A process built around clarity, not speed.

Why a Structured Process Leads to Better Property Investment Decisions

At Get RARE, we help people make property decisions that still make sense years later. Not by moving faster. But by thinking more clearly before committing capital. This process exists to reduce regret, simplify decisions, and ensure every move fits into a broader strategy, not just the next purchase.

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Or, Choose Your Path

Why process matters more than property

Most people assume the hardest part of property investing is finding the right property. In reality, the hardest part is making decisions that still make sense years later.

What we see repeatedly are intelligent, capable professionals who:

Have good intent
Have access to information
Are financially able to act

Yet still end up with portfolios that feel fragmented, stressful, or harder to manage than expected. The issue is rarely effort or intelligence. It’s the absence of a clear decision process.

A good process doesn’t guarantee outcomes. But it dramatically reduces regret. It creates:

Better sequencing of decisions
Clearer trade-offs between growth, cash flow, and risk
Fewer reactive or rushed purchases
More confidence during uncertain markets

That’s what this process is designed to support.

The five stages

How our process actually works

Our process isn’t rigid or linear.

It’s designed to meet you where you are, then help you move forward with clarity. Most people move through five broad stages over time (though not always in this order):

Getting Started

Direction matters more than speed.

Building With Intent

Your next move needs a clear role

Portfolio Optimisation

The portfolio must work as a system

Strategic Long-Term Planning

Structure and flexibility matter

Clarity Required

Too many options, not enough structur

You don’t need to diagnose yourself. That’s what the diagnostic is for.

The four steps

From orientation to action.

Step 1: Clarify where you are

Before advice, recommendations, or execution, we start with orientation.
The Choose Your Path diagnostic is a short, thoughtful tool designed to help you:

Identify where you are in your property journey
Understand what typically matters most at this stage
Clarify the type of decision that actually deserves attention now

It’s not a quiz or a scorecard.
It’s a thinking tool designed to reduce noise and prevent jumping into the wrong conversation too early.

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Step 2: Understand what that stage really means

Each stage of a property journey carries different risks, trade-offs, and blind spots. This is why generic property advice often feels sensible but doesn't quite fit. Through tailored insights and follow-up guidance, we help you understand what usually matters most at your stage, recognise patterns that commonly create regret later, and frame decisions in context, not isolation.

This step isn’t about doing more. It’s about thinking better.

Our portfolio strategy and sequencing guide explains what typically matters most at each stage, useful context before the strategy call conversation.

Step 3: A Strategy Call to create clarity

At some point, thinking on your own stops being productive. Not because you lack intelligence, but because perspective is difficult to generate internally. That's where a Strategy Call fits.

It's not a sales call. It's a structured conversation designed to help you think clearly about your situation. Depending on your stage, a Strategy Call may involve clarifying the role of your next property, reviewing your existing portfolio as a system, stress-testing long-term structural decisions, or reducing complexity into a small number of real choices.

Most people leave with fewer options, greater confidence, and a clearer sense of direction.

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Step 4: Execute when the decision is clear (if appropriate)

Action comes last, not first. Once clarity is established, execution becomes calmer and more deliberate. At this point, we may support you with Buyer’s agency services, Portfolio reviews and sequencing, or Ongoing strategic guidance.

Importantly, not everyone moves into execution immediately. Sometimes the most strategic decision is to wait, review, simplify, or change direction.

If you want to understand what the execution experience looks like for clients who've been through it, the client journey page describes a full engagement from first conversation through to settlement and beyond. Our process is designed to support better decisions, not faster ones.

How we're scoped

We do one thing. We do it deeply. Knowing where our advice ends is part of how we add value.

Property strategy sits inside a broader financial picture that needs other specialists at the right moments. The most useful thing we can do up front is be precise about which decisions sit inside our advice and which sit outside, so you know exactly when to bring in your accountant, your financial planner, your broker, or your solicitor.

What we don't advise on

Lending or finance structuring

Super, SMSF set-up, or contribution strategy
Tax, depreciation, or trust structures
Insurance or estate planning
Anything we are paid by developers to recommend (we aren't)
Off-the-plan stock or builder inventory
Introducer fees in either direction
Decisions outside direct property, those belong to your other professionals

What we do advise on

Strategic property positioning: should you buy, what to aim for, in what sequence
Acquisition execution when the strategy supports it
Ongoing portfolio review as your circumstances evolve
Capital allocation logic across your existing and future holdings
Risk management and buffer discipline at each stage
Whether the right next move is to wait, restructure, or proceed
An institutional-portfolio mindset applied to private property decisions

The shorter version: we advise on direct property strategy. Your other professionals advise on everything else. Used together, the team works.

What this process helps you avoid

This approach is intentionally designed to reduce the most common sources of regret we see in property investing:

Buying before direction is clear
Repeating decisions without re-examining assumptions
Letting urgency replace thinking
Accumulating assets that don’t work together
Locking into long-term structures too early

Our guide to the 10 major dangers in property investing goes into each of these in depth.

