The HMO Podcast

Today I’m joined by Martin Gaine, a planning expert, and consultant and he’s going to share with us what we need to be doing, how we need to be approaching the applications that we put forward, and the risks that we need to be aware of. Martin clarified some of the really complicated and confusing issues around planning permission, Article 4 directions, and tons of other important information that we need as a HMO property investor. It’s one of the most valuable episodes yet that you shouldn’t miss.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 short, have a laugh at my expense as I recount my most (professionally) embarrassing story as a HMO business owner.  Whatever you do, don't do what I did 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! 

In today’s episode, I want to talk about what I learned from this year, a year shrouded with uncertainty, a year clouded by the difficulties and challenges that have always been staring us in the face, a year of spiraling cost, a year of difficulties getting hold of materials, a year of managing expectations of customers and tenants, and a year of knowing what tomorrow might look like.Join me as I look back and reflect on some of the successes, failures, and challenges this 2021.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!

This episode reminds me of the realities of being a business owner or HMO landlord. Everything was going so well when suddenly one of my HMOs had a major roof leak due to the storm! Let me share with you what exactly happened and hopefully prepare you for unforeseen circumstances like this.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 this episode, I am joined by Rosie Charles, the other half of ARCH Investments and we’re going to talk about how Rosie and Allan have utilised private finance really effectively to build their property business, the challenges of investing remotely, and how they did it effectively.Plus, we discussed a 12-bed professional HMO case study with an impressive 171% 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!

In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you an issue about my latest HMO purchase. I’m keen to get a completion ASAP because it’s tenanted and we’re ready but all of a sudden, there was a big issue but, let me share with you how I plan to resolve this. 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!

There are lots of things that we need to do before we move anybody into one of our HMO properties and in this episode, I’m going to share with you the seven most important things that you should do before the tenants move in.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’m going to quickly tell you about how we’ve managed to arrange so many viewings recently. But while I’m confident that we’re going to let most of these properties, some of them will ultimately drop out, which is inevitable so I’m going to share with you what we do when that happens.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 is the cost of bad interior design? Let’s talk about it with our guest, Raquel Aparicio of Mardesign. Raquel is an Architect and Interior Designer so we’re going to discuss why it’s important to prioritise interior design in your HMO properties and how to properly implement it to ensure ROI, long-term tenancies, and more.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!

Faversham Villas is our commercial to residential project with my business partner, Marc of Arcvelop. And in this episode, I’m going to give you some updates on the progress of this project.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!