At some point, unless you take the right action, your investment money will run out. Through financing deals and scaling up, this is the reality of property investing. That is if you have a pot of cash to start with. If you have no money to invest, or even significant debt as a starting point, generating wealth from property may feel unobtainable. The real-world methods taught in our Creative Finance Advanced Course highlight more options than you think you have, plus ideas that go far beyond the expected. Allow us to introduce the course, the content and the people behind it.
About the Creative Finance Advanced Course
‘It is a forum where we are able to share and show people genuine ‘possibility’ thinking on how deals can be created and constructed.’ – Lindsay Hopkins
Creative Finance is just one course amongst a comprehensive collection of courses that make up our Advanced Training Programme. Each course is a detailed and immersive exploration of the subject to equip you with realistic and up-to-date tools with which to advance your property investing journey. The Creative Finance course itself can be considered fundamental knowledge and is taught by industry experts Mark Dalton and Lindsay Hopkins. Let us introduce you to them next.
Mark Dalton is living proof that you can start with less than nothing, in his case £80,000 worth of debt, and become not just a successful property investor but also a leading educator and mentor. Mark began his property investment education with Asset Academy in the early 2000’s. Since starting his journey, Mark has implemented his knowledge to go beyond achieving huge success through property investing by also educating over 45,000 people live.
Along with Mark, Lindsay Hopkins is an integral part of the Asset Academy team and has been a core part of the mentoring and coaching of countless successful students since creating the coaching programme in 2009. Lindsay brings his many years of experience in the key strategies of a property investor such as buy-to-lets, HMOs, flips, serviced accommodation and much more. Lindsay also brings his diversification of experience in both mortgage brokering and bridging finance. Between them, Mark and Lindsay have helped students to raise over £1 billion in angel finance.
The Course’s Key Concepts
The concept behind Creative Finance is that you are surrounded by more money than you probably realise, money that will help you to reach your goals. This course is designed to help you to understand how to access that money. The purpose of accessing this money is to create a winning situation for yourself, the seller, your tenants, your team and also your lenders – so that they want to lend to you again and again.
‘The goal is to genuinely give you a kick start into creative thinking on property deals using tried and tested strategies, which you have probably never considered before, to create a win-win-win for all parties….you, your angels and your tenants.’ – Lindsay Hopkins
Based on real-life examples, Mark and Lindsay take the students on a progressive rollercoaster of lightbulb moments, highlighting how a change in mindset can bring both confidence and results. Students learn that everything is a system, and if you follow the system you will achieve success. Having not just a plan in place, but the right plan in place will be crucial for achieving this success.
From getting out there to finding the opportunities that others miss, to proactively attracting funding and making sure you have the best team in place, every stage of the journey is covered. A prominent learning is that you do not need to know all the information, all you do need to know, is who to ask. However, it will be necessary to do the basics well, really well. The most successful investors are the ones who understand the fundamental skills, and become masters at them.
More than you bargained for
Students entering the course often come away with much more than they expected. A considerable element of Creative Finance and property investing as a whole, is the way you think and interact. Understanding yourself, your motivations and your personality will help you see where you need to put work in and how you need to improve. Understanding other people, their motivations and personality types will help you to see how you can help them, to achieve winning situations every time.
‘For anyone interested in using property to help build their financial security and wealth, training with Mark and Lindsay on the Creative Finance course will give you the knowledge, an abundance of new ideas, inspiration and personal guidance to make it happen. This is quite simply an excellent course which will help to transform your life. It’s also brilliant for raising new possibilities with just two simple words, ‘Just suppose‘. Do the course and you’ll learn how!’ – Trustpilot review
However, gathering all of the information, while giving the impression of progression, is worthless unless you implement it. Ultimately it all comes from within and this course is designed to build self-belief through insights, to take small steps towards success and above all stop procrastinating! Through understanding the multitude of finance possibilities that are available and thinking differently, anything can be possible. But action must be taken.
Taking action will be the biggest key to success, ask any successful investor. The commonly expressed takeaways from this course range from simply getting started, to communicating with angel investors, and from protecting portfolio cashflow, to learning how not to prejudge people. Taking the knowledge and putting it into practice, in the real world, will form the habits that lead to success. Hence, if you need some motivation or feel lost in a strange new and daunting world of property investing, our Creative Finance course could be a life-changing step in the right direction.
‘It’s a chance to encourage people to adopt a fresh and positive mindset, to really think about their property goals clearly and to craft a series of property success habits which will hold them in good stead for years to come.’ – Lindsay Hopkins
To find out more, get in touch or follow this link to the Advanced Training page.