Fairmont Rainmakers

HMO’s (Houses of Multiple Occupation) Instead of letting the property by the house or flat to one family tenant, you let out individual rooms to increase the income, cashflow & yield. The more rooms you can carve out of the unit, the higher the income. Serviced Apartments: Alternative to staying in hotels which provides more of a home experience on a nightly basis and where it provides a higher yield and return on investment. These are modern day fully furnished boutique’s and are becoming very fashionable for owners and guests for short and long term stays. Rent to rent: Also known as sub-letting or corporate letting. You rent an ‘HMO-able’ property from a Landlord on a single let basis, and then ‘HMO’ it yourself, renting out multiple rooms with a management agreement. You create all the cash flow of an HMO, yet you don’t buy it. No deposit needed. No big upfront costs, just small refurb costs. Deal Packaging A packaged deal is a deal you sell for a fee, for someone else to buy. This is also known as wholesaleing or property facing where you sell the lead using assignable contracts, sub-sales & option agreements.  Client facing is where the clients pay you more to manage the process (purchasing, legals, refurb) and assist them building up their portfolios.

On this episode we talk about the following property strategies: Delayed completions Joint ventures Lease options Assignable contracts Instalment contract Below Market Value Houses in Multiple Occupation Buy or rent to rent Serviced Apartments Buy or rent to rent Property sourcing Property Development Build to sell Build to rent Permitted Development Commercial Conversion Subject To Planning Planning Gain Co-living Buy Refurb Refinance Title Splits

CAPITAL The franchisor’s capital requirements will be lower because the franchisees provide the capital to open each franchised outlet. MOTIVATED AND EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT The local management of each franchised unit will be highly motivated and very effective. They treat the franchise units as their own and that will usually lead to higher sales and profit levels. FEWER EMPLOYEES The number of employees which a franchisor needs to operate a franchise network is much smaller than they would need to run a network of company owned units. SPEED OF GROWTH The franchise network can grow as fast as the franchisor can develop its infrastructure to recruit, train and support its franchisees. REDUCED INVOLVEMENT IN DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS The franchisor will not be involved in the day-to-day operations of each franchised outlet. LIMITED RISKS AND LIABILITY The franchisor will not risk its capital and will not have to sign lease agreements, employment agreements, etc. INCREASING BRAND EQUITY Levereging off the assets of franchisees helps franchisors grow their market share and brand equity more quickly and effectively. ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION Franchisor will reach the target customer more effectively through co-operative advertising and promotion initiatives. CUSTOMER LOYALTY Franchisors use the power of franchising as a system to build customer loyalty- to attract more customers and to keep them. INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION International expansion is easier and faster, since the franchisee posesses the local market knowledge.

On this episode, we talk about: The Principle of Cause and Effect: “Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause.” The Principle of Mentalism embodies the idea that "All is Mind” A Rollup (also "Roll-up" or "Roll up") is a process used by investors (commonly private equity firms) where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged. The principal aim of a rollup is to reduce costs through economies of scale. The most common method used to determine a fair sale price for a business is calculating a multiple of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), which is a measure of a company's ability to generate operating earnings.

The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, originally published in 1908 under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates", is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. No matter where you are on your mental health journey, working toward specific goals can help you live the life you want while managing your mental illness. You may start with setting one small goal to accomplish each day (e.g. writing down 3-5 things you’re grateful for in a journal or going to sleep an hour earlier than usual). Ask yourself, "What's one thing I can do today that helps me get closer to where I want to be?" Once you become more confident, you can work on accomplishing larger, more long-term goals. Think of the short-term goals you set as stepping stones to your larger recovery goal. Some tips for setting goals include: Use the S.M.A.R.T. approach to goal-setting, making sure that your goals are: Specific (Does your goal answer who, what, when, where, why, or which?). Goals should be defined as much as possible. WHO is involved, WHAT do I want to accomplish, WHERE will it be done, WHY am I doing this? Measurable (Does your goal include how much or how many?). Goals should allow you to track your progress and measure the outcome. Achievable (Is your goal reachable?). Goals should be challenging, but achievable. Goals work best when they are neither too easy or too difficult. Relevant (Is your goal worthwhile?). The goal should seem important and beneficial to you. Time-based (Does your goal answer when?). Your goal should have a time limit. Deadlines will keep you motivated. Take it step by step Large goals are easier to reach and more manageable if you break them into smaller ones. Don’t do it alone Get help and encouragement from your support network as you work toward your goals. One way to do so is by having an accountability partner. This person holds you accountable for achieving your goals and you hold them accountable for achieving theirs. An accountability partner should check in regularly to make sure you’re making progress. Celebrate your successes together as you get closer to achieving your goals. Make your goals known Sharing your goals publicly may make you may feel more committed to achieving them. Track and share your progress Keep track of your progress and share it with your support network. Stay positive Believing in yourself is an important part of working towards your goals.

