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My New Website Has Finally Arrived!
Over the last few months I have been busy getting my new website developed and making changes that have been put on the backburner! There are so many things to address when putting out something new. Content has to be created, there are an array of technical issues to consider and be advised on. For example, just addressing the video compatibility on all of the devices and software today is a nightmare. What’s the change? Well I’m broadening my horizons beyond just property. As we enter into this economic downturn that I have forewarned you of over the last few years when the banking system would fail, I feel that it is more important than ever to STOP...
Read MoreRick Otton interviews Nathan Baws
With only a few weeks remaining before Rick Otton’s Zero Debt Property Conference in London, here is a interview that Rick has done with Nathan Baws. Last year Nathan got prime marketing space when he appeared with his colleague walking down Kensington shopping district with large, ugly yellow sandwich boards from shoulders down to their feet! Yet, less than 2 years ago Nathan had never heard of lease options or the creative ways that he has learnt from Rick Otton when he attended his first bootcamp in the United Kingdom. Nathan will be coming back to the next London conference as a real inspiration to those looking to follow in Nathan’s footsteps. In fact,...
Read MoreLong Stops, Exchange With Delayed Completions And Instalment Contracts
When you sell in the conventional way it is typically over a “short stop” period of 28 days or less. In the case of where someone is having their home built it is common to exchange contracts with a delayed completion until construction is completed, or a “long stop”. This short/long stop terminology is all legal talk and not what your everyday person would ever understand. Imagine the looks you would get from someone if you suggested we have a “short stop” or “long stop” completion date! It’s for this reason that I asked our solicitor at the time to remove such jargon from the paperwork. But what we were doing back...
Read MoreIn Living And Loving Memory Of James Herbert Lee
Visiting my father in June 2010 with my sister Glenda For all the email support that I have received over the last few days, I would like to thank you very much. I have written back to you personally, as your kind words have helped me deal with the loss of my father last week. I am not alone as the word ‘cancer’ has also stolen many other fathers in our community, like it has taken mine. Time is the one thing we can’t get back again. I see how often and how much there is an obsession with money and a short-term fix that changes lives in an instant. Like my father had with his business, making it sustainable is an ongoing process. It’s like...
Read MoreThe Greatest Transfer Of Wealth In History Is Coming (Part 2)
Despite what is just around the corner your average armchair investor is still being fed the line that property values double every 7 years and to sit back and wait. Just like before when the property rush was on and it seemed everyone was on the property bandwagon using outdated strategies, except they didn’t know it at the time! The United Kingdom is terribly backward when it comes to property investing techniques. Whenever foreigners from the United States, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand come here they find it jaw-dropping that it takes months to transact property the way it is done here. No one wants to change! And yet, with the tsunami that is coming,...
Read MoreRick Otton Talking About Instalment Contracts
History repeats itself once again in 2010. When it seemed the world said back in 2007 that the concept of buying a house for a pound in the United Kingdom wouldn’t work, was illegal and who would do it, Rick Otton is doing the same all over again. Despite what convention has been dictating to the masses for centuries on how you absolutely must buy property according to one rule and one rule only (offer, exchange, mortgage, completion) the tide is now turning. The market demand will far outweigh those who choose to live in the past and be swept away because they were unwilling to change from their old outdated ways. In the last 12 months we have seen Rick’s...
Read MoreThe Greatest Transfer Of Wealth In History Is Coming
Even in the media and out on the street you can sense that confidence in the worldwide economy is in doubt. Legal retirement ages are going up, there are strikes across Europe for the loss of real earnings, and jobs are now on the line as people work longer and harder for less and less. A sign of the times is the increased number of door-to-door salesmen knocking these days. For those that are prepared for it, they can prosper as the transfer comes their way. Unfortunately, they will be in the minority. The lack of financial and business literacy will rob the majority of what they have worked and saved all their life for. Even though I feel obliged to let people close...
Read MoreRefusing to change in spite of the obvious
I see even now in the general media that there is talk that the United States and the Western World economies in general are in much worse shape than what was thought. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men with their bailouts, borrowings and printing of phoney money don’t seem to be putting the economy back on the road to recovery again! I am now speaking to different sectors within the property industries and while some of them are now open to new ideas and concepts when proposed to them. Yet, and not unusually, there are others that refuse to break their old habits even when things are falling apart at the seams. “Yes, but we have never done that...
Read MoreHanging Off Joel Bauer’s Every Word
Nas just had to go against what others were saying about going to an internet marketing conference in London last week. Why was she wasting her time and money there? It’s quite likely that those giving her guidance meant well, but would never understand what it was all about. However, Nas just had to come after having listened to my recent 2 hour webinar with Joel Bauer from his home in Los Angeles. This was different! And so was each of Joel’s three presentations at the T.I.M.E. event. Nas came and spoke to me afterwards and openly expressed just how life changing this had been. Change comes from within, and so by listening what the masses tell you to do is...
Read MoreCommunications The Key With Rent to Own
Mesud admitted that communications was his biggest challenge. This was the area that he struggled with and we spoke about it often as he was trying to do his first few lease options. If I didn’t bring it to the attention of my friends then Joel Bauer would have come and gone and they would have been none the wiser. I just couldn’t allow that to happen. Instantly those that attended the T.I.M.E. event in London last weekend realise exactly now what I mean. Here is another recount from someone that attended Joel’s THREE presentations that he gave. Mesud had found it difficult express himself with conviction in the past. Now everything has changed for...
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