NZ Property Investor

FROM ROACHES TO RICHES

Cockroaches. Fleas. Drug paraphernalia. When Sanjay Raj first viewed the 1970’s duplex in Marfell he was met with a litany of horrors. One side of the duplex, which was unoccupied, had been used by gangs for cannabis growing: a bedroom closet contained tubes and leftover drug growing apparatus.

The other side of the duplex, which was inhabited, was just as bad. “There were hundreds of cockroaches living in it, and when you walked on the carpet, your

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