A Rollup (also "Roll-up" or "Roll up") is a process used by investors (commonly private equity firms) where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged. The principal aim of a rollup is to reduce costs through economies of scale. It also has the effect of increasing the valuation multiples the business can command as it acquires greater scale. Rollups may also have the effect of rationalizing competition in crowded and fragmented markets, where there are often many small participants but room for only a few to succeed. An investor faced with an opportunity to invest in two competing companies may reduce risk by simply investing in both and merging them. Rollups are often part of the shakeout and consolidation process during an economic downturn or as new market sectors begin to mature.

Blue Ocean strategy involves market-creating innovation. It opens up new possibilities that are not available to organizations operating within the existing cost-value structure. It expands the universe as to what is possible, often enabling higher value at lower cost. In their work since the launch of their 2005 book, the authors have found three key components in successful Blue Ocean shifts: • Mindset: The authors found that, as in the world of Agile management, Blue Ocean strategy is fundamentally a shift in mindset. It involves “expanding mental horizons and shifting understanding of where opportunity lies.” • Tools: Successful implementers of Blue Ocean strategy have used practical tools to systematically “translate blue ocean thinking into commercially compelling new offerings.” Sporadic, one-off “Blue Ocean strategy” is one thing: systematically adopting Blue Ocean thinking is another. • Human-ness: Successful implementers exemplify “a humanistic process, which inspires people’s confidence to own and drive the process to own and drive the process for effective execution.” The Blue Ocean Mindset Perhaps the most important chapter is Chapter 3, which delineates the Blue Ocean mindset and the distinctive opportunity-based thinking that is at the foundation of Blue Ocean strategy. It is a perspective that enables strategists “to ask a fundamentally different set of questions,” the answers to which “in turn enable them to perceive and appreciate the fallacies behind long-held assumptions and the artificial boundaries we unknowingly impose on ourselves.” It describes for instance how Salesforce.com was able to upend the customer-relationship management industry through providing services on a subscription basis through the cloud. Such Blue Ocean strategists epitomize strategic agility by focusing on creating and capturing new markets, not fighting over existing customers. In effect, they “think different.” The Five Step Process The book offers a five-step process for systematically reproducing such strategic triumphs, and shows how a Blue Ocean initiative can be successfully launched in even the most bureaucratic organization that is trapped in a bloody Red Ocean. The five steps are: 1. Choosing the right place to start and constructing the right Blue Ocean team for the initiative. 2. Getting clear about the current state of play 3. Uncovering the hidden pain points that limit the current size of the industry and discovering an ocean of non-customers. 4. Systematically reconstructing market boundaries and developing alternative Blue Ocean opportunities. 5. Selecting the right Blue Ocean move, conducting rapid market tests, finalizing, and launching the shift.

On this episode I talk about Tesla and the SP500.

3 reasons to set big goals (other than to try to achieve them) * Big goals stretch what we believe is possible. When we set a big goal, we build a bottom-up plan to achieve it. ... * Big goals force us to test and learn quickly. ... * We're at our best when the work is hard.

In this episode we talk about: * You need a business where customers can buy through the internet * Being out of date is very expensive * Everything is being solved by technology * You need to close over the phone and online * Get good at online marketing and social media * You need to understand how big the world is * You need to source the right products and investments * You need to source the right clients too * You need to use all the tools that will let you systemise your business * Keep going and join us

Focus on the upside and protect the downside You also make money when you buy You need courage to do big deals Bear market and bull market Be bullish in your life Why so many people is not bullish How to raise your standards It’s difficult to be successful but is possible

Work smart or hard People work for decades and don’t become wealthy The importance of having goals Is not about quantity, is about quality To make your time more valuable, you need to become more valuable To become more valuable you need to learn valuable things To learn valuable things you need to put your attention in the right information and stay away of negative people It is possible to make in one deal more than someone can do in a lifetime so is stupid to just think in working hard You need to work hard and smart Carlos Slim doesn’t believe in working hard, he believes in being organised, he’s in the top 10 richest people in the world You shouldn’t work less than 80 hours a week, in reality you should like what you do so that you have the motivation to work all the time. In reality you should work all the time. But remember the money, never work or invest your time in something that doesn’t make money. So you need to chose something that you like and that also makes money. Remember not to limit yourself

Your Network is your Net Worth

You don’t need money to make money Good debt and Bad debt What is people looking for? The difference of buy and hold and trading Why the 99% gave up Health, business/career, finance, spirituality and relationships. What’s the most important? Why some people will never make it. Why some people will make it even against the odds. The difference between serious and not serious people.