Negative gearing provides the ability to offset loss against other income you earn, the most common income source being salary. By purchasing an investment property, your taxable income is actually reduced because of your negatively-geared property, so the expenses related to the property are now being shouldered by rent, tax deductions, or possibly by other forms of surplus cash flow or savings
The question is, how much of your money do you want to keep ?
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means…