Former teacher shares lessons learnt about building a property portfolio
Former high school teacher Phil Batey's tentative first steps onto the property market in his 20s blossomed into a fixation that changed his life and secured his family's financial future.
One thing they don’t teach you at school is that among the nation’s property investors, 72 per cent hold just one investment property.
It’s a lesson that former teacher and high school deputy principal Phil Batey learnt and has applied to acquire three properties and set himself and his family up to increase upon that in coming months and years.
Growing up in Hornsby
in the northern suburbs of Sydney in a middle class family, living the typical…