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Howdy,
I've decided to start a blog to air my thoughts on property investing.
My current state of affairs is that i am almost 28, male, tradesman (cabinetmaker) living in the Frankston area.
I own my own home, and have 0 investment properties.

While working as a cabinetmaker I have met 2 people who were I guess professional renovators. I think i did notice at the time, but more so looking back now I think these people had a great career, something which I want to eventually do one day. Not necessarily always renovating, but the fact they get to work for themselves, understand fully what they are doing, and have others (accountant, solicitor, contractors, tradesman, labourers etc) working for them seems an ideal situation for me.
They seemed to have time for there family, and seemed to be freer that what i felt with my fixed working hours.

One guy was a landscaper by trade. He didn't have the necessary skills for doing carpentry but none the less he tried. One instance he used decking nails to nail down the floor in his kitchen/lounge room. For those who don't know the decking nails have a big bulbous head on them. The thing about polished timber floors is that they have to get sanded, so usually they guys who lay the timber flooring use a special nail gun called a secret nailer to hide the nails. Either that or they have to putty all the nails up. So our friend must of had to punch all of the decking nails he put down, then putty over the top.

But good luck to him, I bet he didn't make that mistake again.
We have done two of his jobs and the second was quite a big job, second story add on, extended the kitchen out and put on a big deck which looked great.

The other guy was quite good, we did a few of his jobs also. He had 2 skilled labourers working for him. He seemed quite on top of the game but I haven't seen him in a while, as I think he's finished up the renovation gig.

Just speaking about other people who have similar interests reminds me that meeting people like this is something I must do sooner rather than later. As someone wise once told me 'who you hang with, is who you are.'

Thanks for taking the time to read this, im going to keep updating just to get my thoughts and analysis down on paper, as i don't have the time to do it all in this one post.