Property Hub - Investment Insights & Inspiration - Get Invested: Tom Pettifer on investing as 'Duplex Development Dad'
Episode Date: September 30, 2022Are you not sure about which direction to take with property investment? 'Development Dad' Tom Pettifer shares his insights and story. Everyone you talk to is an 'expert' and has a different idea on w...hat you should be doing in property - so many people end up confused and then don’t do anything, or just buy a property and hope for the best! So what property path is the best for you to follow? You need confidence in your investment strategy and what needs to be to done to achieve your goals. This is where our guest, Tom Pettifer, can help. You'll love how Tom learned to creatively overcome the common barriers to continue and evolve his property investment approach - recognising that where there’s a will there’s always a way, when you embrace the fact that property is a game of finance in terms of the numbers, the structure and strategy. So how does a proud father of five who started as a Kiwi pig farmer become CPA accountant, overcoming the normal property investment challenges, to build a substantial portfolio across the residential and commercial sectors, while now helping others to invest by becoming a successful Duplex and Development Manager with well known Buyers Agency Palise Property? Tom shares his story on Get Invested. Connect with Tom: Website: https://www.paliseproperty.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-pettifer-9561541b3/ Tom's book recommendation: Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki Hear more from Tom on RealtyTalk: Now when you subscribe to the PropertyHub channel on your podcast player, not only do you get your weekly Get Invested interview, you also get every episode of RealtyTalk hosted by Bushy Martin. Its Australia's top online property show featuring more insights from Tim and the Palise Property Group along with all of Australia’s leading property experts. To make sure you don't miss a thing, make sure you've subscribed to PropertyHub (do it right now!). And you can watch RealtyTalk on video at channels.realty.com.au/realtytalk. Deep dive with Bushy If you want to ensure that you’re optimising your investment approach, either as a first time investor or an existing investor who’s struggling to make it work, feel free to join Bushy personally for a ‘Bushy Blockbuster’ for an hour of power to talk with him about any questions, queries or issues you’d like to discuss about your lifestyle goals, investment strategy, finance or property portfolio delivery. Just click on this link then click on the ‘Pathway Finder option’ and our team will be in touch to book in your preferred time and for just $295 you can ask Bushy anything you want for a full 60 minutes. Three easy ways to Get Invested right now: 1. Subscribe to this podcast now, if you haven’t already, and get the inspiration delivered to your podcast feed each week 2. Get a copy of my book, Get Invested, for FREE, and find out what it takes for you to invest in living more, working less. Go to: https://knowhowproperty.com.au/get-invested-free-ebook 3. Join the Get Invested community. Each month Bushy sends a free and exclusive monthly email full of practical ‘Self, Health and Wealth’ wisdom that our current Freedom Fighter subscribers can’t wait to get each month. Just visit bushymartin.com.au, scroll to the bottom of the page and sign up. About Get Invested, a Property Hub show Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential. Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them. Get Invested is part of the Property Hub podcast channel, your home for property investment insights, inspiration and stories from Australia’s top property experts, investors, leaders and analysts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts to get every Get Invested episode each week for free, and also get full access to RealtyTalk, Australia’s top online property show for red hot property investing news and insights direct from property industry leaders and influencers. Property Hub is a collaboration between Bushy Martin from KnowHow Property, Kevin Turner from Realty, show producer Andrew Montesi from Apiro Marketing and Apiro Media, and Australia’s largest independent podcast network DM Media. For business and partnership enquiries, send an email to: antony@dm.org.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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To me, it's all about achieving passive income so then we can get the most valuable asset of all, which is our time and more time to spend with family, friends, loved ones.
I'm just about keeping things simple and really just trying to get my time back, to be honest.
It's life short and time is our most valuable commodity.
There's no doubt about it.
So I very much keep that at the forefront of my decision making.
But I really look at return on time as a big metric as well and what exactly are we receiving back for the time that we employ.
We purchased another block of land that was in a sort
of gentrifying little two-acre lot, again, about 50 minutes
from Melbourne, again, in Melbourne's west.
The thing with that one was it was delayed land settlement strategy.
And this, I guess I can touch on this later,
but essentially we just put down a 5% deposit and then just waited
about, might have been a year to a year and a half,
for that land to register.
and in that time the property market moved a whole heap so we actually decided to um to sell that
lot of land and and fortunately it actually moved about a hundred thousand dollars in
in just over a year um on the land value so and again this just took me this was the the real
catalyst for this return on cash annualized or cash on cash return annualized return on equity
annualized but essentially what we made like i can't remember what the return on cash was but
it was it was in a couple of hundred percent like you see literally it sounds unbelievable it sounds
like crypto or something, but it's not.
We put down a 5% deposit and we made $100,000.
It was in just over 13 months and it was a really good just return,
cash on cash return, annualised.
And then that's where we thought, look, this is really where we thought,
how can we repeat this on a more efficient and more productive scale?
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Hi Freedom Fighters.
Are you keen to get into property but you just don't know where to start?
Everyone you talk to is an expert and has a different idea on what you should be doing.
so you end up totally confused and then either don't do anything or you just buy a property and
hope for the best. Now you're not sure what your investment strategy is or what it needs to be to
achieve your goals. Maybe you don't know what type of property and what type of location and what type
of ownership structure you need to buy a property. So what property path is the best for you to
follow. Or maybe you've secured some property and you want to buy more, but now you're maxed out
as your capacity from your growing family reduces your ability to borrow. So what can you do?
Well, these are all questions that have plagued today's special guest, and you're going to love
how he's overcome them to creatively continue his property investment journey and evolve his
approach by recognising that where there's a will, there's always a way. And once you do this
and embrace the fact that property is a game of finance
in terms of the numbers, the structure and strategy
and also realising that it's an elite team sport.
So how does a proud father of five
who started as a Kiwi pig farmer come CPA accountant
overcome the normal property investment limits
and challenges to build a substantial portfolio
across the residential and commercial sectors
and now helps others to invest
by becoming a successful duplex and development manager
with well-known buyers agency, Polici Property.
Well, that's what we're going to find out today with our very special guest, Tom Pettifer, who's become well known as Development Dad after he was able to do three deals in four years.
So welcome and let's get invested, Tom.
Great to be here, Bushy.
