What housing crisis?
Meet teenage entrepreneur Caitlin Argyle.
The Gold Coast teen usually deals in homework, text messages and social media.
But now the 17-year-old has come up with a revolutionary way to get a foot in the property market — crowdfunding the deposit.
Caitlin insists she is not after charity (though donations are apparently welcome) and is offering use of the investment property and a range of other rewards in exchange for cold, hard cash.
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You can hire out the house for a week, spend a night at her family home, hire Caitlyn by the hour or day for odd jobs or to paint faces at kids’ parties, or just buy an ‘extra special thanks’ or a $5 virtual hug.
Watch her pitch her (post continues after video):
Caitlin says her parents offered to cough up 90 per cent of the house price if she managed to save up a $48,000 deposit.
“If I wait until I save the money up from working it will take me many years to raise a deposit,” she explains.
“The longer I take the more expensive houses will become and the longer it will take me to raise the money…in fact after expenses, taxes and increasing prices it might take me 20 years to buy one!”
Top Comments
This is disgusting. For one, $4000 is not that much to have saved up from a part time job. I work 3 part-time jobs and I attend uni full time. I'm barely 2 years older than her. I have over $50k saved because I live with my parents and I'm actually consciously saving most of my money for buying my first home. With study and my jobs, I'm working a total of 50+ hours a week and even now, I realise I have barely enough to cover my HECs. Her entitlement is shocking and I really hope her parents expect her to pay them back. Are you really applauding her for asking random strangers for money to buy her a house when she's able to work for a deposit like the rest of us? She will never know the meaning of a hard day's work if she thinks she's entitled to get a house through mummy and daddy and crowdfunding. 'Some people say I'm too young to own a house' - no, hun, you're just too immature to understand the real value of money and the meaning of working hard for your rewards. From the quotes, she sounds incredibly selfish - literally every pronoun is 'I' or 'me'.
Kinda like glorified begging