Investing your money can allow you to grow it. Most investments offer returns on your money over a long period of time. This return allows your money to build, creating wealth over time and often compounding.

While you are working you should be saving money for retirement. Investing in property NOW will allow you to build equity and therefore income and then, at retirement age, you can live off funds earned from these investments via rent or selling the asset for a profit.

Property Investment tends to offer the opportunity to earn higher rates of return than savings accounts; therefore, if you want the chance to earn a higher return on your money, you will need to explore investing your money in property.

As a property investor, you may be able to reduce your taxable income by using tax deductions then using those rebates/deductions to pay down debt or invest elsewhere while your asset continues to grow in value.

Most Australians are brought up understanding that each week they need to put a small amount of money aside as savings to slowly grow their wealth. The problem is when most people go through a period of unemployment or illness, or even expansion of the family, those long term savings are spent.

While it is true we do need to save, the greatest step we can make is move from being a saver to an investor. Making money is slow and tedious when we do it week by week.

The ultimate goal is to use the savings to make money then use that money to create growth and more money.