37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #1

Can WE do this?   Yes we can!

Here is the first of several pieces walking you through my 37 reasons to come to our Money Gym Property Extravaganza on 21st March.   I will keep each of these bulletins as short as possible so I can send you one every day for the next week or so.   I don’t want to overload you with information but I do want to remind you why you might want to move heaven and earth to be there.   I know, it’s annoying to have to travel to London on a Saturday and move things around in your diary and get up early and so on when we are all so busy, but here are my Eight Inspirational Reasons.   Does one speak to you, %$firstname$%?

1.    The speaker experts have already revealed in their interviews that they were once scared and inexperienced. They are all relatively ordinary people who have gone on to invest in property and become millionaires or even multi-millionaires, thus proving that anyone can do it. They will show us what they did.

2.    Have you checked out the testimonials at the bottom of our information page?   Go to http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property and scroll all the wayto the bottom where you will see two real stories from two real women – Karen buying her first property and Christine buying her next property.   Two more real people demonstrating that anyone can do it.

3.   The day will be all about the Good News.   Without wanting to sound too much like that newsreader who made himself rather unpopular a few years back by asking where all the good news had gone, it is nevertheless my intention to focus on the good stuff only that day. Speaking personally, I am sick and tired of the bad news on endless loop.   You get what you focus on in this life. Let’s focus on some good stuff for a change.

4.   This is an opportunity to connect with a positive community of like-minded peers.   Money Gym clients, colleagues and friends tell us over and over again that this is one of the things they value most about the work we do.   If you are going to make a success of wealth creation generally and property investing specifically, you will need a gang who you can reach out to when the going gets tough.   The gang have been there before you, they have ideas and inspiration and connections to useful can-do brokers, lawyers, surveyors, builders and more. Hook in.   Have a cracking day out – come on down and meet the Money Gym team of clients and coaches, Nicola and me. Help us to stir up the magic and expect to meet someone who will give you a leg up, synchronicity at play all day long.

5.   Listen to Anthony North of the Big issue Foundation and see his films – Real Lives, Real Achievements – and see what a difference our ticket money will make to the homeless of our cities.   Get involved, donate, do some good, become an enlightened investor.

6.   Hasmita Reardon, another ordinary woman doing extraordinary things with money and creating a large portfolio of properties in Sittingbourne in Kent which she rents out to tenants no others will touch.   Not only did Hasmita win Bradford & Bingley Property Woman of the Year 2008, but she is creating a great little business down there in Kent.   Husband Steve and son Kiran will accompany Hasmita on the day.   Steve’s been able to give up the day job and Kiran has already been on TV’s Homes Under the Hammer and invented a website which helps landlords and tenants.   And he’s still a teenager. Blimey, teenagers can do this too!

7.   Take a leaf out of my book.   When I started with the Money Gym in 2003 I had no intention of investing in property. I was running scared from my previous attempt at it; I had lots of debt, no equity to leverage and no savings to invest.   But I went to the property seminar and listened and absorbed the learning.   This is what you can do too.   Not only are there routes to property investing which require very little time, money and know-how but you can get into property for as little as £1.   I know, seems unbelievable, doesn’t it?   However, if the route that interests you costs more than £1, at least you will know how to do it when the time is right and/or the resources become available.   Be inspired when you consider the routes to what might previously have seemed a closed door to you.   And a door WILL open up, of that you can be sure, especially if you keep on wiggling the knobs, just to check.

8.    Nicola is always saying (and she even says it in her book) that you can make money in property without actually buying any, by becoming a sourcer.   All you have to do is learn what makes a good property deal (which perhaps you can’t or don’t want to do yourself) and then sell it on. I used to think “yeah, right” when I heard this, even though I know people who do this now, but I think of them as at least quasi-professional investors.   What about real people?   Well today I was sitting in my car for two hours with Perky Pete, my somewhat slow estate agent. He’s a bit like Paddington, a bear of very little brain. But he’s a love, and dogged.   And he was telling me that’s precisely how he earns most of his living right now.   And yes, you could say he was a professional but honestly… if you met him in the pub… he’s just an ordinary bloke.  The moral of this story?   If Pete can do it, we all can!

