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In a world where possibilities are nearly endless and there are a million things to experience, time becomes the dictator of how much can you can get done. How do you get more time to do the things you really love? Get rid of the unfulfilling job and the stuff that just isn’t fun to
+ 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
+ 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.
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
In his previous post, Dean Morrison, director of the Athome group, revealed the inner workings of why banks won’t give you a mortgage. In this article, he shows you exactly what you can do to get one. It is not merely enough for you to know that you are of good character with a good
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
Life can be monotonous. One reason I believe so firmly in helping you guys seek financial freedom is so your lives can be more VIBRANT. However for some, financial freedom isn’t what they need, what they really want is change. We’d like to buy better things, do more interesting projects, and have exciting adventures. The
Disclaimer: This article is not suggesting you skip the small print on letting agreements. This article is merely highlighting the most important terms to check on a letting agreement. Does anyone else hate reading the small print on important documents? *resounding yes* Cool. Does anyone actually read the small print on important documents? *The crowd goes
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
Often we say “there’s no room for niceness in business” but what does that even mean? Nate Chai investigates. If you guys have taken the quiz (I got “Property Professor”) then you’ve seen the lessons about niceness on the results page. I took issue with this idea of niceness as a negative trait and, though
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
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
Bullet-Proofing Your Assured Shorthold Tenancy That time in my property investing career has finally come. I have had my first experience of rent arrears (never will I let this agent let my properties again). It’s such a headache, especially if you are like me and have no idea how to deal with it. I knew
Never in my life would I have expected a tenant to demand I get him a smaller bed. Since when did randy students prefer singles to doubles?! I must have missed that. Today’s article is a quick explanation to why every landlord should provide a small double bed over a normal or large size double bed. Double beds are
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
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
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
You often hear it from the now wealthy “I wish I’d started sooner”, today we’re talking to Stephanie Brennan who heeded that advice. By 23, Stephanie was already an Australian property millionaire and at just 24 she now boasts a property portfolio worth AUD$2.3 million (£1,060,000), in this in-depth interview she reveals; how she discovered her passion,
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