Show Notes
Rent or buy in 2026? Kerrod Holland went from six figures in the NRL to $700 a $ 700-a-week take-home, with rent at $515 and a newborn. He's a financial adviser now, and he's a buyer in this Australian property market.
Kerrod played 70+ games for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs after seven years as a qualified electrician. Then the contract wasn't renewed. He had cash buffers. He didn't have a framework for risk, and he'd overextended on the assumption the income would keep coming. He's now Managing Director of Tenex Wealth in Newcastle, and this is the conversation he wishes someone had sat him down for at 25.
He and MPA Top 100 Mortgage Broker, Aaron Christie-David, get into why he calls the family home a lifestyle asset and not an investment, and why you can only cut 100 per cent of your expenses but have infinite upside on your income. The couple earning $300,000 who wanted an income portfolio while carrying $80,000 in car and personal debt. Why he tells clients not to wait until 60 to take the trip. And the question he asks every couple before he looks at a single number: what does perfect look like to you? Kerrod's views are his own opinion and general information only.
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