Motivation for life partner !

Hi Alex

Unfortunately motivation comes from within.  We can be inspired by external factors such as reading or listening to other peoples' successes but until we (as an individual) decide to take action no amount of encouragement or coercion will work.

Without knowing your full situation it sounds like you and your partner worked hard to achieve your goal of moving to Australia, however, your partner may now be comfortable in their current situation here (work, house, friends, etc) and the thought of starting a new journey on property investing could be taking them out of their comfort zone and the pain of hardwork could be turning them off, thus their reluctance to 'get-on-board' so to speak.

One suggestion may be that you do all the research and then present him with some numbers to crunch on some deals and see how that goes.  Get him involved with something that he enjoys doing like the number crunching and ask him to show you how to calculate profits, yields,etc, etc. You mentioned that you both worked pretty well together – you may need to compliment each other's skills.  As I said before, you do the research he crunches the numbers.  This approach could just be the trick that gets him motivated.

There could be many reasons why your partner doesn't seem overly keen or motivated to get involved. This is just my opinion and my experience in goal setting and motivation. People are naturally motivated when they are doing something they enjoy and doesn't involve any emotional pain, i.e., the hardwork that is involved with property investing.

Regards
Damien Clarke

You need to plan  backwards.
For example
In twenty years time we (you and life partner) want to earn as passive income $200,000 a year and based on a yield of 5% we would need to accumulate $4 million in property equity by twenty years time.
$200,000 in twenty years is most likely be about $110,000 a year in today's figures using 3% inflation

I have this situation. My wife doesn't care about investing or business or anything to do with money really (except maybe spending it).
Luckily she is supportive of me and lets me invest our money.

It's much harder doing it by yourself, but maybe with the support of your partner (but maybe you the help of your partner) you could achieve great things. Then once you get started and start seeing some results I am sure he will want to join in.

When money is being made and you are having a great time, people can't help but want to get in on the action

Haha, I bought Rich Dad Poor Dad for my wife (when she was still my gf) and tried to make her read it. She got about half way through and gave up.

For some people investing is in their blood and they LOVE it, for other people not so much. I just gave up trying to push her, I will go ahead and let her come along for the ride.

Alex,

I understand your pain. It is hard to motivate someone if it is not the path they truely want to go down and they may end up resenting you down the track.
Remember though even if he is not motivated it doesn't mean you can't do it. I am 27, single and I own two properties. Sometimes it is hard but it is worth it in the long run. Start small and work your way up, he will catch on soon enough if he is the right one for you.

Jess

I know where you are coming from Alex. My partner isn’t overly interested in property, he wants us to use it as a means of early retirement but he doesn’t have the excitement or addiction (at some times) to searching for property and reading to learn about investing. In fact I bought 2 of our properties while he was away on fishing trips. I know if there were less fishing trips I’d have more properties but I also know I have to work with what I can and hope he catches on soon.

I am looking at investing with my sister as she too is super into property, don’t know whether to go that way or not though as I have endeavoured to always keep family and finance separate.

Cheers

Ruth