I realised quite early on in my buy to let property investing, that if I wanted anything to happen, it’d be down to me to make sure it happened. The truth is, my priorities aren’t other people’s priorities. And it seems that unless you keep pushing, very often what you need doing won’t be…

Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. In the last video, we were talking about lessons from 2008 saving up cash to cover you through the hard times having a little bit set away for a rainy day but actually not a little bit because I’ve heard and I’ve been adviced that to be…

Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. In this series of videos I’m thinking about lessons from 2008 with a slight pivot from this video onwards because we’re going to think about things which I learned in 2008 which have been very much reinforced in 2020 and probably with a more of a business…

Hi, Peter Jones, property investor, author, and ex-chartered surveyor. In this short series of videos, I’m looking at lessons which I learned in 2008 in which we can extrapolate forward into 2020. This is one of the big lessons for me. The big lesson is lesson number five: ‘it’ whatever ‘it’ is will happen again,…

Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. In this short series of videos I’m looking at the lessons which I learned in 2008 which we can extrapolate forward into 2020. So far we’ve been through don’t panic, don’t confuse busyness with productivity and look after yourself which basically means having a routine making sure…

Hi Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. I’m just doing a short series of videos really comparing 2008 with 2020 and trying to sort of transmuting across the lessons which I learned 12 years which may be helpful lessons to today. Now I’m not saying that today is like 2008 in many ways to…

Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. If you’ve been to my Facebook group or if you’ve been on my YouTube channel you’ll see that recently I did a video about 2008 and comparing it to what’s happening today with the Coronavirus and how I pulled the duvet over my head. Somebody sent me…

Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. This week one of the first proper lockdown, although I suspect we’re going to be into a more rigorous lockdown over the next week or two as we get closer to what the government calls the peak of the tsunami of cases. If you’re like me you’ve…

Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor and ex-chartered surveyor. Today is a really special day for me because today is the 25th anniversary of when I was made redundant all those years ago and when I decided to go into property investing in my own right. And I was just reflecting over what’s happened over…

In my opinion there are 4 principle roles of a property investor. One of which is to protect their investment. This requires, among other things, organising, insurance, proper property management, and keeping on top of repairs, for example. This being the case, I never ceased to be amazed when I see properties that have been…