PLEASE NOTE: The old edition of SPLAM has now been discontinued. The BRAND NEW enlarged and revised edition will be released in approximately 10 days. Please check back in a few days. Thanks so much THE SPLAM! Successful Property Letting And Management Ever wanted to start your own property business, but didn't have the necessary capital? Ever wanted to start your own property business but didn't have the necessary expertise? Ever had a yen to get into property but didn't know where to start?    Well now you can, and it will amaze you how little capital it takes to begin   SPLAM! is a new book written by someone who has many years experience in property management, lettings, rentals, refurbishment and sales. It is written in an easy to read and follow style, and it starts right at the beginning in that it assumes that you don't own any properties, and don't have much idea where to begin. It opens with selecting the right premises for your operation, it progresses to preparing your advertising and business launch. After that there is a good section on gaining property instructions, and the places you can go where you can find properties. You don't need a great deal of seed capital to start your business, and you don't need deposits to buy your own property at the outset. SPLAM! will point you in the right direction to where you can obtain property. But it will always have one eye on accruing the necessary deposits in order that YOU can obtain and ultimately own your own property portfolio. As it says in the book, you don't want to find yourself ten years down the line and still be representing a hundred wealthy landlords. You should aim to become one of those wealthy landlords yourself! It will show you how to go about locating landlords, it will advise you how best to gain those vital instructions, it will supply you with an important list of things to do, and just as critically, things not to do. It explains how to best deal with tenants, and especially bad tenants, because you will surely come across many of those as your business  progresses. It will show you what kind of tenancy agreement to use, and just as importantly, what tenancy agreements you should avoid at all costs! There are plenty of icy crevasses out there just waiting to swallow up the unwary property person! SPLAM! will do its utmost to steer you clear! SPLAM! is more than 240 pages in length, and is perfect bound, if you opt to buy the hard copy. It is NOT an e-book sold by millions of agents, but a fully copyrighted ISBN listed book now available on the internet and through bookshops everywhere. You can proceed to ordering a copy right now if you want to make an early start, by clicking the button below.   If in difficulty please click on www.lulu.com/dc   You want some more information, right?   So what else do you get for your hard earned bucks? There's a section on setting up your acounts and payments. How to collect rent, and almost as importantly, how NOT to collect rent. There's a chunk on referencing tenants, including hints and tips on how you can become an expert in sniffing out those bad tenants who should be living in your competitors' homes, not yours! There's a big piece on how to value properties and how to explain to your property owners how you have reached your valuations. This is not dificult and you don't need lots of qualifications to do it.  There's information on how you can increase your fees without ever increasing your prices, and how you can score successes over your competitors, even the longest most established companies in your area.   Would you like to read some actual text?    That seems a reasonable suggestion, here follows some actual word-for-word clips:   …I liken the property industry to the planet Jupiter. Huge and cloudy, swirling, forever changing, always on the move, magnificent and mysterious. You will never know all there is to know about property, no one does, and no one ever will….     …Wooing The Landlord Animal: Landlords can be likened to the animals of the African plain; they come in all shapes and sizes, colours, ages and temperament. In the old days landlords were pigeonholed into a stereotype of a late middle-aged man with a beard and grasping hands. I suspect that was never the case, and it certainly isn’t now. Your landlord is more likely to be an attractive professional woman in her twenties, or a whiz kid businessman in his thirties…..     …Troublesome tenants come in six fishy flavours. The rowdy snappy piranha, who upsets the neighbours. The disappointing dogfish, who does a runner. The sprat who can’t or won’t pay the rent. The destroyer shark who damages or wrecks the place, the moaning marling who will find fault with everything, and lastly, the barnacle, who downs anchors and refuses to move….      We hope those short clips give you a little taster of the easy reading style that it has been written in. It aint stuffy! And it aint boring!   ...And here's what Tom Potter of Norfolk had to say about the book after he bought a copy:   I bought your Ebook, SPLAM! yesterday, and have nearly finished reading it. It is a GREAT resource.   So good in fact that I am wondering whether I now need to purchase a course for 600 pounds from XXXXXXXXX Properties which advertises itself as a complete start-up 'no strings attached' package.   Your book is dramatically cheaper and may well cover a very similar range and depth of topics.   Thanks for that Tom, we are very pleased you liked it, and thought it good value for money.     So where does it go from there?   