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Should Property Gurus Be Trusted and Do you Learn Anything?

August 9, 2020November 12, 2019 by Dave O’Hara

OK, I’m gonna put my second hat on. My property hat. As some of you will know, i’m a property investor as well as an online trainer and affiliate. In fact, this blog started off mainly focused on Property. In this post I cover our property journey as well as our experience with self-styled property gurus and trainers. Some of it is great, some of it quite shocking. I was an ‘accidental landlord’ To recap, i’d become an ‘accidental landlord’ in 2014 when me and Debs moved to Durham City. I’d lived in my house (nothing flash, just a typical …

Our property journey (update) | How we started our portfolio

August 9, 2020May 12, 2019 by Dave O’Hara

House 1 – 2 bed terraced Our property journey really started when we decided to move to Durham in 2014. I had been living in my house for 18 years and then rented it out to enable me to move. I was an ‘accidental landlord’. The details are as follows and the values are current ones. All the houses are in NE England. Purchase Price : £32,500 Current Market Value : £45,000 Rent Currently Received : £4,320 pa House 2 – 2 bedroom semi The house we bought in Durham in 2014 was built in 1999/2000 and is also 2 …