Yearly Archives: 2009

How to get tenants into your rental property fast


posted in Articles, Business Basics

Landlords know that the worst thing that can happen with their rental is that it’s void for any length of time. But what do you do when you’ve repaired, redecorated, refurbished, done all the right things, and it STILL isn’t letting? You have one final trick up your sleeve.

This happened to me just recently with one of my properties. I was living many miles away, and couldn’t just pop over to see for myself why it might not be renting.

The previous tenant had done a bunk, and although I’d done all the right things, and put it with different agents, placed ads myself, nothing was happening. A few viewings but no takers. I really couldn’t understand this, and with a lot of money going out each (more...)

5 steps to get tenants into your property when the usual methods haven’t worked


posted in Articles, Business Basics

A landlord’s nightmare — one of my properties had been empty for months. The previous tenant had done a bunk, and although I’d done all the right things, refurbished, and redecorated inside and out in neutral colours, put it with different agents, placed ads myself, nothing was happening. A few viewings but no takers. I really couldn’t understand this, and with £300 going out each month on the mortgage, this was just not OK.

Finally, I was prompted into taking inner action by a close friend, who said ‘You have to love that house Jane! At the moment, you’re hating it, resenting it, and wishing you hadn’t bought it. That won’t work.’

She was right, and I just hadn’t realised it. That day I created a picture of the (more...)

Knowing your business


posted in Business Basics, Heart of RichThinking

Mmm. Nothing like a marketing conference to make you realise you have to be really clear about the message you want to put across…

I learnt some great things on this conference, was in a high state of excitement for 3 days and then crash — down I came the morning after it finished. Why? Because a little question infiltrated itself into my mind ‘What if it doesn’t work?’.

That little comment from my critical part inside then was with me for a while that morning, until I realised it’s value, which is to make me be really clear about what I want RichThinkers to be offering. This is a work in progress, by the way, so watch out for more news in this.

So the moral of this little (more...)

Radiance Requires Retreat


posted in Articles

When you are around someone whom you describe as radiant, you’re basking in their apparent light. You are in the presence of someone who is ‘beaming with hope or joy or love’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). It is often very nourishing, and you may find yourself wanting to rub up against that person, perhaps hoping some of their radiance will spill over onto you. So how do you become radiant yourself, and what effect does it have on your business?

Radiance – I’ve defined it above, although another meaning in this context is ‘emitting rays of light’. And that is what someone who is being radiant appears to be doing, shining light everywhere they go. When light is shone, areas of darkness are shown to us. So anything (more...)

Marketing Magic


posted in Jane's Blog

It’s the end of the second day at the marketing conference I’m attending in Belfast, and wow! am I having a good time!

It’s 9.30pm on Friday evening, and I could be out with the new friends I’ve made, socialising, networking, but instead here I am all fired up about blogging and the new product idea that just came to me in the lobby of the Hilton, half an hour ago. I just couldn’t join the others, I had to come back to my computer and put some thoughts down on paper! Sad or what! But watch this space as I get clear about the next steps I’m taking in developing RichThinkers; it’s going to be exciting!

Tip: if you go to conferences, seminars of any kind, take (more...)

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