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The Property Podcast

TPP315: Painful lessons and expensive mistakes: stories from our first development

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Property Podcast, Rob & Rob are getting personal. Property development is no easy task, and this week The Robs open up about everything that’s gone wrong, and what lessons can be learnt.   If you’re an avid Property Podcast listener, you’ll know that the development in Crewe is the first site to come out of the ground for Property Hub Homes. While they’d have liked for the process to have been a walk in the park, sometimes things just don’t go to plan. And whilst the finished result looks pretty darn amazing (if we do say so ourselves! - Rob B has shared some pictures on Instagram) there’s been a steep learning curve for all involved. So if you’re interested in diving into the world of property development, this is the podcast episode for you. Tune in to hear all about why they chose Crewe, what process they followed and also to find out what went wrong... In the news this week, it appears that tenants can now sue their landlord directly if their home is unfit for human habitation. However it isn’t half as bad as it sounds, as Rob & Rob explain on the podcast. Plus, there’s a strong argument in saying that if your property is in such a bad condition, should you really be a landlord in the first place? So a lot of lessons are to be learnt from this week’s Property Podcast. And although things could have been done very differently and had a different outcome, The Robs firmly believe that ‘if you can dream it, you can do it - Walt Disney’. We’d love to hear what you think of this week’s Property Podcast over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You might even have a topic you’d like us to cover in the future - if so, pop us a message on social and we’ll see what we can do. If that wasn’t enough, you can also join our friendly property community on the Property Hub forum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Rob B here with Rob D, and this week on the Property Podcast, we've got a story about

0:07.0

a developer whose project overran, came in quite late, and went so over budget that they made a loss. Oh and the developer was

0:16.4

us.

0:17.0

Thank you for joining us this week on the Property Podcast where every week

0:26.3

property investors come together to be informed and inspired. And today the

0:30.0

source of that information and hopefully that inspiration is our own failure.

0:34.3

This is going to be part confessional and part therapy session and is not going to be comfortable

0:38.4

for us to record. But there should be lots of lessons for you to come away with.

0:41.9

So it's time for our new story of the week.

0:45.0

And the headline Rob of this week's story reads,

0:48.0

Holmes Fitness Act allows tenants to sue landlords over property condition.

0:52.0

What's going on? Yeah, I thought I'd dig out a good news story. to sue landlords over property condition.

0:52.6

What's going on?

0:53.6

Yeah, I thought I'd dig out a good news story to get us going this week.

0:56.2

You can now be sued by your tenants.

0:57.8

Congratulations.

0:58.8

This actually sounds a lot worse than it is.

1:00.8

So this is a new law that means rather than having to go via the

1:04.2

council to report disrepair, tenants can now go directly to court and sue their

1:09.5

landlord if their home is unfit for human habitation.

1:13.0

Now opening up the possibility of being sued clearly is not a good thing,

1:17.0

but in reality this isn't such a big deal.

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