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+ Jess Chai reveals how to smite your utility management woes with an incredibly simple solution Once upon a time there was a newbie property investor. She loved buying houses and renting them. Every so often an issue would present itself and our sweet naive property investor would freak out! Oft she would scream “Curse
+ Ben Chai runs down 7 customer service scenarios that will test your customer service power! Can you find the solution to all of them? Every professional business person is aware that in every area of business and entertainment, customer service is king. The more customer-oriented the business, the greater the repeat custom, the greater the
+ Ben Chai reveals seven ways that mortgage brokers screw up your property deals Part of everyone’s property journey is for a broker to screw up their Below Market Valuation (BMV) deals. Like selecting a good solicitor, or builder, it is important you choose and find an experienced broker or your BMV deal may be in
+ Jess Chai reveals her sneaky secret to being able to take naps as properties basically buy themselves! Buying property can be overwhelming and tiring for newbies like me. In the beginning, my body begged me to take frequent naps. Unfortunately, the following would happen: My phone and email would blow up every 10 minutes.
One major hurdle in attracting loyal customers is trust. We humans are designed not to take risks; if we have to use our resources on something then we need to know that what we’re getting is a good deal. Two key components for gaining belief and trust in your products and services are; how effectively you demonstrate your knowledge and the testimonials of
Failure has, and always will be, a big part of my life. I can’t think of a time when I wasn’t always losing at a game, or unable to complete a physical exercise, or struggling with something. I used to assume that it was a negative thing, and I would get depressed and bemoan my
In last week’s article, I shared with you five truths about life that I learned from working on a building site. Well, this week, I’ve got just one incredibly powerful technique that you can start using today that will see you and your team’s productivity soar. This is a technique that I’ve most frequently used
Having to relearn how to live your life is never an easy thing to do. I just got back from an 18-month adventure that spanned the majority of South East Asia and, although it’s good to be back, transitioning back into my “regular” life has been tough. However, I love to find the silver lining
Yesterday I offered to take a new friend on some viewings with me. Viewings can be intimidating, especially at the beginning when you have no clue what the heck you are meant to be looking for. The Aesthetics I got really good at looking up, squinting my eyes (no Asian jokes please) and making inquisitive faces
Having just returned from my travels, I felt it was time to launch into some hard work! Ben was in the middle of an extensive building project in Swansea and I thought that it would be an excellent educational experience to work and live on the building site for a couple of weeks. I love
If I was to give one piece of advice to my future child it would be: Take responsibility for your actions and emotions. You choose how you feel and you choose how you react to situations. After nine years of denial, I finally got it. I am the one who chooses how I feel and
Before I go through the costs of my first flip, I need you to know something… I still have these coat hooks lying around my bedroom floor. I have no clue how to put them up. Zoom into the picture. Can you see the dust on them?! Yeah, that’s how long they have been there
In this impromptu video blog, I chat to Chris Ludwig on the seeds of his success. Prior to this video blog, I had never met Chris before or knew how amazing he is. Chris was standing next to me in a long queue and we just got chatting. Five minutes into our chat, I just
So here I am sitting in my prison clothes, fingers on the keyboard, posting selfies. To be honest it was a bit of a crazy week. It was a crazy week because every day I was posting questions and making remarks about my up and coming time in prison on all my social media outlets
Thanks for sticking with us, I missed yesterday’s article as I was travelling from Indonesia to Singapore. Something that is a huge source of anxiety for me is the approach to your social circle that success books advocate. The logic behind many of these books is the old adage “you are the average of your five
This blog is inspired by my automatic victimhood response, I no longer wish to keep. Without realising, I have victim mentality for as long as I remember. A victim mentally is when you allow someone else to dictate your emotions and blame them for it. For example, if someone looks at you in the street,
Have you ever wondered what is it that causes some people to be successful and other people to constantly have dramas, problems and business deals that go wrong? You are doing everything correctly yet things are going wrong. Why is it? What is going wrong? There I was at a birthday party enjoying the company
