In this week’s episode we talk to Khumo Nawa from Botswana. Khumo has been in the banking sector for 15 years and decided at a young age that she wanted to be out of the corporate world by the time she was 35, but she started working and forgot the dream. In 2016, she found herself feeling unfulfilled and drifting into depression and ended up leaving her job prematurely in 2017.
Luckily, she acquired her first property in 2011, a 2 bedroom house on a piece of land, when she had read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, in the same year (2011) she decided to get a 500,000 Pula loan to build a 3 bedroom house for herself to live in. She rented out the 2 bedroom to a tenant.
When she left her job in 2017, she didn’t have enough money to pay the loan because her side hustle and tenant income didn't cover her expenses. She ended up in court with the bank, in February 2019, the court granted her a settlement agreement.
At this point she realized that she needed to plan her finances differently, in March 2019, she decided to go back into the corporate world. She was goal driven and she knew why she was working. She decided she was going back to the working world for 2.5 years.
Her first goal was to get rid of all her bad debt, she had a million Pula in mortgage and personal loans. She changed her lifestyle drastically, she went back to the village, because it was much cheaper there so she could direct her money to achieve her goals. She was able to pay off 340,000 Pula in debt in 17 months.
After settling her debt, she ended up with 17,000 Pula free every month. She looked at the village and decided to use a 2,000 sqm plot for 85,000 Pula in the village, which she had acquired in 2013 and decided to build 1 room houses for people in the village. She built 1 block of rooms (each block had 3 rooms) for 75,000 Pula close to a technical college for students and had a waiting list for students for accommodation and rented out the unit for 1,800 Pula per unit. She had determined she needed 16,000 Pula per month to be financially free.
She had an opportunity to get a loan, because she named the project her financial security project, to a level where this project can take care of her. She decided that if she used debt, she would want it to be short debt and she could be in and out quickly
She also started a blog and started showing everyone how she was able to use their salary to create financial freedom. She started showing people how they could use their salary differently and attracted a lot of people to the blog and she started coaching and selling products on her blog.
She decided that 50% of all her income would go towards her real estate and building her portfolio.
At the same time a mall was being built near her property; people started looking for accommodation and she built studio apartments where each block is rented out for 4,500 Pula.
She is currently looking for 540,000 Pula for 12 months to build 3 blocks of studio apartments. She is not looking for equity partners, she is looking for people who want a better return on investment than their bank or financial institution can provide them.
This is a really incredible episode.
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Episode 60: Using village land to solve the problems of poverty
Episode 59: Using other people’s money to grow to 70 properties
Episode 58: Why you need a Quantity Surveyor on your next property investment project
Episode 57: From Fitness Trainer to negotiating a R1 billion (US$61 million) property deal
Episode 56: Profiting from rent to rent on the African continent
Episode 55: From a mud house to building dream houses
Episode 54: Overcoming addiction to own 35 properties
Episode 53: Why it is important to get your mindset right before you start off on your investment journey
Episode 52: How the #PropertyMagicians podcast has impacted listeners and guests
Episode 51: How to make a profit in 6 months flipping (buy, renovate and sell) houses using other people's money
Episode 50: Lessons learned from having your properties being auctioned and rebuilding a bigger portfolio during a recession
Episode 49: How to make money flipping properties and invest in property with your taxes
Episode 48: A high return property investment opportunity for the busy investor
Episode 47: Real Estate investing trends in Suriname
Episode 46: From growing up in a tin house to a 380 unit development by the age of 27
Episode 45: Exploring high cashflowing properties in the Cape Town ekasi market
Episode 44: From cleaner to building an international company
Episode 43: An inspirational 8 year journey to developing 14 units
Episode 42: Lessons learned from making R1 Million by 21
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