Stoupa, Spain & Sunny Days

Well Sarah and I are back from our grownup/no kids holiday in Stoupa, The Mani, Greece and while I did feel a teensy bit guilty about leaving the kids (they love Stoupa) I soon got over it as I really needed a rest.

I’ve got so much to tell you about Stoupa I don’t know where to start.  Our first day, we walked down the hill to the beach and of course had to stop in at Pefko Taverna, presided over by Elias Hontzeas, my old friend of 20 years, who was amazed to see me after 6 years but ran up the road to give me a big hug!

Elias is the hardest working man in Stoupa I reckon, and so is his wife Stella, who cooks for 17 hours a day!!  Actually, everyone in Stoupa works hard in the tourist season, but I’ve heard stories of Elias’ mother in the olden days, having to walk for two days on a GOAT TRACK, to take produce to Kalamata to sell (with bits of leather tied round her feet) but you would never think it to see her sitting in the garden of Pefko shelling beans and smiling at everyone.

Anyway, I usually spend a day with Elias and go look at his current properties; he’s a great builder of houses for both holiday homes and retirement, he usually tries to sell me one and I’ve never been able to do it, because you need a 30% plus deposit and a second mortgage, but I’ve always said I will get him to build me one “to spec” one day.  He builds new but in the style of old Maniot tower houses, using local materials, as the Greek building regs are very strict now, because they realise that tourism is rapidly becoming their main earner, and they don’t want to ruin things like they did in Spain.

Stoupa is just lovely, barely changed at all, slightly improved but not mucked around with too much.  The two beaches are still lovely, Katerina’s Supermarket is still great fun, the Five Brothers Taverna still serving the best “chicken on the grill” I’ve EVER tasted and the classical/jazz/dance music at the Paralos Beach Bar the most laid back and eclectic on the planet.

Day Two, and I wake up really early due to the 2-hour time difference and while Sarah snoozes, I think I’ll go get a Nescafe Frappe at Pefko, and enjoy the bay, always so still and beautiful in the early mornings.

Elias is already there, it’s quiet and he comes over for a coffee and a ciggie (Greece has gone non-smoking in public places but it’s all outdoors anyway!), and we get talking about business, mine and his.  He tells me that the credit crunch bit early and deep in Greece, but the banks are just starting to lend again, however, where he was selling houses as fast as he could build them two years ago, he can’t sell at all now, due to his target market not being able to get refinance in the UK.

So he’s selling at a deep discount (around 30% BMV on two years ago) but it’s still not shifting them as the buyers just can’t get finance.

I asked him if he had ever thought of selling on a “vendor finance” or “rent to own” basis as that would take the banks out of the equation and oddly enough he said he had tried to do two deals like that the previous year, where he acted as the bank, to try and save the sale, but his English wasn’t quite good enough to explain it to the couples concerned.

Then he said the fateful words “Would you like one on that basis?  And do you think you can help me to sell the rest of my houses, Nicola?” and that was the rest of the holiday sorted.  Sarah and I discussed it on the beach in the afternoons, then put some of our ideas into action in the mornings, and you can see the results of our early efforts (and put your name and email in for more info) at http://www.StoupaProperty.com

Essentially, he’s willing to “rent to buy later” lovely holiday homes in and around this idyllic village, with a small deposit, typically 5%, then we get the use of them for five years plus the rental income, while agreeing a fixed price now for sale in five years.  Discounted already remember.  Then, in five years, if we can get finance at home, we will, and buy him out or if not, he will then act as the bank for the remaining twenty years at a fair interest rate.

Do you love Greece?  Fancy a holiday home but always thought you wouldn’t be able to afford a deposit?  Perhaps you can’t get a mortgage but would love somewhere of your own to take the kids every year and rent out the rest of the time?

Are you interested? We are thinking of doing a live webinar in late August, then an info evening in London early September with a long weekend viewing trip in early October.

What questions would you have?  Please come to the blog and let me know or become a fan of our StoupaProperty.com page on Facebook and ask me via the wall?

This is part of the bigger plan we have to create Money Gym Holidays – a blog and membership site – where we help all our members who have holiday homes market them more effectively.