Thanks for reading despite the lack of images, I’m currently on an island in Indonesia (here) and the Internet isn’t great. If you’re going to succeed in business, then you’re going to need to further your abilities. Educating yourself is the easiest way of increasing your value to others, and increasing the amount you can
In last week’s personal development anxiety article, I briefly discussed my anxiety surrounding financial development. My biggest anxiety comes from being able to balance increasing my wealth with living a regular “normal” financial life. 99 per cent of financial development anxiety can be eradicated by creating a budget that you can actually stick to. In
Yes! Admin day is finally over *Sign of relief*. I wish I had a cheese and wine night planned for tonight. That would make me so happy. Today I am writing an article/blog/whatever to remind me how I am able to get into the frame of mind necessary for completing all my paperwork. Paperwork is the
Yesterday, I had a fight with my girlfriend. Nothing major, but something she said really stuck out to me, she told me “You focus so much energy on personal development and no time on liking who you are”. This level of insight is one of the many reasons we’ve stayed together this long. After thinking about
This week I’ve come to the conclusion that I can no longer dramatically lower my weekly expenditure… well, I could but that would mean sacrificing socialising, travel, and taking my girlfriend on dates. Once you’ve reached the stage of saving as much of your income as you can (I’m hovering around 60-65 per cent) and
Alright, so a few months back I wrote a piece all about the “delusions” that help us be successful. At the time, I was mega-interested in understanding how the brain works, and how through understanding more about the brain we can make better decisions. In that article I mentioned a little thing called “priming” and
One difficult realisation I had in my first year of becoming financially free was that it isn’t for everyone. Now I can feel you scoffing at the idea that someone wouldn’t want to have an insane amount of free time, or at the idea that someone wouldn’t want to have enough financial security to be able
I remember the moment I finished my final university exam. The chains of formal education had finally been cut. I felt so liberated! Now I can do whatever I want. I screamed from the top of my lungs, “BRING IT ON WORLD I AM READY FOR YOU!” 2 weeks later… To cut a long
At five years to financial freedom, we like to publish articles and stories to inspire you, our fab readers (by the way thank you for all the love you’ve given us in the first two weeks of 2016). One authentic person I was privileged to meet (interview coming soon) at the JTFoxx family reunion was
This week I reflected upon a series of hilarious and awkward situations, also known as my love life. Being a natural over-sharer who doesn’t understand social blogging boundaries, this may be dangerous and uncomfortable for us all. If you love awkward truths, I present to you: three lessons dating taught me about property investing. 1. Silence
Whether it’s for a deposit on a house or that all important capital needed to kick-start your business, you need to cut your spending and start saving. For most of us saving consistently is a struggle. It’s taken me a while to develop the right mindset, and to stop craving quick returns from my hard
Last week we had a chat about the myth of the “rat race”, and a lot of the feedback we got was “Great article, now what are we supposed to do with that information?!” So I wanted to take a look at precisely why we feel the way we do, and what we can do about it. The
Watch out people, I’m about to drop a truth bomb! There is no such thing as the “rat race.” Everywhere I see people reluctantly talking about “joining the rat race” or saying things like “I really need to escape the rat race.” Even at wealth development seminars, and investing workshops, a whole bunch of us
One incredible nugget that can be found in property education is to “find your property investment area”. This useful nugget is essential to be an effective investor. However over the course of my journey I’ve found some investors seem to be paralysed by their inability to find their perfect property investment area. They say things like: “I haven’t
We all self-sabotage ourselves. I see it in my actions and I see it in my friend’s actions. For example, as much as I would love to tone up and slim down, if a banoffee pie is offered to me, I WILL eat it. No questions asked. One of my friends has been in debt
A short rant from me this week on the use and abuse of affirmations. If you have not yet come across the psychology of affirmations, then very simply, it is any positive or negative statement that you make over and over. Here are some examples: I am useless at chores I’m very clever I’m not
+ Nate Chai interviews Stephanie Brennan, who managed to build an AUD$ 2.3 million property portfolio in just two years After reading a news story about a 24-year-old with an AUD$2.3 million property portfolio, I knew that we absolutely had to interview her. Stephanie Brennan (pictured in the header) has managed to begin her property empire
