The Progressive Property Podcast Peter interviews Andy Hubbard Bricklayer to Property Developer
Welcome to another episode of the Progressive Property Podcast, in today’s episode your host Peter interviews professional investor and modular property developer Andy Hubbard. Learn about Andy’s inspiring story from brick-layer to Progressive Property VIP of the year 2017. Hear about how Andy has become an expert in commercial conversions and went from working over one hundred hours a week in his business, to managing multiple businesses, mentoring others and developing property in just a few hours every week.
Andy dives into his incredible journey and how he has been able to start, grow and scale a cashflowing property business starting with single lets and HMO’s too commercial developments of 34 plus offices and now, his latest project in modular housing, building ready-made homes in just 24 hours.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Andy attended Multiple Streams of Property Income in 2015, and it was a turning point in his life. Andy discovered the techniques to leverage, how to create passive income, the proven property strategies, the networking opportunities, and the unrivaled joint ventures partnerships progressive had to offer. Andy has now attended 25 Multiple Streams of Property Income Events and each time picks up new pieces of information.
- In 2015 Andy signed up for the Rob and Mark VIP mentoring programme, and also attended the Cayman legacy with progressive and it helped him gain clarity within his business. Andy understood the idea of systemising and leveraging, and before he knew it he was earning the same amount of money each week without working. Now a valuable joint venture partner Andy is mentored by Mark Homer and mentors others himself sharing his knowledge of the property industry.
- Andy now focuses on modular construction and has partnered with a factory to produce ready-built homes with the first development scheduled for completion on the 13th of August. The modular homes are all done in a quality controlled environment and what usually takes 10 weeks to do can be done in 24 hours.
BEST MOMENTS
“Was my own worst enemy and ended up doing everything in my business myself, I was working 100 hours a week”
“We want to do more and build our businesses but because we have an entrepreneurial mindset it’s hard to let others in and leverage out tasks”
“As long as people are doing 80% of the standard of work you’re looking for you can leverage out the tasks”
“Modular housing is a game-changer in the construction industry”
“I now personally mentor others, it’s the simplest way to becoming a developer”
“Your first development is the most important one”
CONTACT METHOD
Andy@bishopsgatedevelopments.co.uk
ABOUT THE HOST
Peter Jones is a Chartered Surveyor, an author and a serial buy-to-let property investor. He has been involved in property for over 35 years and now owns 78 letting units. He is still actively involved in buying and renovating property, and regularly flips properties for profit. Peter has written a number of successful property books. The first, An Insider’s Guide to Successful Property Investing, was first published in 2000 and was
one, if not the very first, book of its kind which was written for what we’d now call buy-to-let investors. On the back of its success he was invited to be a guest writer for Property Secrets, and wrote Spanish Property Secrets, French Property Secrets, and Portugal Property Secrets. He has since written a number of other successful titles dealing with UK investing including 63 Common Defects in Investment Property and How to Spot Them, the highly acclaimed The Successful Property Investor’s Strategy Workshop and The Property Renovator’s Workshop ,in which Peter describes step-by-step how he built his own property portfolio, starting with virtually none of his own money.