Thanks for having me on.
Yeah, true, Matt.
We're going to have a lot of fun today because you've had a really interesting journey.
And, you know, what I love about you from Google stalking you, mate, is your ability to overcome the normal hurdles and think creatively about how you can continue your investment journey.
But before we get into all of that, tell us a bit about what you do differently and why you do what you do, Tom.
Yeah, well, certainly, as you've just mentioned here, I'm a father of five.
So as much as we love our children, the banks don't hold that same position.
and it's fair to say that lending is very difficult for us.
So we've really had to think outside the box
to ensure that we can keep growing in our journey
and that's essentially what we've had to do.
So I really look at property as a game of finance
and with that in mind, it really drives how myself
and my wife move forward and how we've been able
to continue borrowing and continuing to purchase property
when we might not have had we just stuck to the traditional routes.
Yeah, I'm going to unpack a fair bit of that shortly as we go through.
Why do you do what you do, mate?
Look, for me, it's become very apparent that just relying on the nine to five,
and I guess if you want to call it saving your way to wealth,
this isn't really going to cut it.
You need a job, but to me it's all about leverage,
and we really need to leverage into property
to achieve the level of passive income.
To me, it's all about achieving passive income
so then we can get the most valuable asset of all,
which is our time and more time to spend
with family, friends, loved ones.
That's the whole purpose of it.
I'm not about trying to buy the Lamborghinis
or the private jets.
I'm just about keeping things simple
and really just trying to get my time back,
to be honest.
It's life short and time is our most valuable commodity.
there's no doubt about it so um i very much keep that at the forefront of my decision making when
we move forward it's really uh return on time is a big metric um even when i delve into it later
i look at a lot of these development metrics we look at annualized cash on cash return and things
like that but i really look at return on time as a big metric as well and you know what exactly
are we receiving back for the time that we employ yeah i love that mate return on time it's a it's
It's an indicator that very few people actually spend any time thinking about.
So we might unpack that a little bit further on as well.
But before we sort of get into your journey, mate, can you share with us something unique or interesting about you that you never actually shared publicly before?
Yeah, I guess, yeah, I'm an ex pig farmer.
So I worked in the free range pork sector for over 10 years.
So my parents actually were originally pig farmers from New Zealand.
and dad you know came over to australia in 99 at 40 and basically you know he was he'd taken a bit
of a financial hiding some of the macro environmental factors to the new zealand pig
farming industry weren't very favorable and he just he made a bold decision to come over to
australia and receive a manager's job um so and yeah basically where we've there so as as a 14
year old kid with um three two brothers and a sister and then another sister that came along
recently uh she was a true australian um a little bit later so i'm actually one of one of five as
well um so yeah it's a bit of a trend there um but yeah so that's that's me so i i worked um in
financial statement auditing for four years first um i actually worked for a company that um and
this is their sort of slogan was total financial solutions and and as as good as it was to
understand businesses and processes and controls and internal control structures i actually didn't
have a great financial understanding about this whole wealth creation journey and not really
many of the people not many of the accountants around me did either it wasn't until later in
life that um i actually really started to you know after i bought and sold a few properties and and
realized how that turned out it really opened my mind up to that that avenue because it wasn't
really um something that i thought about but yeah so essentially i worked in financial statement
audit for four years it was a great grounding and then i actually went back to um the the
the poor production business so i always worked there uh part-time weekends whenever i could when
it was at uni just to just to make money and then i ended up going back there and being the farms
production manager underneath my father who was the operations manager we did that for 10 years
so just to give you a bit of an insight it was like a three three and a half thousand
sows so they're your breeding mothers and we had approximately 30 000 pigs across the whole farm
so it was it was a free range outdoor product so it was very ethically i think it's the way to go
but yeah very hard work we had approximately 25 staff that i was getting control of so
very very different than what i'm doing right now i enjoyed the journey but
it came to a point where i wanted to pursue something i was passionate about and that's
and then combined with what i was currently personally doing in property then that led
led me to working as a buyer's agent and then working with Steve to where I currently am right
now. Yeah, awesome, mate. I'd love for you to sort of pick the brains out of, you know, your time
in the pork industry and your time as an accountant. How have both of those helped you in
your property investment journey? Well, look, yeah, very, very good question, Bushy. I think
on the accounting side, you can get a little bit too regimented, but the good side of the
accounting was essentially as a financial statement auditor,
you're trying to look for material misstatement
in financial accounts.
So it performs a lot of analytical reviews.
So you look at a lot of high-level, you know,
does this pass the sniff test type stuff before you really get
into the substantive documentation and information gathering.
So I think from a high-level analytical review,
that was quite good.
And then from the pork production side, I mean,
that's just the business.
We're operating at profit.
I was heavily involved around the numbers like pig farming is a high volume, high frequencies, margins business.
So really, there's a lot of synergies between putting together, believe it or not, putting together a production budget and the way I currently would put together a financial feasibility study for a development site right now.
You know, you're applying a lot of assumptions.
You're looking at a lot of historical data.
It's a lot of synergies.
So it's really, you know, we're all trying to get to that magical profit margin that's acceptable.
we've got to be you've got to err on the side of caution we can't just be optimistic there was a
lot of synergies between between the two believe it or not between your free range pork and and
a property development side yeah it's that structured structured thinking and looking
at the numbers and then can being able to to uh shift with the times because uh you know i was
lucky enough as a kid to spend a lot of time my my mother's brothers were all pig farmers
and uh not quite to the same scale as as you were talking about with three and a half thousand
thousand and thirty thousand you know and open range exercise but i certainly got my
fair sniff of methane in my childhood that's the result of that mate and uh but uh really
interesting on on that front mate so what i'd love to do now is is really get granular about
your investment journey because it's been such an interesting one that i i know that we're really
going to enjoy your evolution through that exercise. So sort of kicking off, I'd love for
you to talk to us about why property and what actually triggered your personal interest in
property, please, Tom. Yes, certainly. Why property? I believe it's the asset class. I mean,
you may not do it if it wasn't for the leverage. I mean, there's probably other asset classes that
produce a higher annualised rate of return, but it's when you bring the leverage in, and we can
maybe talk more about leverage too i like to consider leverage is a pretty open broad topic
i mean whether you're leveraging other people's money which is the banks and your tenants so i
think that's a big part of why i like property um and then we can also talk about you know
leverage other people's time and expertise but why does property make sense i believe it's purely
around the leverage side of things um and your ability to you know put you know 10 to 20 percent
deposits down and then control an asset with farm rule play the long game and then really receive
that a great return on your equity invested as opposed
to just putting down your cash.
