Diana and James Swadling bought their home ten years ago and accrued a good amount of equity in the process.

Having decided to invest that equity in real estate, they encountered a number of challenges with the bank. As business owners, they had a mountain of work to do in order to please the banks.

But in a tremendous story of grit and bravery, Diana and James, with the help of the team at Positive Real Estate, have gone on to purchase three properties.

Enjoy this conversation with Diana and James!

Tom Pethybridge is about to share some crazy stories of tenants in his investment properties! And most importantly, he’s going to share how he navigated through each experience.

Having been a member of Positive Real Estate since 2015, Tom shares a number of his ups and downs, and even shares how an exhausting career, and subsequent career change, has given him a new lease on life.

My guests today are the lovely Yogeeta and Ashvin Pala. I’ve been working with them since 2015, and when they first joined they had a fear of debt which was impacting their ability to move forward financially. Yogeeta shares just how “proud” she was of having no debt until she realised how much it was holding her back from creating wealth.

Yogeeta and Ash quickly recognised the importance of education and the power and fulfilment of giving back to the community, which they share in this episode.

Enjoy this conversation with Yogeeta and Ash!

Robyn Ross thought she was being taken along to a scam session on property investment. More than a decade later, she is so happy that she became a serious property investor with Positive Real Estate.

With multiple properties in their portfolio, Robyn and husband Glenn have made some courageous decisions along the way – in relation to business and financial planning. They’ve also made some mistakes, which Robyn courageously shares on this podcast.

Like many smart investors, Robyn discusses how action is the best teacher, and the more they’ve committed to wealth creation through real estate, the more they’ve learnt.

Diana and Ward Lambley spent many years skeptical of creating wealth through real estate. In sharing their journey on this episode, you’ll see how this incredible couple made some big decisions in order to get past their skepticism, to the point where they are now in the top 1% of property investors in Australia (people who own three or more properties).

Their decision to embrace a team of mentors, think outside the box, and give real estate time to appreciate are just of the nuggets of wisdom you’ll find in this episode.

I’ve had the good fortune to work alongside Jason Whitton for the better part of 15 years. As the founder of Positive Real Estate, Jason has overseen more than 8000 Aussies and Kiwis purchase thousands of properties.

He’s seen the ups and downs, the panics and the patience. He’s seen manic capital growth and instant market downturns (like the GFC and 2017’s APRA changes).

What type of mindset does it take to whether the market fluctuations, not just for your own portfolio but for thousands of clients? How does Jason deal with problems when they seem all too overwhelming? And what does he think new investors can do to get a head start today?

All that and more is in this jam-packed-full-of-wisdom conversation with Jason Whitton.

You can connect with Jason at Positive Real Estate on all the socials. He also hosts his own daily podcast called Wealth Coffee Chats.

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 gains, invested in commercial real estate, invested in multiple countries, and so much more. The victories, the big lessons, the funny stories, and the advice to budding investors are all contained in this jam-packed chat full of wisdom with Megan.

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 invest in real estate, Laura has seen a wave of change and growth. With investment properties in her portfolio that have quadrupled in value (buy well never sell), and a raft of lessons learnt along the way, Laura shared with us some of her most powerful Property Investor Tales.

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 professional coaching.”

Rose shares the challenges of a messy portfolio, and also the challenges of cleaning that portfolio up. After purchasing three pieces of real estate in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, Rose shares the anxiety and lessons from her experiences.

This is an incredibly honest and real conversation from a successful property investor, and one that anyone – beginning, intermediate or advanced investor – will be able to relate to in one way shape or form.

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 separating, her low income, marital status, and two young children made it extremely difficult to get a loan. But that didn’t stop her.

Not only did Carolyn make some incredibly tough decisions in order to enter the investment market, she has stuck to the task for over 10 years to the point where she is now one of our coaches at Positive Real Estate. A single mum who couldn’t afford becoming a client of PRE to begin with, to now being one of our team and a mentor and coach to so many Australians who enjoy the riches of Carolyn’s experience.

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 previous guests have said “I wish I started investing earlier” – well here is that investor – and what a great story it is.

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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 Craig, they had already purchased four investment properties. But they weren’t happy with their portfolio, which was a mix of older real estate in low performing areas. But having the wrong type of real estate didn’t stop Dani and Craig from keeping their eyes on the prize. Having felt like the bank “owned” them, Dani and Craig transformed their portfolio into higher performing assets and now have a sensational range of assets that is helping achieve their family, financial and lifestyle goals.

You can’t help but be inspired by this power team. Enjoy!