MMP206: How To Be A Landlord, with Rob Dix
The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When Rob Dix, one half of the Property Podcast duo Rob & Rob, approached me and asked if I would have him on to talk about his new book, How To Be A Landlord, I wanted to do it because I owe those guys quite a lot. But more than that, I knew Rob would bring amazing value to the thousands of you listening who are, or who aspire to be property investors.
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How To Be A Landlord
Rob raises an excellent point in my conversation with him that once you buy a rental property, you not only become a property investor, you also become a landlord. There’s loads of information on the former, but precious little on the latter, and Rob’s new book is aiming to fill that void.
In this week's value-packed show, you'll learn:
- Why adding property investing into your overall mix is a great idea, and why it might not be
- Why understanding your responsibilities as a landlord might make or break the success of your property investment
- How to go about finding tenants, and how to reference them correctly
- The importance of a good tenancy agreement
- How to have a happy relationship with your tenants
- How to deal effectively with things that go wrong
- The pros and cons of managing your property yourself or hiring a managing agent
- How to find a good agent if you opt for that route
Rob then suggests going through his checklist for all the above to make sure you're doing the right things. You can get the checklist by clicking that massive yellow button just below. See it? Yep, that one...
Resources
Firstly, there's the book itself, How To Be A Landlord, which you can get from Amazon by clicking the image to the left Podcast: Property Geek Website: Property Geek
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast session number 206. It's an in-between |
| 0:05.1 | so today. |
| 0:11.8 | This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. My name is Pete Matthew |
| 0:17.7 | and I'm going to share with you everything you need to know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm here to help you make sense of money. |
| 0:35.5 | Here we are once again, folks. |
| 0:37.1 | Great to have you with me as ever now many of you listening to me |
| 0:40.3 | right now found me and found meaningful money thanks to the genius of rob bents and rob dicks |
| 0:47.2 | founders of the property hub hosts of the property podcast which is the biggest business UK podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | Those guys were kind enough to give me a mention early on in the sort of meteoric rise |
| 1:00.3 | of their phenomenally popular show, and I've benefited from that ever since. |
| 1:04.5 | So when Rob Dix approached me and asked if I would have him on the show to talk about his new book, |
| 1:09.7 | which is called How to Be a Landlord, I obviously wanted to do it. I owe them so much, but far more than that, |
| 1:16.6 | I knew that Rob would bring incredible value to the thousands of you listening who either are |
| 1:21.5 | or who aspire to be property investors. So I'm excited to bring the conversation with Rob to you |
| 1:27.2 | today. After that, |
| 1:28.8 | obviously, I'll look at the most recent reviews that have been left, and now that we're going to be |
| 1:32.8 | talking about next time, usual stuff. Remember, though, before all that, this podcast is brought to you |
| 1:36.8 | with the help of my friends at seven investment management. They're a firm of investment managers |
| 1:41.0 | based in London, and they specialize in multi-asset investing, |
| 1:44.8 | which brings institutional investing techniques to ordinary people, just like you and me. |
| 1:49.5 | 7.m. have been sponsoring me, putting their name to the show here because they believe in what I'm doing, |
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