How to deal when your property investment turns out to be a leaky home

<p>Each week BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's property investing to become financially independent. Hosted by Frances Cook.</p> <p>Investing in property is something many New Zealanders use as a way to secure their financial future. </p> <p>Today's guest planned to do just that, investing into properties with a plan to achieve financial independence. </p> <p>But the saying goes that if you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans. </p> <p>So it was an unfortunate dose of bad luck when one apartment turned out to be leaky, and needed extensive repairs. </p> <p>So how to deal with it, and does it ruin the plans for financial independence? </p> <p>For the latest podcast, I talked to Helen Eschenbruch.</p> <p>If you have a question about this podcast, or a question you'd like answered in the next one, come and talk to me about it. I'm on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookNZ/">Facebook here</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/">Instagram here</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook">Twitter here</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>