Property Business Accelerator Podcast

I'm back! Its 2023, a New Year and fresh start, although my goodness we do find ourselves in a property 'pickle' with all sorts of interesting challenges facing landlords once AGAIN.

Fear not investors! There are still deals to be done and interesting areas of investment to focus on this year.  In this first episode of 2023, I just wanted to jump back onto my podcast and say 'Hi' and basically 'brain dump' some of my thoughts & findings about this current climate that we find ourselves in and to offer some insight. 

Have a listen, its been a while but I'm back full throttle with many more fantastic episodes in the pipeline for 2023.

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In this episode of The Property Business Accelerator, Mike Frisby speaks with Raj Beri (co-editor of YPN magazine) and full-time investor/mentor & coach.

Raj become a full time property investor without really planning to! His goal from early on in life was to become a scientist and with a degree and then PhD in Genetics, that is the course he pursued and for many years really enjoyed a great career in research with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Although he still enjoyed his job, towards the latter part of his time with AstraZeneca, he felt disillusioned with the lack of opportunities to expand his knowledge.

Fuelled by a life-long desire to ‘learn’, he stumbled into property investing. Following a few “novice investor” errors, he embarked on a course of action to learn how to invest with knowledge and skill, deploying the services of a number of successful property coaches and mentors along the way. With the right education and help, coupled with his own hard-work ethics and positive attitude, he was able to achieve financial freedom whilst still at work full time. The decision to leave AstraZeneca wasn’t his though  – he was offered job relocation or take voluntary redundancy. He choose the latter.

Mike & Raj pretty much started out in property at the same time and have followed a similar journey so they really enjoyed catching up and chatting about both their journey’s into property, Raj’s best & worst projects and also speak about their mutual strategy – social housing.

Another fantastic & inspirational episode for our listeners, enjoy & as always, if you enjoyed this episode do please be so kind as to send us your feedback or review the Podcast.

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If you’d like to get in touch with Raj please connect with him via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/rajberi123) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/beriraj) or email him via [email protected].

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If you’d like to get in touch with Mike please connect with him via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mikefrisbyproperty/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefrisby/) or email him via p[email protected]

In this episode of The Property Business Accelerator, Mike Frisby speaks with Tom Gatzen who is the co-founder of Ideal Flatmate, who's aim is to place people and personality at the heart of the flat-sharing experience not just the property and location.

Ideal Flatmate is unique as it has an awesome algorithm which works to match-up tenants perfectly so that they can make an informed decision of who they live with and in turn, helps landlords with property management issues which often arise in HMO properties. Each person is asked to rank their feelings towards a series of statements covering everything from social habits, nocturnal activities and even doing the dishes.

It also helps with tenant longevity as most landlords know, voids are a killer.

Tom shares how Ideal Flatmate came into fruition, how it works for both tenants and landlords, how he rallied-around to find funding for his new venture and now that he's raised around £2.5 million, where he's going to take the business going forward including a future international move.

Tom also shares a great offer with you all, if you email [email protected] using the code FRISBY50 you'll get a 50% discount to utilise the service.

Please like & subscribe & leave us your feedback via a review!

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To follow Ideal Flatmate & Tom:

Website: https://www.idealflatmate.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-gatzen-954b0687

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/idealflatmate

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To follow Mike Frisby:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefrisby

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frisby.mike

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In this episode of The Property Business Accelerator, Mike Frisby chats with Matt Baker, one half of Scott Baker Properties Ltd.

Mike first met Matt about 6 years ago when Matt attended one of Mike's networking meetings that he used to run in London, at that stage, Matt was only about a year into his investment journey. With a background as a musician, Matt has always had a very entrepreneurial spirit and realised that music wasn't really offering much in terms of long-term wealth and he fell into property investment and has never looked back since.

Matt met his business partner, Niall Scott and Scott Baker Properties was conceived in 2015 leading them to purchase their first buy-to-let property together. Considering the first project a success, they progressed to build a substantial portfolio of buy-to-let and now mainly HMO properties.  

Scott Baker Properties are now growing quickly in a considered manner and on-going projects include house and HMO refurbishments and the conversion of houses and commercial buildings to flats and shared properties. 

A huge factor in driving Matt's investment forward is that he has spent a lot of time educating himself via mentorship and spends a lot of time networking with industry experts, this has really helped with brand awareness and creating a great name for himself in the HMO property industry (including being a co-host of the Property Jam Podcast).

Scott Baker are building a brand around investing with a conscience and in this episode Matt & Mike chat about:

* Matt's project ideas and points of difference for investors in terms of design & service

* More about his new company that manages co-living properties

* Ways to create a more sustainable approach when investing

* Matt's projects & navigating planning permission

* PLUS there's an awesome give-away is you listen to the end!

