For NSW investors doing second dwellings, dual occupancy and splits
Know whether it's worth doing before you commit a dollar.
Most people never get past the hardest step: finding the right block. The club shows you how and where to look, then sits beside you while you run the numbers, with someone who's doing it this year. From the first search to the new titles, you're not working it out alone.
Same block. Same day. Three sets of numbers.
A real southern NSW listing, asking $770,000. Here's what three different investors would do with it.
Tap between the three scenarios and watch what happens to the margin. Then watch what happens to everything else.
- New dwellings created1
- Existing houseRetained
- Rental income during worksContinues
- Demolition requiredNo
- Time to completeMuch shorter
Two of these land within $600 of each other. One takes two years and stops the rent. The calculation that separates them takes four minutes, and almost nobody does it before they make an offer.
Show me the $100,000 decisionEducational example from a real listing. Figures are specific to that site, were current at the time of assessment and are subject to council approval. They are not a prediction of any result you will achieve.
You keep looking at listings. You keep not making the offer.
Not because you can't. Because every time you get close, the same questions come up, and there's nobody to ask. The course you paid thousands for had the theory, and nothing after. The free Facebook group has plenty of opinions and not many people who've actually done it. And you can't ask a podcast a question.
So you're standing on the footpath outside a block that might be the one, and the only person you can turn to is you.
Will council let me? What will it actually cost? What's it worth when it's done? And the one almost nobody asks: is it even worth doing, or am I about to spend two years for the same margin a simpler project would give me in eight months?
So you do what most people do. Kitchen table, spreadsheet, nobody to check it, and an agent who wants an answer by Friday. Then one of two things happens. You walk away from a good block because you couldn't see what it was worth. Or you buy it, and find out later what it cost you.
Almost every expensive property mistake I've seen was made by a careful, capable person working it out alone.
The house is only half the block. The other half is where the money is, and most people never price it.
This is for you if
- You own, or want to find, a site with usable side or rear land
- You've done a course or joined a group, and you still haven't acted
- You want the numbers before the emotion
- You'd rather one honest hour a week than another $15,000 program
- You don't have the software and data that buyers' agents and town planners work with
- You want micro development to become your main game, not a side hobby
Probably not for you if
- You want a passive buy-and-hold portfolio
- You're after a hot tip or a guaranteed return
- You're doing 20 lots and need a project manager
- You want someone else to find it, buy it and run it for you
From the first search to the new titles
Eight stages. Someone beside you at every one.
Council approval isn't the finish line. It's where the real work starts. Here's the road, and where the club shows up on it.
Choose the strategy
Keep and add. Split and sell. Light reno and hold. You'll learn how each pathway works, what it needs in capital, time and risk, and how to weigh up which one suits you, before you look at a single listing.
Find the site
The hardest step, and the one most people never get past. The community shows you how and where to look, and real listings get pulled apart every week in the Live Lab.
Read the planning rules
NSW zoning, lot size, setbacks, secondary dwelling and dual occupancy rules. Senior town planners join the Live Labs and explain them on real blocks.
Run the numbers
Feasibility the way a professional does it, with every cost in. Your site reviewed as a group, and AcqLogic to test the assumptions before you commit.
Renovate with a plan
Light, targeted work that adds value without a builder. Members who've done it share what to touch, what to leave, and how to style it to sell or rent.
CDC or DA
Which approval pathway fits the block, what each one costs, how long it takes, and who you need on the team.
Tip: NSW now allows variations under CDC. Hardly anyone knows it. Our members do.
Council approval. Now the sprint starts.
Approval is the beginning, not the end. The next 30, 60 and 90 days decide whether the project makes money, and we map every one of them with you.
The 30 / 60 / 90 day sprintGet the titles
Subdivision, surveyor, conveyancer, the bank, get the titles. Two titles where there was one. Then sell, hold, and go again.
Also covered inside the club, as you need it
Not a 40-module course you never finish. Topics come up when a member's deal needs them, and the recordings are there when yours does.
Why people choose the club over another course
Someone who did it this year, not ten years ago.
I'm mid-project on several NSW sites right now. What we pull apart on a Tuesday night is usually what I was dealing with that morning.
Real sites. Real deals. Real strategies.
Some members bring their own site to a Live Lab. Others watch, learn and keep theirs private. Either way, every session works on a real listing with real numbers, never a slide about a deal from ten years ago.
Council rules, not a national overview.
Secondary dwellings, dual occupancy, strata and subdivision, explained on real NSW blocks by planners who deal with those councils every day. We focus on NSW because that's where we see the most opportunity.
One membership. Nothing waiting behind the curtain.
No upsell at the end of a webinar. The one optional extra is a $325 private review, and most members never need it.
Experts in every Live Lab.
Senior town planners, property accountants, conveyancers, brokers and valuers join the Live Labs, online and live, and explain their part on real examples. One knowledge bomb from one of them can save you more than a year of membership.
Join by 30 November and $595 a month is held for your first 12 months.
