Happy New Year everybody and welcome to the Property Podcast We Are Motivated. I hope you are too 2018 is going to be a good one. I can feel it in my bones and we are starting strong this year.

We are starting with what might be the most popular episode we do all year. We are starting with what might be the most popular episode we do all year.

Finally, we tackle tax. Yes, happy new year to you. Thank you for joining us once again. We're going to spare you our rendition of old Langsine and get straight into it because we've got so much to get through.

We're starting strongly.

We've got a great news story.

We've got a great resource of the week.

And as Rob said, we've got a great main topic with a very special guest where we're going

to be tackling the topics that you've been asking about for years.

Before all that though, this is not just the first episode of the year, it's also the first Thursday of the month.

What does that mean? You should know by now. It means

property hub meetups. It means more than 30 opportunities all around the

country to go and kick off your year by meeting friendly property investors, get

motivated, get advice, and generally get yourself going.

If you booked your place already, fantastic, I'm sure you'll have a great time.

If not, it's not too late as long as you are listening to this on the day it comes out, which

you always should. If that's the case, you just need to this on the day it comes out which you always should.

If that's the case you just need to get over to the Property Hub.

Net slash meetups book your place there completely free why wouldn't you?

Now normally the fact that meetups are happening tonight would be the most exciting thing

that we've got to talk about today but Rob today is not an ordinary day.

Today is not an ordinary day. Today is a very, very exciting day.

Yes, we are joined by Russell, Russell Smith,

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