And that's the same way with the pig farm.
We'd be looking at 20%, 25%, but obviously it was too risky,
so it was not in borrowed funds.
But where you actually, and properly where you can get
a much higher return on your equity is because you're at leverage.
I think leverage is the key component as to why it makes sense.
Yeah, I totally agree.
What triggered your initial interest in property then, Matt?
Well, look, when I started, it was just a PPOI.
And I purchased in 2008, so we all know what happened in 2008.
The GFC.
The GFC, yeah.
And it was a bit of a – and I wasn't thinking investment.
I'm just completely open with you.
I wasn't like this is a masterstroke.
But I was able to receive – and this is why I love this country too –
$36,500 from the Australian government to basically fund my first purchase.
and just for the record I've never really saved for a deposit other than this 36 and a half
thousand which I've just leveraged into further but it was a PPOR in the western suburbs of
Victoria and yeah I was able to leverage into a property and then a few years later I was able
to sell that and obviously CGT free because it was my principal place of residence and I thought
well gee I've made like a hundred thousand dollars here in the space of a couple of years
just by putting down really $36,500 as a deposit
with a little bit of lender's mortgage insurance.
So that was just really opened my eyes up to,
oh, hang on here, we can explore this further.
Yeah, awesome.
Well, let's continue that journey then.
Once you started to go, hold on,
there's a lot more to this property thing
than what I first thought.
Take us through what your journey's been since that time
in terms of what you've invested in,
why and how that's evolved over time, as well as some of the challenges that you've overcome
along that and the learnings that have now sort of evolved into your current investment strategy
and where it's leading you to. So there's a lot in that, mate, but let's start kicking it through
and we'll dive in as we go. Yeah, certainly, certainly. Well, look, yeah, I mean, yes,
that first property, we actually, you know, we sold it and realised the gains and then leveraged
that into another parcel of land so by then I'd met my wife-to-be at that point and we
we purchased into we purchased another block of land that was in a sort of gentrifying little
two acre lot again about 50 minutes from Melbourne and again in Melbourne's west
but the thing that one was it was delayed land settlement strategy and this yeah this I guess
I can touch on this later, but essentially we just put down
a 5% deposit and then just waited about, might have been a year
to a year and a half for that land to register.
And in that time, the property market moved a whole heap.
We were reinvesting in the meantime as well,
but that parcel of land moved a whole heap in value.
And then by the time we built on that parcel of land,
there was already automatic equity already generated
from the time that, you know, we didn't have to pay
any interest repayments, nothing other than the 5% deposit.
So by the time we then moved into this property, to be honest,
Bushy, we probably were still caught up in that real emotional
attachment and, if anything, we probably overcommitted
on our mortgage.
Again, we might have had a borrowing capacity of $500,000
or $600,000 or I reckon I went up to every single cent of it.
And, yeah, we fitted that house out with furniture and all the silly
emotional things that you can do at times.
um just to really you know because you know it was meant to be our dream home and and to be
completely honest with you it was a beautiful house but it was it was far from a dream because
the cash flow that and and the pressure that created it really actually forced you to like
earning a high income and really place a lot of financial pressure on us because um because of
really the over commitment yes we could we we received the loan um but it was yeah it was a
very uh it was a very big mortgage um so we so rather than actually staying there my wife and
I actually, we made a decision to sell that property
and then obviously we realised the gains on that one.
So it was...
Just jumping in there, mate.
So it was the sort of looming yoke around your neck
and that financial pressure you thought, oh, there's got to be...
Was that the trigger that said, oh, let's sell the dream home?
Well, look, it wasn't.
By that stage, I'd actually been to a couple of seminars,
an actual bus tour.
talking about the bus tour was actually really informative and really good and i now realize i
was actually the base on this bus tour but um it was actually a lot of good takeaways if you see
past that you were the actual product um it was actually yeah so so so that really triggered
trips you know that really triggered the the whole interest in property like we knew we got
some valuations and we could see that there was a lot of equity there and then we thought well how
can we replicate this and you know replicate that time and time again and then so obviously we
started talking to brokers and working out how and obviously I was reading as many books as I
could educating myself on property as much as I possibly could and probably one of the light bulb
moments was actually a conversation with the broker and I was getting all excited going look
we've got three or four hundred thousand dollars equity I want to buy four properties and we're
going to and he just pulled me up and said hang on there mate I couldn't even get you in you just
had another trial he said I couldn't even you couldn't even refinance that same house you're
right now get a loan purchase another investment property so that was that was probably one of the
reasons why we've gone okay we've got two options we can either stay here try to pay down our debt
not really borrow anything else for a few years have some financial pressure that is probably
unnecessary or we can realize that going go back and actually rent vest for a while and then put
that money out to work for us where you know where it makes sense yeah love it mate love it okay well
Let's go further on that journey, mate, because I know your thinking and your approach and what you've done has evolved over time.
So take us through the next step from there and what that meant to you, mate.
Yes, certainly.
So the next step, Bushy, was actually the neighbouring property.
So it was while we were in the midst of selling, the neighbouring property actually was advertised on Facebook.
and we realised it was, you know, it was quite a run down,
it was actually a divorcee sale and it was quite a run down property
but we knew the bones were good.
So actually the neighbour actually put it on Facebook
and he advertised it.
I actually rang him and said, look, I think you can actually receive
more for this, you know, just as a neighbour,
as I guess a bit of a friend.
And he said, look, he was hell bent on selling it.
They just wanted to clear it at that price.
And look, so he said, look, if you're hell bent on selling it
at that price, we'll buy it off you, we'll solve that problem.
So we actually ended up moving next door and actually moving here.
So we packed, we had a two-acre property that we moved right
over the fence to another two-acre property.
It was, you know, read about this stuff.
Like it was quite, yeah, like it was three kids.
It was quite a fun little move.
