Each week BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's property investing to become financially independent. Hosted by Frances Cook.

Investing in property is something many New Zealanders use as a way to secure their financial future. 

Today's guest planned to do just that, investing into properties with a plan to achieve financial independence. 

But the saying goes that if you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans. 

So it was an unfortunate dose of bad luck when one apartment turned out to be leaky, and needed extensive repairs. 

So how to deal with it, and does it ruin the plans for financial independence? 

For the latest podcast, I talked to Helen Eschenbruch.

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