Show Notes
Samantha Collett is a successful property investor with a large investment portfolio spanning the UK. She started in 2004 with £15,000 and within three years had amassed a multi-million pound portfolio.
Samantha is the author of How to Buy Property at Auction (Constable & Robinson, March 2014) and Property Investment: The Essential Rules (Constable & Robinson, July: 2014). She regularly shares her property auction tips in her column for the Evening Standard Homes & Property, the Estates Gazette and her multi-award winning blog What Sam Saw Today, which has also been featured in The Telegraph Top 10 property blogs.
Samantha founded and later sold Gorgeous Homes, a property lettings business, and is an award winner of the prestigious NLA Women in Property. Samantha’s bubbly personality, passion for property and straight-talking approach has won her legions of fans.
Also in the show
Why Sam believes having soft interpersonal skills plus mind can help bridge any skill gaps you may have to catapult your success.
Hear How the combination of university subjects have been Sam’s core assets in building her personal brands and business throughout her career.
Listen to Sam explain how a random thought popped into her head one Saturday afternoon and she decided to become a property developer on the spot, armed with a small severance payout of 15k and “Zero know how”, she hits the ground running buying property from auctions.
Discover how her love of writing and an unrelated set events helped her get featured in national press and become a published author of two books “How to Buy Property at Auction” And “Property Investment: The Essential Rules”.
The 5 big lessons you can learn from Sam’s biggest failure in business (she bares all In this section of the podcast).
Duplicate Sam’s non regimental style of keeping herself motivated with what we term the “post it note strategy”. This is so easy to put into action with remarkable upside benefits.
Success Quote “Am I having Fun” Recommend Books The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Author) How to Buy Property at Auction by Samantha Collett (Constable & Robinson, March 2014) Property Investment: The Essential Rules by Samantha Collett (Constable & Robinson, July: 2014). Connect Website – www.whatsamsawtoday.com Twitter – @whatsamsawtoday LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/samanthacollett YouTube – youtube.com/user/whatsamsaw Facebook – facebook.com/whatsamsawtoday