I am exhausted but elated I had a full on 15 hours of back to back networking yesterday! The day started at 9 am in Wandsworth with the Entrepreneurs from MAPs a brilliant and supportive mastermind group of property investors, business entrepreneurs and all round nice people. Lindsay Hopkins hosted an excellent group mastermind session and in two hours I met, helped, shared, was helped and developed my passion and focus with 20 other entrepreneurs.  After a short coffee break we started the next with Read the rest of this entry

6 month rule – pointless and arbitrary

I am fuming! We are in this situation because lenders got greedy and surveyors got blazé. In a protracted “knee-jerk” reaction lenders, led by the giant Lloyds-HBOS  “we are the only lender around” have systematically increased the arbitrary time that one owner/investor must have owned a property before they can sell it without falling foul of the sub-selling clause. Read the rest of this entry

No don’t answer that   That was the role I played on Saturday night at a brilliant murder mystery evening put on by Parmdeep Vadesha and Hanif Khan. The good news is that I am not a murderer either

Saturday afternoon saw the gathering of 30 property investors part of Parmdeep’s TMA (Tycoon Mastermind Alliance) to take part in 24 hours of learning, murder, mystery, networking, net-walking and some eating too …….. This was the first time I had joined this group and what a brilliant bunch of people. They came from all walks of life, all parts of the UK and a broad range of property investment strategies. We all shared one thing in common; an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for property, okay well two things in common then Read the rest of this entry

This has been sooooo difficult and yet so simple …. what a strange experience! As some of you know I had a chance email from my Ecademy profile inviting me to contribute to a new Ebook called 378 Predictions for doing business in 2010. What a simple idea (thought I!). I realised that one of my longer term hopes had been to write a book.

I took a brilliant series of classes with Tom Evans -The BookWright back in 2008 I think. Anyway I shelved the idea as the buzz of property investing took me by storm. Now here I am with three chatpers in the bag and five more to be recorded today. It has been so easy because I am doing what I love best …..

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January and February have been busy, brilliant and bursting with opportunities, networking, knowledge and deals … I have; coached three clients weekly, received 10 hours of coaching, spoken to- consulted with 6 sourcing clients and completed on one for an exisiting client, I am negotiating on 3 deals for clients and 3 deals for myself (including new redevelopment project ), bought three properties for myself, been to 8 networking events, spoken at 5 of them, been to 2 three day property course as supported and spoken, taken one two day course on lease options (brilliant!), and one one day course on social media been interviewed, refurb a client property, dealt with insurance claim for our home burglary, been to Liverpool for a total of 9 days, oh and a gala dinner and conference and still fit in one trip to our dive club, 3 photographic walks, 5 snow ball fights, 8 trips to the gym, only 10 sessions on the Wii, and booked a holiday woo hoo……

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I must confess   I can’t believe how time has flown, it’s March, people, March! That means almost a third of the year has gone already! I was speaking with my mentor, Alan, the other day about feeling the “pressure” of so many opportunities and not having time enough to really pay attention to everything. I think on an unconscious level that set me thinking and as usual my unconscious provided the answer …. Read the rest of this entry