If you want to buy a property in the next year, then this might be the most important thing to read before you go to the estate agents to look at property, let alone make an offer.
Thank you for coming to our website. Our names are Mark and Mary Harrison and we retired at age 32, when our daughter was 6 months old. The reason we were able to retire at such a young age was that we had invested in rental property, in London and the South East.
Have you ever made an offer on a property, only to be told that "there are other interested buyers"? If so, do you know what that statement actually means? And, more importantly, what you can say to discover (normally in a day, but sometimes there and then) whether it is actually true?
Do you ever wonder how some people seem to be able to buy several properties each month, consistently getting them for prices that make them great investments?
Have you ever tried to buy a house or flat, and spent sleepless nights wondering what to offer, or what to re-offer when the vendor says "no"?
Then we discovered that negotiation about buying property was a dance we could learn to dance - that there were set dance steps that we could make to get our "dance partners" to follow.
Once we'd discovered that there were certain dance steps - we call them negotiation ploys - we decided to learn all we could about negotiation. Between us, we read hundreds of books, from biographies through to academic texts about the subject.
We also found a great mentor, a family friend of Mark's, who taught us far, far, more about how we could apply that to the property business. This is a man who owns residential and commercial property, who, in a typical year, buys a few million pounds worth of investment property, and who has been a constant source of advice and inspiration to us as we grew our portfolio from the first flat, to the first million, and beyond.
Now, some years on, people started coming to us asking for our advice on making offers, and how to respond to particular "claims" (We won't call them statements, that makes them sound too much like real facts) made by vendors and estate agents.
Since we retired, Mark has travelled up and down the UK, from Brighton on the south coast, up to Glasgow, helping investors learn how to do even better.
Whether you are new to property investment, a seasoned professional, or simply looking to get onto the property ladder, we are certain that our tactics for negotiation will enlighten you.