I found Michael very easy to deal with. He operated with high level of integrity, objectivity and enthusiasm, but what also appealed to me was the high level of sophistication and innovation he brings to the area of residential property investment. I had been looking for investment strategies that offered the chance of excess market returns. Property development seemed to offer this, but not at digestible levels of risk for me; particularly for my first wholesale investment.

Michael offered me both these things.

The research was what first got my attention; a way of bringing a level of objectivity to property analysis and not being restricted to suburbs in the property magazines’ universe.

Years down the track my suburb choice still had good demand. We had several potential tenants expressing interest before the development was even completed, so there was clearly plenty demand in the area. To be completely fair, the development did go over in terms of timescales, but the fact I had no issues with profitability is testimony to the investment quality and how the downside was still managed.

There is never a 'silver bullet' with risk management but build quality, suburb selection, site location all helped to skew risk to the upside, and as an investor, my primary job is to seek investments that allow me to do that."