Ever wanted to start your own property business, but didn't have the necessary capital?
Ever wanted to get into the property business but didn't have the necessary expertise?
Ever had a yen to become involved in property but didn't know where to start?
Well now you can,
and it will surprise you how little capital
it takes to start.
SPLAM! is a new book written by someone who has many years experience in property management, lettings, rentals, refurbishment and sales. This is the fully REVISED & ENLARGED NEW edition, (Over 300 pages)
It is written in an easy to read and follow style, and it starts right at the beginning in that it assumes that you don't own any properties, and don't have much idea where to begin.
It opens with selecting the right premises for your operation, it progresses to preparing your advertising and business launch. After that there is a good section on gaining property instructions, and the places you can go where you can find properties. You don't need a great deal of seed capital to start your business, and you don't need deposits to buy your own property at the outset. SPLAM! will point you in the right direction to where you can obtain property for your lettings business. But it will always have one eye on accruing the necessary deposits in order that you CAN obtain and ultimately own your own property portfolio.
As it says in the book, you don't want to find yourself ten years down the line and still representing a hundred wealthy landlords.
You should aim to become one of those wealthy landlords yourself!
It will show you how to go about locating landlords, it will advise you how best to gain those vital instructions, it will supply you with an important list of things to do, and just as critically, things not to do. It explains how to best deal with tenants, and especially bad tenants, because you will surely come across some of those as your business progresses.
It will show you what kind of tenancy agreement to use, and just as importantly, what tenancy agreements you should avoid at all costs! There are plenty of icy crevasses out there just waiting to swallow up the unwary property person! SPLAM! will do its utmost to steer you clear!
SPLAM! has over 300 pages, is paperback and perfect bound if you choose the hard copy version. It is NOT an e-book sold by millions of agents, but a fully copyrighted ISBN listed book now available via the internet and through good bookshops everywhere. You can proceed to ordering a copy right now if you want to make an early start, by clicking the button below.
So what else do you get for your hard earned bucks?
There's a section on setting up your acounts and payments. How to collect rent, and almost as importantly, how NOT to collect rent. There's a chunk on referencing tenants, including hints and tips on how you can become an expert in sniffing out those bad tenants who should be living in your competitors' homes and not yours!
There's a big piece on how to value properties and how to explain to your property owners how you have reached your valuations.
This is not dificult and you don't need loads of qualifications to do it.
There's information on how you can increase your fees without ever increasing your prices, and how you can score successes over your competitors - even the longest most established companies in your area.
...And here's what Tom Potter of Norfolk had to say about the book after he bought a copy:
I bought your book, SPLAM! yesterday, and have nearly finished reading it. It is a GREAT resource.
So good in fact that I am wondering whether I now need to purchase a course for 600 pounds from XXXXXXXXX Properties which advertises itself as a complete start-up 'no strings attached' package.
Your book is dramatically cheaper and may well cover a very similar range and depth of topics.
Thanks for that Tom, we are very pleased you liked it, and thought it good value for money.
...and here's what Abdul Wahid of London wrote:
Thank you for writing such a excellent book, I am following your advice in the book and I am very new in the property letting business, just started from scratch two days ago with the aid of your book. Thank you so much. Wish me luck. I was wondering if you have any properties that you want to rent out or know any landlords that want to do the same. Please let me know. and thanks again from the book. It's making me learn quite a few things about the property industry.
Thank you Abdul. Kind of you to take the time to contact us.
So where does it go from there?
The book encourages you to raise your own deposits in order that you can become the landlord, rather than just acting for others. Once you have done that, it will open a whole new world to you, bringing in new and exciting revenue streams, such as refurbishing property for rental and ultimately, may be, for resale. From there, there is a section on developing into Real Estate Agency, it's an option you have, and the pros and cons for doing so are thoroughly explored.
So how much do you think such a publication is going to cost you? 300+ pages of interesting reading, ideas and suggestions especially written by someone who has spent many years operating just such a business. What would you think? 99.95? That wouldn't be unreasonable would it? Or may be 49.95 or 29.95? No, the fact is, SPLAM! costs a lot less than that. But before we reveal the real actual price, consider this:
You could buy a property lettings or estate agency package that could cost you up to and over 50,000, more than that in some cases. Now we are not suggesting that you will find in SPLAM! all the expertise and goodies you would undoubtedly receive in some of those packages, but you could and would be in a position to start your very own property business once you have thoroughly digested the cointents of SPLAM! So our question is this. Why not buy SPLAM! first? Why not buy SPLAM! anyway? You might find you really don't need to fork out all that cash on a huge agency package, and if you didn't, you could save yourself a great deal of upfront money, not to mention the important point that you would never pay any ongoing royalties.
And guess what? You could use that 50,000 cash figure, or whatever it is, on deposits for your very own property portfolio. Surely that would be a more reasonable and cost effective idea for the future for you, don't you think?
OK, so you want the actual price of SPLAM! We won't keep you waiting any longer.
It is available in two forms. A downloaded version directly to your computer, (If you buy the download version, you could be tucking into SPLAM! with your dinner, in ten minutes time! How does that appeal?)
