom houses are all over $A1.3 million. I’m only paying $A26,000/year to rent and my office is downstairs. We picked a suburb based on the public school for our kids (best in state) and proximity to the city. If we were able to buy a house, we couldn’t afford here and we’d surely have to send them to private schools instead, costing an extra $A20,000+/year.

I will keep putting the extra $$ aside and may one day have enough!


 
Juheui Han
Juheui Han
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Congratulation!:) Feb 1, 2018

Great, I hope to write something successful story like you in here.
Thanks for sharing your story:)


 
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