Sharing our Investment Success Stories
Read our investor success stories, including their portfolios and hear first hand of their experiences.
My Portfolio Funds my Lifestyle, Katie Joy
03/18/10
I bought my first home in Perth in 2001, for $93,000, using the Australian government 'first home buyers' $7,000 grant at the time, along with a $10,000 deposit saved. By late 2003, I used leverage against this first house to purchase a block of land in Perth, which was later sold in 2005, with the profit going into reducing the mortgage of our (my now ex-husband and myself) new home in South Hedland. (We purchased that in March 2005 for $210,000. Its current market value is now $760,000 – ... Read more
A Positive Move, Tony
04/29/10
I bought my first property in 1974 in Brisbane with a friend my second & third in 1976 &1978 respectively in Melbourne. Unfortunately being only 23 at the time I didn’t realise the benefit that could be gained from property investment, and I only bought them because I did not want to waste money on renting. I knew at least that much. I eventually sold these properties and after returning from working in Fiji for 2 years I bought our Principal Place of Residence (PPR) in Brisbane in ... Read more
Seasoned Investor at 20, Morgan Crawford
07/19/10
My name is Morgan Crawford and I am originally from the Hills of Perth, Western Australia. I have been orientated around the residential investment market since early 2004, when I took an extreme interest in My Brother and Fathers housing investments. Although still in High school, I would devote a lot of my spare time learning how to source niche investment markets and how to select a product that was not only financially positive at the time, but would also be sustainable as a long term investm ... Read more
