OVER 9M PROPERTY INVESTMENTS, BUILDING OVER 80 WEBSITES, RUNNING A LETTING AGENCY..
Lea Beven is an entrepreneur with many experiences. Rags to riches to bankrupt and now something much more positive.
REAL INFORMATION FROM A REAL INVESTOR! Converted many H.M.O.s, completing over 100 property deals, owned over 40 properties, refurbished/developed 10. Most of the property investing Lea has done was no money down. Experiencing good and bad in property - making over 40k in some deals and loosing others to reposession.
Investing and refurbishing property since the age of 19, Lea Beven has learned many of the advantages and pitfalls in different types of investing. Lea advises based on her own experience and that of her close friends. Now owning and running a successful HMO consultancy and house share / lettings agency covering 4 counties she is fully experienced in HMO licencing and professional house shares.
Lea's property investments have so far included off plan, starter homes, student flats, student houses, inner city luxury penthouses, ex-local authority flats, large family homes in the suburbs and northern terraced properties.
As well as the many styles of properties Lea has owned and rented she has engaged in lots of styles of financing (more specifically 'no money down'). When Lea started investing, Buy to let mortgages were not widely known, and her initial portfolio was built using 100% residential mortgages (in a time when growth was fast). Once she had several of these, and buy to let was introduced, Lea wanted to still buy without putting money down, so found ways of doing more no money down deals. Most of the deals Lea has done have been creative and challenging and she has done back to back deals, selling on contracts, cash back deals, loan to value purchases.
Sourcing property was easy when Lea first started, finding deals with local agent in the times before lots of investors were knocking on their doors. As this became harder Lea turned to auctions and advertising - having some hugely successful purchases of 30% BMV. Her "needaquicksale" website brought in many deals and she sold the site to a fellow investor, when she started to get too many calls.
Lea's knowledge and contacts have been pulled together to make an incredible resource of free information for would be property investors here.
Lea now pursues her consultancy in property pitfalls and continues to gain experience.
Lea is a very exciting and resourceful person, who has an amazing positive energy and touches people's lives. Nearly always smiling and laughing she draws attention everywhere!
Writing a blog for her two local papers (Express and Star and Shropshire Star), appearing on ITV Tonight With Trevor & BBC several times, and regularly quoted in national and local newspapers, Lea (known as Daisy to some of her friends) loves attention, and makes herself available for interviews, events and filming whenever she can.
She was an army brat, went off to boarding school - putting a good peg in the ground for independence. She tried college, but could not get to grips with traditional learning and went on to pursue a caring career, working with people who had severe learning difficulties. During this time she tried a few different things - car booting, property investing and buying and selling cars - feeding her entrepreneurial spirits that seem to come from her father (and still does - thank you Dad!).
First married at 24, Lea found herself in a relationship haunted by domestic violence, and ended up with a severe back injury (though it does not now affect her day to day living). For 3 years Lea lost the ability to walk and put on a lot of weight. A pain management course (INPUT) put Lea back on track, managing the pain with no medication. Once active again and went down from a UK dress size 22 to a normal 12/14.
Lea used the course in a positive way, learning about stress management and applied this to every day life. She basically eliminated everything stressful in her life, and learned to handle events and people in a more relaxed way.
She now lives in Shifnal Manor, Shifnal, in the center of town with her professional housemates, taking an active part in the community when she can. More than anything now she would like to stay settled arround this area and invest time and energy into her carefully selected friends and supportive family - as they are more valuable than money!
Oh .... and just incase you wondered - she is single and happy!
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