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From global salesman to mortgage-advice author Mortgage adviser Deepesh Chaudhary talks to TMM about how he ended up not just setting up a specialist business-loans company, but literally writing the book about it. BY SALLY LINDSAY
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epesh Chaudhary’s migration from India to Auckland was no accident: he had always wanted to study and live in a western country. But the pathway to a new country – and eventually his own company specialising in loans to small businesses - began with a casual exchange in Christchurch in 2006. Chaudhary was the international sales manager for an India-based laminates company, and had flown downunder to appoint a local distributor. The two men got chatting about the best place to live – and Chaudhary was delighted to hear his counterpart declare that New Zealand was the best place on earth: I took his lead on that and came straight to Auckland to study at the Manukau Institute of Technology for a professional accounting diploma, while working part-time at a petrol station. The second reason I decided to move here was that in the late 1990s, my friends shifted to Australia to study. Back then it was considered a posh
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