Can We Really Have Risk-Free Property Investing?
Many investors want the returns from property without the risk. The trouble is, risk-free property investing is largely a fantasy, even if you do everything sensibly.
Many investors want the returns from property without the risk. The trouble is, risk-free property investing is largely a fantasy, even if you do everything sensibly.
Should you let furnished or unfurnished? Most investors guess. The better approach is to ask what tenants in your area actually expect for that type of property.
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 go…
Are you a Portfolio Landlord? What does that even mean? How do Buy to Let Lenders define a Portfolio Landlord? And what does it mean when you are one? What are the implications? In this video my very good mortgage broker takes us through some of the things we need to be aware of…
If you want more success in property, then solve more problems. If the definition of an entrepreneur is, as I’ve heard it said, “a problem solver”, then by definition a successful property investor must be someone who solves property problems. So by extension, if you want more success (in property investing), then you…
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…