The book encourages you to raise your own deposits in order that you can become the landlord, rather than just act for others. Once you have done that, it will open a whole new world to you, bringing in new and exciting revenue streams. Such as refurbishing property for rental and ultimately, for resale.  From there, there is a section on developing into Real Estate Agency, it's an option you have, and the pros and cons for doing so are thoroughly explored.   So how much do you think such a publication is going to cost you? 240+ pages of interesting reading, ideas and suggestions especially written by someone who has spent many years operating just such a business. What would you think?  99.95? That wouldn't be unreasonable would it? Or may be 49.95 or 29.95? No, the fact is, SPLAM! costs a lot less than that. But before we reveal the real actual price, consider this:   You could buy a property lettings, or estate agency package that could cost you up to and over 50,000, more in some cases. Now we are not suggessting that you will find in SPLAM! all the expertise and goodies you would undoubtedly receive in some of those packages, but you could and would be in a position to start your very own property business once you have thoroughly digested the cointents of SPLAM! So our question is this. Why not buy SPLAM! first? Why not buy SPLAM! anyway? You might find that you really don't need to fork out all that cash on a huge agency package, and if you did that, you could save yourself a lot of money and use that 50,000 cash figure, or whatever it is, on deposits for your very own property portfolio. Surely that would be a more reasonable and cost effective idea for the future, don't you think?   OK, so you want the actual price of SPLAM! We won't keep you waiting any longer. It is available in two forms. A downloaded version directly to your computer, (If you buy the download version, you could be tucking into SPLAM! with your dinner, in ten minutes time! How does that appeal?)   Or if you are like me, and prefer a hardcopy version in your hand, a book that you can take with you and read at your leisure, in bed, on the beach, in the bath, wherever life takes you, you can choose that option instead. SPLAM! is 9" x 6" in size, and contains 244 pages in the the current edition. So here are the prices:   United States & Rest of the World: Download Version:  $13.53 United States & Rest of the World:  Hardcopy Version:  $22.95 United Kingdom: Download Version:  pounds sterling        7.39 ** United Kingdom: Download Version:  pounds sterling       12.55 **     **  Please note these prices could vary fractionally due to currency fluctuations. Convinced? We hope so. Like to order a copy?  Great! Then please click here now:           If a difficulty, please click here: www.lulu.com/dc   Still not convinced?  You still want more details? Fair enough Where else could you buy a publication like this, a book that will guide you through the property minefield from just $13.53 or pounds sterling, 7.39? We don't know of anywhere. If you do, we'd like to hear about it. But regardless of that, what else could you expect to find within those 244 pages? There's a trade directory for a start that lists dozens of useful contacts. There's a glossary of property terms, there's a rental conversion chart, there's a large section on local authority rent payments,  there's a good piece about staying within the law, a section on serving notices on tenants when you need to recover properties, a lot about publicising your business on the web, and about setting up your own internet site(s), and a great deal more besides. So if you want to start your own property business, perhaps from home initially, because this business can most certainly be run from your own home, if you want to improve the returns on properties you may already have, if you want to develop into estate agency, property development, property maintenance, or simply just want to become a property dealer, buying and selling residential property, there is something in there for you too. SPLAM! will pay for itself many times over, and for that reason alone, it is a good buy. If you are interested in the world of property, you should get hold of a copy of SPLAM!  SPLAM! - Successful Property Letting And Management is available now. If you prefer to order from your local bookstore please feel free to do so. The ISBN number is 1-4116-3444-6. The author's name is David Carter. SPLAM! is strictly copyrighted by the publisher and the author. It is NOT available for reprint or resale. Please do not confuse SPLAM! with cheap throwaway e-books. There is no such thing as reprint rights on this publication. Well that's about it! We hope you come onboard. In any event, good luck to you with all your future property enterprises. We sincerely wish you every success.   United Kingdom: Download Copy:  Pounds sterling    7.39 United Kingdom: Hard copy:         Pounds sterling   12.55 Unitee States and the rest of the World: Download copy:  $13.53 United States and the rest of the World: Hardcopy:  $22.95 You can even pay in Euros now, if you prefer that way    If a difficulty please click here: www.lulu.com/dc   Alternatively you can now send a cheque or postal order if you live in Great Britain or Ireland. Please send a cheque made payable to TrackerDog Media for £14.50 (£12.55 + £1.95 post and packing) to TrackerDog Media, 118 Ringwood Road, Walkford, Christchurch,  Dorset BH23 5RF    Email:  supalife@aol.com   SPLAM! Successful Property Letting And Management is the copyright of  TrackerDog Media and David Carter 2005/2006  It may not be reproduced in any form without the strict permission of the publishers. Email: supalife@aol.com Short passages may be quoted in reviews.