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Aegon pensions who have managed to lose a lot of my money invested even though I put the most into one of the better performing plans it seems that it is on a downward spiral dropped about 6 percent since thursday and around 10 percent this year so far am now working on a plan D if it comes off will have property rental income as a far more secure retirement plan

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Watching TV it looks like you need 20 BTL's cos about 5 will lose money, 5 will break even, 5 will do OK and 5 very well, allow £5000 for repairs when bad tenants leave and its all on paper so HMRC will be most attentive, at least the High Court Sherrifs get the properties back after 9 months of unpaid rent and a £5000 legal bill

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Even if you break even on rental/repairs, property has always risen in value.....it is a win win win situation if you bought wisely.

I had a guy in the back of the cab some years ago and we were speaking about pensions! My own version was that I would never (having dipped my toes in the water) ever again buy a private pension, as in those days once you died, your hard earned contributions disappeared and your dependents got nothing. I went on to say that I would plough any money that I had into property as a retirement plan.

As we were talking I asked him (if he did not mind) what he did for a living? He came back with "I am a pension advisor" and went onto say that everything that I had said was true, then going onto say that although he had a company pension, he was also investing in property. Unfortunately (his version) as it was his job he had to sell pension plans, basically bigging them up to earn commissions.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

spread betting.............not just one plan..

a workmate was a "toby jug" fanatic, he had all the best known (the Winston Church jug being the holy grail) and said...."when i retire i can toddle off down the dealers or markets and get £100/£200 in cash, no paperwork, no banks"

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I have been watching a number of programmes along a similar vein! The problem for me is two things 1. I do not/would not really know what I was buying 2. As you say "£100/£200" is a large margin ( no one seems to actually know a given price), on that unless you are buying say a real antique/vintage vehicle then it is only people like your mate (who specialises) who might make some money. On that he is not overly accurate, but I do appreciate where he is coming from.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

believe it or not there is a "Glass's" type guide for the proper item

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you cant go wrong with gold

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

you could be right safest haven for it at the moment by the way the property i would be renting out has zero mortgage the property i am buying will only have 65K mortgage over 16 years which hopefully I can reduce to 12 or 13 by using rental income to pay off then should have £800 a month plus rental income plus a small private pension and whatever we will be getting by then from government which will probably be next to nowt

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Brexit effect on gold

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People who think 48.1% is a majority.

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IDFIMH

Scottish MP's (female) who arent "glory hunting" but want to meet with EU officials (NOW) to discuss membership of the EU after the UK leave, and she isnt a back stabbing bitch either.....much

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and Gibralter !!

the thing is can you blame the rats for leaving the sinking ship

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Spain wants it back, and seeing as how Gib voted 96% in favour of Europe, they can go....bye Gib!

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By that reasoning then Northern ireland and Scotland should be booted out of the UK

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Bad losers

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