HALLOWEEN HORRORS... OF PROPERTY!

I love Halloween! 🎃 👻

So as it’s October 31st, I will share with you some Halloween Horrors... of Property!

There are many scary things about property that keep us terrified and awake at night... and some are just downright horrors!

First one: mysterious happenings in the middle of the night! 😱

During a property’s refurbishment, sometimes spooky things happen when you’re not there... 🤔

Here’s some examples of things I’ve experienced - and how to avoid them rising from the dead again on future projects! ⚰️

👻 Curse: a magic apparition of a load of old junk added to my scrap pile 😤
✝️ To break the spell: avoid this by collating all your junk materials, old bathrooms etc, INSIDE until the day the skip arrives. Then whang all the junk in at once and get them to lift the skip the same day, to avoid demon neighbours inflicting their curses and junk on you! 👍

🎃 Curse: paranormal activity, in the form of your rubbish bins magically disappearing overnight! 😤
✝️ break the spell by fetching your bins inside the property, or they will go missing. Why? Because often some impish neighbours will fancy an extra bin - and many councils now charge for replacement bins. 🤨

👹 Curse: on one project, some utter evil devil had dumped a monster-sized bag of, erm, stinking doggy ectoplasm in my garden, for me to kindly dispose of 💩😱😤
✝️ BEGONE SATAN!!! Sometimes in property - and life - very shitty things happen - quite literally.
No cure for this curse, sometimes people are just fiends and wretches out to inflict hurt and suffering on you.
To deal with this though, you have to adopt a strong PMA (positive mental attitude) for bad things, to keep those demonic vibes at bay.
So think positively about such demonic acts - use your strength and will to tell them: “the power of Christ compels you... to not be so powerful so that your horrible nonsense won’t get to me!!!”

Remember, things can only upset you if you allow them to!
💪😁✝️

Next Tale from the Crypt…

Sometimes when you get the keys to a property, you will find that the house is possessed - by all sorts of creatures, dead or alive!

Bugs, woodlice, silverfish, mice, birds, and our old Halloween favourite, those beastly spiders! 🕷🕷🕷

However, all those fail in comparison when I remember the Longroyd project, with the Bugs of Doom...

This particular house was the deceased estate of a little old lady.

All the carpets had been stripped out - but little did we know, that lurking in the floorboards, ready to pounce, was THE CURSE OF THE INDESTRUCTIBLE KILLER FLEAS!!
😩☠️👾☠️👾

We all got bit by these fleabag masses; itchy, horrid biting creatures; urrrgh, I shudder just remembering them.

And then worst of all, because they get in your clothes, I inadvertently brought them home with me - and despite never before being infected, in all her years... I ended up giving my own Pusscat fleas...
😱😱😱

I WAS THE SPREADER OF EVIL!
👺👾🙀😿😾

That house took me four flea bombs and a mass amount of cleaning to rid that satanic scourge, and then the same again in my own house.

So I’m not a fan of house possessions, by horrible creepy crawly poltergeists!

If you have similar ‘unwanted tenant’ squatters - purge your property thoroughly with an exorcism: with hard cleaning graft, prayers and strong chemicals.
It’s the only way to rid yourself of such demons!!

🕷🦗🦟🐜🐝🦇👾☠️



Moving on, another cautionary tale that strikes immense fear into my being...

The very thought of it brings me out in a cold sweat, and undertaking the necessary evil of it is like a dagger to my heart... 🔪🥶🥵🤯🤮

What I am talking about?

If you’re from Yorkshire, I know you’ll already know what I’m about to say...

... the biggest horror in property is THE CURSE OF THE BURNING PURSE!!! 😩😫😭😭😭💷🔥

 

Property costs money, in all sorts of fiendish ways:
❌ purchase ❌ stamp duty ❌ insurance ❌ legal fees ❌ gas safety ❌ refurbishment ❌ operating expenses ❌ maintenance ❌ utilities ❌ voids ❌ repairs ❌ naughty tenants ❌ 🆘

The scariest thing in the world for a Yorkshireman is having money extracted from our weary paws.

We hate the evil, bloodsucking flesh-eating bogeyman known as the Grim Reaper Taxman!

And as for the eerie cackling call of the House Repairs Goblin, he terrifies us with his creepy visits way too often!

Still when you have families living in your property - many of them angels, and not werewolves - you’ve got to do what’s right to protect them from evil.

So you unnervingly summons your petrified purse / wallet from beneath the grave, dust off the cobwebs, and see what decomposing funds lurk within.

Then zombie-like and crying, you perform a spell, which mostly involves setting fire to your money.

After this chilling sorcery, magic apparitions then appear - more recently in my case, in the form of a new light fitting, a new door handle, and a new electric cooker 😩💷🔥

So beware all ye wannabe property investors - have ye got the stomach to cope with such grizzly, ghastly and horrifying money-sucking phantoms?!? 😭🤮

And Yorkshire folk: normally your purse has to be prised from your corpse’s cold, dead fingers... can you perform some supernatural hocus pocus and... ACTUALLY SPEND SOME MONEY?!?

