527 | “That’s All I Believed I Deserved”: From 19 Rentals to Self-Funding her Forever Home – Chat with Carolyn

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Timestamps  

• 0:00 – “That’s All I Believed I Deserved”: From 19 Rentals to Self-Funding her Forever Home  
• 1:25 – Welcome, Carolyn!  
• 2:11 – Money Story: Moving to Tom Price & growing up with no mortgage?!  
• 6:36 – An ease with money 
• 8:43 – “I had a fear of working”  
• 10:39 – A different ambition, studying arts, and renting as a side effect  
• 14:57 – Two brothers: Two different approaches  
• 17:26 – 19 rentals since 18?!  
• 21:09 – What triggered her from renting to finding a forever home?   
• 24:36 – The Inner Journey  
• 26:18 – What makes a good tenant?  
• 29:29 – The Lightbulb Moment: “Because that’s all I believed I deserved”  
• 32:52 – Just 3 envelopes: Rent, bills & savings  
• 34:34 – “If I don’t look after myself, no one will”  
• 35:20 – How did she step into an Alter Ego?  
• 37:19 – The first person she told about her property journey… 
• 39:09 – Playing the role of a prospective buyer  
• 41:58 – Getting the deposit: The Super Saver Scheme & how it helped get her into property 
• 43:22 – From Saving $50 to $500 a Fortnight?! How she did it!  
• 50:12 – How did she know what type of property she wanted?  
• 51:51 –”I felt over the moon for the next six months”  
• 54:36 – Carolyn’s advice: From little things, big things grow  
• 55:52 – There is help out there!  
• 58:22 – Into the future…  
• 59:21 – Thank you, Carolyn! What a testament to strategy, sacrifice and mindset shifts  
• 1:01:43 – Now is the time to set your financial goals  
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