Or if you are like me, and prefer a hardcopy version in your hand, a book that you can take with you and read at your leisure, read in bed, on the beach, in the bath, wherever life takes you, you can of course choose that option instead.
SPLAM! is 9" x 6" in size, and contains 300 plus pages in the the current edition.
So here are the prices:
United Kingdom: Download Version: pounds sterling 7.95
United Kingdom: Hardcopy Version: pounds sterling 13.95
United States & Rest of the World: Download Version: $15.95**
United States & Rest of the World: Hardcopy Version: $27.95**
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Postage extra on hardcopy versions, obviously no postage costs on download versions
** Prices may vary fractionally due to currency fluctuations.
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Convinced? We hope so. Like to order a copy? Then please click here now:
Welcome to SPLAM Successful Property Letting And Management, and we hope you both enjoy the read, and cull loads of useful information with regard to the interesting world of property letting and management. Please bear in mind that all facts and figures quoted can and do go out of date; housing benefit figures for example are one such case. In other words, dont take any figures as gospel; they are used for illustration purposes only. You will need to check out how they stand in your area, in your time.
Neither can we be responsible for any property contracts, agreements or deals you may enter into. Only you can be responsible for that. As we say several times throughout the book, do your own thorough research and where in doubt, take professional advice. We have taken great care in producing this guide but if you detect any inaccuracies within the work we would be only too pleased to hear from you pointing out our error.
Why should you consider starting your own property business from home? Because it is quite possible to quickly build up a profitable substantial enterprise with minimal capital input, very low risk, and best of all, you could avoid the huge start-up fees that franchises and linked agencies always require. Many people are earning between 50,000 and 100,000 per annum and more in this business, and you could too.
Wont the credit crunch put an end to all that? No, it wont. Hard times in the property markets are always good for the rental sector because there are more potential tenants about, and more unsold properties available for rent. This is the second edition of SPLAM! We have sold hundreds of copies of the first one and there are lots of new things in this refreshed updated version. Thanks for buying and we hope you enjoy the read.
Extra Notes:
David Carter, who wrote SPLAM!, was a property manager in England for more than ten years. In that time he presided over thousands of successful property lettings ranging from tiny bedsits through the whole gamut of properties right up to detached mansions.
Although the book is based on English residential letting, much of the advice is applicable to letting and managing property in many parts of the English speaking world.
Among the information covered is:
Getting equipped and getting started
Carrying out essential market research
How to locate suitable property
How to woo and deal with landlords
How to gain those vital first instructions
How to interview and vet tenants
How to value property for rental purposes
How to reference tenants
How to show tenants round property and how not to!
How to prepare the tenancy agreements
How to deal with difficult tenants
How to inspect properties
How to expand your business
Safety checks and obligations
Preparing and accounting for inventories
Handling payments and accounting
New rules on handling tenants deposits
Booking tenants into property
Moving tenants out of property
Tax requirements & Stamp Duty
Property related Computer software
Considering estate agency and real estate sales
Advice on buying your own property
Social housing matters
Houses of multiple occupation
And much more besides.
The book is chock full of useful web addresses, contacts and vital information sources, and you will also find a property trade glossary and a very useful trade directory.
The book is written in an easy to read style with plenty of real life anecdotal experiences thrown in to lighten the reading, and demonstrate some of the crazy events that can happen to the residential property manager.
In all, over 300 pages. Revised, expanded and updated in the second half of 2008.
If you are interested in renting residential property, or are thinking of starting your own property rentals business, we think you will find something to interest and assist you in this new edition of SPLAM!
Where else could you buy a publication like this, a book that will guide you through the property minefield for as little at 7.95? We don't know of anywhere. If you do, we'd like to hear about it. There's also a rental conversion chart, a large section on local authority rent payments, there's a good piece about staying within the law, a section on serving notices on tenants when you need to recover properties, a lot about publicising your business on the web, and about setting up your own internet site(s), and a great deal more besides.
So if you want to start your own property business, perhaps from home initially, because this business can most certainly be run from home, or may be you simply want to improve the returns on properties youalready have, SPLAM! is the book for you.
We think SPLAM! will pay for itself many times over, and for that reason alone, it is a good buy.
If you are interested in the world of property, you should get hold of a copy of SPLAM!
SPLAM! - Successful Property Letting And Management is available now. If you prefer, you can order through your local bookstore by quoting the ISBN which is 978-0-9559-7740-4. The author's name is David Carter.
SPLAM! is strictly copyrighted by the publisher and the author. It is NOT available for reprint or resale. Please do not confuse SPLAM! with cheap throwaway e-books. There is no such thing as reprint rights on this publication.
Well that's about it! We hope you come onboard. In any event, we wish you good luck to you with all your future property enterprises and thanks for reading. We sincerely wish you every success.
Alternatively you can now pay by cheque or postal order if you live in Great Britain or Ireland. Please send a cheque made payable to TrackerDog Media for £15.90 (£13.95 + £1.95 post and packing) to TrackerDog Media, 118 Ringwood Road, Walkford, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 5RF
