How much is a bucket of dirty water worth? Or how a hole in the roof saved me £25,000. You might have seen it’s not actually a bucket it’s one of those really useful storage boxes, but it’s full of water, dirty water. That’s because I’ve put it under a hole in the roof which is…
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A comment which I sometimes see made on social media, like on the Facebook, on different sorts of property groups on Facebook, is that buy to let is an outdated model. In fact sometimes people will come to my YouTube channel and do little troll type posts saying ‘Buy to let is dead, property investing…
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I see it all the time with especially new buy to let property investors, that they think they should do the refurb themselves. In other words, they roll up their sleeves and get stuck-in, working evenings and weekends to do improvements and repairs on their latest project. Why do they do it? Well, in some…
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One of the big, big changes in property over the last 20 years is that it is now so easy to find finance for your properties. When I first started 20 years ago, buy to let mortgages had only just come in. Nobody quite knew what they were or how they worked. And it took…
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Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. This happened to me a while back when I sent my son in law around to inspect a potential buy to let property for me. It raises the question, how much is a bucket of dirty rainwater actually worth? Every cloud…
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In this video I want to talk about the upside, the benefits, the things that are great about owning property and being a buy to let investor. Number one on my list, and probably very top of my list, is the ability to be able to create equity in a property. If you like, that’s…
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Hi, Peter Jones, ex-chartered surveyor, author and property investor. In this video I want to think about whether buying a property below market value makes it a great deal and whether it makes it a great deal every time. And the short answer to that is no, I do not think it does. Now, in…
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Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. In this short video I want to talk about 4 reasons why I always refurbish or renovate my buy to let investment properties. Now, the first 3 reasons you might think ‘yeah, ok, that makes a lot of sense’ but it is probably the 4th reason that’s…
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Imagine this, you’re out viewing properties, you’re going to view this property, maybe you’re thinking it’ll make a nice flip or perhaps it’s even going to be serviced accommodation or holiday let, I don’t know, it doesn’t really matter. When we’re viewing properties, this is usually what happens. We’ll go to the property, we’ll…
DetailsHi, I’m Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex charted surveyor. You’ll see that I’m outside an estate agents, and very typically this estate agent also does lettings, and interestingly there’s actually more properties to rent in the window than there are properties for sale. And I always suggest that if you’re starting out…
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