Commercial Property Investor Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, we're pulling back the curtain on a nail-biting two-year journey that tested my resolve, creativity, and sanity...

Yep, it's the one you've been waiting for; our refinance.

We dive into:

• Our journey refinancing millions of £££s in loans 💸
• My financial wish list vs. reality check ✅
• The CFADS conundrum and why it sent us searching for new lenders 🔍

But it's not all number-crunching! We also share:

• Surviving the emotional rollercoaster of endless loan extensions 🎢
• Maintaining (or not maintaining) sanity under pressure 🧠
• The hidden toll on family life and creativity 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
• Nuggets of wisdom for fellow property investors navigating choppy financial waters.

This journey was by far one of the most challenging experiences of my business career to date. But we got what we wanted in the end, learned invaluable lessons along the way and now we're passing that knowledge on to you.

We hope this story resonates with you, whether you're facing similar challenges or just curious about the realities of property investment. If any part of this episode strikes a chord, we'd love to hear from you.

After all, we're all in this to grow, learn, and succeed. 🚀💪

JOIN THE NETWORK If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property, why not consider joining the CPI Network? We're a community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences, and empower each other in our Commercial Property endeavours.

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CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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In this episode, Megan and I dive into a candid conversation about the key lessons we've learned over the past 18 months while managing our commercial property portfolio. And trust me, there’s been a lot to navigate.

Here’s what we discuss:

• Developing a healthy scepticism towards promises made by professionals (contractors, lawyers, accountants) and the importance of thorough due diligence 🥸🔍
• The benefits of focus - knowing when to put projects "on ice" to concentrate on top priorities, rather than trying to juggle too much
• Recognising when to bring in outside help, even if it feels challenging, in order to overcome personal roadblocks more efficiently.
• Understanding the nuances of balancing a desire for premium service/experience with financial realities and maintaining healthy margins.

As they say, every day is a school day… and that couldn’t be more true here 😅.

We hope you enjoy this honest conversation! Our goal with these episodes is to share the real-world challenges and insights we encounter day to day, believing that our transparency can help others on their own paths. So if there’s a topic you’d like us to explore - whether it’s property, business strategy, or personal growth - let us know. We'd love to hear from you.

JOIN THE NETWORK If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property, why not consider joining the CPI Network? We're a community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences, and empower each other in our Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

Our Sponsors - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

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Once upon a time, back in 2004, while Google was busy revolutionising email storage and Mark Zuckerberg was blissfully unaware of the social media titan he was creating, I stumbled into my very first commercial property deal.

Fast forward 20 years, and while I’m no Facebook expert 😅 I do have a pretty good grasp on commercial property investing. So, I thought, what better way to celebrate the past two decades than by sharing my learnings with all of you?

All jokes aside, this list might be one of the most important episodes I've done to date. It’s packed with things I wish I knew before getting started in commercial property.

Now, I'm not claiming to have all the answers. Even after all this time in the industry, I’m still learning too. In fact, some of these insights are fairly fresh epiphanies. However, they do all stem from years of real life experience and countless encounters - and some of them, just like point number 2 from my list, are just my professional opinion 😉

So, without giving away too much more, I hope you find this episode useful! Make sure you hit that play button and soak in some of my hard-earned lessons from over the years.

Let's dive in...

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Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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"Can I buy a CMO building as my first Commercial Property Investment?" is an often asked and fair question. When getting started it can be difficult to work out what size and type of commercial building to buy. 

It depends on the individual and their circumstances and lets not forget CMO buildings come in all shapes and sizes. Some can contain as little as two or three units.

In this episode Jerry reaffirms what a CMO building is and the different forms it can take. He then asks how passive or active an investor you wish to be and explains a couple of different elements you might require when getting started in this great cash-flowing strategy.

Our first & second commercial investments were multilet office buildings and yours can be too, if that fits with your investment criteria. 

