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Real Estate & Investment
Wednesday 25 October, 2017 THE WEEKLY TIMES 23
The Weekly Times signs Tigers fan as our exclusive barefoot broker
The Weekly Times has signed local Tiger supporter and investment expert
Jason Khoury who will answer reader questions and ensure they are well
Mr Khoury is CEO of
iChoice and has been nominated
for Best Mortgage
iChoice nominated for best
NSW Brokerage with less
The Weekly Times as The
school as the dux for Economics
and worked part
time between 1988 and
1992 as a bartender at
Balmain Leagues Club’s
Stripes Bar whilst attend-
where he studied Econom-
Four years later he had
graduated from the three
year degree by which time
-
NSW Fire Brigades but had
already been kicked out of
the Australian Army where
he was a sharp-shooting
-
After a hang-gliding ac-
up most things dangerous
and at age 21 left our
shores to polish his bartending
skills in England
At nights, he was employed
by a night club in
“Hey, it wasn’t the tough-
Westpac where his role
beer and build bridges
presenting an acceptance
letter to attend the Austral-
a Diploma of Education,
for which Jason didn’t
Studying on week nights
at the Securities Institute
of Australia, he was
a professional entertainer
on weekends and as an
Economics and Religion
school teacher by day and
a performing bartender at
the Burdekin Hotel in Dar-
of a late night dodgy TV
Notwithstanding weeks
of rehearsing, his rendition
of Shakespeare in
1996 wasn’t enough to
see him get accepted into
NIDA, and so a banking
-
At 26, he started as a
management trainee at
Arab Bank Australia, tak-
Japan, Africa and Vietnam
where - with the help
of a 100CC motorbike -
he was able to constantly
cross the Mekong Delta to
see the sun rise and then
He was head-hunted by
St George Corporate to
bring on board Sydney’s
-
switched to NAB Commercial
to do more de-
-
With an aim to be selfemployed
by the time
he was 40, he got an
early mark in the form of
a golden handshake by
Westpac, handed back
the keys to his company
He spent time with his
kids for a couple of years
before building his brand,
which soon became a
leading mortgage business
for the self-employed
and profession-
Sydney-based info nights
with other speakers talk-
His popularity in the Inner
West - along with
his interest in creating
change - led him to a run
for a seat State Parlia-
with thousands of prop-
years, but has also per-
eral
houses, townhouses,
apartments, commercial
The Weekly Times has signed Tigers fan Jason Khoury - The Barefoot Broker - who will
He says ‘too easy’ instead
“I teach that anxiousness
is just a reminder to picture
your goals, and I’m always
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Being utterly fascinated
with the study of numbers,
interest rates, patterns and
life, he certainly has a few
yarns to tell in his soon-tobe
published “Cold Beer
Warm Glasses, where Aus-
“These stories encapsu-
and the book, without any
banter, presents clearly the
mistakes most of us make
when it comes to buying
property, structuring our
debt, protecting our assets
and building wealth in our
-
Our Barefoot Broker is cer-
ties to the ceiling of my of-