Testimonials:

Thank you so much for your time, your effort and your efficiency. It has been outstanding, and we sing your praises to anyone who will listen. We highly recommend you and FAA to everyone and we will definitely be dealing with you when the time comes. Thank you again!
Rob and Jo
Bribie Island.

Thank you to all of you.
What a fantastic experience this has been. We have not had to chase anything up or remind people of tasks. We have been reassured emotionally and with solid evidence. I was very apprehensive at first and now my mantra is 'dots on paper' and I can see the long term benefits unveiling before my eyes.
L Prince
Pomona Qld

Financial Advisers Australia has assisted me with my wealth planning for the last 4 years. The services included salary packaging, Novated  leasing among other financial plans.
I find them to be trustworthy and very prompt in their services. I have no hesitation in using their services in the future.
I have also recommended the services of the FAA to my friends and colleagues who have also found their services helpful and beneficial.
Dr. Shathi Kulasinghe

We both feel that you have been fantastic for us, and have helped us immensely.  We are so happy with the service you have given us and would really like to thank you so much for everything.
Lyn and Steve, Maroochydore.

Dear Brett,
We sincerely thank you for all you have done over the past months. To Mark and I it is much more than a home loan. I hope you will understand what a difference you have made. Truly grateful to have met you, you have helped us so much.
Best wishes, Mark and Ila, Cooroy.

After half a lifetime of ignoring our financial future, my wife and I sought the help of John Hehir and the FAA team to help secure the best possible retirement situation for our family.
During the past few years we have reorganised our home budget, got all our insurance and other legal affaires in order and built a couple of investment properties that are intended to supplement our superannuation income during our retired years.  There is little doubt that without the support of the FAA staff, all of this would have been much harder to achieve in such a short time.  Also, any costs asociated with all of this have already been recouped many times over through tax savings and increased equity in our properties.
Best of all, we sleep better at night knowing that we have help close at hand in making financial and other important decisions that will affect our family's future.  My only regret is that I didn't start all of this 20 years ago.
Yours sincerely, Bob.
Pie Creek Qld

I arrived in Australia in December 2006 along with family and joined Queensland Health. Since I was new to the country I was a bit apprehensive and juggling with the new system and I was looking for someone who can understand my need for financial advice. I consulted a few colleagues and most of the highly recommended FAA to me.

Initially I approached FAA to provide me with some information about salary sacrifice arrangement.

I communicated with FAA and was greeted by their friendly reception staff who referred me to one of their consultants. Bearing in mind that I was new to Australian system my queries were attended and I was provided with information in a highly professional manner which helped me to make the correct choice.
Results were very positive, I was provided with a comprehensive salary packaging arrangement which was self explanatory.

My experience with FAA is like working with a reliable partner. When I purchased my first investment property FAA was with me at every step advising me in making correct choice from selecting land to acquiring land and then building the house over it.
To date all the services which I have sought from FAA has been of high standard including Financial matters, investments, home loans and wills.

I was satisfied with all the services I availed off FAA as they were quite thorough in their approach and tailored their services according to my needs.

My experience with FAA has encouraged me to approach them in any matters of finance and the relationship which started with salary sacrifice has grown over the years and I trust FAA as my Financial Adviser.

I would highly recommend FAA to anyone who is looking for high quality professional services.
Dr Prashant Pareek
Darwin NT

I chose Financial Advisers Australia Pty Ltd to assist me as they visit the Central West Health Service District and colleagues who have been dealing with them were very positive about their advice, service and manor. I therefore felt that they understood where I worked and lived environment wise and gave great service.

I wanted to know how to set myself up for retirement as I am 49 years of age and James had just retired so we wanted to know what were our options and what was best for us with our own personal situation and values. I also Salary Package my car and utilities.

When I first communicated with FAA I found them friendly, followed up when they said they would, gave me things to think about and did not pressure me to make a decision there and then but gave me options. From this I decided to invest in a new build house which is now completed and I receive a rent of $420 a week and the tenants have a 12 month lease. They have chosen a good agent for support and I feel confident about this decision. I have another house that I had purchased previous to seeing FAA and I now have this house on the market and when it sells I am planning on doing another build. FAA has given me a 10 year plan which is based on information that I have given them (so there is a lot of forms to complete intially). I also find if expenses crop up unexpectedly they have been very supportive of the decisions I have made. I am now at the point where my expenses are being reviewed again to ensure I am on budget.