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JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

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Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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As we all know, Investing in commercial property can be really rewarding, but it's not without its challenges. If you're new to the game we want to make you aware of the common mistakes that can lead to failure and how to avoid them.

By highlighting some of the pitfalls we hope this will help you to avoid them. Making one of these mistakes might not be fatal but two or more could be terminal for your investing business.

We hope you enjoy and find value from this episode.

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JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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Continuing our Back to Basics series, this week Jerry talk's through how much deposit you will need for a commercial property purchase and some of the factors that influence it. 

JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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"How do you add value to commercial property?"

People always seem to answer it a bit flippantly: "Just find a commercial property, buy it, add value and enjoy the uplift." Easier said than done!

So how do you really add value? Well, there are actually lots of different methods and in this podcast Jerry shares 14 different ways to add value to Commercial Real estate, under 3 distinct headings:

1. Increase the rent
2. Improve the leasing agreement
3. Adding value through physical property changes.

We will provide the list on a PDF, just follow the link to register for the free download.

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JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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Following on from the 1st Back to basics podcast, it's time to look at what to do with your commercial property after purchase.

Securing an investment is only part of the equation. In this short episode I talk about some of the strategic steps that you will need to take post purchase to ensure success. Commercial property isn't that complicated, it is just a series of manoeuvres. Just make sure you don't leave any out. 

1. Get the property under management
2. Plan and execute any redevelopment work
3. Find tenants
4. Set the Rent
5. Keep good records on market data, sales leads and accounts. 
6. Plan for the future
7. Review & update contracts regularly
8. Refinance or sell the property

JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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Dean Booty joins us for part two of our recent interview. In this session we discuss the business of self storage. How can you scale a self storage business and some of the things you need in place to make it successful. 

Lots of great detail can be found in this installment for those of you who want to scale your self storage business. 

It is always a good idea to learn from the mistakes and wins of others to speed up your own progress. 

Dean's contact details:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanbooty/

https://www.mrselfstorage.com/

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A huge thank you to Willbox who are sponsoring this Container Storage mini series 👏

They are currently offering all podcast listeners a free bespoke site drawing showing optimal storage layout. Simply quote CPI NETWORK when you get in touch directly. 

JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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Welcome to a smaller bite sized CPI episode which is all about getting Back to Basics. The audience for the CPI Podcast is growing and we are very grateful for that, but some of our newer listeners have said they want to easily access more fundamental content to help them get up to speed with the Commercial market more quickly.

Today's episode is focused on providing you with 7 steps on how to start investing in Commercial Real Estate. 

1. Identify your investment goals
2. Research the market
3. Build a team of professionals
4. Identify potential properties
5. Secure funding
6. Due Diligence
7. Making an offer & getting the deal over the line

Our new shorter episodes will be focused on covering the basics and will be easily identifiable for those who wish to brush up on the fundamentals. Thursday episodes are going to continue being indepth interviews and more specific topic dives.

Coupled with the Back to Basics episodes we have a great new search tool on the CPI website so you can type in a topic that you would like to hear more about and it will present all the episodes that include that subject. So for instance if you are interested in SSAS pensions and carry out a search on that subject area, a list of at least 3 SSAS specific episodes will be presented to you. Here is the link.  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast/

We hope you like our new short episodes. If you have any topics you would like to be covered then let us know. 

JOIN THE NETWORK

If you want to learn more about investing in Commercial Property why not consider joining the CPI Network? A community of active investors who collaborate, share experiences and empower each other in their Commercial Property endeavours.

Useful Links:

CPI Website - https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/
Our Sponsors -  https://commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/podcast-sponsors/

Property Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Strategies, CMO, Lease, Licence Agreement, Cashflow, Vacancy rates, Agents, Best Commercial property podcast, how to buy, Valuations, ROI, residential, assets, Flexspace, office space, How to get started: https://www.commercialpropertyinvestor.co.uk/

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