Good outcomes aren’t just about what you do.
They’re also about what you don’t do prematurely.

Who this process is designed for

This process works best for people who:

Value clarity over hype
Want to understand decisions, not outsource thinking
Are building wealth over decades, not chasing short-term cycles
Prefer fewer, better decisions

If you’re looking for:

Hot property tips
One-size-fits-all advice
Fast answers without context

This may not be the right fit. And that’s intentional.

Led by Rasti Vaibhav

A process designed by someone who managed $2 billion in institutional mandates.

Get RARE Properties is led by Rasti Vaibhav, a CFA Charterholder and former institutional portfolio manager who managed over $2 billion in mandates at Westpac and AMP Capital before founding the firm in 2019. The process described above isn't generic property-firm methodology. It's institutional portfolio discipline, capital allocation, sequencing, risk management, and clear scope of advice, translated into private property decisions.

Clients often comment that working with Get RARE feels different from working with transactional buyer's agents because the firm operates with fee-based, scope-defined, fiduciary-style discipline. That's not marketing language; it's the operating model carried over from institutional asset management. It's also why this process produces better-sequenced decisions over five and ten year horizons rather than just better individual transactions.

Credential

CFA Charterholder

Education

MBA · Chicago Booth & AGSM

Experience

9 years · Westpac & AMP Capital · $2B+ mandates

Industry role

REINSW Buyers Agents Chapter Committee

2025 Award

REINSW John Greig OAM Award

Author

The Property Wealth Blueprint

Frequently asked

The questions prospects actually ask.

No. Get RARE advises on direct property strategy and acquisition only. We do not advise on lending or finance structuring (your mortgage broker's domain), tax or depreciation strategy (your accountant), super or SMSF set-up (your accountant or financial planner), or insurance and estate planning (your financial planner or solicitor). When clients need decisions in any of these areas, we coordinate with their existing professionals rather than extending into territory we are not licensed for. This scope discipline is structural, not optional.

No. Get RARE Properties does not take commissions from developers, vendors, or any third party. We do not sell off-the-plan stock or builder inventory. Clients pay Get RARE directly for strategic advisory and acquisition services. This independence is what allows us to recommend not buying when that's the right call for the client's situation, and to assess properties on their fit with the client's strategy rather than on what's available to sell.

Yes, and this is the preferred arrangement. Get RARE deliberately works alongside your existing accountant, financial planner, mortgage broker, and solicitor rather than replacing them. Each professional handles a different specialty: your broker handles lending and borrowing capacity, your accountant handles tax structuring and depreciation, your planner handles super and insurance, your solicitor handles estate matters. Get RARE handles direct property strategy. Coordinated multidisciplinary input typically produces better outcomes than a single firm trying to extend across multiple specialties.

The Strategy Call is a complimentary 45-minute structured conversation. The agenda has three parts: a quick review of where you currently sit (income, existing property, broader portfolio), a structured conversation about what your next decision needs to achieve, and an honest assessment of whether Get RARE is the right firm to help. There's no pitch deck and no obligation to proceed. Some calls end with a clear next step. Some end with a recommendation to wait. Some end with a referral elsewhere if Get RARE isn't the right fit.

Rasti Vaibhav is the founder of Get RARE Properties. He is a CFA Charterholder, an MBA graduate from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Australian Graduate School of Management, and a former institutional portfolio manager at Westpac and AMP Capital where he managed over $2 billion in mandates. He sits on the REINSW Buyers Agents Chapter Committee and was awarded the REINSW John Greig OAM Award in 2025. He is also the author of The Property Wealth Blueprint. The institutional portfolio management background is the foundation for how Get RARE applies portfolio discipline to private property decisions, and is what structurally differentiates the firm from transactional buyer's agents.

It depends on what the right outcome is for the client. Some clients move from Strategy Call to acquisition within 60-90 days. Others take 6-12 months because the strategically correct decision is to wait, restructure existing holdings, or build savings before acting. The process is designed to support better decisions, not faster ones. We will tell you honestly which timeline fits your situation rather than rushing to a transaction.

Yes. Get RARE Properties is licensed under the NSW Property and Stock Agents Act and carries professional indemnity insurance. The firm is an active member of the Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW), Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA), and the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA).

Your Next Step

There's no pressure to rush. Just a clear way forward.

If you're unsure where you are

Start with the diagnostic. A short, structured tool designed to help you identify your current stage and what typically matters most at it.

Choose Your Path

If you want clarity on a specific decision

Book a Strategy Call. Forty-five minutes. Complimentary. Structured. No pitch deck.

Book a Strategy Call

There’s no pressure to rush. Just a clear way forward.

If you'd prefer to explore the educational content first, our property investment insights library is organised by topic so you can read exactly what's relevant to your stage.