Austin and Kez: First-time Interstate Investors
New South Wales couple Austin and Kezia stumbled across Property Navigation’s YouTube channel after searching online for property investment resources.
“These guys were very transparent about how they were making their decisions. In their videos, they explain everything, and then show the results…. which I liked. The content isn’t simply surface-level or promotional; they go into the details, using data and resources to back up their analysis and decisions. And they don’t try and sell you anything.”
“I come from an IT background and what Property Navigation do reminds me a lot of open-source software…. anyone can create it (which in this case is people buying their own property), but it's about making it accessible to everybody…. having transparency, and not trying to hide anything.”
The couple spent six weeks on their interstate property search and even placed an offer on an apartment in Brisbane, which (thankfully) was unsuccessful. “We first tried doing this ourselves, and we didn’t really get anywhere. We thought we knew what we were doing, but we really didn’t.”
At this point, they reached out to Property Navigation for an initial consultation. As Austin said, “For me, it was a no-brainer.”
“You can Google buyers agents in Queensland and get a sales call from somebody who says, ‘We’ll do X, Y, and Z.’ But I’d watched hours of Property Navigation’s videos. We then had a discovery call with Boyd which reiterated exactly what we thought – these guys aren’t after a quick sale…In fact there is no sales pitch at all. It made it very easy to commit.”
“Working with Boyd and the team was a night and day difference when compared to trying it ourselves. We just didn’t know what we didn’t know.”
“Having their data analysis to help select the region and suburb, to be honest…that was a massive thing. Just knowing that this one is a good suburb, and that one is a bad suburb, to actually maximise our investment.”
“Getting Property Navigation involved made it a lot easier for us to not stress about it.”
Austin and Kezia purchased a beautiful Queenslander on a massive 1200m2+ block that has very strong investment potential due to the location and zoning. All for under $500k.
They even went on a four-week overseas holiday during this time, while Property Navigation took care of everything, and stayed in constant communication.
The couple already had their own finance provider, but, they benefitted from having a free conversation within Property Navigation’s professional network which allowed them to learn and implement a pivotal financial strategy that otherwise had been overlooked.
“One thing I didn’t know about was the advice we received to put some of our money into a redraw instead of using it all as a deposit…. which blew my mind. I’d always thought you needed a 20% deposit, but here I learnt I could still have access to that money and only pay interest on what’s not offset.”
“If somebody asks me, ‘Do you know any buyer’s agents in Queensland?’ I just say, ‘We used these guys. I also say, ‘You can trust me, but you can also go verify yourself and watch all their content and make up your own mind.’”
“They didn’t try to sell us anything—it was purely just education.”
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