One of the great things about being in property today is that there are so many different ways we can raise our finance. And if you find yourself in a situation where you find yourself a fantastic refurb opportunity, but you can’t get standard buy to let lending because it […]
How do I choose a good property management company and what do they do? First of all, let’s clarify what that means because sometimes you will hear people refer to letting agents, and you will hear people referring to managing agents, and often the two are interchangeable and they do […]
In this series of posts (read part one here and part two here), I’ve been considering how to find great deals through estate agents and in the last post, we looked at how coming across with a clear plan is the best way to show that you’re a serious investor […]
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 8) It’s possible to work smarter rather than harder One of the things I’ve learnt over the past 20 years of investing in property for myself is that you shouldn’t try to do everything on your own because by having help with the areas that […]
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 7) Keep on going – no matter what! Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about what I’ve learnt over the past 20 years of investing in property for myself, and this week I’d like to share with you this: If you just keep […]
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 2) With over twenty years of experience investing for myself, over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing with you 10 things that I’ve learnt whilst on my property journey. Last week we began by discussing that there’s rarely just one way of doing things […]
Over the past few weeks we’ve been thinking about how to structure our property businesses and this week we’re going to think about whether we should separate our activities into different companies and why. I’m often asked by investors if they should have just one company and within that company […]
When is a crack not a crack? When it’s a concern. Ok, not a great piece of humour, ironically a little like cracker humour, if you’ll forgive the pun. Joking aside, cracks in our world (of property) are worth understanding – many a deal has turned out to be a […]
