@Eamonn Richardson hey man, sorry for the late reply, life got away from me! Thanks for the list of strategies, if you were just starting out again, what would your top 3 strategies you would use? Also, how you finding investors?

@Eamonn Richardson thanks mate, I’ll take this on board for when I kick off properly!

@Liam Stone I’m Halifax based, but our btl’s are in Manchester, so the M62 corridor is probably where I’ll start. BTL’s are what I know, like you say I’ve already covered a lot of ground in my very first refurb. Damp everywhere, and massive crack down the middle of the house. Full new electrics, new boiler and upgraded heating, new windows and frames. We had a structural surveyor, cameras down the drains etc, the crack ended up with bars and straps and we were just told to keep an eye on it as it was likely old and stopped moving. Our other btl’s were pretty much back to brick refurbs too, but they felt easy compared to the first one. The wife and I have also refurbed our family home which is a big old farmhouse, it was super modern when we got it and we brought out a lot of the old character again and made it sympathetic to the building. I’m interested in all aspects of property. I would love a few holiday lets, commercial interests me but I know the least about this, rent to rent, flips and deal sourcing. I guess it’s knowing where to start. The only goals I have is that I would like to be turning regular 5 figure profit months within the next 12 months. This is just protection of the main business as our manufacturers are threatening to go direct to market and cut us out. Deal sourcing is the obvious option for cashflow, plus I get to buy deals myself when we have some cash laying around. I’m refinancing a couple properties, and I won’t need to spend any cash from deal sourcing in the first 12 months at least, plus any spare cash from the business. I don’t know what other property strategy I should concentrate on for cashflow? I’m not in love with HMO’s. Once I have cashflow going, I’ll make the switch to more capital gains and appreciation. What would you suggest?

Hey man, sorry for the late reply. I’m glad you said that, brrr is probably where I’d be most comfortable to start with, as i’d want to build as quickly as possible. The other part of renovating I’d be interested in at some point is to turn something into an Airbnb or to flip. My wife has an excellent eye for interior design and she would love to own a fleet of high end holiday lets that she’s designed. Though I’m not sure how they would work as investments, she’d have to keep to a strict budget 😅 Looking forward to getting going with this, just a few more things to tie up with work and my involvement should be a lot less for a few months.