#145Do you regularly visit your investment area?How well do you know your location?Who are your eyes and ears in those places?How do you know if you can trust them?How often do you or could you visit your patch?Or are you confident enough to build a

#144Im in Derby.Its the final day of my UK Property Tour.Today, I have to take the hire car back to Nottingham and then the train south to London.I also have two final meetings Ive arranged. One with a second sourcer, who well call Sourcer 2 and an

#14313 has always been mine and my wife's lucky number.On our one and only visit to a casino in Macau we once won two consecutive games of roulette picking, you guessed it the number 13.So will this deal that we’ve been offered in Derby be our lucky

#142Day 11...My UK property tour and this mini-season of diary style podcasts is drawing to a close now.I'm in Derby meeting anyone and everyone who can help us find a 3 bed house to convert to a 6 bed all ensuite HMO It doesnt look like Im going

#141In preparation for my UK Property Tour, I used the filters on Spare Room to build up an XL database of HMO rooms that were achieving the highest rates.I excluded everything except rooms with en-suites and bills.My spreadsheet included columns for:

#140This is Day 9 of our mini-season of daily pods documenting my UK Property Tour.If you trust someone just because theyre in the public domain and they seem nice, youre putting yourself at risk.On the other hand, if your default position is to trust n

#139Day 8 of my UK Property Tour.Today is Saturday and I find myself on the M6 heading north to Blackpool at 9 oclock in the morning to talk to a bungalow fliiper!Yesterday, I coined a new Property Term, called Some Money In.Its the opposite of Al

#138Have you heard people talking about all money out deals?Or money in money out deals?Others call them unicorn deals.In my experience, the people who talk most about them are usually selling a course.Or a deal.Im not saying they dont happen and may

#137This is the seventh diary entry for my first ever UK property Tour.I'm in the UK for two weeks, checking up on our two SA houses and researching our new investment area.In this episode, I meet the designer and managing agent of our new SA in Leyl

#136My UK Property Tour continues!Todays diary entry starts in Nottingham, continues in Derby, returns to Nottingham to pick up a hire car.I then head up the M1 and M6 to a networking meeting in Manchester before finally getting to bed well after midnigh