Educator provides a lesson in making an early start in property

At an age when many are finding their professional feet and more focused on parties than property, Jack Stevens has chalked up a $2 million profit on six houses.

With a focus on his hometown Geelong and a couple of other regional Victorian towns, the 30-year-old primary school teacher has transformed a modest parental inheritance and hard-earned savings into a lucrative portfolio.

Mr Stevens was a teenager when his father was lost to cancer at …