Bretts Property Rants

Well, congratulations you have found one true excuse that will ensure you stay poor... Tony Robbins says “the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions” So ask better questions... like how to invest now and make money...

The good news that in early 2017 the IMF finally announced the world was growing again across all economic areas. Good news for investors and bad news for those who want an excuse...

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

Crowdfunding has become an established choice for co-investing. It represents a true hands off investment but does it really stack up to the claims being made. Do hands off mean better returns?

The key to success in crowd funding is knowing that crowdfunded property isn't any different to normal buy to let property. The fundamentals don't change... watch the video and be forewarned.

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

Off plan is a fabulous strategy if you know when you get into it and when to get out. As with most things relating to picking exact dates you cannot! So you need to track trends rather than dates.

Having an understanding of the off plan process and the Property Trend Cycle will allow you to pick when not to invest, this video explains this.

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

It all comes down to this one key decision... Do you have the time to do it yourself or are you prepared to bring experts to do it for you?

Our business unashamedly works with people who don’t have the time to do it themselves. If that’s you then let’s have a chat, if you want to do it yourself then, by all means, use our free Investors Academy.

Whichever your choose, you can change and normally will end up using Other People’s Time and Other People’s Money (OPT OPM). This video will help you choose the best one for you.

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

Off plan is one of the most lucrative strategies when done well! Most people who don’t understand it, write it off but when you understand the risks of off plan and mitigate against them you stand to benefit from huge returns of your investment.

So what are the risks... I break them down into 3 broad risks which I discuss in this Rant.

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

Always a touchy subject when one partner wants to stay put and the other wants to get moving. It’s doubly emotional when the family home is involved, the sacred cow of wealth. So how do we handle the emotionally charged subject.

Well firstly... communication, secondly knowing the rules of the game and having a clearly defined strategy and finally, this one simple approach which I’ve found will turn around all but the most fierce opponents to remortgaging the home.

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

Totally understandable!!! The government has made it so difficult to get any finance through on an investment.

My thoughts are this!!! Don’t let the difficulty of finance cloud the benefits it provides, it’s all about return on investment. Paying cash you get the pleasure of paying MORE tax... not something I recommend. I prefer to see an appropriate amount of leverage so it will maximise your return.

So the question of a mortgage or not is more about leverage or loan to value than risk and tax you are prepared to pay than the cash you have...

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

Of course, you can use your own broker. No one can force you to use a broker you don't want to use.Sure they can stop you from buying an investment but that will rarely happen.

However...

In this day and age mortgages are much more complex and brokers have to specialise so the broker you used for your home or the one down the street may not really understand the investment.

So in the end it may be in your best interests to use a recommended broker. That doesn't mean you shouldn't still vet them as normal.

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

So many times we are on the phone to salespeople and they ask us personal information about our situation. So you have the choice to trust them with it or not.

The truth is an ethical company will use it to provide the right information to help you make an informed decision, a sales company will use it to sell their investments whether they are suitable for you or not.

The question is how to tell?

Gladfish Property Investment is a property investment platform and specialist consultancy in property opportunities. #ThinkGladfish

Brett Alegre-Wood is an Entrepreneur, speaker and author of over 20 books. @brettalegrewood

Their website is https://www.gladfish.com or call +442079236100

This week Brett gets into the fundamentals that are being forgotten amongst all the negative media. It's been a battle wary few years with so many major changes as well as various acts of self harm from Brexit to tax changes and Idiotic Elections as well as clear lacks in any leadership from our politicians. The market hates uncertainty and right now we have so much of it.

But look deeper and you will see through the smoke screen and through to the fundamentals which right now are looking pretty good for the rest of the UK. Let's face it the past 10 years hasn't really amounted to anything except a lost generation (Thanks Blair/Brown and Cameron/Osbourne all uninspiring leaders who lost sight of the people they represented.)