Jude  met Tony in the Army in 1981 on an APTI course.  Tony went on to become the Senior Corps Adviser for PT trade and Jude was RNZSigs although the last 10 years were out of trade doing many other roles.  They have 2 sons, Chris who was avionics in RNZAF for 17 years and still works at Woodbourne and Matty who is a fire fighter at Burnham.  After a 20 yr career, including deployment on Batt 5 to East Timor,  Jude retired as a WO1 and became a Mortgage Adviser a few years later.  Not too many soldiers make such a career change, but it seemed to flow from doing many budgets in the Army and then becoming property investors and having an interest in the financing of rental properties.  Jude and Tony had a couple of bad experiences with mortgage advisers, who were only in it for the commission and really didn't care at all about them.  So Jude could see how NOT TO be an adviser, but to use the skills learned in the Army to coach and help people buying a house, whether it is your first time, upgrading to a new house and selling the existing one or, getting into investing in property.

Jude is one of the very few advisers allowed into Burnham camp to attend the 2 expo's a year - Wellness expo and My House My Castle expo and be involved in the community.  Because Jude understands all things Army you don't need to explain how it all works and with almost 17 years in the Mortgage industry she has the knowledge, skills and experience to make your experience much better.  Lots has changed in the NZDF over the past 20 years but really, so much has remained the same and with Chris and Matty still in NZDF its easy to keep up to date!