Overcoming finance and property team challenges
Thank you all so much for all the great feedback we’ve already had from part one of this two part video. Due to the limited time of these short videos, we only had time to discuss Daniel’s phenomenal success climb. Part three is a non-video interview with Daniel which is out early next week and covers aspects of property and tenant maintenance.
For now, do take out what you can from his inspirational story and do read and check our other articles on maintaining success. We have summarised some of the key points, from this in-the-moment live interview at the end of this article.
In this short video blog, we continue our conversation with Daniel Wood and discuss the challenges Daniel and his wife, Gisela Wood have faced in their property journey.
To recap from the first interview with Daniel, Daniel and Gisela are a very focussed couple, serious about being successful and achieving their life and family goals. This power duo is so focussed on getting to financial freedom that they worked phenomenally hard to obtain an asset base of nearly £1,000,000 in a year.
Daniel Wood and I first met at the JT Foxx family event in Orlando, and somehow connected in spite of my walking around in a sleepy daze. We later bumped into one another at a Tigrent (Legacy Education) property education course on buying properties at an auction.
In this second part of the interview with Daniel Wood, Daniel shares candidly and openly about the finance and team challenges he and his wife faced and how they overcame them. To summarise their challenges from our first interview:
- Daniel and Gisela are international investors meaning there were several finance and property research challenges at the start of their journey as they are unknown to the banks and lenders in the UK
- Daniel and Gisela are Swedish and live in Sweden meaning that travel to and from chosen investment areas in the UK was a travel nightmare
- Daniel and Gisela only had a seed capital of £20,000 and required greater finance to grow their portfolio
- Daniel and Gisela did not have the time to visit all the properties they invested in
- Daniel and Gisela had no credit record for banks to lend to them
- Daniel and Gisela have 10 per cent mortgage rates compared to the 2-5 per cent mortgage rates local UK investors enjoy. In other words, the deals that they needed had to be exceptional deals. These exceptional deals had to include mitigation of all the inherent risks that apply with property acquisition.
Overcoming finance and property team challenges video notes
In part one of Daniel’s story, Daniel shared a little about his background and how he built his UK property business by:-
- listening to and putting into practice everything Daniel’s mentor told him to do
- leveraging his contact base and the initial contacts Daniel’s mentor connected Daniel with
- creating a power team of consisting of reliable sourcing agents, solicitors, and accountants
- leveraging the sourcing agent’s own power team of builders, handymen, and letting agents
In part two of Daniel’s story, Daniel shares that
- To circumvent the bank and credit challenge Daniel and is wife spoke to as many mortgage brokers as they could until they found a mortgage broker who could find them an acceptable loan.
- To get ahead fast Daniel, got a good mentor that he trusted
- To ensure Daniel got a powerful power team. Daniel interviewed each one of the team as if they were applying for a job.
- Daniel interviewed the support team of his sourcing agent. Daniel and Gisela, met them, got each team member’ prior experience, and got references on the sourcing agent’s entire team.
- To deal with setbacks, Daniel urged people to be more resilient and persistent even in the middle of a disaster.
Inspired by reading and hearing about Dan’s success story? Then please do let us know with a comment and share it with your friends to help them be motivated and inspired too. Part three of the Daniel Wood interview trilogy will be out next week.
In the meantime, if you enjoy reading about people’s property success stories check out the following articles:
- Daniel Wood: Property millionaire in one year – part one
- How to turn £6250 into £1.5 million – one man’s incredible property journey
- Lessons from my first property lessons
- After a heated property conversation, you’ll never guess what happened next
Or if you are interested in the lessons from other successful people who attended the JTFoxx family reunion event check out the following articles:-
- Cerebral Palsy, Paralysed, Blind and successful
- Bleeding is part of success – Paul Kanofski
- Why your best intentions fail and how to fix it – Chris Okazaki
Finally, if you are starting on your own financial freedom journey, you may also find the following articles from our library helpful in spring-boarding you into a new chapter of your life’s dream.
- Understanding the gift of betrayal
- Stories illustrating the gifts from betrayal
- How to eliminate betrayal with PANDAS
- Why being busy is a waste of time
- Five essential habits to reach impossible dreams
