How to Get the Right Managing Agent!

How do I choose a good property management company and what do they do? First of all, let’s clarify what that means because sometimes you will hear people refer to letting agents, and you will hear people referring to managing agents, and often the two are interchangeable and they do the same thing. Most letting…

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Banks Won’t Lend To Me: What Shall I Do?

A concern which I sometimes hear new investors express is what if the bank won’t lend me the money? Let’s just think about this because there are probably going to be two different reasons why a bank might not lend you the money. The very first is, they’re not going to lend you the money…

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Getting A Discount With Cash

A question that I am sometimes asked is ‘how much of a discount can I expect to get off a purchase price or off an asking price if I offer the agent cash?’. By the way, just to be clear, when I say offer the agent cash, I don’t mean offer the agent cash as…

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Mortgages and the Buy To Let Stress Test!

A couple of years ago buy to let lenders introduced the stress test, encouraged to do so by the Bank of England and The CML. This has made the journey to securing finance and mortgages very interesting! On the face of it this is a good idea. Mortgage lending needs to be kept under control…

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All About Buy To Let Finance And How to get It

FREE 50 Page Special Report To download your FREE copy please CLICK HERE (No email required) If judged by the numbers alone, buy to let has been hugely successful with around 4 million buy to let mortgages being lent since 1996. With the property market now in recovery the number of buy to let loans…

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What is the Modern Method of Auction?

Sometimes when you go onto Rightmove or Zoopla looking for properties you will see that a property has been sold subject to the modern method of auction. I am sometimes asked ‘what does that actually mean?’, which is a great question because it is kind of like a hybrid approach to a property auction. First…

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Leafleting For DEALS

I have had a question from Adam who was asking about leafleting. He was specifically saying have I ever used leaflets, the We Buy Houses Fast type leaflets, and if so what sort of success rate would I expect with my leaflets and what sort of discount would I get from a price if I…

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Why 100% Finance Can Make Perfect Sense

For most of us we are probably going to start building our property portfolio by vanilla buy to lets and we are probably going to fund these using buy to let finance. Buy to let finance is great. A typical buy to let mortgage is probably going to be a 75% loan to value mortgage.…

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What Do I Do If I Have No Time Or Money?

I have had a question from a young lady called Val. I’ve known Val for a while. She purchased my Quick Start Guide To Buying Your First Investment Property and The Accelerator Plan for building a portfolio, so I’ve been giving Val a little bit of advice and help. I hope she wont mind me…

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The BEST Way To Buy At Auction?

I am sometimes asked ‘what is the best way to buy a property at auction?’ and my answer might surprise you. This answer does not work for every case as there may be some deals where you have to buy the property while it’s in the auction on the day. But some of the very…

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