Ep.267: Setting The Right Game Plan For a Successful Property Portfolio, with Jordan De Jong

In this week’s episode of the Geared for Growth podcast, host Mike Mortlock welcomes back property investor and founder of Game Plans and Homefront.today, Jordan de Jong, to discuss his latest ventures and insights in the property industry.

Jordan, who has a background in data science, first appeared on the podcast in 2020 to talk about the future of AI in real estate. Since then, he’s established himself as a podcast host, educator, and the founder of Game Plans—an online property portfolio management tool designed to help clients strategically plan and grow their portfolios.

In this conversation, Jordan highlights the importance of setting long-term goals and creating a strategic plan to avoid borrowing capacity hurdles that could limit portfolio growth. He shares insights on the ideal number of assets needed for a sustainable portfolio that generates passive cash flow and explores different paths to achieving financial freedom through property.

This episode offers clear, data-backed advice on simplifying your portfolio and avoiding common pitfalls that many investors face — a must-listen for anyone aiming to build a strong, successful portfolio.

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In this week’s episode of the Geared for Growth podcast, host Mike Mortlock welcomes back property investor and founder of Game Plans and Homefront.today, Jordan de Jong, to discuss his latest ventures and insights in the property industry.

 

• What Game Plans is all about
• The big mistake property investors often make
• The two savvy advisors that investors need on their team
• Why are 71% of investors stuck on one property?
• Future forecasting and planning for different phases in your portfolio
• Jordan’s advice for new investors on where to start

“We’re an online property portfolio management system and essentially what we do is we sit down and we understand OK well what do you actually want out of your property portfolio” 1:11

“We’re in a scenario these days where you can’t actually get the borrowing capacity to buy 10 properties it’s just not available so we have to stretch and understand what we can buy with our borrowing capacity which for most people listening is a rough 6 times income rule” 6:33

“A big secret that not a lot of people talk about is well a lot of these people have actually established quite large businesses that help them underpin that bigger portfolio that can help them scale and build” 7:29

“What we try and breakdown is not just look at the number of properties which in reality doesn’t have any sort of comparable metrics in terms of what we’re doing is just a quantity, and understand the size of a portfolio overall” 13:44

“We’ve got our solid growth type asset and look that might be haemorrhaging 20 or 30 grand a year but it’s unsustainable to continue buying big rocks we need to have these little ones that are surrounding it that are helping underpin that cash flow position, stabilise that cash flow position” 21:40

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