A lot of people have asked me how I got started with investing in property and why I started the P.I.P.S course.

So here’s a brief biography, together with a few of
the events that shaped my life and my
learning that in turn shaped the creation of P.I.P.S.
I’ve always been an entrepreneur and came from an entrepreneurial family.
My parents
were in the retail trade and I recall standing in their shop selling jeans
more than 40 years
ago.

On leaving University I trained as a Chartered Accountant
with Touche Ross & Co
(now
Deloitte & Touche) in London. I never wanted to be an accountant, but felt
that an
Accountant’s qualifications would sustain me in my business career.

I left immediately after I qualified and started a retail
business. I built a chain of shops
through the 1980’s selling art and making picture frames. Even then I
was aware of
property investment – I purchased my first commercial freehold from being
a leaseholder
of one shop. And in the second half of the 1980’s I invested in property
with my brother
and I started developing property in London.

This came to an abrupt end with the property crash in the late 1980’s.

Later I started a national publishing business and specialised
in magazines and manuals,
which helped people, get started in business. My flagship title was “Business
Opportunity
World”. It was during these years that I discovered I had skills in the
writing field, and
in particular an ability to collate information from many different sources,
simplify and
structure it and then present it in a form which was easy to understand. P.I.P.S
is,
hopefully, a beneficiary of that approach.

I sold my publishing business in 1996 after a theft and the
loss of £330,000 – it
was a
very difficult time financially and frankly the only thing that kept my family
afloat was…
property!

For much of the last five years I’ve been running a
national Internet Marketing consultancy
with many blue chip clients. A major part of what I do is run training programmes,
which
have to be designed and written.

Today I have a diversified portfolio of business interests,
including property, which has
taken an important role. Why is this?

Well, I woke up on my 50th birthday and looked around. I’ve
had my ups and downs and to
be frank, was not where I wanted to be at this point. For the first time in
my life, I took a
good, hard look in the mirror.

And I came to some critical realisations:

1. I couldn’t rely on my
   business activities to provide either the income or the future financial
   security I wanted. They might, but then again they might not!
2. Even if my businesses delivered
   the money I needed, it was only at the expense of a huge investment of time.
   Not something to look forward to at 50+.
3. Every time my business activities
   had hit a difficult patch, it was my personal property investments that had
   carried me through.
4. Looking around at my friends,
   all the ones with ‘real’ money – and lots of ‘spare’
   time, had heavily invested in property.
5. My brother, who I had worked
   with in London during the 1980’s doing property development, had stayed
   involved in it and now had a very nice life with a passive income and frankly
   a much-reduced need to work.

And so I made the decision to start investing in property.
At age 50 I didn’t
have the luxury
of building a portfolio over 30 or 40 years. I needed a maximum time horizon
of 10 to 15
years. That meant moving fast – and so I have.

My personal style is to want to know as much as possible before
taking action. Not to the
extent of being paralysed by information overload, but I don’t feel comfortable
just diving
in.

I decided to surround myself with property millionaires – and
to pull out of them the inside
secrets, approaches, tips and strategies that had enabled them to build large,
even
enormous, portfolios.

That’s just what I did. As I started reading and pulling
information together I wondered why
I couldn’t just go and buy it somewhere. I read every book that I could
find in relation to
property investment. I subscribed to every newsletter, magazine and website.
I invested
literally thousands on weekend seminars. I dived in headfirst!

What I found was that everyone had something of value to offer.
But no one offered the
complete package. An A-Z system that would really take someone through a process
and
enable them to go out there and make money from property investment with confidence,
knowing they could evaluate and manage the risks as they went along.

And so P.I.P.S was born. What started out as a research project
for me became a
complete system to share with others. Is it perfect? Certainly not. But I do
believe, and
many others have confirmed this, that P.I.P.S is probably the most structured,
planned
and effective programme to teach you how to make money and build a growing
portfolio of
property in a relatively short time.

This is the UK’s leading property investment
home-study course. Check it out at http://www.property-investment-profits.co.uk.
If you want to build a portfolio fast, easily and with maximum profit then
you’ll find PIPS (Property Investment Profit System) invaluable.

Finding below market value property is difficult for many
people. Restrictions of time, travel capabililty, experience and more mean
that it’s difficult to translate the theory into reality. So you’ll
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