Our successful pilot of Money Gym Silver Elite is come to an end and some of the pilot group have had some amazing successes….just some of the quotes are amazing and not everyone was even in the programme, just been inspired by it!  See the testimonials box today for some more insights into what Silver Elite could do for you if you want “your hand held, your bum kicked and absolutely nowhere to hide”.

Back a week and just time for a late night poker game last night, which, combined with a very early beauty appointment today, knocked me out a bit!  Only time she could fit me in, and i wanted to see the boys before I go….did ok too.

Packing again at the moment for three weeks in Casares, Spain, leaving Monday.  Rona and Adrian have lent us their beautiful townhouse and while I’m there I’m going to be taking lots of videos of the house and surrounding area – I only found one in total on YouTube.

Hoping the kids won’t get too bored out there, I have my book to rewrite, but there are buses up and down from Casares to Estapona, the nearest beach and town.  We have cars but will save them for the longer trips, I think.

They can also explore the village and there’s a village municipal pool, which has been being remodelled, but hopefully is finished now.

And it’s festival or fiesta season so some great street parties to look forward to.

Have Fun, We Always Do!

Nicola

Note From Judith | What’s Important?

Ha, ha! Ha, ha!  Ha, ha!   I have total egomaniacal (cue mad laughter) and editorial control this week – and possibly even next – as Nicola packs and prepares for her holiday away.

She’s going for one week to her beloved Stoupa with sister Sarah and I have given her homework: to see if it really is somewhere she could make a life.   Watch her Twitters…assuming she can get a signal.

Does the broadband work well enough?   Is the travel to and from efficient enough?   Is there a community in which she could make friends and play a  role, not to mention poker?

No doubt she will report back in her next Note from Nicola, meanwhile this is a Note from Judith.   Hooray!

So, let me see, what does she tell you?   All about her week.   Well, happily, a lot of our week this week has been in tandem since we spent Monday working together at quite a nice country house hotel near Leatherhead which shall remain nameless.   A very chatty girl in a dark suit and high heels (we in our pink entrepreneur’s flip flops) spent an hour showing us over the old bit and the two new bits and we were nearly taken with it, apart from the dreadful food at lunchtime which depressed us both.   We also couldn’t agree about the conference room itself.

But the killer question came when we returned to our little room we had booked for the day and did some projections about holding our 2010 Wealth Conference at this venue.   Nicola’s body visibly deflated as she contemplated spending two days in that room as compared to say the beautiful state-of-the art auditorium at the Cavendish Conference Centre in central London, where we have run a couple of large events recently, which perks her up no end.   So I am holding the Cavendish for the weekend of 19th and 20th June 2010 for now.   We love working there as they are very Can Do.   We still have some way to go to get all the details right but we learn every time we hold an event there.

The Wealth Conference will include a slap-up party on the Saturday night and so it falls to me (natch!) to organise that in a nearby restaurant – more venue recces upcoming this week for moi.

We talked a lot on Monday about our coaches, Margaret, Marion, Philly and Annie, who we are inviting to take a more central role in the Money Gym in 2010 and beyond, especially at Silver and Gold level and with our Let’s Talk Money events.   The Money Gym is growing up as a business.   I have just completed our 4th set of accounts since I joined Nicola and Steve in partnership.   Our learning is slow because so much of our energies go into helping, coaching, supporting clients and it can be a trap this, for a coach.  You can get stuck in facilitating great things in others at your own expense.   Because of the nature of our business, wealth creation, its vital we lead by example too wherever possible.

Trying to achieve both our own goals and those of our clients at the same time has been complex, rewarding and slow, but I really feel we are getting there now and we have a vision for the business which inspires us both.   I can’t tell you about new projects on the way although I know Nicola has already let slip to one or two of her mentoring clients, but I should be able to tell you soon enough, after all the holidays are over.   For now they remain a work in progress; we love to work on new stuff and bring you new stuff too.

The rest of my Money Gym week has been about Money Gym accounts and VAT, Rent2Own mentoring calls on Friday with Peter Stanley who is now regularly doing two deals a week.   I am also working on my own first deal which is fun.   We are in week 11 of our Silver Elite pilot and I have done at least one of my mentoring calls which are included in the programme and I know Margaret has done one too this week.   Wednesday is Webinar day with one at 10 for Silver Elite and one at 11 for Gold clients, both of which went well this week although Nicola forgot to press Record (easily done) for the first one which is an awful shame since it was about Stocks & Shares and turned out to be really interesting.   I often listen to our calls back as I learn so much more when I am listening as opposed to talking. I know, tragic.   Listening to yourself!   Good grief.   Sometimes I even find myself really, really interesting.   Sad.

