Wow, thanks gang, really helpful.
The bloke from chicago, thanks, great read, have booked marked it for more detail. Love your city, have great memories of a few days along the lakesshore drive followed by a deep dish spinach at giordanos (sp?)
Hi megatron.
To be brief, i finished my degree in '96. Moved to the uk with my wife as my dad is from here , so have a pommie passport, for some short term travel that has turned into 17-yrs.
We had circa 150k us in student debt. We did it the old fashion way. Lived waaaay below our means, cleared the student debt in 2-yrs. Then with a bit of forward planning, a lot of really hard work and a tremendous amount of luck we bought a series of properties. Had 13 at one point. Bought them all on finance, nearly got wiped out at one point, consolidated, learned from our many many many mistakes and here we are 17 yrs later with a shit load of equity.
Of course the world was different then, cheap house prices in calgary, booming uk economy and a very strong exchange rate in our favour with lots of cheap credit.
Happy to share any details you want to know but don,t want to be a bore.