Julie Talbot – Establish Rules to Live By

BIO: Julie Talbot is growing a UK property portfolio from Abu Dhabi, where she lives with her husband and twin daughters. She’s completed 25 property projects since 2017, and 2 of her rules are she doesn’t fly back to the UK, and her phone doesn’t ring. STORY: When Julie moved to Abu Dhabi, she assumed she couldn’t handle her property business in the UK from that many miles away, so she hired someone in the UK to do it for her. This person got her mixed up in a property price war that took 10 years to resolve. LEARNING: You’ve got all it takes to run a business from 4,000 miles away just as you would if you were 4 miles away; believe in yourself. If you want to seek advice, get it from an expert in that area, not a novice.   “Your perception is your reality.”Julie Talbot  Guest profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/julietalbot/ (Julie Talbot) is growing a UK property portfolio from Abu Dhabi, where she lives with her husband and twin daughters. She’s completed 25 property projects since 2017, and 2 of her rules are she doesn’t fly back to the UK, and her phone doesn’t ring. Download her Ebook https://mailchi.mp/d0cb08a41b8f/bootstrapyouukpropertybusiness (Expats Bootstrap Your UK Property Business) and learn 12 property secrets to help you grow and manage your property portfolio IN the UK whilst you are OUTSIDE the UK. Worst investment everIn 2009 Julie decided that she wanted to be a professional landlord. She did some training, worked with a coach, and bought a few houses quite quickly that year. The same year, Julie got married, and the couple decided to move overseas. Julie assumed that she couldn’t carry on buying houses as she had been doing it. She also thought that because she was thousands of miles away and couldn’t fly to the UK every time she needed to view a house, she would have to work with somebody on the ground to do stuff for her. Julie started working with someone who found her a property that matched her criteria. The property was a small block of flats, not her usual type of p