Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa May/June 2015 | Page 13

PERSONAL
STATISTICS

D

olf de Roos is synonymous with the real estate
investment industry. He is well known in South
Africa for the property seminars he has conducted
there and for his investment tours. He is well known
too for his eight-bestselling books, his property
education programmes and property management
software and his mentoring programmes, which have had a major
impact on the lives of thousands of people around the world, including
many South Africans.
Worldwide and in South Africa many so-called property gurus have
tried to replicate his model, many of them not even investors themselves
but salesmen making money off property sales and related services.
Dolf has presented his model in more than 26 countries. He has
shared the stage with Jim Rohn and Mark Victor Hansen and has
worked with Tony Robbins on Wealth Mastery. He presents an
interfaculty of Trump University, where many of its programmes are
backed by Dolf ’s strategies. He is Professor of U & T at the University
of North Dakota and a faculty of the Texas University. Dolf began
investing as an undergraduate student while studying for a Ph.D in
electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Canterbury
in New Zealand.
What separates him from the other international so-called gurus is
that he walks the talk. He has always been an active investor, building
his portfolio. Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia and Europe,
Dolf is now based in Phoenix, Arizona, in the United States, which he
believes is the best area in the world to invest in real estate.
However, he does not only invest in his country of residence but also
internationally. He owns multiple types of real estate in commercial
and residential property.
His book Real Estate Riches was a New York Times and Wall Street
Journal bestseller and formed part of the successful Rich Dad Poor Dad
series. He regularly conducts seminars, investment tours and education
events throughout the world, including in the United States, Australia,
New Zealand, Europe, Middle East, Asia and South Africa.
REIM caught up with Dolf to get an update on where real estate is
today and whether it is still a good investment. Dolf has been investing
in real estate for decades. He shows people from all walks of life how to
find great deals and make great profits in real estate. His proven tactics,
quick and easy tips and investment prowess can turn even the novice
investor into a pro.
Dolf ’s claim to fame is that he has never had a ‘real’ job in his life,
because the real estate he invested