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525 | From Paper Rounds to a 4-Property Portfolio: Why You Need to Pick up the Phone – Chat with David

How do you feel about making a decision when you don’t know how the story ends? 

This thought-provoking question from Bryce captures the essence of our latest Summer Series episode, where today’s guest, David (or Dave), shares how he set himself apart by doing something simple yet powerful: 

📞 Picking up the phone. 

As we wrap up for Christmas, we’re bringing you an inspiring story that highlights the life-changing power of action.

From selling his car to fund a mortgage, trading properties across borders, and even reflecting on the opportunities he missed—David’s journey is filled with valuable lessons. 

Would he change any of it?

Absolutely not.


Join us as David takes us through his story:

✨ Buying his first property at just 21 years old

✨ Traveling the world while managing a mortgage

✨ Battling spruikers, learning from mistakes, and much more! 

It’s an episode for anyone who’s ever envied those “BBQ success stories” and wondered what separates the doers from the dreamers. Tune in now to discover the actionable steps behind successful investing. 😊 


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Timestamps  

  • 0:00 – From Paper Rounds to a 4-Property Portfolio: Why You Need to Pick up the Phone – Chat with David   
  • 1:23 – Welcome Dave! 
  • 1:55 – How picking up the phone set Dave aside…  
  • 3:03 – Money Story: From paper rounds to finding his passion for commerce  
  • 9:02 – Buying his first property at just 21!  
  • 10:08 – 25 years that turned into $4.1M 😱 
  • 12:55 – What pushed Dave to leap onto the property ladder 
  • 13:28 – How he held his property while travelling to Canada  
  • 14:55 – Doubling in value over 10 years  
  • 17:16 – What Dave wishes he’d had before he’d taken action 
  • 18:22 – Trading upwards, travelling and buying land in Terrigal 
  • 20:21 – Getting spruiked by a Buyers Agent?!  
  • 21:45 – The sales pitch that sold Craigieburn, VIC 
  • 27:04 – Pulling the levers and buying over the border in QLD  
  • 30:02 – If he knew what he knew in 2018…  
  • 32:35 – “The program is a god send”: How Moorr has transformed his money management!  
  • 33:55 – The biggest takeaway Dave’s gotten from The Property Couch  
  • 35:59 – Why EVERYONE is an expert at BBQ conversations  
  • 38:30 – Listen to this if you’re trying to get onto the property ladder! 
  • 42:47 – How much value does Dave now place in an advisory team? 
  • 44:56 – Who should invest in an SMSF?  
  • 47:18 – Dave’s north star: What’s driving him over the next 20 years?  
  • 50:50 – The #1 golden piece of advice he’d give! 
  • 52:03 – What an aspiring Australian mindset looks like!  
  • 53:38 – Did his siblings take action?  
  • 55:50 – Thank you Dave! It’s a testament to transparency and taking action when the outcome is unknown…  
  • 59:11 – Merry Christmas, folks! We’re grateful to our amazing TPC community 🎅 

 

524 | Saving More WITH a Mortgage: Proof That It’s Possible to Go from Living Paycheck to Paycheck to Investing in Property – Chat with Clinton

 “We weren’t criminals by any means, but that’s just how it was.” – Clinton 

Growing up, today’s inspiring Summer Series guest, Clinton, faced such strong feelings of embarrassment and a reality with little to no money.   

His family couldn’t afford car registration — and the fear of fines led them to “duck their heads and pretend we were in an empty car.”  

That lasting feeling of shame, a five-figure bank receipt, and a memorable Christmas present became the catalysts that set Clinton on his journey to financial freedom. 


In this special episode, you’ll hear: 

✅ Learning as you go: Clinton’s journey from first jobs to first apprenticeship 

✅ The life-changing personal loan that changed his perspective on debt 

✅ Dodging spruikers: How Clinton self-educated and built his property knowledge 

✅ Breaking into the Cairns property market: How Clinton and his partner, Alana, took this competitive leap 

✅ Saving more WITH a mortgage: The strategy that’s helping them save for their next investment and stay focused on their financial North Star 

For a motivational story about the power of self-determination, the importance of mentors, and how one small town can change your life, tune in now! 


