She Renovates

Renovating and construction remain a very male-dominated world which can be quite daunting for many women. In this episode, we take a look at the source of the “tension” which I believe is not a gender gambit more a skills gap and give you some practical tips for building confidence as a female renovator.

Bernadette discusses working with trades as a woman renovator

Bernadette covers,

• A look back at her initiation with renovating with her husband and business partner, Stephen Janson
• How she and Stephen started renovating by doing the excavation of their own home themselves
• Her first experience as a woman supervising her husband, the trades, and the whole  renovation project
• How to work on your mindset and be positive about working and communicating with your trades
• Why you need to build your confidence and trust your supervising skills
• Creating a process for selecting trades and getting quotes
• The importance of being organized and why your trades will love you for it
• Becoming efficient with making decisions and why it’s ok to get help
• Training yourself to truly understand traders’ lingo
• How to make sure your trades are happy and remain competent and reliable
• Her next mini-podcast series called 14 Days to a New Bathroom

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Maria Burwood is the founder of Showcase Renovations. An elite team member in the Wonder Women program of The School Of Renovating. Maria is a passionate renovator, engineer and project manager with over twenty years of experience in the industry.

Bernadette interviews Maria Burwood. They discuss her most recent renovation project - a three-bedroom penthouse spanning two floors of the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf in Sydney.

• How Maria secured a property originally planned for a family home renovation and why she decided to flip it
• The 3 major challenges Maria faced in renovating a heritage listing
• Why Maria gave all the reins to one builder and project manager and how it became a success
• Maria’s approach to an apartment without an outdoor area and how she used a palette of natural materials and resources to make it work
• What Maria would have done differently if given a chance
• The financial outcome of the project
• How a private buyer’s agent managed the selling of the property and the flow of buyers
• Maria’s motto, “Making Success Seamless”
• How being a part of Wonder Women has helped her achieve renovation success

Maria Burwood’s website, www.showcaserenovations.com.au

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Bernadette Janson is the founder and CEO of The School Of Renovating, blogger, speaker, book contributor, wife homemaker and mother of three, and now the host of the podcast "She Renovates".

"She Renovates" is a podcast for women who love renovating and wants to take it to the next level to create an income and a life they love thru professional renovating.

On today’s episode,

Bernadette discusses a popular property investment strategy used by many Australians, renovating to sell or “flipping”. She shares the 10 important things that you need to know about flipping, and boost your earning potential and renovating success.

Bernadette covers,

• Four main reasons to flip
• Why would you NOT flip?
• How you can keep a good eye on your property taxes with a good property accountant and protect your personal assets
• The strategy of flipping a family home and staying on the right side of taxation law
• Doing proper market research to ensure profitability
• Sourcing the right property and working with buyers agents for negotiations
• The two main types of Renovation and why she loves “cosmetic plus” renovations
• How to manage the holding costs
• Your three roles in managing a renovation
• Why property styling is non-negotiable in flipping

Check out the BONUS Point of the things you need to know in flipping at the end of the episode.

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Bernadette Janson is the founder and CEO of The School Of Renovating, blogger, speaker, book contributor, wife homemaker and mother of three, and now the host of the podcast "She Renovates".

"She Renovates" is a podcast for women who love renovating and wants to take it to the next level to create an income and a life they love thru professional renovating.

Bernadette outlines the virtues of renovating to improve your income and your life Including increasing the yield on your property portfolio, replacing a job you don’t love, helping your family and even helping your favorite charity.

Bernadette also covers,

• How she started pursuing her love of renovating at the age of 13
• How her husband Stephen was supportive of her passion in the past 40 years and has been a big factor in her success
• How The School of Renovating was born out of this passion to help out women renovators
• How she discovered a way to help retiring women to make an income out of their renovating skills
• Solutions that renovating gives to life's little problems - how do you encourage your children to get into the property market?
• The Avocado Smash Strategy
• Raising money for a charity that provides home care and education to at-risk children in Thailand by donating 100% profit of a reno project to "Hands Across the Water"
• Why she prefers joint ventures
• A renovation project in Redfern by the Rennie Street Angels
• An ongoing splitter block renovation project in Wynnum, Queensland
• Her contribution to the book "The Secrets of Property Millionaires Exposed"

To celebrate the launch of "She Renovates" Bernadette is giving away a FREE gift for you! Uncover your special surprise by listening through the end of the episode and subscribing to our iTunes: She Renovates. The first 10 listeners who will leave a review will get the FREE gift.

Join Bernadette in this episode as she shares with you her story and what led her to renovate and helping women renovators reach their dreams.

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