Many can’t imagine owning anything more than the family home and will spend a lifetime trying to own it, sadly then, only to have to sell it to fund their retirement. But affording an investment portfolio can be as easy as purchasing a few less coffees a week. Of course you could also inflate your ego by leasing a fancy car (whilst you enjoy impressing people you don’t know or don’t like) or replace that concept with not one, but even two properties. It’s simply a psychological shift of discovering what’s important to you. 

Over a decade, a successful investment portfolio isn’t rocket science if you envisage your investment properties scattered up the east coast of Queensland, or anywhere else sea side in Australia. Demand for coastal properties will always threaten supply as people migrate in the thousands to warmer weather and coastal fringes.

We then want your portfolio to be stress free “set and forget” and allow time and growth to power your investment. Investment debt is good debt, so we always strategise to pay your residential first and investments last. Rent, taxes and depreciation, see most good property costing no more than about $50.00 per week!!

Imagine then also the gift of a property to the kids. Some hope to pay for their education or their first car and may only dream about the idea of buying them a house, but with property portfolios and planning the gift is easy and possibly in this day and age, the greatest financial gift we could offer our children.

One final point while we are the topic of kids - it’s not only children who grow old, parents do to. As much as we watch to see what our children are doing with their lives, they are watching us. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun; all I can do is reach for it myself.