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Welcome to another insightful episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. I'm, of course, your host, Philip Bennett, the podcast mogul. And today, we have an extraordinary guest whose expertise in real estate and investing is matched by her passion for helping others achieve financial independence. Our guest today is the founder of Handy Investor PTLT, a 4th generational real estate agent, business owner, investor and developer with 20 years of experience. She's here to share her wealth of knowledge and the practical strategies developed over her illustrious career. You're tired of the get rich quick schemes and you want the real quick? Instead, our guest has simple strategies and easy steps to help you meet your financial goals and invest in income producing properties. As a wife and mother of 5, she has a unique perspective on integrating high level business strategies into everyday life and, of course, the weekly budget. They have discovered that these strategies can be effectively applied to personal finance in practical and even fun ways involving the whole family.

Get ready to be inspired by her journey and the invaluable insight she brings. Please join me in welcoming the incredible Bree to the podcast. Bree, thank you so much for being here.

Hey. Good. Good to be here.

So, thank you so much for being here. I'm excited to have you on. We're gonna just jump into it. Why did you decide to jump into, you know, the entrepreneurial type world and not focus on the 9 to 5 world?

I'm not sure I decided, to jump into the entrepreneurial world, but I have ADHD and dyslexia. So coming out of school, I pretty much just thought I was dumb and, went into a reception job which confirmed that because I kept getting the phone numbers back to front and couldn't spell and type and had to go back and liquid paper typed things and and stuff like that. So, yeah, I learned pretty early on that I wasn't gonna fit in the normal 9 to 5, and it wasn't till I was about 26 that I realized I had dyslexia, and I was 36 before I realized I had ADHD. So, really, I just kind of always had to make things work or adapt or problem solve or survive. And I watched my mom, who doesn't know she has ADHD and dyslexia as well, run a business, but not be able to spell and, you know, cater for 600 people, but not how you know, like, she's I watched her just problem solve and fix things and get things done, and that's kinda just how I grew up is that, you know, there's no problem you can't solve, so I'm just a professional problem solver.

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it. Yeah. So I yeah. So dad was like, you're mucking around in school. Come and be my receptionist. And that was my first taste in real estate, and, yeah, pretty much did that from in Australia, year 11 is the 2nd last year of high school. Uh-huh. And so I left school early and started doing that.

And, yeah, I really hated it. And doing property management and and dealing with everyone's complaints and problems all the time, that was rubbish. And I watched the salesman, and they were always men, and my dad offered my brothers the salesman roles. And then at one point, they were gonna retire, and I said I'd like to buy the business, but I was still quite young. And my kids were still quite young, and they said, we wouldn't wish this on your family, so we don't want you to buy it for you. But I still always had that ambition to just do more, be more, and I bought my first house when I was 24, and I already had 3 small kids. And we were on one income. My husband was a factory worker.

But the obsession that I felt while searching for a house, I knew every house on the market. I knew more than the real estate agents. They'd take me through a house, and they'd be saying things. And I'd be like, yeah. Right. The one down the street's, like, $50 cheaper. Like, I wouldn't tell them that, but, you know, I just I just I just became obsessed with the process of finding a house and finding it for the best price possible. And when I did find that first house, the 2 years before I bought it, the last owners paid 200 and 350,000, and I bought it at auction 2 years later for 220,000.