The HMO Podcast

In today’s episode, I am joined by the main man and one of my best pals in the industry, Mike Clay of Clay Properties. 

Mike originally came to me to join my 1-2-1 programme (The HMO FastTrack) because Mike thought it’s time to make a change. Although he had a successful corporate career, it’s not giving him the lifestyle that he wanted for himself and his family. So, he made a tough decision to start doing his own thing and build his own portfolio through HMOs.

So in this conversation with Mike, he walked us through the process of how he was able to build his own HMO portfolio from zero knowledge to 13 HMOs in just a few years. And I genuinely believe that this is one of the best examples of how to build a successful HMO business properly - quick, efficient, profitable, and scalable.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

In the last episode for 2021, I’m going to share my predictions for 2022. I am not an economist and I could be wildly off-target here so feel free to disregard my predictions but we’re allowed to make a bet so that’s what I’m doing in today’s episode.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

Today, we’re going to reminisce and look back on the top 10 episodes of 2021. Join me and discover why I think these episodes were the most downloaded:

1. Episode #6 - 20 Steps To Build Your Successful & Sustainable HMO Portfolio (Pt 1)
2. Episode #22 - Start Your HMO Business With These 7 Easy Steps (To Scale Fast) 
3. Episode #9 - Josh Davis - One HMO For £44k To A £12Mn Portfolio (In 7 Years)
4. Episode #49 -  0-8 HMOs, The Power Of Networking & Going Full Time with Mak Gore
5. Episode #33 - Liam & Molly - Replacing Their Income Through HMOs (#HMOFastTrack)
6. Episode #32 - How To Replace Your Income Through HMO Property Investment
7. Episode #34 - How to Find HMO Deals In A Tough (HOT) Market 
8. Episode #23 - Becky & Alex Allen: 0-7 HMOs, Bulletproofing Your Properties & An Inspiring Story 
9. Episode #51 - 14 Deals, Raising £1.3Mn & Being Resilient With Beevee Property (#HMOmastermind)
10. Episode #45 - Harnessing YouTube, Private Finance & Self-belief to Build A HMO Business with Alfred Dzadey 

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

Today I’m joined by Martin Gaine, a planning expert, and consultant and he’s going to share with us what we need to be doing, how we need to be approaching the applications that we put forward, and the risks that we need to be aware of. 

Martin clarified some of the really complicated and confusing issues around planning permission, Article 4 directions, and tons of other important information that we need as a HMO property investor. It’s one of the most valuable episodes yet that you shouldn’t miss.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

In today's short, have a laugh at my expense as I recount my most (professionally) embarrassing story as a HMO business owner.  Whatever you do, don't do what I did in today's episode! 

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

In today’s episode, I want to talk about what I learned from this year, a year shrouded with uncertainty, a year clouded by the difficulties and challenges that have always been staring us in the face, a year of spiraling cost, a year of difficulties getting hold of materials, a year of managing expectations of customers and tenants, and a year of knowing what tomorrow might look like.

Join me as I look back and reflect on some of the successes, failures, and challenges this 2021.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates!

This episode reminds me of the realities of being a business owner or HMO landlord. Everything was going so well when suddenly one of my HMOs had a major roof leak due to the storm! Let me share with you what exactly happened and hopefully prepare you for unforeseen circumstances like this.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates!

In this episode, I am joined by Rosie Charles, the other half of ARCH Investments and we’re going to talk about how Rosie and Allan have utilised private finance really effectively to build their property business, the challenges of investing remotely, and how they did it effectively.

Plus, we discussed a 12-bed professional HMO case study with an impressive 171% ROCE.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates!

In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you an issue about my latest HMO purchase. I’m keen to get a completion ASAP because it’s tenanted and we’re ready but all of a sudden, there was a big issue but, let me share with you how I plan to resolve this. 

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates!

There are lots of things that we need to do before we move anybody into one of our HMO properties and in this episode, I’m going to share with you the seven most important things that you should do before the tenants move in.

Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. 

You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates!