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Landlord skills

Landlords! Here’s how to make utility management easy

+ 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

4 min read
Buying a Property Without Getting a Mortgage
Property investing

Buying a Property Without Getting a Mortgage

So, You Want To Buy a House, and You’re Not Credit-Worthy… ◊ I’d just turned 23 with 6,000 left over from my student loan, a bit of property education, no job, no assets, a crap credit score, no track record of borrowing credit, and lived at home with my Dad. How the heck could I

3 min read
brexit, britain, EU, property
Property investing

Brexit Roundup: What are the benefits for property investors?

No matter which side of the debate you were on, Brexit has passed and we all be Brexit-ing from the EU. Naturally, this caused panic amongst the financial institutions and risk-hating stock market aficionados. One effect of the referendum is that we cannot have another referendum for 25 years, so get strapped in readers, it’s

10 min read
Property Tips and Tricks

Here’s why you can’t get a mortgage

There are many articles and advice columns on how to maximise your mystical credit score yet few of them deal with the psychology of how credit-worthiness is assessed. This was something that fascinated me the first time I was rejected for a mortgage (while the second rejection, coming directly after the first rejection, evoked emotions

5 min read
property, flip, investment
Property Tips and Tricks

My first flip: The complete cost breakdown

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

15 min read
How I was able to raise 250,000 in 7 days - Five Years to Financial Freedom
Property Tips and Tricks

How I was able to raise £250,000 in 7 days

Jump to: If you want people to trust you in business, you have to be trustworthy outside of business. Get Good Money HabitsCreate a digital trail of your property journeyHave backups to your backups Holy crap, what a week! Dad, our business partner and I were challenged to raise £250k in seven days for our property

9 min read
Wealth Philosophy

7 unmistakable signs you know it’s time to begin investing

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

10 min read
Reviews

Should you read: Investing for Dummies

Before I begin this review, you should know that getting English books in Korea (where I live) is quite difficult. Although there is a fairly solid selection of books available, beggars can’t be choosers. So this week I read Eric Tyson’s Investing for Dummies 6th Edition. After the rough (although positive overall) ride I had with Benjamin

2 min read