Yes indeed, nice story handyandy.
Perhaps you could answer these questions in a new thread called "my way" when you get the time.
1) How did you get involved in property?
2) What is your property investment philosophy (CF, CG, renos, houses, flats, buy and hold, develop, flip, wrap, etc)?
3) What is your IP / property story so far?
4) Is there a story of a really good IP that you would be prepared to share with us?
5) Is there a story of a really bad (or not so good) IP that you would be prepared to share with us?
6) Do you invest in other asset classes (shares, commodities, businesses, managed funds, cash, forex, etc)?
7) What criteria do you use when selecting a property to purchase?
8) What structure do you use for your investing?
9) If a budding property investor asked "what are the top 5 things I should do", you would say?
10) And if that same budding investor asked "what 5 things should I avoid", you would say?
11) What do you prefer, fixed or floating interest rates and why?
12) Do you consider having a team of professionals/advisers (eg: property managers, accountants etc) important to your investing?
13) You have a very healthy portfolio. Are you now at that stage where you feel you have acquired enough in life to be comfortable or are you still actively buying?
14) Do you prefer Vegemite or Bonox?
Nice story handyandy. Inspirational in fact. Many many different paths to get to the destination. Your choice of paths has been successful obviously. Well done.
No doubt, a moderator will be along any minute and pepper you with 27 questions about how it's a great story and all, but not much chop for the folks reading it, cos you haven't detailed exactly how you did it ?? Hopefully they won't.
It would however, be a privilege to sit down with you and your sons and have a more detailed chat, cos what you have done would probably be in the top 0.001% of all Australians. Once again, well done.