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…
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In this video we’re specifically thinking about the technicalities of valuing our buy to let’s. Most likely we’re going to use The Direct Comparison Method of valuation, which is exactly as it says on the tent. But we do need to be aware that we are rarely going to find a truly identical property with…
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The Return of Bridge to Let. This Bridge to Let buy to let mortgage product is offered by one of my favourite lenders. It’s a great resource if you want to buy a property using finance (a mortgage) but it requires too much of a refurb so you can’t or won’t get a standard buy…
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I’m sometimes asked what is the best way to raise finance for my buy to lets? This might sound like a flippant answer but it’s not, this is what I genuinely think. The best way to raise bank finance for buy to let is by going through a broker, you should not be trying to…
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In a previous video we were talking about property auctions and I was highlighting the fact that it’s entirely possible to spend a lot of money getting yourself ready to bid at the auction and not actually even getting the chance to bid. But perhaps what a lot of beginners don’t realise is that there’s…
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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made on social media, like on the Facebook, on different sorts of property groups on Facebook, is that buy to let is an outdated model.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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