30 One educative experience was to go out on relief duties as a rent collector. In his small Fiat (having broken the family taboo against driving a car) he knocked on hundreds of doors in the terraces of Waterloo, Redfern, Waverley Municipality, Surry Hills, Paddington and Pyrmont, asking for the rent. On one early trip he ended €10 short and had to make up the shortfall himself. He never suffered that loss again. Scan here to read Max’s story in ‘From Homesteads to High-rises’ Max’s funeral video Maintaining an unbroken lineage Immersion is said to be one of the most effective forms of learning, and if that’s the case, Ned Raine’s son - Max, born in 1931, certainly enjoyed a first rate education in the property business. Ned was at the helm of Raine & Horne - already one of Sydney’s most successful real estate agencies - and as is often the case in a family business, ‘shop talk’ regularly shaped the conversations between father and son. From boyhood, Max attended auctions with his father, discussing them in great detail afterwards. He heard exciting tales of his grandfather, great grandfather, and the buccaneer Captain Raine, and over time Max would demonstrate he too shared their expansionist spirit. Stepping straight from school into the family business at age 18, Max brought with him an abundance of personal charm, finely-honed insights into the property industry, and of course, the characteristic Raine sense of humour.
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