And it was actually a really beautiful house, to be honest.
It was an absolute cracking beautiful house.
It was a steel frame.
It was like 47 square home.
um but yeah look it just by that stage there we had actually uh applied for our daughter to go to
a private school in Geelong and she was actually accepted so we were probably going to stay there
for a little while but once the acceptance came through then we just we decided okay we're going
to move to down to Geelong um so then that triggered the sale of that property um and yeah
again see capital gains tax free because we um even though we only had it for like six months
um but yeah the numbers on that one there too were quite a light bulb moment there too if i'm
going to mention light bulb moment again they're pushy because yeah we put down i'll have to go
over the numbers but basically it was you know we put down it was was close to 200 percent like
cash invested annualized um so it was it was made like you know 170 profit in like a six-month
period so um and then that really got me thinking by that stage i think i can't actually remember
but I remember doing a property development course
and I started, you know, started to think about, you know,
the metrics and when you really look at the return
on cash annualised, that was a real white ball moment.
So we didn't make as much money as we did on the prior property
but then when you consider over an annualised basis,
it was actually far superior.
So that's something that I really, you know,
look at when I go forward into property development deals too
when I really assess the metrics.
Yeah, it's, you know, you've got to have that margin,
which is great, but the time is also needs to be considered
because it's how hard is that money working for you
on an annualised basis?
Yeah, let's emphasise that point, Ray, because I think it's one
that a lot of people really don't spend much time thinking about
because, you know, you hear stories of, you know,
so-called overnight sensation gurus who've made massive profits
on properties, but if it's taken a long time to do that
you break it down to look at okay well what's the actual return on the money i've put in on an
annual basis compared to other things and that that starts to take shape and and given you know
we both have belief that time is that is your key resource uh applying that time to you know the the
level of profitability or other of what what you're doing is a really important one mate so
So a really good one to make note of and something that I know the audience
will start to think about now that you've raised that.
So, yeah, sorry, mate, go on.
Yeah, excellent.
Yeah, definitely.
So, yeah, it really got us thinking and we actually, and again,
we were still emotional at this point, even though we were looking
at investing, we still actually made one last purchase,
but that was really the, this was the real catalyst to go, okay,
we can, we've done it a couple of times now.
And I guess like anything, the more you do something,
the more comfortable you get.
The more comfortable, the more confident you get because you're just doing it.
It's the reps.
So, again, we hadn't had a large number, but we're starting to feel a bit more comfortable with this property thing now.
You know, we're pretty much just signing pieces of paper and, you know, making lots of money.
So, obviously, there was some favourable market condition movements in our favour as well.
But essentially, we then purchased another plot of land in Geelong in the Highton region down by the Barwon River.
and it was the final stage actually of a multi-stage release
and it was very highly sought after.
But again, we put down 5% and we were actually planning,
we had plans built, plans drawn up.
We're actually going to build another PPOR there
and then basically mid sort of waiting for land registration,
we just changed our strategy.
We started actually involving more critical members of the team,
not just talking to local brokers but then talking
to investment specialist brokers and really strategising
about what is the best and most optimal way for us
to grow our wealth moving forward.
And as good as it would have been, there would have been a little bit
of markup in that PPOR that we still would have been then forced
to the position to probably sell it again to then unlock equity
and to continue moving forward.
So we actually decided to sell that lot of land.
And fortunately, it actually moved about $100,000
in just over a year on the land value.
So, and again, this took me, this was the real catalyst for this return on cash annualised or cash on cash return annualised, return on equity annualised.
We probably, we only put down a 5% deposit.
We have to factor in your stamp duty because that was payable.
But we, and obviously the agent fees, the agent loved it because he received a double commission.
He sold it to us without meeting us and then onsold it without meeting us.
Happy days.
He absolutely loved it.
But, yeah, essentially, we made, I can't remember what the return on cash was, but it was in the couple of hundred percent.
So you literally, it sounds unbelievable.
It sounds like crypto or something, but it's not.
We put down a 5% deposit and we made $100,000.
It was in just over 13 months.
And it was a really good just return, cash on cash return, annualized.
And then that's where we thought, look, this is really where we thought, how can we repeat this on a more efficient and more productive scale?
and that's really where we started looking at the duplex sites this is really where it all sort of
you know the pathway and the previous experience has really led to to you know undertaking that
that path yeah okay well before we drill into a little bit more into the duplex sites
so it gets you've mentioned it a couple of times now and it is a i think a very uh a smart
strategy that not many people get their heads around and that's the the sort of delayed uh
land uh strategy that you you know the delayed settlement strategy that you touched on
earlier can you can you sort of dive into that a little bit and talk about the pros and cons
and when it's appropriate to think about that sort of an approach yes certainly certainly look
i think i mean it's good that you mentioned the pros and the cons i'm just going to sit here and
talk about the pros there are without unregistered land as you'd be well aware there are some risks
as well so i'll touch on them as well um but the the good the crux of it is is that you can
essentially like we've done you can put down a five percent deposit and you can control the site
without paying any interest until the land registers so where it can make sense as if
as if yeah you maybe you're in between properties and you've just got enough you haven't got enough
to to actually control a property outright you've got enough to control a parcel of land
um like for instance currently i'm holding three sites and i've only probably put in 150 to 200k
cash but their you know their value is two two million so it's it can happen and and the thing
about the delayed settlement strategy is if you employ it correctly and you really plan and i'll
go back to the development metrics you've really got to have a really strong handle around um
around your the finance that you would that you will seek in order to you know to get to get your
build completed um you need to see then so once you know what development what we call developers
equity contribution once you know what that is you basically need to plan with the end in mind
so when you acquire your first if you're going to do two or three um you need to need to really
carefully plan out your your cash flow requirements because that's really the key to it all you don't
want to get stuck um with with not being able to complete a project so so what i what i like to do
is i'll for instance you know let's say we're doing the three projects in four years this is
just a hypothetical you can that that permutation can change whoever you like but we would we would
essentially buy a plot of land a lot of land um at month zero um let's say it's got a three to
six month land registration period then the build completes well before that project is completed
ideally what you'd like to do is put in another you buy another pass of land so you build your
pipeline so you can actually you can be controlling it a land a pass of land let's say a five hundred
thousand dollar pass of land for 25k cash down so you've already got your next your next project
already working for you whilst you're only putting 25 000 and that's that's a big thing because
with with the um with like say a multi-stage release developers generally now they start
low with their prices and depending on how how desirable that that that area is and how much
demand there is that then they've got justification put their prices up so essentially you want to be
getting in into a you know an affluent area on the cusp of gentrification but you want to try
to get as early on the development as possible because generally developers go sideways or up
if they put their prices down the the valuations will fall over and it'll you know it doesn't work
so yeah exactly well when you know that you go okay well to get in early enough it doesn't work
everywhere you've still got to pick the right areas and i'll really go back to that that scarcity
factor it's got to be that scarcity factor but once you do that you can really you know that
you're basically buying it at a discount that the closer it is to land registration the more that
land's worth so if you can just control it far out from the land registration and then ensure that
you that land registers after your first project completes and don't cut it too far and you want
to leave it a sufficient buffer um you can yeah basically you can have your next project working
for you or the capital growth happening and that's where most of the margin comes from it's really
the lead time between the time you sign the unconditional contract between when the land
registers and that's that's essentially where you're getting most of the most of the capital
growth as well as you know building a duplex and um you know utilizing the highest and best use of
site but so essentially what you're doing is yeah you're putting down minimum cash deposits
you're strategically working out your land registration terms um so it might be that
you've got like an ascending registration so that it always goes
out further than the build completion.