Terrifying stuff, I know, it scares me too...

Be afraid... be very afraid... 😱😱😱



Finally, this last topic is the scariest yet.

It can either be a trick or a treat, depending on how you prepare yourself.

The most terrifying thing in property are... bloodsucking vampires.

What do I mean by this?

I mean that there are some horrible people in this industry that are out to bleed you dry for all they can get.

Examples of these demons include:
☠️ beastly cowboy builders
☠️ bungling scarecrow solicitors
☠️ bloodsucking bridging firms
☠️ vampires who want to extract all your time, knowledge and education for free
☠️ horrible trolls out to hurt and criticise you
☠️ incompetent zombie workmen
☠️ repulsive RIP-off merchants
☠️ petrifying Ponzi schemes
☠️ shady sharks out to strip you of your money
☠️ outrageous ogres who make all sorts of unbelievable claims about ROI
☠️ untrustworthy shyster wolves who don’t return your investment funds.

I’m not pulling any punches here.
It’s a spine-chilling warning.
The most terrifying part about this post is that it’s all true.

These nasty people do exist, and they walk amongst us - often smiling and beguiling us with their witchcraft.

I myself have experienced several of the above, and I know that many of my investor friends have too.

So what can we do to ensure we get a little less trick, and a lot more treat?

Here are some tips, to renounce the evil:

✝️ Don’t work with people you don’t know, like or trust 🥰
✝️ Do your due diligence on people - are they who they say they are? How do you know? Can they show you evidence and proof? 🧐
✝️ Google them! Reviews, testimonials, online presence, Companies House, images, news... EVERYTHING!
Sometimes it’s in your own interest to be a bit stalker-ish... 🤔🧟‍♀️
✝️ You are a grown adult of your own free will. If someone is putting you under pressure to part with cash, your internal alarm bells should be ringing 🚫
✝️ Trust your gut instinct. If anything feels wrong, for any reason - don’t do it 👊👌👍

Phew!
Terrifying stuff!

But forewarned is forearmed.
Use these tips above as your vampire-slaying kit.
Add in some garlic if you like!
Avenge these property monsters!

Although I’d leave the knives and weapons at home... or at least until the Halloween moonlight hits... 😏🔪

Have a spooky and safe Halloween everyone! x x x

😁🎃

Kellyann Martin is a Property Investment Strategist based in Leeds.

For more details on working with Kellyann, visit the website

www.kellyannmartin.co.uk

My Top Five Reasons Why Being in Property is Great

Here are my top five reasons why being in property is great!

Here we go...

Number 1: You get to help people.

First and foremost, you are providing homes for tenants. There’s a real shortage of rental accommodation, and if you can help provide that service, it benefits both parties. 

A great reason to start with!

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Number 2: You play the role of magician!

There’s something very special about making a superb transformation. 

You take an utter grotbox of a house, throw a little magic dust / good contractors / cash and effort at it, et voilá: one great refurbished house!

It feels good to be able to bring dilapidated housing stock back into use. 

Nobody wants to see them rot and go to rack and ruin anyway - not in my beautiful Leeds! 

😁🏚🏠

Number 3: You only have to do the real hard work once.

I love single let housing. 

Once you’ve done the hard work; ie refurbished them to a good standard and rented them out to a lovely tenant, there’s actually very little to do.

Yes, there might be the occasional inspection to do, or a couple of times a year the tenant will ring with a maintenance problem that’s arisen to be fixed... but on the whole, these rentals just keep ticking away nicely.

What’s not to love?!? 

💖😁🏠

Number 4: Property gives you the freedom to do whatever you like!

Looking after a rental portfolio doesn’t actually take up a lot of time, meaning you have a good amount of freedom to choose how you spend your time.

And I love doing whatever I like!

😎🌅 

Last one!

Number 5: Investors lend you money towards property projects, and you give them a superb return for it.

In this particular case study in Leeds, we used a legal loan agreement for the investor to lend me funds to purchase this house.

I refurbished the property to a good standard, uplifted the value, and placed a tenant family in it as their long-term home.

Then I put a mortgage on the house, and drew out most of the uplifted equity. 

This enabled me to repay the investor back his capital, plus a very healthy return - which was much better than anything he could have received in interest from high street banks! 

📈💷😁🙌

Investment funds in this project were returned in 9 months and 3 days. 🗓 

The investor made a superb profit passively; I helped him, and he helped me, and we both helped that tenant family! 

If you’d have cash sitting in a bank making poor returns - get in touch to discuss employing funds in a project like this to make you a far better return on investment.

💷💷💷

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Kellyann Martin is a Property Investment Strategist based in Leeds.

For more details on working with Kellyann, visit 

www.kellyannmartin.co.uk