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    PUMP-UP THE POTENTIAL

    Sep 30, 2021 6 minutes
    Photgraphy by Mark Glover.

    When Ilse Wolfe was a little girl, she’d steal her parents’ shoes and sell them back to them for $2, along with a handmade bookmark. The aim was to raise money for lollies: an ingenious ploy, which not only worked, but presaged the birth of an entrepreneurial spirit.

    Fast forward to 2021, and Wolfe is still finding ways in which to create wealth outside of the box. Her property portfolio, which is shared with her fiancé Taylor Green, is valued at $12 million and growing, and she is teaching her “cashflow hacking” secrets to others via Opes Accelerate Property Investment Programme.

    But just five years ago, her property portfolio was languishing. She’d been forced back to work after a stint as a full-time property investor, due to an investment that offered good capital gains, but wasn’t paying its way.

    “I’d been so tunnel focussed on capital gains, and had attended a coaching programme

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