The HMO Podcast

There’s no doubt that the running energy costs of your HMOs have gone up. So you might be wondering, what do you need to do and how will this affect the future of your HMOs?Realistically, there’s not a lot we can do about the rising energy costs but we can definitely put some mechanisms in place to help reduce consumption by managing the use of utilities wherever possible. So in this short episode, I’m sharing with you this simple solution that we use to manage energy costs.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

Do you know the lifetime performance of your HMO deals? In this episode, we’re going to look through the archives and, analyse one of my HMO deals. Doing this exercise will help you plan ahead and make an informed decision on how you will analyse your future deals.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

Are you managing your tenants on WhatsApp? Well, if you are then I bet you feel like you can never switch off and I bet you're cursing investing in HMOs in the first place. I remember what it was like and it’s really hard work but don’t worry, there are other ways of doing this. So in this episode, I’m going to talk about the problems that we had using WhatsApp and discuss some of the alternatives.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

In today’s episode, I am joined by Ellie Broadhurst - an expert and a specialist in HMO mortgage and finance solutions. I’m going to ask Ellie about one important question that we all want to know the answer to, the million-dollar question - How do I know what commercial valuation my HMO is going to have? Find out in today’s episode.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

It’s our 100th episode but today I’d like to share some of the frustrating and exciting stuff that is happening across all my businesses, which are all part of being a property investor.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

What does it mean to become an expert and why is it important as a HMO investor? In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about what we need to know to consider ourselves as experts in our field and in the locations that we’re investing in. I’m going to share 10 things that if we master, we can then consider ourselves as experts in our field.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

As you know, I’ve been investing in HMOs for over a decade now and I’ve been to a lot of property networking and training myself. However, in my opinion, the property training industry is broken - people with very little credibility and actual real-life experiences are selling expensive courses.So in this episode, I’ll share with you my journey in building The HMO Roadmap to help you start without getting you out of pocket.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

In today’s episode, we are joined by Sarah Watt, the other half of Alt Street Property.Sarah and her husband Andrew were Australians who came to the UK in 2016 with seven years of experience in the Australian property market doing buy to lets and flips.And in this episode, Sarah shared how they started HMO investing in the UK, what she likes and hates about HMO, the challenges of building a portfolio as a non-dom, choosing the right tenants, and more. Plus, Sarah discussed a 6-bed Professional HMO case study with a 65% ROCE.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

One of the things that I noticed from my mentees and the HMO community, is they rarely have a business plan. And this surprises me because business plans are so useful. In fact, I have a business plan for every business that I want to start.So in today’s episode, I’m going to share the 10 reasons why you must have a business plan.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates! 

One of the best ways to develop your knowledge, skills, and experience when it comes to investing in HMOs is to learn from other people who have already done what you want to do. And that’s why case studies are such a powerful learning tool. So in this episode, I’m going to talk about 7 incredible case studies that members of our HMO community have done for you to learn from and help you build a better HMO property business.Got any questions? Ask us in The HMO Community Facebook Group or become a member at The HMO Roadmap to help you start, scale, and systemise your HMO business. You can also follow me on Instagram @andygraham.hmo or follow The HMO Podcast on Facebook for more updates!