Three and a half years since the first post in this whole series, rates just starting their climb, vacancy already brutally tight, nobody quite sure how any of it would play out. If I could send a message back to myself then, a few things I'd want to say.
The rate cycle will scare you more than it should. It went up faster than anyone predicted, then down, then up again, and through all of it the market you're actually invested in barely flinched. Stop trying to time the RBA and start making sure your properties survive whatever it does next, in either direction.
The Gabba drama will feel enormous while it's happening and mean almost nothing to your actual returns. Watch the infrastructure that's actually funded and under construction, not the headline of the week.
And the shortage is real, and it is not resolving quickly. Every year you'll read a hopeful supply number and every year the completion data will disappoint relative to it. Plan around scarcity persisting, and you'll rarely be caught wrong-footed.
Mostly, though: you'll be fine. Rerun the numbers. Keep the buffer. Don't panic at the headline. It's worked for three and a half years so far.