So it really comes down to being selective in the type
of land that you buy.
You don't want to buy three plots that are all registered
at the same time because you're never going to be able
to commit to that.
It needs to be quite strategic.
But if you're playing your cash flow accordingly,
there's definitely an opportunity to take advantage
of that staggered effect, I guess, if you want to call it.
Yeah, well said.
Well, I can hear some people listening to this going, well, that's all really good in a rising market.
Everything we're currently hearing in the media at the moment is how property values are softening.
In terms of the cons and overcoming that potential situation, what are your thoughts around that, Tom?
Yes, certainly.
Look, there's always cons to it.
Again, it's unregistered land.
it's nothing until it's titled so there's always that risk that the land takes far too you know it
takes longer than you expected for it so the sunset clause and that's the thing if there's a sunset
clause of another three years when potentially they've got that two or three years for that land
to um to register so the risk is that if you're generally with this unregistered land you're
putting in an unconditional or you so you're going unconditional on finance you're waiving
your right to finance so your maximum risk is is the deposit you're putting down so the risk is
that if you can't, for whatever reason,
you might be able to receive finance right now,
but your personal circumstances change,
and then the land registers at a later date
and you're unable to obtain finance,
you'll lose your deposit if you can't settle
on that block of land.
So that's one of the risks.
And generally, when you say about the market declining,
and that's always inherently that risk,
but I guess there's markets within markets
and always trying to time the markets
where that scarcity factor is still at play.
Like we're looking at a lot of affluent coastal regions
and little, yeah, like little lifestyle locations
and they were still receiving,
we sourced one for a client a couple of weeks ago
and we can still comfortably, using conservative assumptions,
still receive our 20% development margin on cost
and with current market conditions.
So, and the thing is too, with these duplexes,
they are quite cashflow positive.
so i don't we're always looking for long term like so yes we want to make some short-term profit but
we want to be purchasing you know in an area that's got strong fundamentals and we also have
that long-term focus as well so no one's ever really going to be able to protect exactly what's
going to happen with the market but if you always have that if you buy the fundamentals and you and
you have a long-term approach you're going to mitigate that yeah it's a spot on that well
Well, Sam, the approach we often adopt with clients that we assist as well is, you know, plan for the worst and then expect the best.
And if the worst is that you end up holding on to the property and not shifting it, the numbers need to work from a cash flow perspective at that point if you can't offload a property in the short to medium term and you're still going to be protected.
But I want to pick on something that you've mentioned a couple of times now that I'd like to open up a bit as well.
you mentioned the focus on duplexes so talk to us about how uh your thinking revolved around the
duplex exercise why are duplexes something that uh something you've focused on and and uh talk to
us a bit more about that if you can yes certainly certainly well look i guess it falls under the
bracket of you know property development but property development can come with a little bit
of stigma um and there is there always is a little you know there's a higher risk there's a higher
return there's a higher risk with the duplexes what i like about them is the risk isn't much
more than a standard house and land build at times i mean it's a pretty straightforward da
and you can receive some some pretty healthy returns on them so when i assess any deal i
look at those key metrics and um when we go to assess a site i'll really look at that residual
value of the land so going back to your point before when we put in all the all the assumptions
and plan for the worst and hope for the best.
It's planning for the worst.
So we put in a building contingency buffer
and we put in a low gross realisable value to ensure that
and once you actually put all that in, then we really work out, okay,
it comes up with the residual value of the land
and that's really our bargaining tool to go, okay,
does this site make sense or not?
If we want, for instance, a 15% or a 20% development marginal cost,
we'll factor that all in.
And if my feasibility calculator, once applied all those conservative assumptions, doesn't show that the land is at worth what it's currently advertised for, we won't proceed.
So that's a good tool to use to say yes or no.
But what I like about the duplexes is there's a lot of options on them.
So you can essentially, on completion, you can, depending on your circumstances and goals and timeframes that you want to achieve your goals in, you can either hold both on completion, you can sell one and hold one, or you can sell both.
and then again there's lots of there's myriad of buying structures and tax implications behind
that but essentially what you can do is you can create some great instant equity and you can
accelerate your portfolio faster than you potentially just doing a traditional buy and
hold approach so i think you can get the best of both worlds you can buy for fundamentals but you
can also receive some you know development profit because essentially you're utilizing the highest
best use of the land it's a straight one into two but you're still turning really wholesale
into retail so that's that's where you're going to get that uplift and again if if it doesn't
have to be um a big profitable development deal it can just be something small like a duplex if
it's going to give you the numbers that you require uh with a low risk that's what i like
about them yeah beautifully said okay well uh you sort of got into that let's continue the
your personal journey then uh talk to us about where that led you from from that point on
yes certainly so it actually led us into um probably a good point to mention now too so
we were in a position where after we sold the um the the block and or that the house in melbourne's
west and also the block of land we continued to rent fest but we had you know obviously we just
kept on rolling the equity over and a lot of it was all capital gains tax free because it was
principal place of residence every time uh the block of land we actually purchased them a wife's
name she wasn't working at the time so it was minimal transaction cost there as well and we
actually had some equity we were struggling with the amount of kids we had to leverage into
residential property so we actually um started looking at commercial property um so basically
for that that what we discussed earlier that passive income element and the ability to you
you know, to have that passive income and really get your time back.
