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Useful Resources for Property Investors

Seven Ways To Stop The Surveyor Downvaluing Your Property
Read this excellent article by Sonny Walia explaining how you can stop serveyors downvaluing your investment properties and reducing your profits!

Direct to Vendor Negotiation
This is a useful teleconference regarding Direct to Vendor Negotiation.

Stopping Reposession
This free guide to stopping reposessions shows you how provide vendors with repossession guidance and support. Learn how to help vendors who are in trouble, whilst at the same time improving your own financial position.

Philip Martin's articles for Your Property Network

Feb 2010: IS PROPERTY REALLY THE ULTIMATE ASSET CLASS?
We are at a low point in the property market. We are bombarded by information from the media that we are in a Credit Crunch and that the Recession will continue to bite deeper. I do not internalise this very much and choose not to have a personal recession, instead seeing the huge opportunities that others miss. It is however apparent that a lot of people have had their unwavering belief in property investment hit and with helpful reinforcement from their friends and family, they now doubt the Amazing Power of Property...

Jan 2010: PROPERTY INVESTING AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
It is no secret that most successful people in property and in business use the Law of Attraction to enhance their efforts. In simple terms, the Law of Attraction will move you forward faster and more effectively than any other tool or strategy at your disposal.

Dec 2009: Sustainable Lease Options, Rent to Own and Wraps in A Future Regulated environment
There is some talk at the moment regarding possible regulation of Lease Options and their derivative schemes. Why and how this could happen will become apparent over the next couple of years. We will see best and worst practise evolve and emerge in the market places where these schemes become more prevalent.

Nov 2009: Procedures For Moving A Property Lead From Enquiry To Completion Over The Telephone
Rapid Property Investment have evolved clear procedures for negotiation of leads and case progression of deals. I realised the other day what a great help it would have been to me, if I'd had that information in the early days....

Oct 2009: Joint Ventures For Fun And Profit
How great is it to work with who you want, when you want to? To draw the best people to you and to only do the aspects of a job that you really enjoy....

Sep 2009: Relationships In Property Are Priceless
I realised very quickly that my success in property hinged on my ability to support and encourage the team that I was working with to do a good job.....

Aug 2009: How You And Your Vendor Can Secure The Survey Outcome That You Both Want
Hosting a survey, means meeting and greeting the surveyor. It means welcoming the surveyor and showing him round the property. It means offering him a cup of tea and sometims sharing your helpful information and insights with him. It means saying goodbye to your new friend when he leaves. In managing this process, you have taken all the pressure away from your vendors, putting it all on your shoulders - much to their appreciation....

Jul 2009: Portfolio Stress Buster Strategies
Many of us get so excited by deal making and building our portfolios that we neglect the importance of inserting the word Sustainable in everything we do.Property is a long term wealth plan, although a deal or strategy looks brilliant today, could it drag our portfolio and our energies down in a couple of years time?

Jun 2009: Deal Packaging for Massive Profit
Last month I shared how educated investors can sit in the flow of money in the middle of Option transactions. In this article I will explain how we can generate a significant income by positioning ourselves in the flow of both information and money generated by Deal Packaging for other investors.

May 2009: Options, Lease Options and Rent2Own - UK Style
Over the last couple of years, I have seen an increasing interest and acceptance in using Option Agreements and their various permutations on residential property...

Apr 2009: How YOU can turn Lead Buying into Property and Profit
Many of you will have heard the famous phrase by Victor Kiam “I loved the product so much I bought the company”...

Mar 2009: FROM REPOSSESSION TO RICHES....
How hungry survivors, riddled with court judgements, formerly bankrupt and repossessed can become multi-millionaire property investors.

Feb 2009: 2009 WILL BE MEGA FOR PROPERTY INVESTORS...
Probably for the first time ever ANYONE, no matter their background, no matter their knowledge, no matter their credit rating, no matter their location, no matter how much cash they have, ANYONE can achieve massive things in property in 2009...

Jan 2009: Sale and Rent Back – A force for good
How to ethically create a sustainable portfolio through win: win BMV deals