Sometimes when I look back during my NS days, after polishing my boots before “lights out” (guys, remember those days? lol!); instead of hogging on the phone to call girlfriends like my other bunkmates, I would read a number of books basically success stories of self-made millionaires, autobiographies of renown entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Donald Trump etc to self-help books, by Robert Kiyosaki. You can find these books at your nearest bookstores or just borrow from the library (save money). One thing they all have in common, most mentioned about property investment. The question is how can I start to apply what I’ve read to Singapore’s context of investing property. Is it that simple as what they’ve written in books published in the US? Who can I learn from in Singapore? Who should I approach and learn the ropes?
During the start of my entrepreneurial days, I invested thousands of dollars (sometimes I even loaned the money) just to attend seminars on wealth mastery by millionaires (who are mostly Mat Sallehs/Ang Mohs) themselves. You have to learn from the best! That is what I believed very strongly in and hope one day my community will have more self-made millionaires to inspire fellow youths and other aspiring entrepreneuers!!!
Most of the millionaires in those seminars kept mentioning about properties again and again and again! But of course everything made more sense after I learned from other local businessmen, property investors and bankers. But I’ve to be thick skin and ask around and open my mouth. Some of course wouldn’t have the time to entertain me, some were nice to sit down and talk to a young man like me, 7 years ago. And I appreciate that a lot.
So I wonder if it all started during my poly days (uni days for some) or say during my NS years, there was someone who could explain to me more about property investment at that time. I mean being a student or an NS boy, I wouldn’t have the money to attend expensive courses/seminars, but the knowledge at least would’ve provided me a game plan for myself, before I enter the working world. Wouldn’t that create a big impact on my life then? Or others for that matter…
Imagine I would get to meet Donald Trump from my community, Second Chance Properties Ltd, Salleh Marican at the age of 20! And sit and have coffee with him and talk about properties. Wow! Man! I can’t imagine.
After 10 years, I’m still hoping one day, I get to meet Mr Marican, InsyaALLAH. Sometimes when u visualize hard, it can happen.
I’m no Donald Trump and I’m not Mr. Salleh Marican, nor am I one of the big players in property investing, but I would like to reach out to the young malays and instill the awareness in property investment with whatever knowledge and experience I have.
Come on to those who feel I have ulterior motives approaching these students, there’s no business to be made from them. Most think businessmen are just out to sell something. Goodness! I’m just offering my time. They’re just students, still studying. They can’t afford to purchase properties right now… at least not yet. But that little knowledge that I can share from my humble experience, hopefully would benefit them in some ways in the future insyaALLAH.
Today I emailed to muslim/malay language societies from NUS, NTU and SMU. Looking forward to their reply.
Assalamualaikum,
My name is Fye (Faisel). I wish to hold a seminar on property investment. My objective is to raise the awareness among our young malays to invest early in their life. I believe embarking on the investment of property should commence early... even before you own your first set of wheels. (That’s my motto)
I'm not a financial planner but i wish to share my experiences as an entrepreneur. You don't have to go thru the obstacles i did before. I will try my best to help and share a faster route (thru proper planning) for you to own your first private property as investment. InsyaALLAH.
Lately I have helped my friends, (from the age of 25 to 28 ) young malay professionals to own private properties as investment, enjoying yield return (from rental) and capital gain. And they are doing quite well, alhamdullilah. And i can’t help to emphasise the fact that planning should start early even when you are still studying in Uni or serving NS. (for the men.)
In other words, start planning before the start of your career. I'm doing my bid to contribute back to the community by doing this. Because I feel our community is far behind compared to other races when it comes to investing, particularly in areas of property. And i feel it’s about time someone in the community come forward and educate the young malays on this matter.
To know more about me, visit my blog. fyepropertyclub.blogspot.com
Call me to arrange a meeting. I'm contactable at 90230230 or email me at fyepropertyclub@gmail.com.
Hopefully we can meet before the start of ramadhan. I’m free these few days.
I'll try my best to make time despite my tight schedule. Look forward to your reply.
salam
Fye
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Salams Fye,
May i ask who did you email to in NUS? I was from there and I can help forward emails to you..
By the way I'm Fadzuli..like what you mention, when we were studying we hardly knew of any mentors from the business world that could come forward to give talks or seminars to us to give a clearer picture of what the real world is because in our malay community we dont have strong alumnis. Thus the current students now do not know who the students of yesteryear were. It is a problem for us undergrads then to know who to connect with
And most of the time we would be busy organizing activities for the Malay Language Society or the Muslim Society...these are the Major Malay Muslim Societies in NUS .
It is great that you have these ideas, my stand is start with SMU first to avoid disappointments. The students there are more focused on wealth creation where as NUS and NTU are more artsy futsy and more slanted towards ISLAMIC education..
Forgot to introduce myself, I am an entrepreneur too. I did the websites for abangabu and nowasia. There are a few more
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