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Making Money from a Second Home: A Practical Guide to Buying and Managing a Property for Long Lets, Holiday Lets, or University Accommodation (Daily Telegraph) (Paperback)

by Wendy Pascoe (Author)

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Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: How To Books Ltd (30 Jul 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1857039971
ISBN-13: 978-1857039979
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 2.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 410,970 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This step-by-step guide to investing in a second home covers everything from assessing your investment to planning and managing the practicalities.

From the Author

This book is not for the super-rich who can afford to buy a second (or third or fourth home …) and then leave it lying empty until they decide to visit.

Instead it is for the majority of people who have decided to invest in another property because they are worried about their pensions, who may want to boost their savings, and/or because they believe there is still long term growth potential in the housing market.

The book takes you through:

• How to raise the money (buy-to-let mortgages are not always the answer)
• Making sure you buy the right property
• Pros and cons of using letting agents
• How to market and then manage your property if you decide to do it yourself (including what to put in tenancy agreements and how to cope with troublesome tenants)
• How to furnish, clean and manage a holiday letting cottage
• Parents buying for student children
• The rules and regulations covering letting
• What to do if it all goes wrong (early warning signs of trouble ahead, court procedures, if you get something wrong)
• Money out (buying, marketing and running costs, tax implications)
• Money in (what is an allowable expense, how to set out your expenditure, how to keep the Inland Revenue happy)
• Building your empire (financing it, spreading your risk, not getting in too deep)

There is a lot of common sense in property investment, and some of this book may sound like stating the obvious.

But there are still plenty of investors out there who buy without doing their homework, and who then get stuck with un-lettable properties because they have either bought something unsuitable or because it is in an area of over-supply. There are other investors who’ve been encouraged to over-borrow and who are now stretched financially as interest rates continue to rise. And there are others still who’ve gone into the second homes’ market because "everyone else we know is doing it, and it seems like an easy way to make money". Not a good idea.

So do your own homework thoroughly – you can never do too much – and use this book to help guide you through the process. If you are a novice investor, then it should cover the areas you are unfamiliar with. If you are experienced, then at least it should serve as a helpful checklist and confirmation that your investment is on track.

Wendy Pascoe

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good sensible advice, 27 Oct 2004

By	A Gee (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This book is very easy to read but is still packed with lots of useful information. It helps focus your mind on exactly what kind of letting you want to get into - and what sort of tenants you are after. The advice on financing property seems good and well researched and there are details of how to work out the real costs of getting into this business. It's not just a question of buying a property and raking in the cash - there are ongoing costs and responsibilities you don't really think about. Also it can be hard to know exactly what to expect of agents and tenants and this book lays out some pretty clear ground rules. There is excellent advice on how to check out prospective tenants and addresses of websites that can help you do this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Guide With Standards, 24 Nov 2004

By	James Webster (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews

Wendy Pascoe's obsession with bathrooms is apparent from the start. You can never have enough and if she were your tenant she would expect at least three bathrooms per bedroom. She is wonderfully middle class - no DSS or housing association tenants for her! God forbid - their children would scribble on the walls, they would annoy the neighbours and never pay the rent. She listens to Radio 4 and knows the Saturday schedule inside out. In this book Ms Pascoe offers a cleaning lesson for the great unwashed, advises you on proper disposal of sanitary items and insists that outdoor shoes are left outdoors - or at a push they could be let into the porch. Finally the depth of her understanding of the financial world is demonstrated in some maths lessons and her passing reference to pork belly futures.

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