Yesterday I helped out a really nice bird who had been to one of our Let’s Talk Money days a while back and was on the horns of a dilemma.  Really enjoyed that one and I am also really enjoying working with Mrs Lucky Winner who won a year’s property mentoring with me at the Property Extravaganza.   The rest of the week has been taken up with shepherding our first 30 clients through their RED investment, all but one or two are using their pensions to do it with and creating a SIPP.   This morning I had a conference call with Darren, Red’s SIPP guy, and now we have a working spreadsheet between the two of us where we are tracking everyone along the road to Pension Nirvana on only 10 years.  So its never too late to start your pension now, I am even working with a lady who is a very youthful 60 years old.

And finally there’s the minutiae, the detail of running a business, emails, queries, letters, follow-ups, liaison between the three of us at Head Office (often at cross-purposes and I use the word cross advisedly!) – could you just look this up, could you just help this person, what do you think about this opportunity, shall we diversify our focus, shall we bring forward a project or delay it?   In the end we decided that our watchword for the week would be “What’s Important?”   You often have to take up that stance before a holiday. And, come to think of it, it isn’t a bad one to run your week – or your business – by, is it?

Personally, there were more huge advances in my garden.   My Twitter followers have been baying for photos of my meadow, my tree seat, my acid bed, my climbing roses, my new shrubs, my lavender and my olive tree, but they are just going to have to wait, Twitpic being a bridge too far for me.   I mean, I’m in SOLE CHARGE here, I’ve got a business to run!   All I can say as a sun worshipper who loves the sun and as a gardener, who loves to look out of the window at Nick’s handiwork but not much else. is “bring on more of that Big Rain!” It means I am on light duties with the hose.

Until next time…

Board Meetings, Blog Disasters & Brilliant Reports

It’s been a very odd week – great fun in most places and one very scary bit!  I’ll tell you about that first….

Yesterday, all of our 1500 odd blog postings and thirty carefully crafted blog pages just simply disappeared from The Money Gym Blog!

I had hardly done anything on the blog yesterday, having been working with Judith on our Silver Elite infopage, and Steve was out playing golf on a rare day off.

I had uploaded a page and some photos to our server, not the blog, I’d approved a couple of comments, one of which was a bit random but nothing sinister looking, I’d added a video of Susan Boyle, from Britain’s Got Talent, to our blog posting about her “overnight success” and that was pretty much it.

Steve came home and we had a long discussion about something else, before he looked at the blog in passing, to find nothing there!  Well, we both completely freaked – how can it have happened?  He had just finished all the pages for the various levels of the new membership site, about 60 new members had joined this week, from the old site, and while all the members info was still there……….no posts or pages.

We both felt very ill for a little while, Steve at the idea of having to recreate all that work, and me at the idea that something I had done during the day had made it all go wrong.

This really was the worst disaster to happen to me in about 15 years online.

The weird thing was that when I looked to find a backup, which I do everytime we have to upgrade the Wordpress software, my entire blog directory was gone from my computer’s “Websites” folder.  I did have a computer crash recently but I managed to retreive all my websites folders from the backup, which I do online every day.

We swung into fix mode, with Steve concentrated on looking online to see if he could find anything about a virus or on the Wordpress forums.  I twittered the issue and that went onto Facebook, and by the morning, one of my Rich Schefren’s GPS classmates, Clay Franklin (@ClayFranklin), had come back with the idea of contacting our server, and seeing if they could restore our site from their last backup.

Which they did for the smallest sounding $15 I’ve every been happy to pay in my life.  But we still don’t know what happened!

Even more strange, our Clickbank page has suddenly been getting lots of traffic from a hoplink called fjautohits and a URL that looks very odd.  About 400 visits in the last week!  And we’ve sold an ebook a week for the last three weeks, when we have never sold a dicky bird via Clickbank before! We are now listed in the Marketplace whereas we haven’t sold enough to stay in there before.  We have a gravity listing and everything.  At this rate, we will sell five items on five different credit cards, and actually get paid by Clickbank!

