02 · Why
The short version.
My father ran businesses all his life and came to property late. Before he died in 2024 he told me he wished he had started sooner, and he was right. I had spent nearly twenty years running my own side businesses with the same intention and the same excuses, and had done the training more than a decade earlier without ever acting on any of it. That was the year I stopped putting it off.
What followed was two years of catching up properly: reading, courses, seminars and masterminds, and then the part that actually counts. Talking to agents. Viewing houses. Getting quotes from trades. Putting offers in, twenty four of them across 2025. I went and qualified as an independent estate agent so I could sit across the table from more sellers, more often.
Before property, I spent twenty years as a professional public servant, working with local people including the vulnerable, and alongside local authorities. It taught me how to sit with somebody on the worst day of their year and be useful rather than in the way. That turns out to be most of this job.
The rest of me is practical. My wife and I did up the first houses we lived in, while living in them. I am an amateur blacksmith.
I like work that leaves something solid behind. That is most of why property, and not something easier to scale.