So when you look at the numbers on commercial, yes,
they require higher deposits, but for us it made sense
at that time too.
We couldn't really do anything else.
They still grow very well in the right areas.
So we purchased a couple of warehouses in the trade coast
in Brisbane.
Oh, so now, you know, most people go, you know,
we need a much bigger uh deposit when we get into the commercial space which can often be a bit of a
barrier around that how did you overcome that in the context of your first on train to the
commercial space yeah i think our lvr was around 67 so we had to put in a little bit more but
it was at that point it was still you know do something or do nothing and it um i mean the
numbers that generated like we purchased a warehouse for 715 000 it generated a 7.7.3 i
think percent net yield and that's net so tenant pays all the outgoings um so it was essentially
i think it was a 52 k a year um net income and then with the loan attached against it was it was
approximately a 30 to 35 000 a year passive income um and that was that was a real white
moment for us too it's like we can acquire enough of these um you know we can create financial
freedom um through through commercial property and that's really carved the ways to how we move
forward so i really look at you know the commercial is my passive income source so i generally roll
over the profits put it into commercial and then have the duplexes as a more active approach
um actually i don't really have buy and hold um residential portfolio anymore because it's just
too tough with the amount of kids that we have but i've still got the blind hog element through
the commercial so um that's that's really and the thing is too as you know that after went through
and decimated resi lending but they actually completely left the commercial lending alone so
we were actually able to receive a finance for a property when we couldn't have in residential so
that drove a lot of it as well but when you look at the numbers it's a bit of a no-brainer when
get commercial right it's very lucrative from a passive income standpoint it's 2.5 to 3 times
higher net cash flow than what residential offers yeah and what i'm loving about what i'm hearing
and correct my wrong with what i'm reading here but you're using the duplex deals to create
a quick cash that then effectively can become deposits for the commercial properties that then
give you a a much better long-term a passive income flow is that am i reading that right
100 percent that's exactly that's the way the way i view it um it's actually um my father actually
um being the operations manager at the pig farm he's actually delving into it now too bushy he
actually read um i read steve police's book and then i gave it to um i recommended my father read
it and he basically had sold his shares of the property it was only a little over a year ago
and he was just looking at what's his what does he do now and he was he was hypothesizing as to
to how we should proceed next uh after he read the commercial property book he he's now taking
action on the back of that steve actually sourced him a really fine commercial property over in
perth and dad probably understands commercial he's gone from a pig farmer that didn't believe in debt
to now someone that like loves commercial property he wants to leverage not too deep but
acceptable levels looks at his return on equity and he's completely across the commercial market
he's addicted so yeah my dad's uh he's in his late 60s and worked hard all his life and now
he's he's actually um yeah he's got a large commercial portfolio so from convert converting
that pig farm profit uh generational of the sale of the of the of his of his share of the pig farm
to now into commercial property so um yeah that's yeah that's actually um how i actually started
working with steve was i uh dad was a client of his and then we then we uh stayed in contact and
obviously i've been now working for steve so it's all worked out very well yeah i love it mate love
But tell me, for those that are, because, you know,
commercials are getting a lot more airspace,
particularly over the last couple of years with what's happened
with Resi for some of the reasons you mentioned
and the concerns around that at one stage with COVID
and now we're seeing, you know, given the massive uplift
that we've seen in residential the last couple of years,
you know, that there are going to be areas that are going
to struggle because it's effectively brought forward
some capital growth.
Just in terms of parameters then for those who might be going,
well, I might have a look at this commercial space,
I'd love for you to sort of put some shape around that for us
in terms of, you know, if we're going to be in the sweet spot
of commercial, what should we be looking for?
What are some of the minimum price points that you need
to be being able to stump up to get into something that's going
to perform well?
Just so that people can start thinking about that.
Yes, certainly.
The thing about commercial too is you can buy quality assets
at smaller price points.
It's all about the square metre rate.
So unlike residential where you might have to get a good yield,
you might have to go out regional, in commercial you can still receive
a really good yield, but you just buy a smaller space.
But generally speaking, the larger the space,
the longer tenant you're going to have, and the more high quality
the tenant, the smaller the space, the tenants are going to go into,
the business is basically going to outgrow the space.
