Emma Hanover standing in front of a derelict weatherboard house

Property, done in practice

One house a month. Not a theory.

I buy uninhabitable houses that banks will not lend on, bring them back, and sell them. Roughly one a month. The work below is the same method, run with people who already own property and want the strategy rather than another course.

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The problem

Most investors learn this the expensive way.

The houses I buy are the ones other people walk away from. That is where the margin sits, and it is also where the mistakes cost the most. Three that come up again and again.

The wrong house

A property that looked cheap because the fix was structural, not cosmetic. The discount was already priced in.

The wrong lending

Finance arranged for a house that was habitable, on a house that was not. The bank pulls out after the deposit goes down.

The wrong sequence

Trades booked before consents, consents before survey.

A schedule compared two ways. Booked out of order, trades then consent then survey, the job runs eleven weeks with six of them spent waiting. Booked in order, survey then consent then trades, it runs six weeks with one week waiting. Five weeks of holding cost bought by the wrong order.
Emma Hanover standing in a stripped-out room with the timber framing exposed
Emma Hanover at a wide window in a finished room, rooftops beyond in warm evening light

Next step

A short call, and an honest answer.

Twenty minutes to work out whether this is worth either of our time. If it is not, I will tell you and point you somewhere better.