How do you win people over? 🤔 It’s a bit of a hairy question in property and investing 🤪 As too many of us know, it can sound like: 💸 Being sucked into a false deal 💸 Being fed some high-profile nonsense 💸 Kissing good-bye to hard-earned cash into poor investments… I’m asking because I recently had a conversation with brilliant coach Amy Rowlinson about my strengths - one of which is actually WOO. Not that ‘woo’ 🔮😂 although yes to that too 🧠😂 Winning others over (WOO

What skills do you really, actually need in property? ⚔️🛡 My recent post on being TOUGH 💪🏽 in property prompted some REALLY great comments (thank you all 🙏🏽) My favourites were Michelle Gamble: 'If I can succeed in this, anyone can. It's all about who you are internally, not what position you hold.' [Michelle’s hasn’t had to use her specialist skill of castration - yet - but it sounds like a great one to drop into conversation 🤣😲 see the post below if you missed it!] A

Property Sisters has gone through so many incarnations... 🍳 It all began with a birthday breakfast meeting in January 2018 🍔 Then even more of us met for lunch at Quaglino's in January 2019 🥂 Next was The Oxo Tower event in October 2019 👭 Then we lucky got in a whole day workshop at The Allbright just before the pandemic in January 2020 But during lockdown was when things really blossomed with weekly zoom calls, celebrating wins and members sharing their expertise with th

Let's just get real 👀 Who is responsible for your investment? 💷 Hard question in #property. Isn't it the developer, whose job it is to make a return on it? You give them the money, and then they make it grow? 💎 I'm sorry to say it but, NO. We investors make a choice to invest our money into a project, and accept the outcome of that investment. That's all on us. Our money = our responsibility. 🔍 If we did or didn't do our due diligence 🤨 If we went against instinct 🤩 If

Would you like a headache today? 🤯 How about a migraine?! No thank you! 💯 I’ve been talking recently about saying ‘no’ to certain investments, and picking through some of the real Why?s. One of those reasons is a little voice I hear inside which says, watch out! This one sounds like a HEADACHE 😕 Headaches are a common part of the property, I think we can all agree. But migraines… those are lurking in special places in the proposal. We don’t want to admit that they are ther

What questions would you have for another developer’s pitch? 🗯 I’m thinking along the lines of ‘have you thought of connecting with a building partner with experience in multi-use development?' As opposed to ’What on earth are you thinking with that strategy?’ Although sometimes that needs to be asked! 😂 Would you be comfortable doing that with another developer or investor? I say, get comfortable! 😌 We can all support each other by (helpfully!) pointing out what others ca

It’s been a while since I’ve done a shark post 🦈 And property sharks are part of the reason I get out of bed in the morning ☕️ Why? How can truth-evading, arrogant, self-serving, CRIMINAL, false 'victims' of circumstance be any kind of motivating force for me?! Or anyone? 😂 Here are the reasons: 🔥 They remind me there’s work to be done to improve opportunities for those hard-working, wonderful property people doing service to this industry 🔦 They remind me that due dilige