YOUR REVIEW A career-driven couple spent years saving for their ideal “forever home” only to discover it wasn’t the happy ending they thought it would be.
Here’s how the pair sold their dream property to create the retirement of their dreams instead.
THE INVESTORS
Married couple Sammy and Leon, 41 and 42, had saved for years to buy the ultimate property: a 400m2 house on a seven-hectare section. Together they were earning just shy of $290,000 a year, $155,000 and $135,000 respectively.
Life seemed great, but it was soon clear their long-desired dream had flaws.
Their huge, luxurious home was far too expensive to run (eg cleaning, maintenance, electricity, rates and insurance). And not only that, it was incredibly inconvenient to live 60 kilometres out of the city centre, often…
