Seven Common Mistakes Made by Property and Buy to Let Investors Part 4
Mistake number four – They get tunnel vision Perhaps its human nature but most investors get this. It might be explained as being a need for the comfort we get when we stick with what we know. In...
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Mistake number five – They do sloppy research. Sometimes a deal is so evidently good, that one might assume there’s little point in doing any research. However, no matter how good a deal seems to be,...
View ArticleSeven Common Mistakes Made by Property and Buy to Let Investors Part 6
Mistake number six – They let their hearts do the figures. What do I mean by this? Well, I remember listening to a marketing guru giving a talk to a bunch of salesmen and telling them that, at a...
View ArticleSeven Common Mistakes Made by Property and Buy to Let Investors Part 7
Mistake number seven – They listen to people who probably know less than them! I heard Anthony Robbins once ask his audience “If you wanted to get rich would you study poor people?” “No” came the...
View ArticleNegotiating to Buy Your Property Investment Part 1
Unfortunately, for some property investors the experience of buying an investment property or a buy to let property can be a bit like a jockey’s experience of running the Grand National. They carefully...
View ArticleNegotiating to Buy Your Property Investment Part 2
In the last post we talked about the pitfalls experienced by investors who go into the negotiation process of trying to buy their investment property or buy to let property without gathering all the...
View ArticleNegotiating to Buy Your Property Investment Part 3
We’ve been looking at what you need to do to ensure you can negotiate the best possible terms and price for your property investment and buy to let properties. The most likely way of achieving a...
View ArticleNegotiating to Buy Your Property Investment Part 4
In the last post we were considering how, in the context of negotiating, communication and active listening is essential to understand what is important to the other party when we are negotiating to...
View ArticleNegotiating to Buy Your Property Investment Part 5
We’ve been looking at what we need to be sure of before we agree terms on a purchase. of a property investment or buy to let property. The first thing to remember is that the only price you are...
View ArticleAre you taking enough action? Do you believe you can do it?
It’s been great to get your emails over the summer but one theme which I have noticed is that many of us would admit to not having taken enough action over the last few months. What do I mean by that?...
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The right location for you
The right location for you What I’m about to tell you is nothing new; location is key to successful property investing. But although we all know this, you’d be surprised how many people give...
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Achieving a mutually satisfactory outcome
I strongly believe that the best deals are agreed when neither party is trying to take unfair advantage of the other and both sides come out of the negotiation feeling they have achieved...
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Stating your price
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been looking at what we need to factor in before beginning negotiations on a property, and so logically, the next step is to consider is the price. Once...
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What defines a “great” property deal?
It’s human nature to only want to do “great” property deals. However, as I’ve mentioned before, there is a danger of getting side-tracked into trying to only do the “perfect” deal. But what...
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Questioning your own due diligence
When you say the term “due diligence”, most investors will naturally think about the basic checks anyone undertakes before buying a property. In fact, most investors will probably think of...
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When a property doesn’t go to plan
Last week we questioned our due diligence and considered how to conduct a risk analysis that goes beyond the usual checks carried out by a solicitor and the like. In my experience, most...
View ArticleThe difference between buying a property and making money from a property
I was thinking the other day there are plenty of people who know how to buy a property, but not so many people know how to make money from a property. Why is that? Maybe because we are traditionally a...
View Article“House prices up by £15,000: Investing in property is the best way to save...
“House prices up by £15,000 Investing in property is the best way to save say experts.” Interesting that the Daily Express regularly put this kind of stuff on the front page. As property investors we...
View ArticleIs buy to let property investing really dead?
I’ve met quite a few (new or would be) buy to let property investors recently who seem to assume the days of buy to let are over. But despite the governments “attack on landlords” I think buying...
View ArticleIs buy to let property investing really dead ? Part 2
In this video we look in a bit more detail at buy to let mortgages for limited companies. In 2016 there were around 130,000 buy to let mortgages granted to Limited Companies – the finance is there!...
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