Why I’m Not Passionate About Financial Freedom and Journeys With Power Teams

Are you going on a journey with your Power Team in search of Financial Freedom? Are you passionate about property? Are you an inspirator? (No, I don’t fully understand that phrase either). Do have a mentor? Do you have access to the secrets of success in property. Passionate About Financial Freedom and Journeys With Power Teams Well, don’t worry if your answer […]

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Property Gurus Do Not Help Other Property Investors Out of Kindness

LettingFocus observed that property gurus usually do not help other property investors out of the kindness of their hearts. It never ceases to amaze us at LettingFocus that some would-be property investors, instead of getting a good book on property development/investment/letting and then speaking to independent experts, choose instead to go on expensive education courses costing tens of thousands of […]

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Property Education Courses

There are many duff courses on property education around and financing programmes. And with the renewed interest in residential property as an investment their numbers are proliferating once again. Most claim to offer the route to “financial freedom” usually by getting the punters to buy overpriced properties supplied by the same education company that is supplying the course or by […]

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Our New Newsletter Is Out in January… and a Word About Ethics in the Business of Being a Landlord

We are now closing for the Christmas and New Year break. However, our still free, new quarterly newsletter will go out in the first or second week of January, so look out for this and remember to put our email address, [email protected] in your whitelist to ensure you receive it. If you don’t already get the newsletter but would like […]

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Wrong Housing, Wrong Investment and Bad Mortgage Lending

Thamesmead encapsulates a lot of what has gone wrong with housing over the years – from poor local planning, to bad mortgage lending to yet worse property investment decisions by amateur investors says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com A few weeks’ ago I had cause to visit Thamesmead where my boy was playing in a kids’ football match. I mention the […]

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Single Room Rate Changes and HMOs Houses in Multiple Occupation

The thirst from “property investors” for supposedly great returns from houses in multi occupation will make for a harder job for town halls housing departments. Often the returns from HMOs are illusory says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com Every day at the town halls, junior front-line housing staffers spend a lot of their time dealing with single adults who “present” as […]

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Mortgage Fraud and Below Market Value Property Plenty of Scams About

Though I try very hard to make sure I’m not on mailing lists for the “Buy Property Below Market Value with None of Your Own Money Down” brigade, I still get the odd email coming through. Naturally, once you are on one mailing list, you quickly end up on lots of others – most of them flogging the same “Get […]

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Mortgage Fraud and Buy to Let

I’m sad to say that at some recent events I have been to, quite a few punters came to me with pretty strong evidence that some property investment “advisors” are still encouraging people to carry out mortgage frauds as a way of buying property with little or no money down (NMD) and / or as part of a “buying below […]

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Rent to Buy and Property Lease Options

Our brief comment in past blogs on the topic of property lease options (or Rent to Buy) schemes which were quoted in last weekends’ “Financial Times” Money section have been taken up by a number of other websites. In some cases they have used some of the article in the FT and reproduced it without quoting us properly. Just to […]

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