38 year old butcher Chris Jarvis bought his first home at Labrador after working 80-hour weeks. Picture: Adam Head
A Queensland butcher worked 80 hour weeks to crack the sizzling housing market for his first home, but expects to buy his second much faster thanks to surging property values,
GJ’s Organic Meats owner-operator Chris Jarvis had taken out a loan to buy the butchery business off an $80,000 deposit, paying that off first before jumping into the Labrador housing market.
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Chris Jarvis employs around a dozen people in his organic meats business.
“As far as money goes, I’m very patient,” he said. “When I first bought the business, I didn’t spend a single cent. I didn’t buy any new shoes, the only thing I bought to make myself comfortable was new work clothes and socks for about two years.”
Buying his first home in Labrador for $680,000 came after around …