Buying in an area you're unfamiliar with is scary enough – but David Barker bought his first without seeing it, and his next was a complicated five-unit site in a town he'd never been to.

Both had happy endings, but were very different experiences along the way. I spoke to David to learn how he got the courage and confidence to take calculated risks, and learn the often-glossed-over truth of how complicated an investment can be...

Listen to the episode and learn:

- What attracted David into property
- What led him to buy a flat in Salford without seeing it first
- How it's performed since
- How David decided to buy a far more complicated property in Stoke
- The challenges he had with funding the purchase
- What he's done to increase his rental return and its market value
- The management challenges that's seen him get more familiar with Stoke than he'd expected!
- What he would have done differently, looking back
- The advice he'd give to anyone wanting to follow his footsteps and buy remotely

Two very different experiences buying away from home

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Over the last few episodes we've covered various ways of funding property projects, in addition to the familiar options of cash and mortgages. In this episode, I round off the series by summarising my main takeaways and suggesting how to choose the most appropriate form of funding. See this episode on the Property Geek website: https://www.propertygeek.net/podcast/funding-property-project/

Episode 85: How to pick the right type of funding for your property project

Over the last few episodes we've covered various ways of funding property projects, in addition to the familiar options of cash and mortgages. In this episode, I round off the series by summarising my main takeaways and suggesting how to choose the most appropriate form of funding.

Listen to this week’s show and learn:

*Why I believe investors are irrationally scared of bridging finance
*The ways to use bridging to reduce the amount of cash you need
*Questions to ask yourself before you start
*The two critical elements to securing peer-to-peer funding
*The range of peer-to-peer business models, and a potential "gotcha" to watch out for
*When using a second charge or further advance might be appropriate
*The two different types of joint venture model
*At what stage in the investing lifecycle I think joint ventures make sense
*The factors to consider when choosing between different types of financing
*Why it's important to build up your knowledge in advance
*What I'm working on over the summer!

How to pick the right type of funding for your property project

Joint ventures (JVs) get talked about a lot in property, with good reason: after all, if you don't have the cash to do all the deals you want to do, a JV is a way of solving that problem without going cap-in-hand to the bank. But where do you even start with finding someone who might want to lend you money? How do you structure the agreement? And what happens if something goes wrong? In this episode I'm delighted to welcome Jay Booth back to the podcast, to talk about how he's made JVs work for him – and his friends and family. Jay was on the show earlier in the year talking about how he bought and refurbished nine properties in a year, and in this follow-up chat we get into how joint ventures fuelled some of that rapid expansion. See this episode on the Property Geek site: https://www.propertygeek.net/joint-ventures

Episode 84: How to raise funds with joint ventures

Joint ventures (JVs) get talked about a lot in property, with good reason: after all, if you don't have the cash to do all the deals you want to do, a JV is a way of solving that problem without going cap-in-hand to the bank.

But where do you even start with finding someone who might want to lend you money? How do you structure the agreement? And what happens if something goes wrong?

In this episode I'm delighted to welcome Jay Booth back to the podcast, to talk about how he's made JVs work for him – and his friends and family. Jay was on the show earlier in the year talking about [how he bought and refurbished nine properties in a year](http://www.propertygeek.net/buying-refurbishing-9-properties-year-running-business-different-city/), and in this follow-up chat we get into how joint ventures fuelled some of that rapid expansion.

Listen to our conversation and learn:

*What Jay's model is, and what was holding him back
*How he approached his first investor
*The way he structured the deal (and decided how much to offer)
*How he got the agreement drawn up
*Why his first JV worked brilliantly for his partner...but not so much for him!
*The several different types of JV he's used
*What conversations he has with his partners before he lets them invest, and what questions they ask him
*What to be aware of when combining JV funds with a mortgage lender
*The advice Jay would give to someone interested in raising money in this way

How to raise funds with joint ventures

If you own your own home or have buy-to-let properties, you might find yourself with equity you can't access – due to redemption penalties or too-good-to-lose mortgage rates, for example. By unlocking that equity, you could grow your portfolio faster – and in this week's episode, I speak to mortgage advisor Dave Cookson about a relatively little-known way to do exactly that. See this episode on the Property Geek site: https://propertygeek.net/podcast/second-charges

Two very different experiences buying away from home

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