Typically you'd sign up to a new website like Sell or Hold by providing an email address and optionally entering a password. That website might send you an email to confirm you're the owner of that email address and to complete the registration process. You would need to remember which email address you provided and what password you set.

Each time you create an account with a new website, you need to remember a password and the email address you used to register. Each website needs to handle storage and authentication of your credentials.

​​​​​​​But some websites already handle this really well. Why not leverage from their effort and reduce the number of passwords you have to remember?

The Sell-or-Hold website requires you to have an account with one of the popular social media. You register with Sell-or-Hold via your chosen social media. Instead of remembering another password, all you need to remember is which social media you chose when registering with Sell-or-Hold. If you can login to that social media, then you can login to the Sell-or-Hold website too.

If you do not have an account with one of the social media we have available, you'll have to create an account with them first.

Remember which social media you used to sign-up. It will make login to Sell-or-Hold a lot easier.

If you do not have an account with any of the social media listed, you will need to create an account with one of them in order to login.

If you have an account with one of the social media listed, click on the matching icon for that social media. Once you click on a social media icon, you will be presented with that social media's "login" dialogue. Following is an example of Face Book's login dialogue...

Note that the Sell-or-Hold website does not know your social media password. It simply asks your chosen social media to verify who you are and to provide your email address so you can be contacted. The social media you select will "authenticate" who you are. Sell-or-Hold does not do this.

​​​​​​​Multiple accounts

You don't need to login using the same social media every time, you can use another. But they must have the same email address or Sell-or-Hold will create a new account. Sell-or-Hold creates a new account for each unique email address you login with. So long as each social media you use has the same email address, it won't matter which one you use.

If you use a different social media and they have a different email address on their records, Sell-or-Hold will create a fresh account as soon as you login to Sell-or-Hold via that social media. Any properties you added for analysis in your previous Sell-or-Hold account will not appear in your new account.

It's best to login to Sell-or-Hold using the same social media every time.

You may have multiple accounts with the same social media. The following image shows multiple accounts with Google.

Remember which account you used to login. If after logging in you notice that you have an empty property list, you’ve probably logged in using the wrong social media account. Log out and login again using a different account.

​​​​​​​Remove Sell or Hold from your social media

​​​​​​​When you connect to Sell or Hold via a social media, that social media keeps a record of your selection. Next time you come to Sell or Hold to sign-in, the sign-in procedure becomes very easy.

However, you may want to sign-in using a different account of the same social media. For example you may have two Facebook accounts and you want to login using the other one.

You can remove Sell or Hold from your social media. This will make your social media forget about Sell or Hold. Sell or Hold will appear new to your social media next time you try to sign-in.

The following images show how to remove the Sell or Hold app from Facebook. The first thing you must do is go to Facebook and login. Then click on the black down arrow...

There is a button you must click on to add a new property to the list...

Clicking on this button will open the "Check Market" page for you to select the market in which your property resides. A check of this market is made to ensure there is adequate data before you can proceed.

Once your property's market has been successfully checked, you'll be able to edit details for your property using the "Property Details" page. And whenever you return to the My Properties page, your property will appear in the list.

Once you've added a property to the list you can view or edit its details any time. Click on the property you want to view or edit. Clicking on the property will open the "Property Details" page for you to view or edit details about the property you're analysing.

​​​​​​​Property type

Firstly, you will need to select the property type that most likely matches your investment property. Radio buttons will appear like in the following image...

We consider a Villa or Terrace as a House. A Townhouse is considered a House if it has 3 or more bedrooms, otherwise it is considered to be a unit.

If you’re not sure whether to pick House or Unit, use the bedroom count as a gauge. However, if you have a 3-bedroom unit and it’s definitely a unit, then select the Unit option. Similarly, if you have a 2-bedroom house and it’s definitely a house, then select the House option.

Only if it’s unclear whether it is a house or a unit should the bedroom count be considered.​​​​​​​

​​​​​​​Suburb

There is also a field for you to select the suburb in which your current investment property resides...

Start typing the name of the suburb or its postcode. After you've entered a few characters, the field will show a list of suburbs that contain the text you've entered.

If your suburb doesn't appear in the list, you may need to type more letters of the suburb's name. If the list is empty, check the spelling of the suburb.

