LJ Hooker

So that one is for the chocolate lovers.

And prize number four has kindly been donated by the LJ Hooker team, and it is a very fancy bottle of Verve.

So I highly recommend you come and shop on those days.

purely just to get yourself into this fantastic raffle.

I remember it very vividly, and it was probably my most important lesson.

I'd been appointed at 39 years of age to the empire of LJ Hooker Limited by a consortium of 72 banks that were owed in those days the unimaginable amount of $2.1 billion.

Um, it doesn't sound that much today, but it was a lot back then.

Still sounds a lot to me, but yes.

And they're actually, you know, I think we're going to learn about how cool they really are.

Andrew Curren is principal of LJ Hooker in Tuggerong.

Knows a thing or two about pole houses.

Andrew, good morning.

Thank you for having me on the show.

Appreciate it.

That's Andrew Curren, Principal of LJ Hooker in Tuckernong.

Well, Cam, I was in Mollymook recently, as you know, with my family for a little getaway.

And they're actually, you know, I think we're going to learn about how cool they really are.

Andrew Curren is principal of LJ Hooker in Tuggerong, knows a thing or two about pole houses.

Andrew, good morning.

Hi.

There's often internet discussion about what was the exact purpose of the Rex label.

It was certainly a sub-label of Festival, which at the time was under the ownership of LJ Hooker, whose idea it was to start the label.

There were elements of an adult-oriented strategy in some recordings, but in others there was some fairly wild rock and roll, so the answer is inconclusive.

By the way, the Rex label took its name from the Rex Hotel in Sydney, also owned by LJ Hooker.

the A-side of Patty's third and final release on the Rex label, 1961, Close the Door.

Close the door As you

I did not make any money at all, and I've shared that in my book too.

After that, then I got into, um, uh, a company called LJ Hooker, a great, uh, company that I got given the opportunity and I became the number one salesperson for five years, and nobody could replace it because I g- had the knowledge.

I got the knowledge, and I wanted to become more.

'Cause my father told me, "Don't wish you were Caesar's son.

So I focused more on learning about me, and then I implement that, that knowledge and the days of, um, I guess, uh, the, the, the, the bricks that got thrown at me, I learned how to handle it and overcome that.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Then after I worked at LJ Hooker, I started our own business, which has been running very successfully eight years later.

Uh, it, it, it's a, it's a funny thing, isn't it? You, if you set out in life to make money, you won't succeed.

Yes.

What did you do? You came out of running a very, very big, successful number one LJ Hooker office for a very, very long time.

And a lot of people know you from there.

But in the last 14 years, your sales business is unbelievable what you've done in 14 years.

So they're different things.

And I think having been in both, I've really enjoyed both.

I love being a partner in... you know, in Australia's number one LJ Hooker office and having lots of people and watching them succeed.

So I really did love that.

Mm.

So X to LJ Hooker to X.

Yep.

Where'd that come from?

Yeah.

Anything else is noise.

And you kept that the same from CBs, Knight Frank, and then when you started LJ Hooker.

Yeah, yeah.