510 | From Dairy Farmer’s Daughter to Real Estate Empire! - Chat with Megan Rovers

The Property Couch

What happens when you combine a passion for property, a background in law and a trailblazing drive to create a one-of-a-kind property experience in Australia’s fastest-growing corridors? 🏠📈⚖️

The answer is Armstrong Real Estate!

Folks, in this episode, we sit down with Megan Rovers, co-founder of Armstrong Real Estate, who has built this real estate empire from the ground up since 2012.

Tune in to hear:

• The business values and personal finance lessons she learned growing up as the daughter of a dairy farmer,
• How she finished her law degree and built a flourishing business in Victoria’s largest continuous growth area
• Her unique property investing journey that has seen her flip five houses,
• Why Geelong is where you want to invest next and so much more!

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Chapters

1. From Dairy Farmer’s Daughter to Real Estate Empire! - Chat with Megan Rovers (00:00:00)

2. Join The Property Couch team, 2025 Summer Series shoutout and Free Report Alert! (00:01:25)

3. Mindset Minute: The #2 differences between people who make their dreams come true and those who don’t (00:06:08)

4. Welcome Megan Rovers! (00:07:55)

5. How did she create an incredible real estate empire from a background in law? (00:08:46)

6. Money Story: “If it was raining, we knew we could go on a holiday” (00:09:46)

7. What was it like growing up in a dairy farmer family? (00:12:18)

8. How did those business lessons shape her personal finances? (00:15:24)

9. The leap from law to loving real estate (00:20:15)

10. First experiences with Armstrong Creek: Buying with only 140 houses in the area?! (00:22:55)

11. The pivot from established to green field subdivisions (00:25:26)

12. From first jobs selling Off the Plan to building a real estate empire (00:28:11)

13. With no experience in real estate, how did Armstrong Real Estate flourish? (00:32:28)

14. Finishing her law degree while building an empire (00:34:59)

15. Juggling multiple hats: How did Megan navigate tough times? (00:40:02)

16. Breaking into the Boys Club: “I’ve never looked at it as a problem.” (00:42:31)

17. Building clients for life and a holistic service (00:45:55)

18. Megan’s “non-traditional” property journey: 5 houses to reach her dream home!? (00:50:09)

19. The buying demographic in Armstrong Creek (00:55:03)

20. Are interest rates impacting investors in this area? (00:56:47)

21. Why should people invest in Geelong? (00:59:24)

22. Thank you Megan! What a resilient and remarkable guest (01:03:16)

23. Lifehack: How to avoid pesky ads! (01:05:54)

24. WMPN: Corelogic’s September Hedonic Home Value Index (01:08:58)