I read Brian Tracy’s The Luck Factor when I was 12, one of his “universal laws” is the “law of attraction” which essentially states that anything you make your dominant thought will be attracted into your life. Being so young at the time I wholeheartedly accepted it into my life. Once I grew up a bit I
Not content with sharing all his incredible property knowledge, Ryan Windsor sat down with us once again. This time he tells us his own incredible journey to financial freedom, from dropping out of school at 16 without a penny to his name, to owning 11 properties and having a net worth of roughly £1,500,000. In
Sometimes I feel the concept of positive thinker has evolved into a new definition which has a cult status and damaged many a good person. What is the damage, how does it happen, and how can you avoid the danger? My friend runs a great political blog, and one of his writers recently posted an article
Hey readers, we’ve got a real treat for you today. The founder of Windsor Enterprises, writer of the Archant group’s business advice column, and all round good guy, Ryan Windsor sat down with us and discussed his journey from high-school drop out to achieving financial freedom. His route to financial freedom was through property, and
In the long distant past, in a location far far away, the following conversation occurred Attendee: “I’ve taken twelve different property courses. Which company do you think is the best one?” Me: “What do you mean?” Attendee: “Well I really like the speakers at XYZ company as I think they are quite polished.” Me: “Uhhh
This week I’ve been on a bit of an investing binge, reading Investing for Dummies (review here), and If You Can (27 pages, insightful, and free). After reading more and more about investing, I’ve realised something… I don’t want to invest. At least, not yet. Turns out that there are a few things that you should do before you
+ Ben Chai runs down the seven deadly sins that every property investor makes, and how you can avoid making them yourself. Over my two and a half decades of property investing, I’ve seen a lot of mistakes property investors including myself have made in deals. Here are seven of the most common mistakes and how
So there’s this guy, Lord Kelvin, whose work helped define both the first and second law of thermodynamics. He was such an intellectual badass they named absolute temperatures after him (hence kelvins). He also did some incredible things for data transference, but I digress. Lord Kelvin said this amazing thing: Where does all your money
+ Nate Chai unveils five ways that you can use Jeff Olson’s Slight Edge principals to vastly improve your quality of life Jeff Olson’s The Slight Edge is a great book for those who are new to personal development (review here), but those who have
One of the excellent pieces of advice Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect (review here) helped me remember is that, in most cases, you need people around you who you can help and they help you in return. We’ve been talking to you guys a lot about betrayal recently, so with this article I’m going to balance it out
“The gift of betrayal” part two is a supplement to part 1 so don’t read further until you’ve read The Gift of Betrayal Part I. “.. We live in a world of hypocrisy, where people greet you with a smile whilst holding a knife in your back, where people hide their true intentions to “survive,” and this life
+ Nate Chai reviews Micheal Gerber’s The E Myth revisited Dense. Dense is really the only way to describe Michael Gerber’s The E Myth. In 268 pages he outlines many of the traps that small business owners fall into, how to avoid them, and how to make a small business run without the owner. The
As I sip on my delicious warm soya Caramel Macchiato at the ever convenient M40 Oxford service, I reflect upon my day welcoming new tenants in Coventry. If you assume a Welcome Meeting is where you introduce yourself, learn the tenants names, and then bugger off, I envy your innocence. If you assume a Welcome
“The gift of betrayal” seems almost like an oxymoron. Our alternative article title “betrayers, liars and cheaters are your best friends” seemed equally hard to swallow. So to start, I thought I’d share my perspective and why I wanted to write about the gift of betrayal. The gift of betrayal in poetry The Gift of Betrayal was triggered by a
I completely missed the deadline for submitting this blog to my brother for our website. I feel so bad. Nate has been working hard to produce this cool helpful property website. Unfortunately I have been so overloaded with renovations and paperwork, so when I have a spare hour before bed, I am too tired to
This week I’ve been reading the classic Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, I’ve yet to finish it yet, but one piece of advice Hill suggests is a little…dangerous. Whilst I’m not criticising Hill, it feels as though one of his suggestions has the potential to lead people to ruin. In Think and Grow