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Fast forward 15 years, and I now own a $15 million property portfolio and live in my dream home.

The main underlying reason I was able to achieve this was because I knew my why. I knew what I wanted from property and I put in place the strategies that would take me there.

I wanted a passive income that would allow me to quit my teaching job, all the while building long-term wealth that would continue to grow no matter what the markets were doing.

After the global financial crisis I started to set myself up to mitigate against future major economic downturns. (I wonder why more people don't do the same.) For me, this meant first educating myself, with many nights spent studying and researching the property markets while working at my teaching job during the day. In less than 10 years, at the age of 40, my positively geared portfolio had replaced my income and I was able to retire from teaching. A couple of years after that my wife Renee and I bought our dream home.

Most people are too fearful to leave a secure job to follow their dream. But if you build up a positively geared property portfolio that pretty much looks after itself, then you no longer need to rely on another source of income because the investments are paying you an income.

I am now truly financially free.

I have my own business as well. The two income streams, from my property portfolio and my buyer's agency business, offer me more security than I could hope for, compared to a job where at any point the boss could say, ‘We don't need you anymore’.

And every day I help my clients pursue similar strategies. Throughout this book you'll find real-life case studies that illustrate what you can do to pursue your own goals.