Podcast: Property Investor Tales

Megan Wolfenden has invested in all kinds of real estate in Australia and the US. Having put money down on her first investment property in 1994, Megan has a wide range of experiences to share with us.
She’s invested for cash flow, invested for capital …

Laura Chugg first started paying rent from the age of 16. Ever since then – out of necessity to begin with – she’s been magnificently obsessed with managing money smartly. From the early days of earning $5.88 per hour to now coaching and helping people i…

Rose Pengilly had done a lot of real estate investing before getting professional coaching with Positive Real Estate. In her own words, Rose felt like “a bit of a mess” with “no real plan”. “I was just doing my own research and I didn’t have any professi…

Carolyn Weston has always desperately wanted to invest in real estate. Growing up in a modest family, she didn’t believe that hard work would necessarily be enough to create wealth. In her marriage, she was constantly rebuked for wanting to invest. After…

Melissa Cowan is 31 with two investment properties. After buying her first IP off the plan, she very quickly purchased her second.
How did she do it? It’s a great story of risk management and understanding your threshold for stress. So many of my previou…

Dani & Craig Skinner have an incredible life and investing story to tell. Dani was born in Ghana and grew up in Zimbabwe, and met Tahree-born Craig in Newcastle before they courted in Sydney, got married, and moved to Brisbane. 
Before I knew of Dani and…

Karen Chavez has been married, divorced and remarried. The highs and lows of property investing have been intertwined through her two marriages, and at the forefront of her decision making has been the wellbeing of her children. 
In this episode of Prope…

Kathy had purchased her own home and an investment property in Sydney. But she wasn’t sure what her financial future held or what she was meant to do necessarily whilst she was “holding” on to her portfolio. Determined to take the next step, Kathy joined…

This is a story of courage and bravery. Of how naivety can lead to expensive mistakes (see margin loans being called on) to having the grit and determination to see it through to the end. Helen and Ian Morse have ridden this very rollercoaster, and whils…

Sharen Carruthers had a goal to invest in real estate and be retired by 50. She achieved her life’s dream with two weeks to spare, and then did as many retired people do. She travelled the world to all the places she wanted to. She gave her time to famil…