Random conversations with three different investors. Naomi, who bought her own home, letting rooms out to lodgers whilst saving furiously for her first true rental property to help fund the income reduction of starting a family. Paul, who has had both a successful corporate career and can now live … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Hey, it’s Richard…you can ask me anything!
Today's podcast is a smorgasbord of questions posed by Anthony, Matthew, Dominick, and David from the TPV Mastermind Community. 'Walk us through the numbers, how should we set our property strategy, tell us about investing overseas & how can you show skin in the game to a JV partner without … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Property Horror Stories – Turnkey Property Turkeys!
Things in property do not always go according to plan and if anyone every tells you that they always do and everything is great all the time, then they are either inexperienced or not telling you the full truth, sorry to say that. In fact, I swapped texts with a fellow investor/developer late on … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Summer Update & The TPV Apprentice!
I’m back…did you miss me? Well, technically I have not been away as far as the podcast is concerned, as I pre-recorded a number of those holiday short episodes over the past few weeks. Did you enjoy those? If so, drop me a line to say so and I could perhaps consider doing that again another time for … [Read more...]
Soundbite: Scaling Your Property Business Part 1
A week or so ago, I had a couple of conversations with Jesse Fossey Taylor, who owns approaching 200 rental properties. We talked about several things in our first conversation, but the thing that struck me the most as being potentially the most useful to you was the topic of scaling our property … [Read more...]
Soundbite: How much capital do I need to start?
Today, I wanted to answer the question…how much cash do I need to get started in property? When most people say property, they tend to mean BTL, so I shall certainly start by looking at BTL. However, as you will see, we may take a quick look at a couple of other options that require less up-front … [Read more...]
Property Financing: 10x Additional Creative Financing Strategies from our Personal Experience | S3E16
We have no less than 10 more property financing strategies at the more creative end of the spectrum to get through. So, buckle up and have a listen as I am joined once again by Damien Fogg as we share some of these based on our own personal experience. Given that neither Damien nor I have any … [Read more...]
Property Financing: Angel Finance – Forget Dragons Den & Shark Tank…here we find the property financing angels in reality | S3E08
We all enjoy a bit of TV drama from time to time, don’t we? Well, I would also wager that we property investor types have had the odd snigger or even wow moment whilst watching the funding pitches on Dragons Den. Well, today we have a guest that has access to some real life dragons…well, angels … [Read more...]
Property Financing: Cash, Residential & BTL Mortgages and Bridging…some practical applications | S3E04
In today’s show, I wanted to just pause for thought a little on what we have covered so far. I thought I would add some practical application of residential mortgages, cash, BTL mortgages and bridging finance in order to get you thinking of how some of these more common financing methods could … [Read more...]
Soundbite Episode – Recycling cash through property part 2 – Can I recycle my cash by changing the valuation method?
Can I expect to pull out all of my cash investment into an HMO conversion project by refinancing at a commercial valuation within a short period of time? We went myth busting last week, when we discussed the ability to recycle cash through property investing. Last time out we discussed buying a … [Read more...]