Are You Building a Property Business — or Just a Complicated Job?
A practical look at how investors can drift from building freedom into building a complicated, stressful job, and why clarity often beats complexity.
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Why Waiting for the Perfect Deal Keeps Property Investors Stuck
A practical look at why so many would-be investors get stuck waiting for the perfect deal, and why good enough often beats perfect in property.
Multiple Income Streams Don’t Always Mean More Properties
A practical look at how one property deal can sometimes produce more than one income stream, without forcing investors to keep buying more and more properties.
Cash Flow, Equity or Lump Sum Profit — Which One Are You Actually Buying For?
A practical look at cash flow, equity growth and lump sum profit, and why investors need to be clear what job they want a property to do before they buy it.
Putting a value on residential investments
If you don’t know the value in a deal then it’s unlikely you’ll make a profit. Paying too much for a property or alternatively selling it too cheaply will make or break a deal, and if you want to be successful you need to learn not to do either. So, let’s think about how to…
Harvesting Your Property Investments
The best way to treat buy to let as a “business” is to plan for the long term. And, whilst it can sometimes be tempting to cash-in early and take your profit, you have to remember that the greatest benefits of property are obtained in the later years NOT the early years. To catch all…
Buying Property With TRUE Positive Cash Flow
A key adage in property is that you shouldn’t buy a property unless it’s showing, or can show relatively quickly, a positive cash flow – unless, of course, you have other reasons for doing so. If you’ve been reading my blog posts for some time now – or if you’ve studied any of my learning…
Buying the Right Property For Your Strategy
In the last series of videos that I shared with you, I looked at how to find properties to fit the various types of strategies. But, how do you buy the RIGHT property for your chosen strategy? After all, whilst this sounds obvious, the secret to becoming a property millionaire is exact that – buying…
Finding Properties for Creative Strategies
Estate Agents (Part 13) Over the past couple of months, we’ve been thinking about how and where to find our property deals. We’ve looked into buy to lets, flips, serviced accommodation, rent to rents and commercial conversions – but, what approach should we take if we’re looking to undertake some of the more creative…
Finding Commercial Conversion Deals
Estate Agents (Part 12) It’s time to think about commercial conversions and how to find deals that will fit this strategy – but first, I want to think about why we would want to do commercial conversions in the first place. After all, from the outside, these sound like big deals and a lot…