Luke Nicholls started investing early, building a rental portfolio while also growing a tech startup that helps landlords manage their own properties. Buying and renovating properties feels like home for Nicholls, who grew up with a father who was an active investor, buying and flipping houses across New Zealand.
“When I grew up we often lived on construction sites, or we were going around doing up properties on the weekend, helping Dad out,” he says. “That was a big thing for me – it instilled in us the mindset of ‘hands up, not hands out’, of asking what I can do to help out instead of asking for a hand-out … my Dad is a bloody hard-arse!”
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