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How many apartments needed to be a full time landlord

I was having a chat a guy in a Charity Shop in Wimbledon. After taking about Brexit, he got onto the subject of a filthy rich Landlord with 80 properties. He said they should be limited to two.

In order to have a middle-class Brady bunch lifestyle here in London, and you have not yet bought any houses Yet, You need bear houses.

While writing this I got a good idea.
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  • toomsie
    toomsie Posts: 180 Forumite
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    I worked it out roughly. The yield of N6 London is around 2%. A typical aparment costs £600,000. 2% of 600,000 is £12,000. 12,000 x 85 gets you just over 1million pounds.
  • Hasbeen
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    toomsie wrote: »
    I was having a chat a guy in a Charity Shop in Wimbledon. After taking about Brexit, he got onto the subject of a filthy rich Landlord with 80 properties. He said they should be limited to two.

    In order to have a middle-class Brady bunch lifestyle here in London, and you have not yet bought any houses Yet, You need bear houses.

    While writing this I got a good idea.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simba-Dickie-109301032-Masha-Large-House/dp/B078BDNYGN/ref=asc_df_B078BDNYGN/?!!!!!googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310669125834&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10139614836510604355&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046904&hvtargid=pla-542738189475&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
    The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon
  • Hasbeen
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    toomsie wrote: »
    I worked it out roughly. The yield of N6 London is around 2%. A typical aparment costs £600,000. 2% of 600,000 is £12,000. 12,000 x 85 gets you just over 1million pounds.

    So you only need around 51 million to set up? LOL
    The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    toomsie wrote: »
    a middle-class Brady bunch lifestyle

    Sorry, your cultural references from the colonies are lost on us (the Brady Bunch was never broadcast here).
  • kingstreet
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    toomsie wrote: »
    I was having a chat a guy in a Charity Shop in Wimbledon. After taking about Brexit, he got onto the subject of a filthy rich Landlord with 80 properties. He said they should be limited to two.

    In order to have a middle-class Brady bunch lifestyle here in London, and you have not yet bought any houses Yet, You need bear houses.

    While writing this I got a good idea.
    "Bear houses?"

    I thought they mostly lived in caves?

    Although Rupert lives in a house and Pooh lives in a hollow tree trunk.

    Now, Womble houses. That's a different ball game!
    I am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    toomsie wrote: »

    While writing this I got a good idea.
    What was the good idea?


    (other than the bear house)
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    G_M wrote: »
    What was the good idea?


    (other than the bear house)
    he decided to go back to the :beer: but hadn't had enough :coffee: to make it a really good idea
  • csgohan4
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    I think he needs a good broker to do this
    "It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"

    G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP
  • Didn't the bear live in a big blue house....?
    in S 38 T 2 F 50
    out S 36 T 9 F 24 FF 4

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  • LilElvis
    LilElvis Posts: 5,835 Forumite
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    Sorry, your cultural references from the colonies are lost on us (the Brady Bunch was never broadcast here).

    It most certainly was broadcast in the UK as I remember watching it in the 70's. It was one of my favourite programmes, along with Banana Splits.
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