This is complex property knowledge made simple, direct from the property front-line

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You can follow Matt Baker & Scott Baker Properties below - 

https://linktr.ee/scottbakerproperties

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You can follow Mike Frisby on - 

Insta: frisby.mike

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMikeFrisby

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In today's episode, your host, Mike Frisby dons his speaker hat and chats about the Social Housing aspect of the property market.

If you don't know already, Mike is a social housing expert and has been using little-known cash flow secrets since the previous recession to maximise rental in his properties.

Mike explains a bit more about ways to claim, how to not fall down over many of the social housing pitfalls and how to make this a WIN/WIN strategy - helping with the housing storage or even helping the homeless whilst increasing your own monthly cash-flow.

Enjoy and please remember to leave us a review with your feedback.

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If you are interested in:

* How Mike increased his cash-flow during the last recession

* UC statistics & analysis over the COVID period

* Key Housing Benefit & UC principles and how to gain experience in dealing with charities etc.

* How social housing ties in well with a Rent 2 Rent Strategy

Mike does run a Social Housing online course, please get in touch with [email protected] for further details!

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Follow Mike on:

Insta:              @frisby.mike

LinkedIn:          https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefrisby/

95% of the UK population will never become truly financially independent and in this episode of the Property Business Accelerator, Mike Frisby speaks with Kevin Whelan who is the Director of WealthBuilders Together Ltd.

Kevin is best known as a Wealth Mentor & SSAS (Small Self Administered Scheme) Expert and helps business owners & property investors leverage existing assets to create lasting wealth via a holistic step-by-step process.

In this episode, Mike & Kevin speak about:

Kevin is an incredible wealth of knowledge and this episode is PACKED full of useful and interesting topics around wealth principles. 

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WealthBuilders Socials:

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Mike Frisby's contact details:

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMikeFrisby

Instagram: frisby.mike

[email protected]

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In this episode of the Property Business Accelerator, Mike Frisby chats with his long-term mentee, Joe Crosbie.

First of all, you ALL need to know Joe! He's awesome, has heaps of property knowledge and offers his time so freely to help and encourage other investors and this help for others most likely comes from his corporate career where he headed up a few charities.

At the tender age of 50 years old, Joe had a rather scary awakening as many of us do, where he realised that he needed to significantly boost his pension and made the move from full-time employment over to property development. Going through the motions, Joe realised that property was two fold:

Property Development = A cash pot for pension

Property Investment = Income for now, Joe's new 'day job'

Fast forward a few years to the end of 2018, Mike & Joe first met when Joe and his lovely wife, Karen, signed up to Mike's HMO Property Business Accelerator 12 month programme & they have been working together every since.   

In this episode we hear more about Joe's property journey, his best deal (a flip) and his worst deal which is actually his current deal, they chat about planning and issues that arise with property conversions and how to overcome obstacles.

Joe is also using his charity background and branching out into social housing, many people know that Mike is a social housing expert and he has been supporting Joe through this journey & they speak more about social housing as a property strategy.

From this, in 2021, Joe has launched 'The Ethical Landlord' where he helps people share their good fortune and build a property portfolio providing homes for people who would otherwise be homeless.

Joe also has a plan for the next year to have 28 properties & 56 tenants in his portfolio, this is investing and entrepreneurial behaviour at it's best.

We hope that you enjoy this episode (we are sure you will) and please make a concerted effort to get in touch with Joe and add him to your property network, you can catch-up with Joe via the details below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-crosbie-property-developer-investor/

[email protected]

https://cwhomeslondon.co.uk/

and get in touch with Joe to chat about The Ethical Landlord Project

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Mike Frisby 'Thank you for listening to my podcast, my aim is to deliver complex property knowledge made simple, direct from the property front-line'.

Please follow me on:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefrisby/

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMikeFrisby

Instagram: frisby.mike

and if you would like to find out more about my property events including my social housing education, go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/organizations/info/profile/1574281366

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Introducing James Sinclair - Serial Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker, Youtuber, Podcaster and Property Investor.

Mike met James via Clubhouse recently and discovered that they had a mutual interest in business practice & property, James is the very definition of 'entrepreneur' so Mike jumped at the opportunity to have him on show.

In this episode, James shares his extraordinary journey which has led him from tying balloons for audiences as a teen to becoming a multiple business owner specialising in the kids/family entertainment arena.  Starting at just 15/16 years old, James was earning a significant amount of money for his age, by the time he was 21 he had over 20 employees & had also saved enough money to put down a deposit on his 1st house at a very young age, this starting his interest into property investment.

