Young couple who ‘started with nothing’ quit their jobs in their 20s thanks to property investment

PHOTO: Mina and Scott O’Neill.

IN 2010, husband-and-wife duo Mina and Scott O’Neill bought their first investment property.

They had worked hard for years to scrape together a deposit of $60,000, and were excited to snap up a large house with a granny flat in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire for $480,000.

The house delivered a healthy rental return of $670 per week, a return that has grown to $1050 per week today.

After two more years of saving, the couple bought a unit in Maroubra in Sydney in 2012, where they lived for a year.

They then decided to add to their portfolio by purchasing four units on the one title in Port Macquarie for around $425,000.

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