A MATTER OF TIME
People become property investors for many different reasons. Passive income, financial security, a retirement fund. Nick Gentle’s motivation was different: “I needed control of my time.”
You will have seen Gentle’s name in Your Property Finder in the column section of New Zealand Property Investor magazine. As the co-owner and operations manager of property finding company iFindProperty, he’s a trusted expert in the field. But his journey has been unconventional (having lived in Japan for a number of years) and he’s learned many lessons the hard way.
As a child of two teachers in Te Puke, property investment wasn’t part of his early experience. His parents had a rental property for a short time, but had problems with tenants, and sold it.
“They would have made some capital gains, but they never bought another one,” he shares.
He developed an early passion for the Japanese language, doing an exchange trip to Japan
