Last Monday I spoke at the Berkshire Property Meet for the first of two appearances, I was honoured to share the stage with the Dr Rohan Weerasinghe and of course the great hosts Juswant and Sylvia Rai. I talked about my experiences as a new property investor over the last eighteen months. How I had set my goals, educated myself, been determined and adaptable over that time. I listened to lots of experienced investors including Rohan, Rob Moore, Phil Martin, Simon Zutshi, Mark Dalton, Sean Thomson and many others.

In January of last year I asked Vanish Patel a question from the audience and received invaluable feedback and information, armed with that I approached a number of banks and secured myself a personal commercial arrangement. This enabled me to buy property essentially for no money down – well that’s not exactly true …. I bought them for cash and then quickly remortgaged them to full market value enabling the release of the equity. The bank knew this and was happy, a legal NMD system.

On Monday evening, I spend two hours answering questions from people in the audience at the BPM, about how I did that. They were focused on the detail and with due respect I feel missed the wider point. I asked questions, I ACTED on the information I received. One lady contacted me through Facebook and below is the subsequent conversation (with Sukhy’s permission) that I hope may help others……

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I know I always say that …. maybe that’s because each week is brilliant …. filled with opportunities to learn, meet people, buy houses, help clients, scuba dive with dolphins or ‘get burgled!’ … at least every week is different Well here we are end of the third week of a new decade and already I am published in a new ebook called 378 Predictions how to do business in 2010, I am in the process of creating my own new Ebook, and I have had the privilege to speak at the Berkshire Property Meet along side Dr Rohan Weerasinghe  To hear some of my story please follow this link or watch the video below

How’s your week been ? Vicki – The Property Mermaid

Phew …  its the third week of November, only 20 days til I go diving again, and that started me thinking about everything I had done in this last year… what an amazing time full of opportunities. What have you been upto?   Read the rest of this entry

Hardly surprising really – bring together the Berkshire Property Meet with Simon Zutshi and it is bound to be a good night. Simon really spoke a lot of sense. We often hear great speakers giving valuable content about how to do certain aspects of property investing from financing to speaking to estate agents or finding deals. Simon in a sense took us Read the rest of this entry