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February 5, 2009

Have you read the UK First Ever Lease Options eBook? “Assured Positive Cash flow”

Filed under: General — craigk @ 12:21 am

Table of content:http://bfr-invest.net/pibwp/lease-options-ebook-content-assured-positive-cashflow

Blog your questions or comments here.

January 14, 2009

How To Convert Your Buy-To-Let Into A Cashflow Positive Lease Option

It is about time that property investors learn once for all that cashfow investing prevails over capital growth investing.

Many novice landlords and property investors have been persuaded by property consultants, agents, finance brokers etc to pursue capital growth investing rather than cashflow investing.

In a raising market, this strategy makes sense but still bears a great risk, as the investor or the landlord must plan his exit strategy to sell before the downturn arrives.

What distinguishes sophisticated investors from the rest is that their investment strategy always focuses on cashflow first, then capital growth. But the novices have been conditioned to do the contrary, they invests primarily for capital growth, and not so much for cash flow.

This is often why the novice will take such a long time, if ever, to achieve the financial freedom that they wanted from property in the first place.

If your investment property (buy to let) is in negative equity or negative cash flow, do not despair! Even during this economic downturn you still can turn things around and achieve positive cashflow. You can convert your assured shorthold tenancy into a lease option (rent-to-buy or rent-to-own).

Following are the steps on how to do it.

Establish why you shouldn’t sale

If you selling your property in the current market means you have you have to find funds to repay your mortgage then do not sale! Try instead to understand how to get more cash from your property by impleting a lease option agreement.

Determin the five key lease that make a lease options agreement

If you choose the lease option road, you have to determine the five key elements previously discussed:

  1. Your sale price
  2. The upfront option fee (the down payment that reduces the purchase price)
  3. The monthly rent
  4. The instalment option fees (that can also reduces the purchase price)
  5. The option period

You can learn how to determine these five elements and engineer a win win transaction between you and your tenant-buyer. To find out more visit http://www.assuredpositivecashflow.com

January 6, 2009

What makes a good Property Investment or Real Estate forum?

Filed under: General — Tags: — francis.emery @ 9:00 pm

Property investment or real estate forums are great source of information, discussions and ideas. We are listing here below what makes great property or real estate forums:

  • Ease of use
    A clear concise website that is easy to navigate around. Topics and headers should be clear and concise and easy to follow. The property forum itself should be uncluttered and free from pop ups. It should also be technicaly reliable
  • Design of the property forum
    This is often overlooked. An easy to read typeface. No bright colours, straightforward click and post. No music, no gimmicks’ should be allowed on good property/real estate forums.
  • Up to date content
    Property investing requires up to date information. A good property investment forum must ensure that all content and web links are relevant. Outdated posts and comments should be removed or archived. Duplications of entries should be avoided.
  • Relevance
    Content must be relevant and to the point and keep on topic. This is to avoid that visitors get board and soon not return if the content is become irrelevant or goes off point.
  • Open discussions and opinions
    Visitors and members of the forum should feel it’s a good place to exchange ideas and opinion about property investment in general. If  there is a forum moderator it’s essential the moderator treats all entries fairly and without bias.
  • The fun factor
    Fun should not be underestimated. A good property/real estate forum whilst being informative should also be light-hearted and never take itself too seriously.

In light of all the point we made above, we’ve started a review of the best property investment forums.

Follow the link for more information.

We hope you’ll enjoy it.

Jane M & Francis Emery

January 1, 2009

We wish you a happy new year 2009

Filed under: General — admin @ 11:18 pm

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From Property Investment Blog

Happy New Year 2009

We Wish You
Affection & Love
Peace
Prosperity

And Much More.

December 31, 2008

Most common mistakes that novice property investors make

Filed under: General — Tags: — admin @ 2:01 pm
  1. Mistake: Analysis paralysis
    Solution: learn well but act on your knowledge.  Nothing will ever teach you like real life experience of actually doing it.  Make mistakes, make them quick and especially quickly learn from your mistakes. That’s part of the process of become great. Free Online Property Course

  2. Mistake: Not vetting tenants properly
    Solution: Patience is a virtue. Doing research to set correct rent is a must. Attract the correct tenant is paramount. This will save you huge amount of time and money instead of needing to evict a bad tenant later.
  3. Mistake: Holding out for top rents
    Solution: Even if you’ve overpaid a property, cash flow is still king. Voids will costs you more that a small rent deficit. Do your maths!
  4. Mistake: Looking at too many deals and opportunities and not focusing on what’s right one for you.
    Solution: Investing is a strategy to achieve a personal goal. It’s not about chasing up deals or opportunities. Deals are vehicles which allow you to achieve your goals.
  5. Mistake: Not trusting your gut feelings
    Solution: if it doesn’t feel right just walk away – it’s better than kicking yourself later.
  6. Mistake: Feeling you’re missing out; everyone is doing better than you, has more money or property than you, etc.
    Solution: If you focus and persist, your time will come. Napoleon Hill’s quote: “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
  7. Mistake: Not understanding that before you invest in a deal you have to know your exist strategy.
    Solution: Learn how to achieve positive cash flow with the right exist strategy
    htttp://www.assuredpositivecashflow.com

Construction cost calculator for new homes & renovations

Filed under: General — admin @ 1:35 pm

Construction cost calculator for new homes & renovations

This will be a bunch of useful links

In the meantime if you leave down under visit that site…

http://www.homedesigndirectory.com.au/calculators/ConstructionCostEstimator.shtml

Thinking of buying properties in America after prices have bottomed up?

Filed under: General — admin @ 1:23 pm

Did you know that all areas are zoned for commercial or residential and within that zoning you will have further zones including short term rental, long term rental, owner occupier and holiday rental.

Should you purchase a property in a long term rental zone and rent it to holiday makers or on a short term let basis you can be prosecuted, similarly if you buy in a rental zone and decide to live in it!

So be wary about buying property in Ameruca now, prices are still falling…

You can get the proper guidance before you buy.

millionaireriches.com is a trully amazing usa property investment knowlegde vault.

The Land Registry Services

Filed under: General — admin @ 1:11 pm

Any intersting services that the Land Registry provides that people don’t know very well?

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What are the problems around creative property investment strategies?

Filed under: General — Tags: — admin @ 12:57 am

I am trying to list various problems linked to creative property investment strategies.

  • If your strategy is quite different your market will show resistance

Most importantly how to resolve them…

  • Ask people what problem they are trying to resolve or what gaol they are trying to achieve then only then show them how your creative property investment stratgey fit the bill.

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June 30, 2008

UK Property Investment in 2008: Is Time To Buy, Sell or Hold?

Filed under: General — admin @ 11:22 am

The way you think about property investment is up to you. But since we are not islands we cannot ignore know what others think about the UK property market in 2008: the credit crunch, repossessions, potential house price crash all the economic bad news.

Some big landlords are also feeling the pinch too. Time to protect your money?

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