or they're going to stay there or they're going to leave so generally you have a higher turnover
of the smaller commercial properties but there's smaller periods of turnover and for the larger
ones they're less often but there's for slightly longer periods but when I look at a commercial
property I always want to look at the relitability of it you need to plan that okay that tenant's
going to leave one day how relatable is that space so there's certain types of assets that I think
in commercial that you really want to be looking at the the main the main i guess the the one that's
most popular now is really industrial warehouses um that's you know like entirely held areas they're
very in demand product um i'll be staying away from your your cbd office space we don't we don't
really buy much office space at all um and suburban retail and and you know in good locations where
there's good frontage and good foot traffic um they're they're the key type of assets that you
to look at in commercial it needs to be supported by fundamentals and and just the same as
residential basically but uh the industrial warehouses are probably the most low risk asset
you can buy right now with the sort of the e-commerce boom happening um and the need for
you know space and logistical issues caused by covert um they're they're they've got very
multi-use type assets so they're not just pigeonholed to one type of tenant or one type
of sector they're very relatable because you know so many sectors and business type of businesses
can use them yeah and that well said so for someone who's going whoa this sounds really
exciting to me i want to jump straight into it uh as a as a starting point uh what sort of price
point uh is and then this is a how long's a piece of string question but what's the sort of minimum
price point and the minimum uh deposit they're gonna need to stump up to to kick off if if
commercial is something they're interested in pursuing yeah so generally um you know 500k is
probably like 44 to 500k would be your sort of minimum for a quality asset you can still get
less but yeah prices have yields have compressed a bit so let's say four four to five hundred
thousand is a good entry level um price point you can still receive a five and a half to six percent
yield but you're going to need to put in a 30 deposit so again if you're looking at from a
purely finance base it's a great way to go but you probably want to leverage firstly i like leverage
residential first because you've got the higher ldrs and you can actually grow your equity and
actually create more wealth that way but then once you've done that and depending on your goals and
circumstances time frames then you can look at leveraging into and transition into commercial
as a as a later play so i think it depends on where you are in your journey too but i would
probably go out straight away and buy a commercial i think it's more of a more of a later play um and
more of a passive income you know retiring transitioning to retirement type type asset
um yeah and i think it's the way to go as well because as we know i think the old living off
the equity and the current lending environment doesn't really work and residential cash flow
just doesn't really cut it from a from a passive income standpoint and that's really where
commercial makes sense it's just that tenant pays all the outgoing so you're looking at a net
uh net lease and that's the big difference and that's where your cash flow is so much
stronger than your standard residential property yeah i love it mate i uh in my own book the
freedom formula i talk about the cash flow to absolutely capital growth the cash flow
curve where you know i suggest that investors starting off focus on growth to build equity
and then convert that to cash flow later in the exercise because the other misconception a lot
of people have is this amount of buying a bunch of residential rental properties paying off the
and living off the rent but the rent's never going to be enough to survive comfortably
but what resi property is good at doing is building uh through leverage uh building that
uh equity base that you can then safely put into a a much better performing asset that gives you
a much higher yield like the commercial exercise that you've just spoken about mate so um no i love
that mate well if we if we look back on all of that uh i'd love for you just to summarize what
what you think have been your best and worst investments to date
and what have you learnt from both of them?
Yeah, all right.
Best investment, as it currently stands,
again, it sounds a little unbelievable,
but as it stands right now,
a parcel of land bought, purchased in New South Wales
for the 20K cash down and 14,000 stamp duty for 420
and a year and a half later is currently worth 650.
So, again, it's not the biggest margin I've made,
But when you look at annualized return on your cash, that's got to be the – it's about a 6 or 7x, so 6 or 700%.
And, again, it sounds like crypto, but that's the actual reality on that one.
So I would say that probably takes the kicker at the moment.
And worst, it's actually probably – the lease margin was actually that very first one.
But it's still – I'm very grateful for it because it actually enabled – we realized a profit and then we leveraged up.
then we're able to then roll that forward and gain the momentum so the first one probably had the
least amount of profit on a on an annualized basis but the thing was i had that home buyers grant
that actually wasn't essentially my money so um i'd say that's probably a double-edged sword there
but and probably it also led me to believe that if you can hold as well that property now is worth
um you know it's it's more than doubled in a 10-year period so it does show that the importance
of compounding, you know, if you can and you don't have
to sell, the importance of compounding as well.
So obviously it's a finance consideration for myself
and my wife with our five kids.
We just, you know, we have to roll equity over
because obtaining a big portfolio is just tougher
for lending, but it just can show if you do hold,
never sell, never incur the transaction costs,
that compounding can be quite powerful as well,
very powerful.
Yeah, but what I love about your approach is you've been adaptable
to your circumstances and look at, okay, well,
we can't go down the traditional road.
Every child you add to the plate takes a big chunk
out of your borrowing capacity.
And with what we're seeing in the lending market at the moment
with every increase in rates significantly drops
your borrowing capacity as well.
What I love about what you've done is go, okay,
well, let's think outside of the square here.
There's got to be another way.
how can we continue to build our nest egg and our opportunity
and our passive income potential.
And, you know, the way you've sort of embraced, you know,
much more innovative approaches is fantastic.
And I think as a lesson to the learners, don't be stymied by the fact
that, you know, you can't just follow one route.
There are always other ways of doing it and the sort of range
of activities that you've done to maintain and continue
to grow, your opportunity, mate, has been quite remarkable.
So just before we jump into what I'd like to refer
as the ambush lightning round, Tom, I just want to sort
of reinforce to everyone listening that what we've been talking
about today isn't financial advice.
It's really just intended as general information only
because everyone's situation and circumstances are different.
So, you know, feel free to take on board some of the thoughts
that Tom's been sharing with us and make sure that you go
and talk to a qualified professional before you invest
to make sure that it's, you know, best suited to your situation,
your circumstances, your plans and your risk appetite.
So, mate, that has been absolutely awesome, mate.
I really appreciate you unpacking that for us.
So I now want to jump into what I like to call the bushfire
lightning round, which is just the quick fast-forward questions
that you get a blindfold and a cigarette on for all of the podcasts.
So to kick that off, Tom, what's your favourite quote?
And why?
Favourite quote.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
Look, I would say don't find a fault, find a remedy.
Anyone can complain.
Henry Ford.
So it fits the theme of what we're doing.
I've used this one before, but I really like it.
It's basically what we've had to do.
You can either put your head in the sand and just accept your fate
or find a remedy and go out and grab the pen
and write your own story.
Yeah, I love it, mate.
I absolutely love that.
Very inspirational.
On the literary front then, for those that are listening in,
what's the top book that you'd recommend we read and why?
Yeah, look, I would say, just for a pure mindset,
I guess Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.
Again, some people have got their opinions on it,
But just as a real eye out there around just mindset, I would say that's a great one just to start off and then delve down.
I would actually, again, to a bit of self-promotion here, but like I said, Steve's commercial property book was a huge item for myself and it worked wonders for my dad.
And he's also got a new residential book out as well that I can say it's excellent.
it's um it's like a blueprint for how to grow a portfolio and it's um it's like a textbook so
it's very user friendly as well so both of them are great books um but i would say yeah like i
mean you've got steve at nights zero to 300 zero 100 properties in 3.5 years that's probably a
little bit out of date with uh the current lending environment so um i would i would stick with robert
kiyosaki uh rich there for that um just for a mindset shifter yeah i totally agree mate uh i
I mean, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today
if I hadn't read that book back in the late 90s
and I actually had the pleasure of going along to see him live
and it was an absolute, I actually call it my Kiyosaki moment.
