It is fascinating to read through what others have achieved. I have perused somersoft for a very long time but this is the first time I thought to register. I wish I had the opportunity to have some of you as mentors, as my family will be coming in to a situation of significant financial gain very shortly. I am young (23) and my father is semi-retired, he is very similar to a lot of you but was financially independent at an age of around 48. He chose to continue working however, albeit he did not hold a formal job.
I always considered the somersoft community as a great resource for learning how to passively invest in property, however I will have the opportunity to more actively invest and try and manufacture growth shortly (ie. development). I would absolutely love to chat to some of you further, particularly those that have gone in to development. I am so naive to many different things and I could really use some help from others much more informed and experienced than I in the future!
I am lucky that I have some basic understandings of how development works, part of the reason why my family and I will have a huge injection of capital to use soon is because of clever investments my father has made. He also comes from a trade background and is no stranger to what we'll be doing. He is going to be guiding, teaching and helping me a lot in the future but is he is still quite limited with what he knows. He has committed to helping me and what I will be doing will definitely be helping the entire family as well.
I'd love to learn from some of you, please let me know if I may personal message for further discussion!