As I say, very odd, because I actually started to read “Clickbank For Newbies” by Harvey Segal this week, and gave up in despair at how complicated it is (Clickbank, not Harvey’s book!)

On a lighter note, on Wednesday we headed into the depths of the country, to the Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa, for our Money Gym Quarterly Board Meeting – and let me tell you they are never boring!
Judith brought along her flip video to replace mine, which I broke on holiday, and Steve got a quick shot of the conference room, which was very grand (yet reasonably priced including lunch and wi-fi) and discovered that Flip Videos can zoom….did you know that?

We went over our plans for the rest of 2009 and 2010, and Judith asked some very pertinent questions about each of our projects

One of which, Silver Elite, is launching its pilot programme shortly – we are inviting any Money Gym Silver paying member of more than three months standing to participate, as well as anyone who bought more than one ticket to the Property Extravaganza.  The headline runs “If You Definitely, Positively Know That In Order To Succeed With Your Wealth Creation…You Need Your Hand Held, Your Bum Kicked & Absolutely Nowhere To Hide…” and it’s aimed at those who want more accountability but who can’t afford Gold yet.

Debbie Winterbourne, Gold For Christmas winner, did a three month update for our Google group and highlights include…here’s what she had to say…

First I have to say how much I have enjoyed these sessions. They have really opened my eyes as to how to run a profitable business. Here are some steps I have taken:

1. I now have seven bank accounts! They include a contingency fund, an odds and sods account and a catastrophe fund. I have separated out my income streams into (a) legal consultancy work (b) business at=2 0Quantum House (c) a property account for my buy to let and (4) my personal bank account. With Nicola’s help I have created spread sheets for each bank account which shows me at a glance, which ones are working well, and where I need to make adjustments; Also a big thank you to Eileen who visited Quantum House and showed me how to use spreadsheets!

2. Nicola has helped me do three Google adword campaigns comparing different keywords and adjusting budgets, so as to attract maximum traffic to my website;

3. I have done a thorough investigation into my beliefs, behaviours and attitudes about money. the main thing holding me back was fear of paperwork! With Nicola’s help I am streamlining my business, and although I need to spend time setting up the various systems, hopefully sooner or later, I won’t need to worry so much about excess paperwork; I also worked out my rack rate and am now more aware of what I should be charging in order to earn what I want;

4. We clarified that I needed a volunteer office manager to take care of organising the bookings of room at Quantum House. Initially I did not think it would be possible to find such a volunteer. But I gave it a go: put an ad on Gumtree and got six replies! I have now interviewed everyone. There were a couple of bad apples in the basket, but today I hired a wonderful woman who will be the office manager for two days a week starting tomorrow! I am really over the moon about this and would never have taken the action had not Nicola encouraged me that it would work! As a bonus my new office manager has a degree in marketing plus experience of event management and room bookings!

5. I have joined a couple of websites at Nicola’s suggestion to try to market the room for hire. I have had a few bookings already! Money Gym client Lucy also put me in touch with various TV companies who might need a room for their auditions at short notice. Thank you Lucy!

6. I have hired four virtual assistants who have really taken a load off my shoulders in terms of email marketing and data mining.

There’s plenty more, but I am really thrilled with progress so far.

Debbie Winterbourne
http://www.trainingroomforhire.com

On the rent2own front, I’ve been talking to one lady in Cyprus (came via Twitter) and one in Spain (via my Google Adwords campaign) who want to sell their villas, and who might be interested in doing that on a rent-to-own basis.  The legal situation in Cyprus seems a bit tragic though with many people not having access to their title deeds, and on a par with the Land Title Deed mess in the Malaga area of Spain (remember Antonio Banderas’s villa repossession?) so I don’t know….

My magnetic car signs are coming along and I’m looking forward to picking them up – they are leary in the best Rick Otton tradition, and really stand out.

Steve will be able to take them off, when he drives it, and then I can put them back on when I do.  I don’t care how daft I look, if it attracts potential vendors.

Anyone Can Do It – Property Investing That Is!

