Dolf de Roos started investing in property
while still at university studying Electrical
Engineering. He noticed that engineers were not
uniformly wealthy, and started to study the rich
to find out what they had in common. He read
biographies, autobiographies, encyclopedias, and
research articles, and interviewed wealthy
people. He found that they had very little in
common: it wasn’t age, or gender, or religious
beliefs, or whether they were born into a rich
family, or which country they were born in.
Rather, he could only find two things that they
had in common: they were all people of high
integrity and they all either made their money,
or held their wealth, in real estate. “I
knew then that I should invest in real estate,”
says Dolf.
By the time he graduated with a PhD in
electrical engineering in the
mid 1980s, Dr de Roos already had a substantial
property portfolio and
was on his way to becoming a property
millionaire.
Although he does very little electrical
engineering work these days
(he still runs a technology transfer company),
his engineer’s approach
to investing led him to develop a software
package to analysis potential
property investments. The Property Investment
Analysis program (PIA)
has sold thousands of copies both here and in
Australia. His first book,
The NZ Investor’s Guide to Making Money in
Residential Real Estate was a best seller and
established him as one of this country’s
best-known proponents of investment property.
“History proves that property increases in value
over time,” de Roos
says. Given that and the many other advantages
property has over any other form of investment,
I’m serious when I say you can’t afford not to
have property investments.”
Dolf is an experienced speaker and teacher. He
has lectured in over
12 countries. He first shared the platform with
Robert Kiyosaki in 1994,
and has been a guest speaker at Robert’s
programs. His latest best-selling book Real
Estate Riches has been published as part of
Robert’s Rich Dad’s Advisors(tm) series. Dolf’s
seminars and courses on the Why? and How? of
investing in property are always well-attended
and make a difference to the lives of those who
attend.
“One of my greatest satisfactions is hearing
from someone who attended one of my programs and
put what I taught them into action. Many times
they’ll say to me, ‘It was so easy! We did what
you said and now we own five or six properties,
they’re all cash-flow positive and our future is
assured.’ For me, that’s the reason I do this
work. Changing people’s lives for the better.”
