Your Life in Property - Investing in Property & Real Estate

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Mat has been an acve property investor since 1993, for the most part whilst holdingdown a career in the Royal Air Force. At rst, due to an overseas posng, he became an“accidental landlord” for a small property in the town of Reading in South East England.When work required him to move, he could not sell the house and was in negave equityso was forced to rent it out. He rented that property and bought more each me themilitary posted him to a new locaon.It started through necessity but it became quickly obvious that this business, which tookvery lile me, was making more money for his growing family than from his Royal AirForce could ever do. Mat was in a posion to give up his day job by 2003 but lackedthe condence to make the leap unl 2006 when, having accrued a porolio of over 50properes, he became a full-me investor and rered from the military. Enjoying hisnew found freedom, Mat connues to grow his property porolio, now standing at 170properes across Europe and USA. Mat now helps other investors meet their goals,whatever they are, through property. A small team of like-minded investors make upthe team “ProVenture” and love meeng new investors and helping where we can. Ourcurrent area of work and example properes can be found at:

www.ProventureProperty.com

Fourth EdionAll prices and rates correct as of March 2011

About The Author

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Contents

Introducon..........................................................................................................................3Chapter 1 - Why Property? ..................................................................................................5Chapter 2 - Outcomes for Property – What Do You Want to Achieve? ................................9Chapter 3 - The Locaon Hunter ........................................................................................14Chapter 4 – Purchasing Well – Evaluang and Securing an Investment .............................20Chapter 5 – What to Buy and From Whom ........................................................................31Chapter 6 – People Not Bricks – The Secret to Success ......................................................40Chapter 7 – The Management of Risks ...............................................................................45Chapter 8 – You are a CEO ..................................................................................................48Chapter 9 – Finance and Currency - Geng bang for your buck .......................................54Chapter 10 – Locaon, Timing, Locaon – Bringing it all together ....................................56Chapter 11 – Selling Your Investment ................................................................................62Appendix 1 – The German Property Market ......................................................................63Appendix 2 – The UK Property Market ..............................................................................70Appendix 3 - The US Property Market ................................................................................73Appendix 4 – About ProVenture Property ..........................................................................76