What am I most looking forward to on Saturday apart from catching up with 200 of my favourite people?   What are my anticipated highlights?

Just one woman’s view but it might be useful if you are still sitting on the fence and are a last minute purchaser, still undecided?

Anyone Can Do It, opening inspiration from my mate Peter Stanley.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

Handing over a HUGE cheque to those worth folks at The Big Issue, about which more tomorrow.   I am just loving the idea of a marriage between The Money Gym and TBI since they are so entrepreneurial in their approach to homelessness.

The Caribbean Dream by Katharine Wooller.   Most of her clients are making their first ever investment in an overseas commercial hotel unit which can create a substantial income from only a tiny deposit.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

A short presentation about SIPPS in which I am anticipating Roger turning us all onto them – and not a moment too soon.

The prizes!   So many gorgeous gifts to give away.

One Networking Minute – my experiment to get 60 delegates on stage telling us about themselves.   Should be chaotic but fun, I have this image of something akin to The Generation Game!

Rick Otton and his Rent2Own/Lease Options strategies.   I ran a teleclass last Friday about this (and if you missed it, please email me and I will sort you out a link to it).  My intention was to give an overview of how you can buy a house for only £1.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

Who would be good at this?   Anyone who can be taught (by me if necessary) to “get” the maths, creatives who love to look for the deal, people for whom this might be their only route into property ownership and good negotiators.   Any one of those, not all of them.

A testimonial flooded in after the call from Heather who is coming on Saturday:

“Thankyou for the recording of Friday’s teleclass. It was of great interest to me. The thing is I can think of at least 3 properties I have looked at in the past month which would be perfect to “control” in this way – properties I know I could rent out and easily cover the mortgage payment and some each month. It means that there is the potential to help people with very little or even no equity in their property which it would not be possible to do with the traditional BMV purchase. I think the most exciting thing is that there is the potential for monthly cashflow if that’s what you need, but also if you want to use this strategy for adding to your own portfolio some deals will be suitable for that as well, but without the need to immediately find a large deposit – perfect! I’m looking forward to learning more on the 21st”

By George, she’s got it! There are so many routes to making money and/or buying property using these techniques which are all in the negotiation. Rick has promised to put up some real worked examples so we can understand even more about this and how to do it.

I really love to see the penny drop and will be looking for that on your faces on Saturday. We also run a Money Gym special interest Google Group for all those involved in Rent2Own and if you decide to take this further, we will look forward to have you join us there. We can help you to get those few important deals under your belt.

Last but absolutely not least, the triple whammy of being able to meet Martin Roberts from TV’s Homes Under The Hammer who opens the presentation for Unique and Henderson. Two sides to the same business sharing one absolutely unique benefit – your capital  investment is guaranteed and underwritten by Lloyds.

Unique offer the chance to buy ten years’ holidays for the price of one average family holiday AND they throw in the capital appreciation of the unit you have bought AND the opportunity to take your holidays in your own unit, others’ units or not at all and take the rental income instead.

Henderson offer the same thing but multiple units with a reinvestment programme for the rental income which means you end up with a lot of overseas real estate and an income pot, all compounding nicely for you with that same capital guarantee underwritten at Lloyds again.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

I haven’t met Kerry Welch yet who was one of the brilliant minds behind this one although I have met the rest of her team and I am much looking forward to seeing their presentation again. I know that this is an innovative opportunity that many will enjoy and take comfort from that guarantee.

Finally an explosive Q & A panel game where I really hope and expect we will grill the speakers so that they finally convince us what we know in our hearts, that now is precisely the right time to be finding a way – multiple ways – to invest in property.

See you there!

Judith

PS   Whilst writing this another handful of tickets sold, total now is 162. So if you ARE intending to come, please book now and bag your seat, your one moment on the stage, and lots of wonderful new ways to make your fortune/pension in property.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

37 Reasons | Actually 53 (Tickets Left That Is….)

With a small posse of Money Gymers I am just off to a Big Issue gigcalled Real Lives Real Achievements, hankies at the ready no doubt.  And I am running again through a ginormous To Do List for Saturday and making up another 20 goody bags.  Steve and I have synchronised our delegate lists and at the last count (Tuesday mid-day) we are agreed on 146 delegates.  And abundant Rebecca Ballard has offered to turn them into badges with me.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

If you are one of those 146 who has booked already or volunteered your help in any way, however small, on behalf of the Big Issue and the Money Gym thank you so much for your abundance and your support for our project.