Note that some organisations may refer to your suburb as "Somewhere South" or as "South Somewhere". Try moving the compass prefix to a suffix or vice-versa. Also, note that some suburbs have hyphens where spaces might be expected e.g. "BRIGHTON-LE-SANDS".

When you see your suburb in the list, select it. Be careful not to select a similarly named suburb e.g. "BOX HILL" and "BOX HILL SOUTH". Also, check the post code. Suburb names are not unique within a state. For example, there are 3 suburbs called "KINGSWOOD" in NSW.

​​​​​​​Street Address

There is also a field for you to enter the street address of your current investment property that is to be analysed.

You don’t have to enter the street address of your property if you don’t wish to. You could enter a nickname instead if you prefer.

However, if you have a large portfolio of properties to analyse, you’ll want to be able to easily distinguish between them. The street address might be the best method, but any unique set of letters and numbers will do.

​​​​​​​Proceed

Once the market has been entered and payment has been made, it cannot be changed. All analysis will be based on market data for the suburb and property type specified here. So, check it is correct.
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Once you’ve entered a street addre ss and selected the appropriate suburb and property type, you are then ready to check if this market has sufficient information. Click on the ‘Proceed’ button.

​​​​​​​Confirmation pop-ups

After clicking on the proceed button, you will see one of the following pop-up messages:

This means you cannot continue. There is insufficient information to perform a reasonably reliable recommendation. Unfortunately, you will need to decide about this property using alternative methods.

This means there is sufficient data available concerning your current investment property’s market. However, the data is less than ideal. The recommendation report provided may not be reliable, but you can continue if you wish to. If you choose to continue, you should definitely follow up the recommendation with some additional research.

This means the data for this property market is reliable. The recommendation report should therefore also be reasonably reliable.

The page shows which property is being analysed in the title.

​​​​​​​Fields are provided for you to enter details about your property. Most of the details require dollar values to be entered, but some are percentages.

Since there are many fields, they are grouped into sections to make finding them easier. Each section can be collapsed to hide the fields within it by clicking on the "collapse" icon to the left of the field's label.

When you collapse a section, the fields within it disappear and the "collapse" icon changes to an "expand" icon. You can click on the "expand" icon to make the fields re-appear.

Each field appears on a single row. Each row contains a label for the field and an information icon.

You can see a quick explanation of a field if you click on its information icon. A click on an information icon will pop-up a brief explanation.

Each explanation pop-up contains a link to view even more information about that field. All the fields are explained on the Field Explanation page.

If there are any errors with the values you enter in a field, the field will be marked with an error icon.

If you click on the error icon, a pop-up will appear showing the error message.

​​​​​​​Some fields will have a small red asterisk next to them. This marks the field as mandatory, meaning you must enter a value.

​​​​​​​Don’t worry too much about the required fields and error icons that will appear next to many fields when you’re just starting out. Many of them are calculated fields dependent on other fields having values. As you enter more data, more of these error icons and red asterisks will disappear.

​​​​​​​In order to proceed to the next step in your analysis of your property, you will need to “resolve” all errors. This means entering values in such a way that there are no more fields with error messages.
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Some fields may display a warning icon instead of an error icon.

The warning icon behaves the same as the error icon with one important difference. You do not need to “resolve” all warnings. You can choose to ignore them. They serve a useful purpose however. It’s possible you may have mistakenly entered a value. The value could be too small or too large for what is considered normal. The warning messages give you a “heads-up” to a potential typo.

The Property Details page auto-saves. Each time you make a change and move to another field, the last change is saved. This means you don’t have to keep clicking on a Save button.

Some of the fields are read-only, they appear with a grey background.

​​​​​​​You cannot modify the value in these fields. These fields will instead have their values automatically calculated.

You can go back to view your list of properties on the "My Properties" page by clicking on this button...

Your changes will be saved automatically. You can come back to edit a property's details at any time.

If you have resolved all errors, you will be allowed to proceed to the next page. You can do this by clicking on this button...

​​​​​​​If there are outstanding errors, these will be displayed.

If there are no outstanding errors, you will be allowed to proceed to the next step in the process, the "Alternatives" page.