Estate Agents (Part 5) Lately, we’ve been thinking about how we are going to find our deals and this week, I want to give some thought to HMOs. At a very simplistic level, your HMO is likely to be very similar (physically, at least) to a buy to let. As such, you’re probably going…
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Estate Agents (Part 4) We’re still thinking about how to find deals through estate agents and just to recap, one thing which I would definitely recommend (in fact, it’s an absolute “must”) is that you go and physically be present in an estate agent’s office. Really, you should stop by ALL the agents’ offices…
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Estate Agents (Part 3) In my blog posts over the past two weeks, we’ve been thinking about how to find great deals through estate agents, and this has prompted a very legitimate question. “How does one actually talk to an estate agent and find properties if they’re pursuing multiple strategies?” For example, it…
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How to Find Deals: Estate Agents (Part 2) Last week we began to think about using estate agents to find deals and this week we are going to expand upon this. In my opinion, one of the big stumbling blocks with using agents is that when you walk into their offices and say…
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How to Find Deals: Estate Agents (Part 1) Over the coming weeks, we’re going to think about how to find the property deals that are right for us. However, before we start thinking about this, we need to give some thought to something which comes first, and that’s what we are really trying to…
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Property Strategies (Part 8) We’ve been thinking about the principal property strategies that we can use in today’s market and this week we are going to think about one of the most exciting property strategies out there – developments. There are many different ways that we can approach a development and they can…
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Property Strategies (Part 7) Next on my list of principal property strategies that we can use in today’s market is Rent to Rent. Very simply put, rent to rent is essentially sub-letting. Now, when you usually mention the term “sub-letting”, this tends to throw up images of some form of illegal or dodgy…
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Property Strategies (Part 6) In this series of blog posts we’ve thinking about the main strategies that we can use in property – and whilst this isn’t something that I pursue personally, this is worth thinking about as it can generate exceptionally good returns. The strategy in question is “Serviced Accommodation”. Serviced accommodation…
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Property Strategies (Part 5) This week we are going crank it up a notch and take a look at how to be more creative in our investing. For example, using “options”, delayed completion and other innovative ways of structuring deals. Now, whilst some people ONLY follow creative strategies such as options, I prefer…
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Property Strategies (Part 4) This week we’re going to be thinking about HMOs or Houses of Multiple Occupation. Back in the day, we would have called an HMO a bedsit – in which a number of people live together under a single roof, each with an individual room that they rent out separately. Today,…
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