I am thrilled skinny to notice that out of the 146, all but 60 are known to me personally because they have been to one of our events before, or are Money Gym Silver, Gold or Platinum clients. Three I met at Rent2Own, three are property chaps, eight are personal clients and their partners, ten I have played Cashflow with, two have been to a Money Gym Let’s Talk Money day, two came to an EFT event, two are my Creative Entrepreneur partners, five are members of the Property Boardroom, three were stand-out members of the Women Talk Money team, one is Brett’s Next Level speaker trainee plus her partner, one is involved in the Money Gym Magic project, two I have met over the phone, there’s a husband, a partner and a sister and someone I once sat next to at an event! Phew.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

But I know them all, that’s my delicious point. All initially cyber friends and colleagues, now they are real people in my peer group who know different stuff from me about property, who want to teach and learn and just be there to meet the rest of you. And I love them for coming along to this, lending their support and looking forward to a cracking day out as we all are now.

Can you see the value of a network? Can you feel the value of creating a Property Network which will support you in your resolve after the Property Extravaganza day? Recently our Money Gym clients have been creating local buddy groups to support their route to Financial Freedom and I was reminded yesterday, yet again, while listening to Think and Grow Rich about the importance of a Mastermind Team. But in order to connect, you have to show up, either offline or online. You have to reach out to others so they know you and how you can help and how they can help you.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

So, let me tell you about my plans on Saturday for One Networking Minute.

We have five 15 minute gaps during the day between speakers and in those slots I want to get 10-12 people on the stage each time and given them one minute to explain to a Money Gym property audience who they are, who they can help and what help they need.

I will get the Money Gym Golds and Platinums to do that near Nicola’s slot so they can help her pull the raffle tickets out of the pot for the Money Gym prizes.

I will get the Property Boardroom chaps to do that all together too so they can help me pull out my own prizes for the audience.

And so on.

So if you have time to rehearse your 60 seconds on stage and want one of those 50-60 slots on a first-come first served basis, then do plan your minute in the spotlight. It will be informally done as during those breaks some will be popping off to the loo, speakers will be being de-mic’d and re-mic’d, some will be following the speakers to the break-out rooms for a follow-up question or two and some of you will be hunting down a cup of cha.

But again, in the spirit of the day, it should be fun.

You have been warned. My Cleaning Biz partner Emma is in charge of marshalling you all onto the stage (and she’s an official yacht racing marshal with stopwatch); more details at the first break and on your schedules.

So, the 60 of you I don’t know yet, I shall look forward to putting faces to the names on Saturday.

Oh, and to meeting the two “famous” folk in the audience  – David Gray and George Bush. Not the real ones methinks, but our real ones – you never know? Presumably GB is looking for a new job!

Best Wishes
Judith

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

PS Whilst writing this one more ticket sold, 147!   So if you ARE intending to come, please book now and bag your seat, your one moment on the stage, and lots of wonderful new ways to make your fortune/pension in property.

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #5

Day Five in my series of 37 Reasons why you should attend our Money GymProperty Extravanganza on Saturday 21st March 2009, in Central London, in aid of The Big Issue homeless charity. A little recap first…

Day One – 8 reasons all about inspiration

Day Two – 7 financial reasons

Day Three – 5 incentive reasons (bribes)

Day Four – 10 reasons about opportunity

Total so far 30, so only 7 to go then…

Day Five – 3 Educational Reasons:

1. Find out what a SIPP is, how it’s about one thousand per cent more interesting than it sounds, how it’s not perhaps the easiest of things to understand but how when you discover what it can do for you and the tax breaks lurking inside, how very much you will want one. Meet Roger, the man I have found to teach us about SIPPS and how we can use them to invest in commercial property in the UK and overseas.

Discover how to convert those little bits of funds sitting in old pensions into a meaningful financial instrument you can use to take control of  your finances in invest in something without using your own money. Take the power back from the under-performing City fund manager and have some fun with it – learn to enjoy creating your own pension, often within 10 years or less.

