This leads to the second reason why the UK property market is so hot. As the foreclosures dominate the market, homeowners face stiff competition when trying to sell their own houses. So, to try to get out ahead, they entice buyers with low prices and other incentives, (such as no-money down arrangements).
However, whether you are a bank trying to sell a foreclosure, or a homeowner trying to sell your personal residence, you are still going to face another major problem - the credit crunch. Thanks to that horrible phenomenon, the number of available buyers has dwindled down to almost nothing. Those who are able to buy tend to have over 20% down and excellent credit. And more often than not one of the main groups in this category are investors.
Thats right - if you happen to be a property investor, or have the credentials to become one, you can actually come out a winner in the current housing situation. Yet, with so many properties out there, you might have trouble determining which ones are going to be worth the investment. Fortunately, you can solve all your problems with HIPS, a set of documents required for any house on sale in the UK.
So, what exactly are HIPS and why are they helpful to investors? Simply put, HIPS, (or Home Information Packs), are documents that contain important information about a property. They let you know the following:
1The energy costs associated with the property (expressed through the Energy Performance Certificate) 2How sustainable the property is, (if it is new) 3Title information 4A statement of sale 5Information relating to the propertys drainage and water
All of this information is very important in determining whether a property is worth your time. And this goes beyond the obvious issues around the Energy Performance Certificate, as sometimes HIPS reveal ownership or title problems. This is common during situations where a homeowner has died and left no will stating who now owns their property. Either way, it could take months of legal battling trying to get everything straightened out. Why go through that when you can easily find a HIP revealing a more normal title situation?
HIPS can even help you form a type of green marketing strategy. This can be done by analyzing any sustainability info provided in the document. If the house is extremely green, you could make a point of that when advertising the property. You could even reject homes whose HIPS cannot return decent sustainability information.
In fact, thats the ultimate beauty behind the HIP. If you do not like what the document reveals, you are free to reject the sales offer. Best of all, as a buyer you never have to pay for your HIP document. So, do not take the HIP lightly. Carefully read through the document, and if things do not add up, move onto the next property.
He bought the Maverick basketball team with a chunk of his payoff, and in this post he tells of the time when the General Manager of the team told him, "The worst evaluator of talent is a player trying to evaluate himself.???
He adds, "The same applies to business people and particularly to entrepreneurs and want to be entrepreneurs."??
"We want to believe that if we try hard enough, work long enough, and get a little lucky, that the sky is the limit. The problem is that we let our confidence cloud our judgements of what we truly know about ourselves." ??
He tells his own story about where he wasn't very good, like being organized, and that he made finally made progress by focusing on what he WAS good at, and finding someone to partner with who was good at the other things that needed being good at, also, like being organized. ??
In our business, it's the same, but also different. Some people come expecting it to be easy, because of the way the business was pitched. So of course when it's not as easy as they hoped, they quit. Or they don't enjoy doing what it takes to get customers and reps. Whatever. ??
But others really do work at it, but are still unable to build a business that lasts.??
If you are one of those, do a little inventory of your strengths and weaknesses. Then do what Mark Cuban did: focus on your strengths, and see if you can enlist others to help you where you are weak. Remember, it takes a village. Almost no one does it alone.
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