Rags To Riches

Alfie Best is the founder and Chairman of Wyldecrest Parks, the largest mobile home park provider with 90+ mobile home parks and 16,000+ residents across the UK. Trading since 2001, Wyldecrest Park is the only park home provider who is ISO9001 accredited.   The company has won numerous awards over the years including the 2018 Essex Business of the Year and more recently the Global Business Insights’ Park Home Operator of the year 2021 and 2022.  Alfie himself has been nominated for Entrepreneur of the year a number of times recently winning the accolade for the Business Influencer Magazine Awards 2021!  He also took part in the recent ITV programme Undercover Big Boss.

Charlotte Edwards is an ‘accidental’ property developer, turning tragedy into triumph as she rebuilt a family development business in just 18 months, with no prior knowledge or experience, yet managed to deliver the most profitable year since the business began 30 years ago.Charlotte’s story is both empowering and inspirational, more so as she has achieved all of this alongside being a single mum and during Covid. 

Amazon No.1 Best Selling Author of ‘How I Bought 3 London Properties For A Football Ticket’ & ‘Awaken Your Inner Hero Within 24 Hours’. 📚 🗞 Featured on 📣 ✅ MailOnline “Property Tycoon” ✅Buy Association “Property Mogul”✅Share Radio “Property Magnet & Expert”✅TimeOut London “Rags-to-Riches story began”🎬 Also appeared on: 📺 BBC, Sky News, iTV, 🗞 The Sunday Times, Mirror, The Negotiator, Property Investor Today, Landlord Today, 🎙 NewsTalk

This weeks podcast we take things outside of the U.K with Ryan Luke CEO of Luke Capital Group & Co-Founder at Peak Performance PropertyRyan's Bio:In September 2018 I decided to stop playing small and took the world of property serious. I was tired of long hours and an unbalanced life and I had no pension so I needed to create a business that would pay me without working too much. Long story short...Fast forward a year and I had acquired 21 properties in 7 months. Another year and the portfolio reached over 150 units with a mixture of leases, rentals, managed and owned and was worth 7 figures... 😱Starting with no real experience, no network and limited funds. I created a predictable, sustainable and scalable business on all fronts which continues to serve me and my clients to this very day as we continue to expand aggressively 🔥❇️ SA Property Specialist & Mentor🏘 Built 7 Figure (equity) Portfolio in less than 2 years 🏘 Control 100+ properties in UK & Dubai▶️ YouTube Property Channel 📚 Amazon Author 📸 10k+ Instagram followers🎙”How To…Property” Podcast Host🧰 Co Founder of Peak Performance Property 

Looking back over highlights from Episode 13 of Rag To Riches with Tom Smyth: 1000 Apartments, Worldwide businesses, Grant Cardone Licensee, how to take massive action in your life and grow in all areas of your life.

Staying very strong this week with Mark Shaw.What a legend Mark is, so fascinating. Another guest that I’m so pleased to have had the opportunity to chat with. Listen to how Mark went from invoicing parents for chores as child, to setting up an Estate Agency, to 37 property purchases in 9 months!! Get ready to learn about …The power of lease optionsCreative purchasing Wealth creation

Tom Smyth is the founder, managing director and owner of Dream Luxury Serviced Apartments. Who, in just four short years has grown Dream Apartments from a start-up company to Northern Ireland’s leading serviced-apartments provider with over 500 design-led apartments in major UK urban hubs, including Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester, Belfast and Middlesbrough & internationally in Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Sao Paulo - employing over 200 staff. Dream Apartments introduced a new concept in luxury, short-term accommodation and hospitality in Belfast, opened a new market sector and set the standards for serviced apartments. Dream Apartments is the realisation of Tom’s initial vision for changing the way people use and engage with the hospitality and short-term accommodation sector. Tom is a true example of a budding entrepreneur with a passion for business growth combined with giving back to his local community where possible. His growth on social media has been exponential, growing from 500 to 11.9k followers on Instagram in just under 6 months and reaching 6,000 followers on TikTok in under 3 months and one of his videos reaching 188,000 views. Tom’s infectious positive mental attitude has allowed him to grow his business to exponential levels within just four years of launching.Tom has an extremely positive mindset and outlook on life, and believes that if you take massive action, you can overcome any adversity or challenges. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Tom immediately began brainstorming solutions to overcome the devastating effects of this virus.  Much like the rest of the world, the coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted the hospitality industry and beyond. When the world went into lockdown, Tom and Dream Luxury Serviced Apartments had to think strategically and act fast. With leisure guests being put on pause, they had to focus their effort solely on corporate and business travellers. The occupancy levels stayed the same but with a different split as 100% of the travellers were now on business. According to our system operator, Dream Luxury Serviced Apartments were one of the two only serviced apartments company to survive the Covid-19 pandemic and the severe impacts of a lockdown.Dream had to completely restructure their business model and adapt to the market, facilitating the needs of only corporate clients in an uncharted climate. Growing from under 300 apartments to now over 500 apartments in a global pandemic is a huge achievement for Tom and the Dream brand. Securing deals with high profile companies for long term lets highlights not only how adaptable the Dream brand is, but also Tom’s tenacity and determination to deal with and overcome any situation he is faced with.With restrictions now easing and leisure guests resuming, Dream are now reaping in the benefits of housing both more corporate guests and a large number of leisure guests, being fully booked most weekends in all cities throughout the UK.Dream Luxury Serviced Apartments are now opening brand new luxury apartments in Dundee on the 1st November 2021. Dream’s expansion in Scotland is true example of how rapidly the company has grown in the last 4 years. Situated in the heart of Dundee’s West End, Dream Apartments offers spacious, amenity rich, self-catering apartments for both leisure & corporate guests to enjoy a home from home experience whilst travelling. Just a 7 minute drive from Dundee airport and a short distance from the train station, Dream Apartments Dundee is close to Dundee University, The V&A, Waterfront area, shops, bars and restaurants. Comprising 25 apartments, these 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units offer comfortable furnishings with scenic city & river views - some even have balconies! For those who wish to upgrade, a penthouse is also available.Our iconic ap

Looking back over highlights from Episode 11 of Rag To Riches with Immanuel Ezekiel: Over 100million purchased in 25yrs, Raising finance & increasing your financial IQ

Looking back over highlights from Episode 12 of Rag To Riches with Mike Aspinall - 6+ million in property, sourcing 20 deals per month, business & gratitude

Mike is founder of Northern Property Group. A group of businesses that completed on 148 property transactions for clients in the last 12 months, involving over 20 million pounds worth of property all across the northern power house.Mike is an ex professional rugby player and coach Mike moved into property and business for a more rounded life style and sees success as attempting to create abundance in all areas of life, health, wealth, love & happiness.