Mindset Property

Up at 6am. Working with up to eight clients at once. Looking at 50 to 100 properties before recommending one. Checking messages on weekends. Finding a property in as fast as four days.

This is what the job actually looks like behind the scenes.

A few things people are always surprised by. We talk clients out of buying all the time because the right property has to be right, not just available. And yes, I have fired a client before, because they were not ready to invest and pushing forward would not have been in their best interest.

The process only works when both sides are genuinely committed.

What part of this surprised you the most? Drop it in the comments.

I bought my first investment property at 23 for $365,000. I told nobody. My biggest fear was judgment and people telling me I shouldn't be doing it.

It took five to six years of saving across three jobs to get the deposit together. Since then I have bought six properties across five states. My best performer was a Queensland property I picked up for $255,000 that is now worth over $700,000.

It has not all been smooth. I have copped repair bills totalling close to $25,000 at one point, which was the most stressful moment of my investing journey.

Would I do it all again? 100 percent.

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If you are looking to invest in the Melbourne property market. These are the markets I would be avoiding.

Nobody in my family talked about money growing up. Nobody around me invested. I heard the word investing for the first time in my early 20s, just before I started my government role.

My first big purchase was a Game Boy game. My money mindset back then was simple — work, save, buy a home. That was the entire plan.

What I did not know yet was that saving alone was never going to build real wealth. It took getting into government, seeing colleagues with decades of service walk away with nothing built outside their job, and deciding I was not going to end up the same way.

Most people who build something significant start from zero financial education. The starting point is not where you come from. It is the decision you make from here.

Drop your answer in the comments — did your family talk about money growing up?

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