I'm Alison and I live just outside London, nr Watford, and I'm really excited to join the community. Firstly I'd like to give a big shout out to @Callum Smith who onboarded me on the Property Business Accelerator, and @Lawrence Reffell on the Commercial Conversions course. Thank you both so much. I currently work part time as a teacher in a place of worship with kids that come on school trips and whilst I enjoy what I do and am good at it, I know there's more for me, and have done for a long time. I am new to property investment, well at least this time round. 27 yrs ago after graduating from a nearby town, I moved to Liverpool, got a 30k mortgage, and was renting out rooms to cover it. I became really inspired by new developments going up by a company called Urban Splash (who became really successful), and in my mind, that's what I was gonna do. I decided to get a second house on a rent to buy basis. Things didn't go as planned, I ended up back at the first one in negative equity for years and eventually sold it for a profit. In the midst of all this, I fell in love with one of my tenants, had 4 kids and lived happily ever after. Well not exactly, but my life just went in a very different direction. Anyway, throughout these years since, I've always wanted to be in charge of my own business or project, but held myself back and now I feel my life has gone full circle and the spark for property investment and development has been reignited, and I'm raring to go! My WHYS? Yes, I want freedom to do what I want, when I want to do it, and that includes 'retiring' before someone else says I can. But I also want to give back to my friends and family, and most of all, show an example of transformation to my now 4 young adult kids. I'm so looking forward to getting educated about wealth creation that goes beyond doing well at school, and getting a good job. Also to being supported to getting great deals for myself and investors but most of all, to connecting within this community. I am interested to learn about all aspects of property investment, but particularly deal packaging, buy to lets, commercial conversions and supported social housing.

Hi everyone. Good to be here as a newbie requiring lots of handholding