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    Dec 19, 2019 9 minutes

    TRISH KEOGH & KAEL BLAKE

    ‘The plan was to see a bit more of New Zealand by house-sitting. We did it for a couple of months, but in April we found a house up in Taihape and it was just so cheap!’
    TRISH KEOGH & KAEL BLAKE

    THE PLAN FOR 2019 was to sit back and take a break for full-time investor couple Trish Keogh and Kael Blake. When we last spoke to the pair a year ago, they had amassed a portfolio with 13 income streams over a period of just four years and were living off their rental income. So with that kind of tenacity and drive, it’s no wonder they haven’t ended up taking a break at all over the past year.

    It wasn’t for lack of trying though: with a holiday from renovations at the forefront of their minds, at the start of 2019 they bought a 20-foot storage container, sectioned off the backyard at their house, piled their belongings into it and rented out their Masterton home. They set off on a full-time house-sitting holiday. “The plan was to see a bit more of New Zealand by house-sitting,” says Keogh. “We did it for a couple of months, but in April we found a house up in Taihape and it was just so cheap!”

    She’s not exaggerating – the house had a $55,000 price tag due to it being in a designated slip zone (yet the council has monitored the site for 10 years and recorded no degradation). It’s their base at the moment, but there are plans to renovate and rent it out.

    Since that purchase, they’ve

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