Comments on: Jim Haliburton http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk The No 1 portal for Property Investors Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:53:04 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/just-ask-the-mentor/jim-haliburton/comment-page-1#comment-332 Steve Sat, 08 May 2010 13:24:14 +0000 http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/?page_id=444#comment-332 Hi Jim, Just finished reading your pdf “How Multi Let Landlords Can Profit from the Change in Planning Rules”, very interesting reading, although i believe it to be a little dated now. You mention the planning consultancy offer you have at the end of it, I am currently dealing with my local planning office and having “issues” I know the pdf concerned HMO’s but does this cover non HMO applications? I quick run down, i currently own a flat which is designated as commercial use and wish to convert to residential and at the same time change the shop front to something more suitable to a home than an office. Your advice would be appreciated Regards Steve Hi Jim,
Just finished reading your pdf “How Multi Let Landlords Can Profit from the Change in Planning Rules”, very interesting reading, although i believe it to be a little dated now.
You mention the planning consultancy offer you have at the end of it, I am currently dealing with my local planning office and having “issues” I know the pdf concerned HMO’s but does this cover non HMO applications?
I quick run down, i currently own a flat which is designated as commercial use and wish to convert to residential and at the same time change the shop front to something more suitable to a home than an office.
Your advice would be appreciated
Regards
Steve

]]> By: Jim Haliburton http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/just-ask-the-mentor/jim-haliburton/comment-page-1#comment-227 Jim Haliburton Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:09:49 +0000 http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/?page_id=444#comment-227 I have almost 100 properties now with well over 500 tenants. As a result I now have a number of staff and contractors to manage and maintain the properties. The areas are split into two and so I have two Area Managers who are responsible for the collection of rent, filling the voids and ensuring they are maintained. I found it far easier in retrospect to manage the properties myself although at the time I didn’t think so, as I felt that I never had the time and was frustrated by having to do menial tasks. It took me on average 1 hour per week per property once they were up and running and full. The secret is to have all your properties within a few minutes drive of each other and local to you, or only let to professionals who pay you by standing order. You need to develop a laid back attitude to it all but at the same time, do the best you can and realise that you will never satisfy all your tenants, all of the time and the more you do, the more they expect. Remember that you are the boss, be as professional as you can but at the same time you very occasionally have to say to your tenants that if they are not happy, they are free to leave. Do not make the mistake of thinking that employing staff is the answer. It causes more problems than it is worth, but that’s another story. If you would like to learn more about managing HMO’s I run courses and mentorship programmes. For details go to the training course section in Just Do Education :- http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/education/training-courses#haliburton I have almost 100 properties now with well over 500 tenants. As a result I now have a number of staff and contractors to manage and maintain the properties. The areas are split into two and so I have two Area Managers who are responsible for the collection of rent, filling the voids and ensuring they are maintained.

I found it far easier in retrospect to manage the properties myself although at the time I didn’t think so, as I felt that I never had the time and was frustrated by having to do menial tasks. It took me on average 1 hour per week per property once they were up and running and full. The secret is to have all your properties within a few minutes drive of each other and local to you, or only let to professionals who pay you by standing order.

You need to develop a laid back attitude to it all but at the same time, do the best you can and realise that you will never satisfy all your tenants, all of the time and the more you do, the more they expect.

Remember that you are the boss, be as professional as you can but at the same time you very occasionally have to say to your tenants that if they are not happy, they are free to leave.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that employing staff is the answer. It causes more problems than it is worth, but that’s another story.

If you would like to learn more about managing HMO’s I run courses and mentorship programmes. For details go to the training course section in Just Do Education :-

http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/education/training-courses#haliburton

]]> By: June Alsop http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/just-ask-the-mentor/jim-haliburton/comment-page-1#comment-74 June Alsop Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:22:25 +0000 http://www.justdoproperty.co.uk/?page_id=444#comment-74 how do you manage so many i have 12 properties half of them hmo how do you manage so many i have 12 properties half of them hmo

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