{"id":20147,"date":"2018-02-21T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=20147"},"modified":"2018-02-21T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:00:02","slug":"never-enough-time-to-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/never-enough-time-to-invest\/","title":{"rendered":"Never enough time to invest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no surprise that people feel they don\u2019t have the time they need to achieve their goals. When it comes to work-life balance, according to the OECD, Australia is in the bottom third of member countries. One in five Australian adults are so busy they don\u2019t even have time to look after their own health. As a nation, we are clearly very time-poor.
\nThis \u2018time recession\u2019 in Australia has given rise to a new, young breed of property investment professionals who have emerged to specifically solve this time problem for investors.
\nIn our professional lives we analyse information, make strategic decisions, and then outsource tasks to people who specialise in a specific skill, to get superior results. We do this on a daily basis in our professional lives, but for some reason we frequently fail to use these exact same skills in our personal lives. As a result, who\u2019s surprised we can\u2019t achieve everything we\u2019d like to?
\nDrew Evans, founder of Caifu Property, had the same experience.
\n\u201cIt was such an irony; I was so busy working for a property investment company that I didn\u2019t have time to find my own investments,\u201d he says. He saw that this was a problem all his friends were facing too, and decided he needed to solve it.
\n\u201cI was sitting at my desk one day and I kind of had an epiphany. As I looked around the office, I had everything available to me that I needed.
\nTo invest like a professional, I didn\u2019t even need to leave my desk. Within 20 metres of me was a committed specialist who could not only advise me but more importantly execute for me every aspect of property investing that I didn\u2019t have time for. I knew right then how I wanted to invest for the rest of my life.\u201d
\nEvans implemented his plan to develop a system of becoming a hands-free property investor, and it worked. By outsourcing to different specialists, he built a property portfolio worth $3.12m in just five years. But there were important lessons he learned along the way too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted a property portfolio that could support my lifestyle and not drain me of cash\u2026 while I was still young enough to enjoy it\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n

\u201cI wanted a property portfolio that could support my lifestyle and not drain me of cash. More importantly, I wanted to achieve this while I was still young enough to enjoy it. That meant I couldn\u2019t be a buy-and-wait investor \u2013 that was too slow.
\n\"\"
\nI needed to use strategies that forced value onto a property to get me there,\u201d he says. That narrowed Evans\u2019 focus to either renovations or new builds to force the value he wanted.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t have time to do a renovation, but I did have time to sign some paperwork. So new builds were the only choice.\u201d
\nOutsourcing risks
\nUsing his network and focusing on new builds, Evans was able to quickly and effectively acquire profitable properties.
\n\u201cIn hindsight it was obvious; of course they\u2019d be better
\nat their full-time specialty than I could ever be with the time I had available. It just made sense that if I leveraged their time and skills, I\u2019d get better results.\u201d
\n\"\"
\nEvans was able to outsource his time as well as his development risks. Thanks to the relationships he had access to because of his network, he could get contracts with builders that were unavailable to an individual.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to build a system for clients that meant they couldn\u2019t fail \u2026 I wanted more, and so do my clients\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n

\u201cI could lock in 100% guaranteed pricing, no variations allowed. This meant cost blowouts were impossible because my builders covered the variations. We also use expensive liquidated damages to lock in our build time, so there was no time risk on my builds either,\u201d he says.
\nEven as a young boy growing up in Zimbabwe, Evans was entrepreneurial and turned his hobbies into a business, like selling the fish he caught with his brother in the local markets.
\nThat entrepreneurial spirit meant he couldn\u2019t help but build a system to help his friends and family invest too. Now he uses the same approach with clients.
\n\u201cGiven the right information, busy professionals know how to make informed decisions and execute on them. That\u2019s why they are in demand and have no time. My business takes all the legwork and time commitment off their desks so that all they really need to do is make a strategic decision on an investment, and then sign some paperwork. All the headaches are outsourced to us.\u201d
\nEvans created the foundation for his system while working at a property education company. He could see that educating a client and then making them do all the hard work on their own resulted in very few success stories<\/a>. \u201cI wanted to build a system for clients that meant they couldn\u2019t fail,\u201d he says.
\n\u201cIt clearly wasn\u2019t more education they needed \u2013 that\u2019s not why they failed. It was leveraging the time of skilled specialists that made the difference, not talking to sales people and trainers. I wanted more, and so do my clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally published as: https:\/\/www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au\/strategy\/never-enough-time-to-invest-245394.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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