2. Learn something new or be reminded of something you know already but haven’t auctioned yet. And remember what Nicola says (and, I think, Roger Hamilton too) “to know and not yet to do is not yet to know”. Convert your “I know” into “I am”.

3. Stop the rot of any investing errors you have may have made and learn how to survive and thrive. Speaking personally, I am living proof that this is possible and fun! Its never too late to start to implement a new strategy which will turn your negatives into positives.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

Look out for my remaining tiny handful of reasons to be cheerful about property.

Until tomorrow…

Judith

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

Buy A House For £1 In UK Right Now!

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On Saturday 21st March at the gorgeous Cavendish Conference Centre, London W1G 9DT, the Money Gym will bring you The Good News about property investing in 2009 in the UK and overseas. We are calling this day our Property Extravaganza and our intention is to motivate and inspire you and re-ignite your fire for property investing. We will show you how we are doing it now and introduce you to affordable investments which work better than ever during the ‘global meltdown’.

Every instinctive entrepreneur or property investor knows in their bones that 2009 presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make more money in property than you ever dreamed possible. That’s if you are well informed and have the brass neck to go against the tide! Come and meet us; we are doing just that. It’s our way. Who makes money following the herd?

And, mindful of the current credit crunch “crisis”, these property professionals and investment advisers have found ways in which we can invest for little or no money down, or learn to buy property like that ourselves, whether you have £1, £1,000 or £10,000.

Just ONE of our speakers is the dynamic Rick Otton from Australia, who taught David Lee, who taught us, how to buy UK property for just £1.  Yes it is possible and we are all doing it all over the country.

Rick Otton of We Buy Houses. Along with David Lee, the Cashflow Investor, Rick is the guy who taught us how to buy houses for £1. Several of our clients have already made it work and I work alongside those people together with my lawyer at our Property Boardroom. Rick’s a straight-talking Australian and we have invited him to give our Keynote speech just after lunch on the day. Rick & Dave will be offering an opportunity to go to their upcoming Bootcamp on 4/5th April in London and making a special offer to our clients on the day only. Keep that weekend free, you will want to go.

Here is a recording of a recent webinar where we introduced some experienced UK property investors to the concept…..hope you enjoy it!

[podcast]http://www.themoneygym.com/audio/2009rent2own.mp3[/podcast]

If you want to come next weekend to our Property Extravaganza to hear Rick speak live, and meet us all, book one of the remaining few seats here

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

If you want to learn this system from Rick and Dave, like we all did, but can’t make our day, you can attend his UK April Bootcamp here:

https://wbhuk.infusionsoft.com/go/londonlive/moneygym/

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #4

Day Four in my Series 37 Reasons to attend our Money Gym Property event on 21/3/09 in Central London.

Only 80 tickets left, that’s 40 really as most of you are buying x2 to get the 90 day trial of The Money Gym Silver Level for free!

This is generally accepted to be a year of unprecedented buying opportunity in the property markets around the world. Our speakers will demonstrate why that is and why we should be brave now and swim against the tide, although it IS turning…

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

Here are Judith’s Top 10 Reasons all about Opportunity.   Are you an Opportunist?

1. Because Warren Buffet says he feels “like a hungry mosquito in a nudist camp” right now and you want a piece of that action too.

2. Because you want to learn how to become a better Property Entrepreneur, negotiator, sales person, referrer or sourcer

3. Because you want to create a Property Business – part-time or full-time

4. Because you want to understand how to evaluate an investment opportunity

5. Because you want your One Networking Minute on our stage that day

6. Because you want to meet Martin Roberts off the telly and Rick Otton and all our experts in the flesh, real people who have done what you are about to do

7. Because you want to play Devil’s Advocate at the end of the day Q & A panel session – go on, you know you want to be the one to ask THE most unanswerable question!

8. Because you want to do just one property deal, or just one more

9. Because it’s a great place to find a hot date with a hot property investor!   The Money Gym’s Clients are 80% women – and none of them are looking to you to be a meal-ticket.

10. Because you just know in your bones that this is the right time to invest, and more importantly because it’s the right time for you.