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Timestamps  

  • 0:00 – Saving More WITH a Mortgage: Proof That It’s Possible to Go from Living Paycheck to Paycheck to Investing in Property – Chat with Clinton 
  • 1:31 – Welcome Clinton!  
  • 2:26 – Money Story: “We weren’t criminals by any means but that’s just how it was.” 
  • 6:48 – Here’s to Clinton’s supermum!  
  • 10:36 – How washing cars and a five-figure receipt taught him that hard work pays off  
  • 15:33 Weipa: The town that changed his life  
  • 17:36 – Who influenced him to invest?  
  • 21:26 – First jobs to first loans: The credit card debt he was grateful for  
  • 26:02 – How Alana helped straighten him out 😉  
  • 27:15 – Escaping spruikers and how he educated himself!  
  • 31:02 – Do THIS investigative work to avoid being spruiked 
  • 33:59 – A job hurdle for lending  
  • 35:10 – How they secured the first property in Cairns  
  • 36:23 – Working 1 week a month?! How Clinton plans to use his financial freedom 
  • 40:53 – How he’s saving more money WITH a mortgage 😮  
  • 44:08 – Why Clinton came on the couch: “It’s amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to it.”  
  • 48:10 – How he’s smelling the roses while still having delayed gratification  
  • 51:04 – Thank you Clinton!  
  • 53:50 – New book incoming! 

 

523 | From $405K to $830K in 6 Months: How Moorr Allowed This Family To Get Onto the Property Ladder

 

Welcome to our first 2024/25 Summer Series episode, folks!! ☀️🏖️ 🏄‍♀️ 👡 🧢  

We’re so excited to share all the sizzling, eye-opening and heart-warming stories we’ve got lined up and to kick things off, we’ve got Naomi! 

She is the definition of what happens when you combine auction lessons learnt from eBay with the desire to put your family first 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦❤️ 

Her story truly proves that “It doesn’t matter where you start; it’s where you finish.”   

As you’ll hear, her life demonstrates what happens when you consciously decide to fill “the missing tools” in your tool bag. From growing up in a broken home and living hand to mouth with her husband for SEVEN YEARS (you read that right!!) 💰️ 

Tune in to hear how she learnt healthy money behaviours and invested in educating herself to self-fund her retirement. Plus, the power she experienced from discovering MoneySMARTS aka. the money management system that ACTUALLY works for trapping surplus. 

(Spoiler: It was, in fact, what helped her to make the leap on to the property ladder – and how you can do the same!!)  

It’s a fantastic transformation story that impacts not only Naomi, but the generation that came before and after her.  

🎙️🔥 It’s a ripper, folks. Listen now! 


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Timestamps  

  • 0:00 – “That’s All I Believed I Deserved”: From 19 Rentals to Self-Funding her Forever Home – Chat with Naomi 
  • 1:20 – Welcome to Summer Series & Bryce is donating his birthday to charity!
  • 4:28 – Welcome Naomi!  
  • 5:40 – Money Story: Growing up in the era of delayed gratification  
  • 11:29 – Divorces and supporting the family from young  
  • 12:58 – How she survived in Sydney as an 18-year-old  
  • 16:08 – “Sometimes you must fill your tool bag with what you don’t have.” 
  • 19:11 – The Time Crunch: Finishing degrees and pregnant with baby #1  
  • 23:11 – How she lived rent-free in…a lighthouse?!  
  • 24:38 – Buying their home right after the GFC  
  • 27:47 – Why did they decide to invest in property?  
  • 29:57 – How lessons learnt on Ebay helped them buy their investment property!  
  • 30:51 – Sub-dividing land and living with the mother-in-law  
  • 38:13 – The drivers that pushed Naomi to live a different life  
  • 42:42 – Is this the person you want to be? 
  • 45:05 – 17 years old, $20G in savings and owning a car?!  
  • 47:00 – The $30G lesson  
  • 49:59 – How they afforded a home 250 metres from the beach!  
  • 53:18 – The North Star: Family first, first trips overseas, and “mini-retirements”   
  • 57:19 – Sucking the marrow out of life!  

And…

  • 1:03:07 – It doesn’t matter where you start, it’s where you finish. Thank you Naomi!  
  • 1:06:20 – A little 2025 placeholder: January Webinar featuring a VERY special guest… 

 

479 | Behind the Highlights Reel: 2024 Summer Series Takeaways

 

To wrap up another fantastic Summer Series and celebrate the peaks and valleys of each investor’s property investing journey, we’re bringing you our ultimate 2024 recap. 🎉  

From our favourite guest quotes to the key action points from each story, we’re sharing our insights and reflections on each investor’s path to achieving their financial freedom and personal growth.  

Tune in now to hear the best of our Summer Series and how you can use their experiences to bolster your property investing success this year!   

