Practical Property Talk

Nearly ten years ago when I started networking I met Shane Mathews and over the years we have stayed in touch and now let’s sit down and have a catch up… Shane interesting story of educating himself through networking to his old boss helping him get into property is true story of consistency and persistence that has got him to his portfolio that leaves him full time in property… enjoy the listen w...

Two weeks have passed one week in Portugal on a mastermind group and then this week implementing talks from last week and jumping into a speaking event in Chelmsford. My take away from that is property is often about being out of the comfort zone so by speaking publicly about our journey that was certainly my putting myself in a position of discomfort

What a pleasure to be joined by Angus Griffin who talks about being laser focused in property and how it’s his passion to be in property. An interesting insight into living in Surrey and investing in the North East whilst being in business with his sister Janet. Angus has an abundance of knowledge and experience that we can hear why he has many successful mentee’s… hope you enjoy the listen

From pubs to property Andrew Tucker talks us through his journey in property, and what a story of how conversations with friends lead to opportunities and how working with family and friends isn’t always easy….. His current project is a testament to Andy’s story and how persistence is a critical part of property and that “truth doesn’t sell courses” in regards to the timescales and outcomes aren’t...

After the first week of October I’ve taken away the real benefit of attending that monthly event and deep diving into real conversations about the long term in property and not just the deal itself….. and we are still quietly working away on something interesting we are not far away from sharing

After speaking with Mike for the last two years about all things development and planning as we have both progressed in our property journey into developments. Listening to Mike talked about it “ was all a dream” to build his own house although he hasn’t built his own home he has turned his attention in the short term to self custom build properties. With his first project about to start listen it...

Been an administrative type of week, wrapping up a lot of loose ends as we finish September 24… even in a quite week we have been working on a few very exciting opportunities that we are looking forward to sharing going into quarter 4 of the year…

Meet Tim Boyd or otherwise known as the property sorcera… enjoy Tim interesting story from working in the commercial world where taking time off for the birth of his child wasn’t an option to how “getting out of his comfort zone” has lead Tim to running his own property network events group.

Finally wrapped up the disaster flip and move forward into planning the final part of the year with one partner while joes sunning himself in off out with a solicitor for dinner … it’s all about the people you surround yourself with

This week Mark LLoyd joined us to chat over his journey fresh off the back of winning trainer of the year at the blue brick awards 2024. Mark has been a regular at our networking event and we have shared many a conversation in that time. But it was a great pleasure to sit down and deep dive in to how Mark got to where he is now…. Enjoy the listen

From investor to partner…. Have a listen how Gaynor has gone from being an investor with us to a now working partner… Gaynor started out wanting to get btls to SA units but has now due to a change in circumstances moved onto sourcing properties.. What an interesting outlook and understanding on how to pivot with life and change strategies in property to match.. but it all started from a Brooker sa...

What an emotional week, loads of frustrations that very are trying to pull us down from what’s a very solid pipeline. Until next week keep getting up and keep getting it done

Off the back of another great networking event Gav and Joe sit down and talk about their takes from the event and offer a massive thank you to to Louise Reynolds for coming over to join us.

Them what if moments that come out on this weeks conversation with Mark Tipper, we recently sat down with Mark who has just written in an Amazon best selling book to talk about “you only fail when you give up” mindset and where he is currently in his property. I’ve known Mark for many years and yet was great to actually deep dive into who Mark is… Great chat as always thanks Marky…

Amazing conversation with Maj Curtis, over the past 7 years we have stayed in touch and always had some great conversations about our journey in property.. listen to how we understand the right knowledge is power and how working for yourself is like solving the rubix cube of life… always feel energised after our conversations and hope you enjoy the chat..

What a challenge week with a refurb we can are for a investor… Builder has gone MIA so we got ourselves on site and called in other trades to push the project forward to not let the investor down…. But used the time spent to arrange new potential build teams to come over to the project to show them how we work and what we expect and bizarrely the builder has already previously worked on another on...

“Putting yourself in the right rooms” What an interesting chat with Isaac Maynard smith who went to work in london before teaming up with his dad a season builder in the world of property. After attending Samuel Leeds mentor programme Isaac really moulding the old school mentality with the new school way of thinking… can’t wait to see how far Isaac’s can go on property

Meet Emmie a property all rounder who has after a starting working for herself in property a couple of years ago had to take time off to re-charge and now this year really gone all in to get her property company off and running

Always get home from our monthly network event full of energy and motivation from listening to everyone’s goings on for the month…. Massive thanks to Andy Franco for coming down to share his knowledge of the financial side of investing Looking forward to next months already

Today we chat to David Oates our first join venture partner…. 8 years ago we lent Dave some money for a project he was working on and now all this time later and many transactions we are still working together. Dave and Gav are currently working on a non profit tree planting service and looking to raise money to plant 10,000 trees this year Hope you enjoy the Listen

Gav take s a quick 5 minutes to have a think about the past month… Something that we never done for many years…. And is a great conversation to have with other property people… celebrating them wins and focusing on why we choose this path in property

Meet Andy Franco who’s first deal in property was a dream start all from a conversation having his hair cut… to then moving into financial advise. Andy has an interesting background of coaching athletes and running a home security company and a random conversion one day lead him to the explore the property world. With the expertise he obtained as a coach Andy was able to use that knowledge to help...

Meet Ross Barry of engineering property, who after making 80 offers and laughed out of many agencies has now managed to divert his growing portfolio by taking a step back setting up the right systems to make it work smarter for him. Interesting account of what it took to get his first deal and the time and consistency to achieve that.

Meet Louise Reynolds who is launching SOARR programme focusing on the risk analysis side of investing…. All this has been put together from her previous career in the commercial world and her international investment strategy

Meet Nicky lambert and learn about his journey in property with very unique way of raising money has led to over 1.2m in investment potential from his approach and finding investors…