JUST LIKE PLAYING MONOPOLY
One house for the first baby, one for the second. One for the dog, one for the guinea pig, one for the cockatiel. Then one for the third baby, and another for the cat. Pauline Beissel’s property investment journey is far removed from anything you’d read in advice books. But it’s stood her in good stead. With 40 years in the property investment game, she is Manawatu Property Investors’ Associations long standing president, is on the board of the New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation, and looking back on decades of success. Most investors have an overarching strategy underpinning all their buying decisions, but not Beissel. “It was like playing Monopoly, which I loved playing as a child.”
PROPERTY FASCINATION
Born in Lower Hutt in 1961, Beissel was always fascinated by property. Her family home came with its own mythology: “My dad told me that it was shipped up the Hutt river, and then Dad renovated it into a liveable home,” says
