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by Ajay Ahuja (Author)
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  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: Lawpack Publishing Ltd; 1 edition (17 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190405305X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904053057
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 491,284 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This title is a self-help guide on buying-to-let property investment.


About the Author

Ajay Ahuja is the founder and owner of the national accountancy practice Accountants Direct. It is the first in the UK that deals exclusively with the provision of references for the self-employed for mortgaging purposes. This experience has led to an in-depth knowledge of mortgages and the property market in general.

He currently consults with various local councils and accommodation projects, attempts to provide innovative solutions to problems being faced by the homeless and comments on issues surrounding social housing.

He now owns and controls a property portfolio worth £3m and provides housing for more than 250 people around the UK. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, easy-to-read from a subject matter expert, 19 Sep 2003
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Its easy to read foundation books on a subject and think that you haven't learnt much, because it all makes sense and confirms your own opinion. Whilst I found myself doing this with this book, I recognised that there is a well balanced coverage and rounded content in here. It doesn't go into tremendous detail about individual areas, for example a tax advisor might identify some pros and cons of your particular circumstances. However, it does include some excellent guidelines.

I found it very reassuring to start with the characteristics required to get into this type of business, and check whether you have them. There were also quick tips about how to calculate if the rent will provide enough cash to cover costs, the higher yields from different types of property, and comments on refurbishment versus lost rent.

Like most of these books, it doesn't highlight all of the potential pitfalls in the business. The author has amassed a 3 Million pound property portfolio in a few years of booming house prices, but anyone starting now has to look to the longer term for substantial payback.

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109 of 112 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars basics of buying to let are covered very well with minimum w, 14 Sep 2002
By royal flash (Lancashire) - See all my reviews
Mr Ahuja`s book is not the most detailed and comprehensive guide to property letting that is available on Amazon (only 68 pages excluding appendices etc) but the information that is given is extremely useful and relevant for someone with no experience in this area. The basics of buying to let are covered clearly with minimum waffle and many easy to remember tips/rule of thumb calculations are provided. One very useful rule of thumb calculation for example is the "rule of 12" that enables a prospective buyer to quickly gauge without going into complex calculations whether a prospective buy is a likely bargain or not. This can make the difference between making a profit or making a loss.

If you like anecdotes of the sort "Bill bought a flat for £40,000..Etc" then buy another book as there are very few of these.

The thing however that particularly impressed me with Mr Ahuja`s book are the detailed appendices with among other things: mortgage providers, property web sites and UK property hot spots. I have not yet seen another book that has such detailed information.

I felt that my... [money] was well spent and that Mr Ahuja had put considerable effort into distilling his experience in this area into a succinct and understandable form.

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71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Slightly trashy but very informative & direct guide, 4 Oct 2002
I don't normally go for this kind of American-style writing, as i do generally find it occupies the pages of the more trashy pop psychology books. However, this is actually what sets it apart from the other books on the buy-to-let market, and is surprisingly its strength. What it taught me is to look at buy-to-let as just another investment, with hurdle rates, sources of finance, and a myriad of highly practical means to extract maximum income as well as capital growth, i suppose simply hammering out the message that you shouldn't appraise buy-to-lets from the point of view of 'would you live in it', but more from 'will you make money'. Being quite anti this kind of approach [ok call me naive], it did take some time for me to even want to appreciate what he is saying!! I do recommend it for its fairly ruthless approach to reaping maximum returns from even this 'booming' buy-to-let market, and it is certainly written in a very straightforward 'expert down the pub' fashion. What particularly sticks in my mind is the lesson of not buying when the yields are too low - an obvious statement - but one that pushes you away from the fantasy land of capital growth as compensation for poor yields.
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