After years in property the Girls regularly get asked all about their deals - from sourcing the property, doing the market research to ensure success through to putting together and negotiating a deal that everyone loves and then onto the real work - tenanting and running their properties! 
This week Julia asks all these questions and the girls reveal every bit of their first Rent to Rent HMO deal in the new Bournemouth franchise of ROOMS. 
With a listeners question plus Property Disasters to round out a fact- and fun-filled episode!

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Polly Ogden Duffy  has worked her way up from suddenly managing a single estate agent office after the departure of another manager - she learned on the fly, worked extremely hard and is now the MD of John D Wood & Co.. She sits down with Sophie & Athena to describe how building culture, binning the nonsense of hustle culture & giving everyone what they need to excel in your business are the keys to success.
We have to get ahead of the growth of our new businesses and be ready to build & take effective control of a team (as we found out in our episode with Henri Ghijben). It is easy to get trapped working hands-on too much in your business and not be ready to create an empowered & effective team so Polly shares all her tips on all this and lots more!

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Athena & Sophie find out from Steph how she started a business in her 40's with her sister Nicky, who on the surface is a polar opposite without having any meltdowns! Being details vs. big picture are skills each person has and together that can make a winning combination, where Nicky finds the details that make a deal come together as expected and Stephanie has helped build a brand that landlords & tenants all trust.

Steph and Nicky are absolutely smashing the world of rent to rent, with hugely successful businesses and they now use their own experience to guide other people.

The Girls cover finding finance by showing an opportunity to someone who wants to help you and how resources can come to you.

Listen to this episode to get a free copy of Stephanie & Nicky's Rent to Rent success book and check out their rent to rent masterclass too!

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There are few people who can honestly say they have changed the world - and Bonnie Fatio has been doing it for decades! After travelling the world as part of a micro credit fund she realised that it was the women in all communites that she came across who were both doing all the moving of societies and having the hardest time in terms of equality and quality of life. She saw a need to unite and inspire female leaders in all countries and cultures, promote how women act and feel in male-dominated cultures for the benefit of everyone.
Bonnie formed Inspired Women Lead in 2016 as a peer-to-peer mentoring programme that now boasts participants in 85 countries and is still growing.  
She is an icon of what can be done with only a can-do attitude, a readiness to say yes and share - all of which are qualities we see in the property world. Sharing deals & tips, self-motivating and inspiring others is what we all strive to achieve and can use to succeed, so this week we are honoured to speak with Bonnie and learn from her wisdom .

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Not talking about money helps to preserve the gender pay gap and stops us from understanding the reasons why it exists and how to close it. Sarah is the person who opens up the wealth growth conversation, un-weirds money and helps us all understand it better through her property training company Cogito Wealth which helps established entrepreneurs and new starters in property to think differently about creating wealth.  She started out in property, realised that being a landlord is not for her and now helps others get started and grow to massive success. 
Sometimes we dream of hitting the big time and it is tempting to earn and spend money in the ways we always have without thinking about it. However Money Mechanics is Sarah's upcoming book that talks about strategies for wealth creation, improving our relationship with it and spending it correctly - just what we all need to get sorted from the outset! The book is out in September - click here to join the preorder waitlist.

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With such a great response from all our listeners about our Rent to Rent episode Sophie & Simon delve into the GiP mailbag and answer all of your questions (with a little help from our friend Henri Ghijben from last week's pod).

1) Market research: 

• How do I know if a property is in a 'good' location? 
• Researching  your target tenant & what they are looking for
• How do I know how much rent to charge?
• Gauging demand
• Should I take on a property that is two hours away?
• How can I ensure I don't lose money? 

2) Putting the plan into action:

• Negotiating a rent-free period
• Get viewings in early - get cash-flowing before tenants even move in
• Ensuring occupancy - messaging those looking for rooms on Spareroom, messaging centres of employment (hospitals, nursing homes, large providers).
• Compliance for HMO & SA - where to find standards and compliance in your area
• Get a 3rd party fire risk assessment to mediate responsibility with owners
• Getting council approval for serviced accommodation 
• How to work Rent to Rent with Landlords who have mortgages

3) Day to day & lifestyle:

• Handling novel & emergency situations
• Maintenance & compliance
• Attitude is more important than knowledge - you aren't expected to know it all!
• Its all about customer service
• What work is involved day-to-day and what is the work/life balance like?
• When to take on help to work on the business not in the business
• What do you do if a guest won't leave your SA? Phone a Friend with Henri Ghijben
• How to resolve cost disputes with Landlords - have a good proposal & contract to manage expectations and fall back on when there is an issue
• Maintenance - budgets, inspections, reporting & shouting about your good service to Landlords. 

4) Building relationships & growing your business

• How to open & build relationships with agents
• Listen & learn about Landlords throughout - ask about their situation, needs and experiences with a view to pitching your services
• Speaking to agents when you are starting out 

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This week we are joined by Henri Ghijben who has experienced every entrepreneur's worst nightmare - a business failing.

We hear the lowest point of Henri's experience and then the incredible story of how he came back with resilience and new knowledge to become a highly successful mentor in the property and tree surgery industries with multiple businesses and eventually his own podcast Fail Forward on how to learn from failure.

We hear about how Henri has battled addiction and how his new perspective empowers him to use his success to help others who are still struggling. 

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It's all got too much - the Girls let loose their all-time property horror stories and latest issues! Business is never plain-sailing so this week we are sharing our pains and - most importantly - what we learned and how they will never happen again. Mushroom farming, secret electrical cupboards and being strong-armed into paying for drainage issues on a property they don't own yet PLUS an insight into how not having all your eggs in one basket might be the insurance you need against having the rug pulled out from under your rent to rent portfolio.
The Girls get into it this week, plus Simon sticks his oar in on living (and sometimes sleeping in) the dream.

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From taking the plunge and buying her first flip property at auction after doing all the free education she could absorb, Ruth Hunter now runs Veredus Property investment. It hasn't been a smooth path though - through having to refund all her wedding events at the dawn of the Covid pandemic and then selling the family home to move back to rented accommodation to free up the cash to start again, Ruth has used grit and all the training to her advantage and now boasts a high-end HMO portfolio and contracts with a housing charity which tick all her boxes for being financially independent, helping others and using her expertise to create wealth with her investment partners.   
Sharing tips on how to stack deals with the exit in mind, leveraging good training and a daily mindset and health routine, Ruth is an inspiration for anyone starting out in property!

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Everything you need to know about what's hot and what's not about the two main routes into rent to rent! Right from the basics through to top tips and a clear comparison of whether to go with serviced accommodation or HMO, Sophie & Julia sit down with Simon to share their wisdom and experiences!
Although based on the same principle, the differences in the type of property, set up, cashflow, liabilities and management of each are hugely different - this is a must-listen episode!

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