NZ Property Investor

IN THE FAST LANE

Great ideas often present themselves when you have breathing space. Chris Riley’s breathing space was in the car, commuting to and from site where he worked as an instrument technician.

It gave him an hour to himself; and he spent that hour educating himself around property.

“I had been recommended a property podcast,” he says. “I knew that property was something I wanted to get into but had no history of investing. And I was getting really inspired by what I heard.”

Whangarei born-and-bred, Chris and his wife Krystal wanted to move away from the two-partners-working-full-time bind. They had been pondering ways in which to achieve a passive income; planning a family, they didn’t want to be tied to

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