Again, a huge thank you to Ethan, Amy, Leisa, Bailey, Jasmin, James, Emer and Amanda for sharing your inspirational stories with our community. 👏🙌    

    

P.S. It’s our birthday month! As a present to our awesome community, we’re sharing how to access our in-demand Property Suburb Report for free. Stick around to the end to hear how 😊   

 

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  • SHARE YOUR STORY: We love to hear your stories and it’s never too early to be our next Winter Series guest 😉 Share your story >> 
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  • Get a free Property Suburb Report: As our birthday gift to you, we’re giving away free Property Suburb Reports! 😊 (Note: There’s been a change in email restrictions which requires you to verify your email to allow us to send it to you. Please be aware that we are following these changes.) Get your free report here >>

 

Timestamps

  • 0:00 – Behind the Highlights Reel: 2024 Summer Series Takeaways
  • 1:46 – A moment to honour Michael Pope ❤️ 
  • 5:25 – Share your story today! >> 
  • 6:33 – Can you help us reach 100K subscribers?  
  • 8:33 – A free birthday gift…  
  • 11:21 – A listener’s review for Ep 478  
  • 13:49 – Mindset Minute: “Risk is the price you pay for opportunity”  
  • 18:12 Ep 471: Ethan  
  • 21:18 – Folks, take the time to do THIS!  
  • 24:58 – Ep 472: Amy 
  • 27:40 – The Power of Time 
  • 30:03 – Ep 473: Leisa
  • 33:31 – Relationships fail… 
  • 36:22 – Michelle, thank you for your feedback!  
  • 40:00 Ep 474: Bailey
  • 42:32 “This made me realise how hard property investing is”  
  • 45:45 Ep 475: Jasmin 
  • 49:31 – Ep 476: James  
  • 51:19 – Invest in the S&Me 500 
  • 54:57 Ep 477: Emer  
  • 56:15 – Why specialised knowledge is critical!  
  • 58:58 – Ep 478: Amanda  
  • 59:29 – Financial Abuse and Gender Disparity is sadly too common  
  • 1:07:30 – Top Takeaways from our 2024 Summer Series   

And… 

  • 1:11:17 Lifehack: Love avocados? Here’s how to make sure you get ripe avocados every time.  
  • 1:13:05  WMPN: Let’s do the numbers with the Gov’s new tax cut   
  • 1:30:23 – It’s our birthday present to you: Get our free Property Suburb Report!  
  • 1:32:42 –  A monumental Moorr milestone: Our Historical Tracking tool is LIVE!  

 

477 | How This Expat Family Built a 5 Property Portfolio: Escaping Property Price Crashes, Off the Plan Problems & Open Money Conversations – Chat with Emer

 

Folks, if you’re searching for a great property investing role model, then Emer, today’s Summer Series guest, is your person! ⭐🙌     

Today, she and her husband, Rod, own a five-property portfolio and are looking towards a future with a comfortable retirement and legacy piece to leave two kids.    

Getting to this stage, however, hasn’t come without its ups and downs.    

Tune in to hear Emer’s story as she swings from living paycheck to paycheck in Galway to meeting her future husband in sunny Australia to the property market crash they narrowly escaped. 

This is just the beginning of the story.      

We’re diving deep to uncover how they overcame getting stung by a spruiker, why they decided to go borderless, and the positive transformative process they underwent by getting a financial plan.  

It’s another motivational, heart-warming story with an awesome guest. Tune in now! 

 

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Timestamps

  • 0:00 – How This Expat Family Built a 5 Property Portfolio: Escaping Property Price Crashes, Off the Plan Problems & Open Money Conversations 
  • 1:18 – Welcome Emer!  
  • 2:10 – Generational Differences: Envy & Magazines 
  • 8:58 – She spent everything in those first weeks?! 
  • 11:41 – Trailblazing to Accounting & Australia  
  • 13:34 – The bullet they dodged with Property #1!  
  • 16:07 – Starting life again with just 6 boxes and 1 qualification😮  
  • 18:11 – First steps on the property ladder in Sutherland  
  • 20:13 – Emer’s efficient money management system  
  • 23:41 – So, why did she “U-turn” on a bigger house?  
  • 26:22 – They got burned by THIS textbook mistake 🙁  
  • 29:23 – Be wary of conversations like these…  
  • 33:15 – Pay off your home loan in 7 years: Why this tax strategy is dangerous 
  • 35:06 – Going borderless!  
  • 37:07 – Why did she want a financial plan? (From an accountant’s perspective)  
  • 39:22 – “Everyone makes the assumption when you’re an accountant that you can do everything… 
  • 41:00 – The seamless process behind Property #3  
  • 42:37 – How Emer & Rod invest in property AND keep their cool!  
  • 47:32 – THIS should give everyone confidence!  
  • 49:11 – What’s next on her property journey?  
  • 50:53 – Would she have taken the jump as a DIY investor?  
  • 52:57 – Here’s why Emer is the perfect property model… 
  • 56:09 – The inspirational reason she came onto the Couch 
  • 59:48 – What a remarkable story! Thank you Emer 😊  

 

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