As our regular listeners' will know, Mike loves to speak with people who combine business & property as for him, they run hand-in-hand and in this episode, Mike & James chat about:

Mike so enjoyed chatting with James, we hope that you enjoy this episode and as always, we appreciate your feedback so do please leave us a review!

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If you'd like to get in touch with James Sinclair, you can do so via the following ways:

Website:      https://jamessinclair.net/

Youtube:      https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesSinclairEntrepreneur

Podcast:      https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/james-sinclairs-business-broadcast-podcast/id1495894637

Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/_jamessinclair/?hl=en

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If you'd like to get in touch with Mike Frisby, you can do so via the following ways:

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMikeFrisby

Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/frisby.mike/

Welcome to the Property Business Accelerator Podcast where your host, Mike Frisby, interview's guests about property & business.

This is complex property knowledge made simple, direct from the property 'front-line'.

In this episode, Mike speaks with one of his ex-mentorship clients Tom Edgar who is the company director of Edgar & Edgar, a London based property investment company specialising in HMOs.

Tom met Mike about 4/5 years ago at an HMO event that Mike used to run in the City with his mortgage broker (pre-Covid) and at that stage, he had been researching and thinking about taking property more seriously but was in overwhelm with all the different strategies banded about and wanted to focus mostly on HMOs but didn't quite have the knowledge or 'know-how' yet in order to pursue this on a significant level. 

Mike always speaks about the 1 thing and the importance of focusing on the 1 thing whole-heartedly whilst you're trying to scale up investing or a business, many people need help to focus and mindset & clarity are so important for any property investors looking to scale-up their investing or property business. That being said, you can't live life at full throttle so it's all about balance and a lot of this episode chats about lessons and mindset.

Going back to that HMO event, Tom & Mike decided to work together after it and in this episode, Tom shares his journey into HMO acceleration with Mike's help and how he managed to focus mainly on one sector, HMOs and the tips & tools he discovered along to the way in order to add rooms to his rental roll to increase that all important monthly cash-flow. 

Mike & Tom also chat about:

* Tom's best deal to date and the key learning's from that deal

* How to handle the 'ebb & flow' of life as an investor & business owner

* R2R benefits & negatives

* Tom shares his key tip for property investors & also key tips as a business owner

Listen out for Tom asking Mike about who his ideal guest would be, we love it when the interviewee turns the tables and asks a question - put's Mike on the spot :-).

We'll leave it there, listen to the episode Yourself for some much needed property inspiration and tips and as always, we would love your feedback please via a review.

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Tom has kindly agreed for any investors who need a few tips on how to get started or how to focus better on their investing to get in touch with him and you can do so via these ways:

E: [email protected]

Insta: @nightmareonoldstreet

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If you too, would like to cut through the overwhelm and get some help focusing on projects or need help accelerating your property investing, Mike can help you! Just get in touch via [email protected] OR...

Insta: @frisby.mike

Facebook: @OfficialMikeFrisby

LinkedIn: @mikefrisby

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In this episode of the Property Business Accelerator, Mike chats with Celia Rizothanasi, the Queen Bee of LinkedIn.

Celia is a Marketing Mentor & LinkedIn Trainer and helps people reboot & reinvent their online presence, mainly on LinkedIn in order to convert connections into clients.

Mike has around 13,000 connections on LinkedIn, that is a huge list of potential clients that you may not find one other platforms.  It's an opportunity to connect with future business partners, clients, people to add to power team etc. and we often underestimate just how effective of a marketing tool LinkedIn is in the business arena. Celia helped Mike to understand the significance of a great profile and also pushed him to start creating more content, to start commenting on other people's posts and just to engage and it has significantly helped to further his mentorship side of the business. 

Join them as they chat about Celia's journey into social media, how she became a corporate escapee (love that term), the importance of LinkedIn for property investors in particular and revel in the invaluable hints & tips on how to make the most of this platform.

As Celia says on her bio, 'Are you using LinkedIn as a marketing tool? If not, then you are leaving money on the table'. Wow, that truly resonates. If you are not mastering using LinkedIn, you're missing out on one of the best business relationship building tools we have at our disposal.

If you are looking at raising your profile, wanting to know more about how to get contacts from LinkedIn into conversations, if you're wanting to know more about the best content for your profile then have a listen as Celia has spent almost 12 years perfecting her model and helping people build their brand/profile via this medium.

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If you would like to get in touch with Celia to see how she can help you, do so via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/celialinkedinexpert/ or [email protected]

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As always, if you enjoyed the episode, please do leave us a review and your feedback!