“When I went there first the dirt roads had potholes so big you’d disappear inside them on your little motorbike and never be seen again. Things have changed dramatically in a very short time.
“For starters I wasn’t anywhere near as talented as the rest of the group, and my level of enthusiasm and love for the craft was lower,” he says. “When the course finished, I never pursued acting, never even had an audition, and left the UK for New York soon after.” “I had been running my personal property portfolio in Cambodia concurrently for a while and had gathered a lot of knowledge and made strong connections. Over the years I had also been helping friends informally to negotiate the property investment market there, and I began to realise that I had the basis for something more substantial.”
“I appreciate that the prospect of sending your hard-earned cash to this far-flung country can definitely seem very daunting, but the entry barriers are low, and it is actually very safe for investors with really great opportunities,” Mooney adds. “I have invested my own money there and you don’t need huge sums to start – a unit is likely to cost between $70,000 and $100,000.”