It was that that triggered the journey that I now have followed ever since
and I reckon it's an absolute must-read for the, you know,
like you say, some people either love or hate it,
but if you look beyond to, you know, the key message,
that's awesome and and i agree with you i've also read steve police's uh uh commercial property
book and he's been on the show previously you know a very good easy read for anyone who wants
to understand how that exercise works mate so that's awesome um sort of flicking back to the
investment piece what's both been the worst and the best in investment advice that you've ever
received today man worst uh i'll probably say it's just a generic one that you hear a lot but
go buy a property to save tax and go buy it off the plan partner or a house of land package to
save tax that that one there just it doesn't it just doesn't stack up what we buy property to
create wealth not to create tax yes it can be a little a little favorable benefit but
i think a lot of the time i mean again i'm actually a cpa i'm not not currently practicing
a CPA anymore, but I think a lot of time accountants
can potentially, and not talking down to any accountants
because it depends on where you receive your advice
and there's great property accountants,
but just be very careful sometimes that you receive advice
to go buy a property to save tax and it's a very
deductions-focused type mindset when a forced user
potentially buying an inferior asset really sets you back
um at times so again there's there's many ways you can look at that and the type of property
that you need to purchase depending on your strategy but i would say yeah that's one of
the worst piece of advice is go buy an off-the-plan apartment to save tax totally agree mate my my
accountant who's a very active property investor himself he says uh often says to people look if
you if you just want to save tax i'll just charge you more uh don't don't buy property as as a
reason to save tax so do it for all the reasons that you've mentioned today mate um what about
the uh best piece of investment advice then yeah i guess it's um i guess someone like warren buffett
uh saying i guess you could say yeah if why doesn't everyone just copy you and if investing
was that easy why doesn't one just copy it because no one wants to get rich slowly so
i guess it's um you know it's that that wealth is just a transfer from the inpatient to the patient
So it's just about understanding that, I guess, just from your mentor saying it's a long-term game, got to be patient, play for the long-term and just really allow that compounding to happen.
Totally agree.
And embrace time as your friend.
This is the, it took me a while to realise this, Tom, but everyone's in such a gut-busting hurry for things to happen yesterday.
But if we actually embrace the fact that sustainable success does take time and compounding takes an extensive period of time to really work its magic, as you sort of quoted Einstein earlier on.
But if you actually embrace the time and go, okay, well, it's going to take 10 or 15 years.
Let's enjoy that.
Let's, you know, use the time we've got now to invest in assets that are going to grow in time so that we then get our time back.
You can actually enjoy the journey.
So that mindset piece, if we shift that and say, okay, well, it's not going to happen overnight, but it is going to take time, then we can actually sit back and actually get out of the way and let the assets do their work.
So awesome thoughts there.
Final exercise in on the ambush series, mate.
What's a personal happy habit, rewarding ritual or daily discipline that you employ that's contributed most to your investment success today?
Yeah, certainly.
I'd say not a bad habit, but just a trait, I guess,
is resilience, perseverance and relentless perseverance
to achieve a result.
So, yeah, I guess it's not a habit, but it's a habit
of being consistently persistent.
Yeah, well, it is a habit because a lot of people don't have
the persistence, Tom.
They expect results to happen overnight and then when they don't,
they throw their arms up in the air and, you know,
I'm sure that's the reason why over 54% of first-time investors
sell the property within the first five years and never return
is because they don't embrace the persistence
and discipline that's required to stay the distance
and that requires the resilience that you've just spoken about, mate.
So, no, extremely well said.
To sort of bring our great conversation, you know,
to a logical conclusion there, mate,
what are your key takeaways for aspiring and current investors
that are listening in?
Yes, certainly.
I guess everyone's, there's no one fixed strategy.
Everyone's strategy is going to be different depending
on your goals, personal circumstances,
borrowing capacity, et cetera.
But I think that the common denominator is taking action.
It's undeniable that if you sit on the fence,
you can be the smartest person in the room,
but unless you take that action, you're never really going
to reap the rewards of of the things we discussed that you know that the leverage and the compounding
interest and yes there's going to be you know there's downturns in the market from time to time
but if you can just stay the course stay persistent stay resilient and see the play for the long term
and start as early as possible my i guess i'm happy i'm so happy i'm so grateful for everything
that's happened and the way it's all evolved but if you if you had your time again i would love to
educated myself earlier and started earlier because you don't have to take on as much risk
as well because when the compounding really takes effect you just start earlier you're mitigating
your risk um naturally and you've got a lot more time on your side so and again what they say that
the best time to buy a property was 10 years ago when's the next best time now and i'm not just
saying that as a you know because of the industry that i'm in if you if you really apply those
fundamentals it absolutely makes sense i mean um yeah we're an inflationary environment but
i guess inflation is applied to assets as well so and it's not to your debt so if you look at
from a purely finance perspective um yeah it just makes sense in the long term to to buy property
using leverage and and let compound interest take effect over time yeah beautifully said mate and
as i've been saying a lot lately because unfortunately the mainstream media is helping
on scaring the living hell out of people around the property front and you know with the you know
the scare tactics around rising interest rates and and the doom and gloom around uh falling values
but i've always believed that uh you know as long as people need a house to live in there's always
opportunities in property don't worry about property markets don't worry about medium levels
create your own economy by drilling down because there's always opportunities there if you know
where to look and it's it's it's never about when because when is you know the best time as you've
said is always now but it's always about what you're buying and where you're buying it so um
some very good thoughts there mate look uh really appreciate your thoughts on it uh for those that
have really resonated with what you've shared with us today like i have tom uh uh what's
new and next for you and and how how can people get in touch certainly yeah and so yeah what's
next for me is uh just to just to acquire i'm actually acquiring another looking at applying
another duplex site um currently and obviously uh i'm in i'm in that market daily looking for
current clients as well um and in terms of getting in touch with me um you can reach out
at tom at fleecyproperty.com i'm also on uh tom petter for property on instagram and at tom
pedifer on facebook um and obviously you can reach out to uh on steve's website policeyproppy.com
if you want to reach out through the through the brand as well yeah fantastic mate uh really
encourage people who have an interest in what i'd educate themselves particularly around the
commercial front to reach out to yourself and steve uh i really appreciate your time on the
show today mate and uh looking forward to staying in touch thanks very much for having me bushy
you had a ball awesome thanks tom talk soon appreciate it cheers
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