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Q. HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START AND WHAT DREW YOU TO THE HOME BUILDING INDUSTRY?

I started my career as an engineering draftsman but part of the requirement was that I did an architectural drafting course. I did this in my early 20s and it gave me the ability to draw house plans. As a sideline, I started to draw house plans for home builders wanting to get council approval. When I was 27, I was made redundant from the engineering firm I worked for so I started to advertise for more architectural drafting work and created a business out of that, but it was really just a subsistence business as I worked during the day as a salesman. One day I decided to take my aptitude for drawing houses further, so I bought a block of land,

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