Meet Lauren Jones

I worked in finance from 2018, and that is where I learned to understand money. Cash flow, buffers, serviceability, structure. It is also where I watched people lose money, and it was almost never the market's fault. It was the wrong asset, bought at the wrong price, held in the wrong structure with no plan for the years after settlement. That has stayed with me. It is why the first conversation here is always about your numbers, not a property.

In 2021 I became a buyers agent. Since then I have purchased more than 400 properties for clients in Brisbane only as a licensed agent and Qualified Property Investment Adviser. That volume teaches you things you cannot pick up any other way. How to negotiate in a hot market and a flat one. Which selling agents will actually do what they say. Where a deal quietly starts falling apart, weeks before anyone admits it has.

I invest the same way I advise. I own six properties worth more than $5.5 million, and I have built, subdivided, renovated and bought commercial along the way. Doing it myself is what taught me that a portfolio is not six versions of the same property. High yield property investment carries your holding costs and protects your serviceability. Growth assets build the equity that funds the next purchase. Get the balance wrong and you either stall because the bank will not lend you another dollar, or you sit on assets that go nowhere for a decade.

Why I became a rooming house buyers agent

I own a rooming house in Brisbane. I found the site, took it through council, built it and now run it under the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act. I know what a rooming house investment in Brisbane actually returns because I bank it, and I know exactly where it gets hard because I have been there. Not many buyers agents can say that.

If you are equity rich, serious about positive cash flow property and you would rather work with someone who has done this than someone who has only read about it, let's talk.