Until tomorrow…

Judith

PS   94 seats have been sold already and the venue has a capacity of only 210 and we will be crammed to the rafters then.   I have told Steve to close bookings at 210 but I think I will have to reduce it to 200 because of the entourages of the speakers!   What’s my point?   I am going to write tomorrow to the 94 who have already booked with a stonking special offer to them.   If they book a seat for a friend or refer a friend who buys a ticket at £25, both they and their friend will qualify for 90 days free Silver membership of the Money Gym, worth £82.50 each!   How abundant is that?   So please, if it is your intention to attend, please BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.

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PPS Even as I write this I realise what it may mean… that I may sell the house out before I get to the end of my 37 Reasons… shame!

£1k For A Piece Of Caribbean Paradise?

Judith Morgan says: “Only £1,000 down for your own freehold little bit of Paradise in the Caribbean? Can this really be true? Or is it simply “Too Good To Be True”?

I have always wanted a life in the sun, so when one of our own ex-clients on the 2007 Money Gym Gold Express programme contacted me earlier in the year, I couldn’t wait to hear about the opportunity she presented.

At the time, I had challenges of my own – I was right in the middle of moving house in the same week as Janet Swift took me to a 3-day Alan Forrest Smith event and then I hurtled up to Manchester to find out all about Cartel, about which more later.

And to be honest with you, and I don’t think Victoria would mind my sharing this with you, when she brought it around to me, she hadn’t got her own head round the offering yet and so I simply didn’t understand it either and with all that busyness on my hands, I just parked it – a bit further down the To Do List! But I do remember calling Nicola and saying we must tell our clients about this. Nicola said “no, not now, let’s wait until someone we know and trust has invested their own money in it first” or word to that effect.

But Money Gym clients are not fools and so Victoria hedged her bets and she also showed it to Marcus de Maria AND Maria Davies. These days, Maria writes a regular column for “A Place in the Sun” magazine and so if Victoria could get past Maria’s defences, that would be a great result.

As Maria tells the story, Victoria badgered and badgered and badgered until Maria caved in and looked at the details and followed up on the opportunity in a way which I simply had not had time for.

And what did she discover? Maria discovered something so good she invested herself and she has now given up most, if not all, of her other speaking engagements just to present for this company. She is concentrating on them pretty much full-time and for the same reasons, it doesn’t just look too good to be true – it is true! And we want our clients to get a piece of that action!

With Maria’s “heads up” we have now all discovered something which, as I say, many will think too good to be true and indeed that may prove to be thei greatest marketing challenge!

So, what do they offer then, and how can you get your own freehold bit of Paradise in the Caribbean for only £1,000 down?

This company is a UK based developer, owned and run by one family, most of whom work in the business. Their Head Office is in Essex and I have been down there twice, once on my own to learn from a BBC geologist and oceanographer all about why their developments are no more likely to be hit by a hurricane than the south coast of England (!) and once with a carload of lovely Money Gym ladies.

We went to find out more, we went to grill the sales guy whose name, appropriately, is Sunny. We grilled the poor boy (and ticked him off about the state of the Ladies Loo to boot) for way more than two hours and he had the answers to all of our questions, literally at his fingertips. Sunny, rather worryingly (but affectionately I feel) now calls me “Trouble”.

Since then I have been once more to hang out in Essex. I have been to their Directors’ Box at the glamorous all-new Wembley Stadium where I met Katharine. Katharine is a Cambridge graduate who has worked for this company since she was 23; she’s now 26 and she is, quite frankly, the most brilliant presenter I have ever heard in all my years in the Money Gym.

There’s no fluff, she embodies the word succinct, thank heavens and she’s intelligent, intelligent, intelligent and posh (her hobby, nay passion, is Polo). And Katharine has created a lot of the business excellence which this company now display. Again, when answering questions, she quite easily and quickly put her hands on the answer to everything. Katharine is my new best friend in the Wonderful World of Wealth Creation.

God knows how or where the CEO recruited Katharine (she was head-hunted apparently) but he’s no fool. Together they are a brilliant business combination to my mind.

Sunny’s Mum works for the company. Katharine’s brother is her PA. It truly is a family business. Does that make it a better business? Not necessarily, but apart from Cartel, I haven’t found a business with greater or more infectious energy for a very long time. Victoria even took her singing sister into this company to work too.

So, let’s cut to the chase. Who are they and what’s in it for you?

A little piece of Paradise as I already said on terms which are literally too good to be true…..
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