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The Property Podcast

ASK77: What if interest rates spike? PLUS: Is there a case for investing in retirement homes?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

Business News, News, Business, Education, Investing

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It's time for another couple of questions in this week's edition of 'Ask Rob & Rob'. This week's questions come from two listeners who... ...ask Rob & Rob... What if interest rates spike? PLUS: Is there a case for investing in retirement homes? The Robs give their take on these topics. What do you think? Head over to the forum to discuss. ASK YOUR OWN QUESTION TO ROB & ROB! Don't be shy! All you need to do is leave a message with your name and whatever's on your mind. Just pick up the phone and call 013 808 00035 (normal UK call rates apply). Or if you prefer, click here to leave a recording via your computer instead.   NEED MORE ANSWERS? The Property Hub Summit is the place to get all your questions personally answered by Rob & Rob, and build a network of other smart, motivated investors. Over the course of a full day at a swanky hotel we'll help you set your goals, form a plan to get you there, overcome your obstacles, and give you the support system you need to make sure nothing gets in your way. Just don't hang around - there are only four Summits each year, and just 16 places available at each! Interested? Click here to find out more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Rob. And I'm Rob. And this is Ask Rob and Rob.

0:07.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to Ask Rob and Rob where you ask us questions and we give

0:14.8

you answers and believe it or not the former has not changed but the questions have you

0:18.7

be pleased to know and we've got some great questions in this week.

0:22.0

So if you've listed to the show for a while and you've had your own

0:24.6

questions you're probably thinking hmm how do I do that? Well in case we've never mentioned it before it's really easy and you've got more

0:30.6

than one way of doing it. Two in fact, first way is to call 013- 808 AAA-O-3-3-35.

0:37.0

That's 01-8-O-3-O-3-5 and leave us a voicemail.

0:41.0

Or you can leave us a voicemail via your computer instead by going to the

0:46.0

property hub dot net slash ask a sk that's what our first questioner did this

0:51.8

week he was too bashful to leave us his name but

0:53.8

thankfully he had a great question. Let's have a lesson.

0:56.0

Hi Rob and Rob, love the show by the way. I think it's really, really good.

0:59.7

I have a question about interest rates if you don't mind answering.

1:03.2

Now I know that when entering into a deal if you analyze the numbers and they all stack up

1:07.8

then you minimize the risk. However the only thing I can't control is interest rates.

1:12.4

I always stress test my potential deals up to the only

1:13.4

I can't control is interest rates. I always stress test my potential deals up to about 7 or 8

1:15.8

percent but if it went higher than this I wouldn't be able to sustain the

1:19.2

mortgage payments for very long.

1:21.7

Being 32 years of age I've never really known interest rates to be very high but I do

1:26.3

know that in the past interest rates have been as high as 15%. If I'm leveraged with

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