I work rotating shifts. When do we actually talk?

Evenings, mostly. The booking calendar runs later slots specifically so you're not using a break to have this conversation. Pick whatever suits - if nothing fits your roster, message me and we'll find a time that does.

$15,000 plus GST, in two parts: a $4,000 + GST retainer to begin the search, and an $11,000 + GST success fee payable when your purchase is secured. It's a fixed fee, not a percentage of the purchase price - so there is no incentive for me to push you into a more expensive property. You know the full cost before we start.

Do I need finance approved before we start?

Not approved, but you do need a clear picture - and for healthcare income that conversation is worth having properly. Before the strategy call, speak to a broker who understands salary packaging, penalty rates and shift allowances. If you don't have one, I'll introduce you at no cost and no obligation. This single step is the difference between a search that ends in a settlement and one that stalls after the contract.

Do I have to attend inspections?

No. I inspect on your behalf and send video walkthroughs with a written assessment, so you can make the call from home after a shift rather than spending a rostered day off driving to opens. If you want to see a property before contract, we'll arrange it around your roster.

How long until I've bought something?

Most engagements run from strategy call to signed contract in weeks rather than months, but it depends on your brief and on stock. A tightly defined search in an active market moves fast; a narrow brief in a thin market takes longer. I'd rather wait for the right asset than fill a deadline with the wrong one.

I'm on a public health salary. Is $15,000 worth it?

That's the right question to ask. Overpaying by 3% on a $700,000 purchase is $21,000 - more than the fee, on one transaction. Buying in the wrong location costs considerably more over a decade. If after the strategy call you'd rather run the search yourself, the buying brief is yours to keep and I'll tell you honestly whether you need me.

Am I dealing with you, or with staff?

Me. Haus Haven is deliberately small - I take on a limited number of clients at a time so every search, inspection and negotiation is run by the person who built the framework. When that capacity is full, I say so rather than stretching thin.

About

I'm Luke. I did this the hard way first.

I'm a sonographer. For years my week was scans, night shifts, and a list that never got shorter. Somewhere in the middle of that my wife and I bought eight properties in eighteen months, and then I left the job to do it for other people in the same position.

That's the short version. This is the longer one, including the parts that didn't go well.

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Army

Infantry, before any of this

Sonographer

Medical imaging — still how I read a market

8 in 18 mo

Acquired personally, on a clinical roster

2026

Left clinical work to do this full-time

Why I started

The list grew. The pay didn't.

Seven-thirty to five, most days. A scanning list that never got shorter, and a steady expectation that I'd fit a few more patients into the same hours.

What it cost wasn't money, which is why it took me a while to notice. It was that my kids saw less of me. I was working more in order to build something for my family, and the honest arithmetic is that the extra two hundred dollars went on something none of us can now remember.

So my wife and I decided to do it differently. Buy assets instead of hours. Accumulate as fast as we sensibly could, and let time do the work that overtime was never going to do.

The first one

I bought the golden trifecta at twenty‑one.

It was a house and land package, and I bought it because I was told it had the three things you're supposed to want: growth, a good yield, and a suburb that was gentrifying.

What nobody mentioned, and what I didn't know to ask, was how many other houses were going up around me. Five hundred of them, in the same corridor, arriving on the market in the same few years. You can have every other fundamental in your favour and it won't matter. Supply is what kills growth, and I found that out by owning it.

It sat flat for five years. I paid to hold it the whole time, and then sold it for twenty‑five thousand dollars less than I bought it for. The $25,000 is the number I can put on it. The five years is the part that actually cost me.

That property is the reason the first thing I look at now isn't a suburb's story. It's the pipeline. Approvals, dwellings under construction, land releases — what's coming, not what's already there. A suburb with good numbers and a thousand approved lots sitting behind it isn't a good suburb. It's a good suburb that hasn't happened yet, and you'll be the one paying for the wait.

Eight in eighteen months

The constraint stopped being knowledge and started being time.

Inspections are Saturday mornings. So is a roster. Most of my due diligence happened after the kids were down, because that was the hour I had.

Eight properties in eighteen months, all of it around clinical work. I don't say that to impress anyone. I say it because it's why I know exactly which part of this is hard for you, and it isn't the money.

Why I left

A paid-off house, and everything traded for it.

Every healthcare profession costs years to qualify for. And for a lot of people the shape of what follows is the same — long hours until retirement, and a paid-off house at the end of it.

The house is real. So is everything traded for it. The holidays not taken. The years of your kids you were at work for. And burnout in this industry is significant, and badly underappreciated by anyone who hasn't worked in it.

I left clinical work in 2026 because I'd rather spend the next thirty years helping people in that job build something that gives them a choice about their hours.

How I work

Three rules I don't bend.

Buyers only. Never sellers.

Haus Haven does not list property and does not take a cent from a vendor. There is no other side of the transaction I'm quietly serving. When I tell you a property is overpriced, nothing in my business benefits from you buying it anyway.

A fixed fee, not a percentage.

My incentive should be getting you the best property at the best price — not a percentage structure where I get paid more when you pay more. The fee is the same number whether we buy at $450,000 or $900,000.

A limited number of clients.

Every search, inspection and negotiation is run by me, not by staff. That caps how many people I can take at once. When I'm full I say so, rather than stretching thin and doing everyone a worse job.

Those aren't values on a wall. Each one exists because I watched the alternative cost somebody money.

Outside this

We're at the beach most weekends.

I surf, and I'm still not good at it.

Building the portfolio around a roster cost me the time I had left over. Saturday inspections. Due diligence after the kids were asleep. That is the part I now do for other people, because it is the part that doesn't have to be done by you.

The properties change the maths in ten years. Not building it alone is what protects the weekends in between.

Next step

Twenty minutes, after your shift.

Bring your roster and a rough idea of your borrowing position. You'll leave with a written buying brief — what to buy and why — whether or not you engage me to go and get it.

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