Have you ever thought that when you have been out viewing a buy to let investment property? It can be frustrating, even scary, thinking you’re making decisions about spending multiple tens of thousands of pounds, and you’re not quite sure what you are buying into. Or even if you should be buying it.
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In this short video I want to talk about 4 reasons why I always refurbish or renovate my buy to let investment properties. Now, the first 3 reasons you might think ‘yeah, ok, that makes a lot of sense’ but it is probably the 4th reason that’s the most interesting and the most important, so stick with me on this because, hopefully, if you don’t know about this this is going to make a massive difference to the way you do your property investing.
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Imagine this, you’re out viewing properties, you’re going to view this property, maybe you’re thinking it’ll make a nice flip or perhaps it’s even going to be serviced accommodation or holiday let, I don’t know, it doesn’t really matter.
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Here is a clever way of very effectively adding value to a home without a huge amount of work. Adding another bedroom in the space of a kitchen.
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One of the great things about being in property today is that there are so many different ways we can raise our finance. And if you find yourself in a situation where you find yourself a fantastic refurb opportunity, but you can’t get standard buy to let lending because it needs a bit too much…
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Ah, the old dilemma, and a question I’ve been asked a lot recently. As is so often the case in property, there is no right or wrong answer, but here are my thoughts on this.
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If you are buying properties to refurb, and I think you should be so you can add value, most buy to let lenders want the property to be lettable from day 1. So getting finance can be tricky, if not impossible, for the types of properties we want to buy. Here’s the solution. This product gets around that…
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What caused this crack in the Property? A possible investment is made unfeasible by this crack, any refurbishment and renovation will likely cost more to fix than our return. Here’s to successful property investing! Peter Jones B.Sc FRICS Chartered Surveyor, author and property investor www.ThePropertyTeacher.co.uk PS. By the way, I’ve rewritten and updated my best-selling…
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It’s time to dust off your EPCs. Interesting comments by the energy minister Claire Perry, who is suggesting that Stamp Duty could be used to incentivise property sellers to make their properties more energy efficient. And there could also be fines as well – so you’d be fined for selling a cold, draughty property (i.e…
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When is a crack not a crack? When it’s a concern. Ok, not a great piece of humour, ironically a little like cracker humour, if you’ll forgive the pun. Joking aside, cracks in our world (of property) are worth understanding – many a deal has turned out to be a poor one because the buyer…
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Even in the world of buy to let familiarity really can lead to ‘contempt’, especially when it comes to property management and arranging property repairs. Because the bulk of my buy to let properties are around 150 miles from home I have a number of different managing agents who look after them. Delegating the management…
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Following on from my post about how to keep a lid on your repair costs I’m now kicking myself even more because I’ve realised that I could have done even better than Patrick’s much more reasonable price of £1585 for a new boiler in one of my buy to let properties. I could have got…
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