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We are progressing our website, newsletter and blog. We have created a logo and have a brand name for our investment side. We use this for the website. We decide however to brand the newsletter and blog separately as I will explain later.

There are a number of factors we have

You will remember in Day 12 we referred to a block of flats we agreed a price on in Sunderland.  It was 9 flats in 4 blocks with 4 separate entrances above a parade of shops.

The flats are right in the centre of Town and at £235,000 we think they

We are Remortgaging some properties including the mixed-use property (see day 7). The surveyor    comes to have a look round and do his valuation for the Bank. The top floor has two flats.

One is a one bed flat with its own entrance. The flat is large for a one bed

We had as a company and as a group of people almost no experience of creating a logo and brand name and no contacts with those skills. So, we started from scratch. As one does we asked around and got a recommendation. It was a disaster. The person concerned apparently

When we decided in the Summer that we wanted to consider expanding our business we decided we wanted to create a brand for that business. That would involve creating a brand name and a logo.

As you will probably have seen from our website our brand name is Property Investor Partners

We have reached a turning point in the development of our Property Business. We have grown to a size where we have well over 100 properties. We have access to finance and could continue to grow at a steady rate. We could actually stop and simply let the portfolio pay

We are now thinking about Remortgaging. That is not fundamental to what we do but it is part of what we do. And once we have a reasonable number of properties to remortgage that is how we proceed. The remortgages are usually spread over various portfolios but are dealt with

9 months ago, we saw a very interesting block of 5 flats in the heart of Cumbria. In a nice little town opposite to a well-known local school it offered a good opportunity to buy 5 flats at just over £25,000 each which should have an average rental value of

We have been negotiating with the Seller at Orell Park. We are negotiating via the Property Introducer who bought us the deal.

Property Introducers are a familiar feature in the Buy to Let landscape especially for those who are larger Land lords or Property Clubs requiring lots of property to sell.

Unbelievably I have just been offered another deal in Liverpool which is similar to the deal I rejected (see Days 14 and 15) but to me much, much better. Let me stress here and now this is not how things normally work for me. This is just an amazing coincidence