Join the club
What you actually get
An ordinary week in the club
Live Lab, every week
One hour, online and live, every Tuesday at 8pm. A real listing, a real contract or a member's own block, pulled apart before anyone commits a dollar. Recorded, so you never miss one.
Your deals
Up to two Rapid Deal Screens a month. Your site, reviewed as a group with guidance from the mentors. Education only, no recommendations, and the clearest hour you'll spend on a property.
The tools
Due diligence frameworks, planning checklists, feasibility tools, and access to AcqLogic, our property acquisition intelligence tool.
The people
Town planners, brokers, accountants, conveyancers and valuers who already understand this strategy, and members a few steps ahead of you who remember what it was like.
You don't need to own an investment property. You don't need a site in mind yet. You need to stop working it out alone.
Three deals, sixteen months, every cost included
This is what the method looks like, rather than a lucky run
Same houses, a few months apart.
Drag the handle to compare
Not one of them needed a demolition or a builder, and rental income kept coming in for most of the project. Every figure is after stamp duty, professional fees, interest and selling costs. Notice how close together those returns sit.
These are past projects shown for education. Each figure is specific to that site and the market at the time. Past results are not an indication of future results, and nothing here is a prediction of what you will achieve.
What members say changed
Before Real Estate Mentor Club we had the deals in front of us but not the confidence to back ourselves, always stressed we'd get it wrong. Now we've actually bought a property, and we feel far more confident working through a feasibility and knowing what a good deal looks like. What we keep coming back to is weighing the risk against the reward, instead of always chasing the biggest return. Having a supportive group and a mentor who's friendly, approachable and genuinely wants us to succeed makes it so easy to ask questions and keep learning.
Alex & ScottMembers
Anthony explained things in a way that finally made sense. We learned how to look at property differently and lost the uncertainty we used to feel.
N. MillinerMember
My clients keep telling me how clearly Anthony and the team explain strategic property investment.
Ashia LeviqueLevique Finance Group
Membership
One membership. Everything in the club.
Join by 30 November 2026 and $595 is held for your first 12 months. From 1 December, new members pay $795 a month.
One wrong investment costs more than ten years in the club.
The planning and feasibility software alone would cost you $964 a month on your own.
Join the clubJoin today and the foundation programme opens straight away: seven short sessions that get you thinking like a developer before you sit in your first Live Lab.
What's included
- Weekly Live Lab, online, recorded
- Up to two Rapid Deal Screens a month on your own sites
- Finance structure review, delivered by a licensed finance professional we work with
- Two desktop bank valuations, subject to the bank's terms and conditions
- Professional town planning software, the same the planners use
- The property data and research tools the best buyers' agents use
- Due diligence frameworks, planning checklists and feasibility tools
- Access to AcqLogic, our property acquisition intelligence tool
- The member community, the professional network and the recordings library
Term and guarantee. Membership is for a minimum of 12 months, because this isn't a course you finish in a weekend. If it's not right for you, tell us in writing within 30 days of your first payment and we refund that month.
REMC provides general education only and does not arrange credit or give financial, legal, tax or planning advice.
The questions people ask before they join
Is this financial advice?
No. The club provides general education only. Nothing we discuss considers your personal circumstances or is financial, legal, tax, credit or planning advice. Get independent advice before you act on anything.
I've never bought an investment property. Am I too new?
No. Most members join to build knowledge and confidence before they make a decision. What matters is that you want to do this properly, not that you've done it before.
Will you look at my deal?
Yes, in the Live Labs and the Rapid Deal Screens, as a group and as education. We'll walk through the frameworks and the things to consider. We won't tell you what to buy or what to offer.
Is it online or in person?
Online and live. Live Labs run every Tuesday at 8pm Sydney time, and every session is recorded and in the library within a day.
What if I can't make a Tuesday night?
Watch the recording. Plenty of members catch up on the weekend, and you can still bring your site to the next Rapid Deal Screen.
Do I have to share my own site?
No. Some members bring their site to a Live Lab or a deal screen. Others watch, learn and keep theirs private. Both get the same value from the session.
Why a 12-month term?
Because finding one site, assessing it, getting approvals and finishing a project takes most of a year, and the people who get the most from the club are the ones still turning up at month nine. The 30-day guarantee is there so you can find out early whether it's for you.
Are the deals on this page real?
Yes. They're our own projects in NSW, shown by region and strategy with every cost included. They're educational examples and not a prediction of what you'll achieve.
I'm not in NSW. Should I join?
We focus on NSW because that's where our projects are and where we see the most opportunity. The method, the numbers, the tools and the deal screens work in other states too, and we have members outside NSW.
Your mentor
Anthony Simon
I bought my first property in 1991. In the 35 years since I've bought, renovated, subdivided, split and sold property across NSW, Queensland and Victoria, and I'm mid-project on several NSW sites right now.
I started the club because the people losing money weren't the lazy ones. They were careful, capable people who had never been shown how to read a block the way a planner or a valuer reads it, so they relied on hope instead of numbers, and did it alone.
The club is the room I wish I'd had in 1991.
More about Anthony and the clubStop working it out alone.
Join by 30 November and $595 a month is held for your first 12 months.