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Great News!
The team from Renovating For Profit are speaking LIVE in upcoming events in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Perth with the fantastic team at Think And Grow Rich.
Make no mistake, the wealthiest people in the world have generally made their fortunes via property. If you’re someone who believes that property is the way to wealth, then you’ll certainly love Stuart Zadel’s Property Entrepeneur’s Conference where you’ll hear from a number of Australia’s top property experts including us.

The team from Renovating For Profit are speaking LIVE in upcoming events in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Perth with the fantastic team at Think And Grow Rich.

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The Biggest Online Real Estate Training Ever! (Don’t Miss It)
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Hi, its Cherie from Renovating For Profit here. I’ve got some great
news to share with you. I’m involved in a brand new ONLINE event
where myself and five more of Australia’s most knowledgeable real
estate professionals are coming together for a new online
conference.
Its called the Masters of Real Estate Investment
(http://www.mastersofrealestateinvestment.com.au/rfp) and this event
is new and unlike anything I’ve seen, because it will deliver good
quality property educational content straight to your computer
from the internet, at absolutely no cost to yourself.  Topics to be
included cover developing a positive cash flow property portfolio,
renovating for profit, creative property deals – including how to buy
property with next to no money, property tax structures and smart
property development strategies.
Many of you who have seen me speak before, know I’m a big advocate
of self education. For even if you pick up only one new tip, its
that one tip that could potentially help you on your way to
financial independence.
To date, I know that 9 hours of online property content has already
been developed, all put together by professional investors and
speakers like myself. The content will be good and more
importantly, share information and strategies that you can use in
the current property market right now.
The conference series kicks off on September 16th with an overview
of the Australian property market with John Lindeman, head of
research at Residex, Australia’s oldest property research company.
John’s presentation is amazing and a must for serious property
investors!
I think you will really love this and truly hope you value the
information. To be part of the event, please CLICK HERE to register
now. Enjoy!
With the Kindest of Regards

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Portfolios is supporting this event with our partners Renovating For Profit. We have had a long and fruitful relationship with Renovating For Profit and believe this program will suit any one interested in investing in real estate. If you wish to ask us more questions please leave your details in the fields following Cherie’s letter below. You can also register and catch up with past seminars at any time.

Hi, its Cherie from Renovating For Profit here.

I’ve got some great news to share with you. I’m involved in a brand new ONLINE event where myself and five more of Australia’s most knowledgeable real estate professionals are coming together for a new online conference.

Its called the Masters of Real Estate Investment and this event is new and unlike anything I’ve seen, because it will deliver good quality property educational content straight to your computer from the internet, at absolutely no cost to yourself.

Topics to be included cover developing a positive cash flow property portfolio, renovating for profit, creative property deals – including how to buy property with next to no money, property tax structures and smart property development strategies.

Many of you who have seen me speak before, know I’m a big advocate of self education. Even if you pick up only one new tip, its that one tip that could potentially help you on your way to financial independence.

To date, I know that 9 hours of online property content has already been developed, all put together by professional investors and speakers like myself. The content will be good and more importantly, share information and strategies that you can use in the current property market right now.

The conference series kicks off on September 16th with an overview of the Australian property market with John Lindeman, head of research at Residex, Australia’s oldest property research company.

John’s presentation is amazing and a must for serious property investors!

I think you will really love this and truly hope you value the information. To be part of the event, please CLICK HERE to register now.

Enjoy!

With the Kindest of Regards

Cherie RFP signature

Renovating an investment property for income gains, if done well, is one of the single most satisfying and financially rewarding things you could achieve in property investment.

In this second article we give you further insight into making property renovation a great opportunity for you.

Renovating For Profit
You’ve watched the lifestyle shows, dreamed of buying the do-upable dump and making a good return out of it.
All over the world people take on projects to renovate and make money from property. It is contagious, both challenging and rewarding.
But what happened to making the dream a reality?
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Portfolios is proud to be associated with Cherie Barber and Stephen Tolle and the Renovating For Profit team. It is a unique community of people that buy houses, do them up and sell them – for a living. The amazing thing about this community is it is made up of ordinary Australians like you and me. There are some who wouldn’t dare put a lick of paint on a wall or pretend to be the carpet layer, tiler, sparky and plumber all in one.
In fact most of these people are simply great project managers, I will come back to that later.
Renovating property is a rewarding experience that, given the right tools, structure, strategy and financial platform, will give you a very fulfilling career or some extra income.
I personally complete 2 -3 projects per year, look after the Portfolios group businesses and along with meeting our wonderful clients that is my plan. Business will give you a lifestyle, your deals will give you your financial wealth.
(sub headline) So how can I help?
When looking into renovation project there are plenty of aspects to consider.
The main 3 are: Structure, Strategy and Finance, other fine print considerations for you could be:
1. What is your exit strategy?
Are you going to renovate and hold or renovate and sell?
Always be prepared when you have to hang onto the property that you have the capacity to hold via income or equity.
2. What is your costs and profit margin?
Understand the kind of gains you can make and manage your improvements accordingly. Knowing your numbers for buy, renovation and end sales price are critical to success.
4. What improvements/ works do you need to make?
Are you just making cosmetic changes or major structrual or even extending the property?
Firstly make sure you can make the changes you want to – check with council and look at similar properties.
Your due diligence is your chosen area will make sure you know what is desired and the end sale price for delivering that to the market.
As you make more an more deals this job will get easier because you will be able to estimate better yourself. But in the mean time surround yourself with professionals. Dont be afraid you will be helping their businesses too.
5. What is your contingency?
I see too many developers, renovators and property investors that come in with a conservative estimate on improvement works and do not consider an contingencies.
Lets face it there are many and varied factors to property projects, allow in your plan to cater for these.
6. Become A Project Manager
Project management 101 – manage your project closely – watch your progress, scope and budgets.
Timing is also critical so use a program to manage day to day activities who is where when – what needs to be completed to allow other works to take place on site. And like your contingency build buffers into your program – rain delays, holidays, slack contractors.
7.  With each deal it gets easier
When I started out – like all of us – I made mistakes but in each case I have learnt far more from them,now I have the privilege of helping people avoid the mistakes I made, saving them valuable time and money.
There are aspects of this business that you will always rely on others to solve for you but increasingly you will be able to take on aspects of the deal yourself based on your growing knowledge – you will become more astute and will see potential everywhere.
(sub headline) Financing The Deal
So the deal looks good and you have done your due diligence, what now.
Make the time to work with the Portfolios Team on your plan, whats possible, the project, structure, strategy and then we can work on finance options.
We can even show you strategies how to finance the deal using other people’s money and time.
First things first complete our Portfolio Review and we will work with you through the steps to becoming that Professional Property person.
Make It Happen – you’ll love it.
Paul Pritchett

You’ve watched the lifestyle shows, dreamed of buying the do-upable dump and making a good return out of it.

All over the world people take on projects to renovate and make money from property. It is contagious, both challenging and rewarding.

But what happened to making the dream a reality?