When I see FAA my appointment is usually for 2 hours and we go over many things that I have not thought of before. I feel financially secure and confident that in my retirement I will be comfortable. I also do my and James' tax through FAA and the accountant that they use, and I have received good tax returns. It has helped me this year keep the necessary receipts that I can claim and use, so I now have an effective filing system at home as well. FAA work as a group and so the skills of the group are accessed. This means that at time others members of the group may ring you or email you about their specific area of expertise according to your situation. I find this qite unique and mean that you have access to specialists in all fields.

I receive contact from FAA on a monthly basis for which I am very grateful and I find this kind of follow up is at a very high standard. Based on my dealing with FAA for the last 2 1/2 years I would without hesitation recommend their services to you. I wish I would have done it sooner.
Regards,
Glory Baker

My wife and I came across FAA quite accidentally when she decided to start salary sacrificing for a new car through her employer, Queensland Health. She was directed to FAA to arrange and mange this for her and it was while we were there that we met John Hehir who talked about our circumstances and what financial plans we had in place to build our wealth towards retirement.

During the conversation he outlined to us FAAs strategy of building wealth through investing in residential property. With both my wife and I in our early 50s at the time of this initial conversation, it took place at a time when we were thinking seriously about planning for retirement. However, we had not even considered the possibility of investing in property for this and nor would we have thought that we would be in a position to do so.

Intrigued, however, we arranged to meet with John again to talk further about what was involved. John and one of his able, experienced and amiable staff, reviewed our financial situation with us and patiently explained how the investments worked, the implications for the structure of our finances and how we would, in fact, be able to access financing for property investment and make the strategy work for us.

To be honest, although the numbers added up, it all seemed terribly complicated and rather daunting to us as we have never done anything like this before. FAA reassured us, however, that it really was much more straightforward than it appeared. After giving the matter considerable thought, during which FAA were never less than patient and thorough in answering the many questions we had, my wife and I decided to take the plunge.

How has the experience been? Wonderful, really, and very easy, just as FAA said it would be. As they had always said, the process from start to finish was very straightforward and FAA took all of the pain out of the building experience by taking responsibility for managing the builder, helping us to arrange financing, ensuring payments were made on time and so on. The process was made all the more enjoyable because the various partners FAA work with to pull these investments together, from builders to property managing agents who find and manage your tenants, have proved to be first class.

The building contractor completed the work on schedule and on budget, the quality of the work was excellent and their communications with both FAA and us was first rate throughout the whole process. Our first property was handed over to us on a Friday last September and our tenants moved in on the Monday. Worth mentioning is that the quality of the tenants found by FAAs property managing partner are top notch. They have now been with us almost a year and have just extended their lease.

Largely thanks to the professional support and guidance of FAA, it has all worked beautifully. The experience was enjoyable and painless. Our first investment property is now almost a year old and we are just about to start building our second.
For anyone looking for a professional, patient and friendly company to assist them with planning their finances and making the most of what they have, I could not recommend FAA more highly.
Yours sincerely
Malcolm Clark
Bli Bli Qld

In 2008 Qld Health (Nambour Hospital) provided us with a list of financial advisers who could help with salary packaging. We chose FAA at Maroochydore based on its convenient location. We were interested in salary packaging to save on tax but didn't know much about it.

We met with John who explained the range of services FAA could provide and with Michael who explained and set up Craig's salary packaging. 12 months later we met with Michael and John again to review Craig's salary packaging and to enquire about the Excelsior Program. Chris assisted us with a finance structure that helped us save more easily and effectively. We turned our then home into an investment property, build a new home, and had annual overseas trips while doing so.

The Excelsior Program helped us see clearly what our short and long term finances will look like if we do certain things now/in the future. Chris updates our finance structure regularly to reflect our plans for the year ahead and for changes in our lifestyle like home improvements; travel and matemity leave so that we always know what money will be available at any time.
FAA has made our lives easier, especially dealing with banks, solicitors, builders, land owners, etc when buying/building our  properties and also by making our finances more predictable and understandable to us.

We have no hesitation in recommending FAA to anyone who wants to know more about what they can do to improve their current and future financial situation and want people to know that you don't need to be wealthy to benefit from FAA's services.
Craig & Lucille Acton
Qld




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