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

Until tomorrow…

Judith

PS   There’s even a prize for the person who comes up with the best reason for NOT being able to get into property

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #3

Day Three in my series about my favourite 37 Reasons why you might come to our Money Gym Property Extravaganza in London on 21st March in aid of the Big Issue. The Incentives. The Bribes. And what whoppers they are!

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

In no particular order of importance – you must rate that for yourself:

1. Prizes totalling £42,500 and rising – from a holiday in one of the overseas investment properties, to portfolio places worth £10,000, to mentoring, books, Wembley tickets, coaching sessions, Belgian chocolates, audio CDs, days out, lunches, Money Gym memberships and products, a blog makeover or creation session worth £1200 – the abundance just keeps on rolling.  And because the number of raffle tickets is only one per delegate, the chances of you winning a big prize are 1 in 200. I hope you are visualising the one you want? Can you feel it?

2. Discounts – at least two of the speakers have created special discounted versions of their products and services specially for attendees, available uniquely on the day.

3. Free Money Gym Silver memberships for 90 days – a special promotion we have just launched. If you have booked your ticket and can persuade someone else to come too – via Twitter, your blog, word of mouth or email invitation and they quote your name in their booking, both of you qualify for free Silver membership of the Money Gym for 90 days.

4. Goody bags containing millions of pounds, credit cards, coins, magic pencils and that all important raffle ticket (see 1).

5. A free personalised follow-up phone consultation with me for all delegates. This is to help you to evaluate the investment opportunities we shall showcase that day, or provide you with the support you need to put either your first step on the property ladder or the next step.

Can you be bribed? Yes, me too! If the price is right…

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

I hope it’s YOUR number I pull from the champagne bucket.

Judith

PS I’m contemplating setting up a special accountability group for all those new SilverMembers we shall create that day… watch this space.

Money Gym Property Investors Hope to Raise £4,500 for The Big Issue!

The Money Gym team is working together to put on a Property Extravaganza on 21st March 2009 in Central London. Tickets cost £25 including VAT and all ex VAT proceeds will be presented to The Big Issue Foundation on the day. One of our speakers, the ever-abundant Peter Stanley, has been wanting to set up a connection between property profits and helping the homeless for a number of years. I am delighted that finally we have been able to bring his vision to fruition. Peter will open the day with his talk demonstrating that Anyone Can Do It. He’s even offering a prize for the best reason on the day why the reverse is true!

At the time of writing, we have sold 111 tickets which means we can write TBI a cheque for £2391, but I want to give them nearly twice that, £4,500! In order to do that, I have to sell the remaining 89 tickets, the venue only holds 200.

So, what’s it all about then? It’s about The Good News about property investing in 2009. We have inspirational speakers, ordinary people who have made lots of money buying property and still continue to do so even in these current market conditions. Those speakers including Martin Roberts of TV’s Homes Under the Hammer and Hasmita Reardon who was Bradford & Bingley’s Property Woman of the Year award 2008 who has a portfolio of 80 properties in Sittingbourne, Kent, which she rents out to tenants nobody else wants. She’s a social entrepreneur in my book. And Rick Otton, Katharine Wooller and Abdul Malik.

The investments are suitable for people who want to put their first foot on the property ladder or their next one. They are for people with no money, no time and no know-how and conversely for the more experienced investor too. It will be a cracking day out which provides excellent networking opportunities in a relatively small group of wealth creators who are upbeat and positive and on the road to taking control of their own finances. There are over £42,000 worth of prizes in a holiday, Wembley tickets, books, memberships, portfolio places, mentoring, coaching and more from the very abundant speakers and colleagues who want to help this great cause.   And Goody Bags!

Will you help us please? Will you blog and Twitter this to get the campaign to go as viral as possible? If you let us know you have linked to this post, we should be able to track back to your post. If you can link it back to the this posting on the Money Gym’s blog, even better for you as this is a high traffic site.   If you can’t be bothered with all that trackback stuff (and who can blame you), do still please pass it on and help us help the homeless to help themselves.

Why not take the day off and come and join us in London’s West End? If you can persuade a friend to book and come too, there’s a special gift for both of you – 90 days Silver Membership of the Money Gym with our compliments!

Please help us to raise our £4,500 target by using all social media methods at your disposal and let’s have some fun with this viral campaign!

Thank you so much for supporting our goal. Click here for full details and booking

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