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A Brand New View Of Property Investment

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Most investment counsellors I have seen make an assumption that if the investment performs well, then any financier can definitely make decent money out of it. To explain, theexternal factorsalone determine the return.

I beg to differ. Consider these for example:

– Ever heard about an example where 2 property backers acquired identical properties side-by-side in the same street at the same time? One makes good money in rent with a good renter and sells it at a good profit later; the other has significantly lower rent with a bad renter and sells it at a total loss later on. They can be both employing the same property management agent, the same selling agent, the same bank for finance, and getting the same advice from the same investment advisor.
– You could have also seen share investors who acquired the same shares at the same time, one is forced to sell theirs at a complete loss due to personal circumstances and the other sells them for a decent profit at a better time.
– I have even seen the same builder building 5 identical homes side by side for 5 financiers. One took 6 months longer to build than the other 4, and he ended up having to sell it at the wrong time due to private money flow pressures whereas others are doing miles better financially.

What is the sole difference in the above cases? The backers themselves (i.e. Theinternal factors).

Over time I have reviewed the fiscal positions of a couple of thousand backers personally. When folks ask me what investment they should get into at any particular moment, they expect me to compare shares, properties, and other asset groups to advise them the correct way to allot their money.

My reply to them is to always ask them to go back over their record first. I'd ask them to list down all of the investments they have ever made: cash, shares, options, futures, properties, property development, property refurbishment, for example. And ask them to tell me which one made them the most money and which one did not. Then I recommend to them to stick to the winners and cut the losers. Put simply, I tell them to invest more in what has made them decent money during the past and stop making an investment in what hasn't made them any money in the past (assuming their money will get a 5% return every year sitting in the bank, they need to at least beat that when doing the comparison).

If you take a little time to do that exercise for yourself, you will very swiftly discover your favourite investment to take a position in, so that you can focus your resources on getting the best return rather than allocating any of them to the losers.

You will ask for my motive in choosing investments this way instead of taking a look at the theories of diversification or portfolio management, like most others do. I simply think the law of nature rules many things beyond our systematic understanding; and it is not smart to go against the law of nature.

As an example, have you ever realized that sardines swim together in the sea? And in a similar fashion so do the sharks. In a natural forest, similar trees grow together too. This is the assumption similar things attract each other as they have affinity with one another.

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Schools For Woodworking

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Wood is by far the most popular material in the world for home items such as chairs, benches, doors, windows, cabinets, tables, wardrobes and jewellery boxes. Wood is still widely used to make houses in many countries and not even only poor countries either. So it follows that woodworking is one of the most sought after skills in the world as well.

Even though there is always a high demand for items made from wood, there is always a shortage of good wood workers, carpenters and cabinet makers. This makes woodworking in any of its various guises a good trade to enter. Previously, there were shuttering carpenters, joiners, carpenters, ships’ carpenters, furniture makers, cabinet makers and wood workshop workers. These different varieties have merged to a certain degree.

So, what do you do if you want to enter the profession? Well, the traditional course was to become an apprentice to a tradesman, but that practice largely died out in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The path now is more likely to be through school and technical college, together with short term placements in industry until the ‘apprentice’ has passed his or, more and more frequently these days, her, final exams.

There is a lot of competition for jobs in the construction industry in the West at the moment, so credentials are pretty indispensable, although any foreman carpenter knows within fifteen minutes of watching someone working how skilled that person is. They can usually tell just by glancing in their tool bag in fact.

At woodworking school, besides being taught how to handle, cut and shape wood, the student will also be taught other subjects such as relevant mathematics, how to identify different timbers, woodworking tools and equipment, how to read woodworking plans and architectural drawings, how to finish wood, such as polishing and varnishing and health and safety.

At woodworking school the student is introduced to the many facets and niche trades of woodworking and it is hoped that the student will show a preference or even an aptitude for one niche over another. This permits the teacher to steer the student down the specific route relevant to that niche and find the student placements within industry relevant to the student’s particular interests.

From this point on, the woodworking class may start to be segmented so that each segment can specialize in its own particular niche. This may not happen until the second or third year of a three or four year course. At this juncture it is worth mentioning that the student should go as far as possible down the path to his or her niche as he/she can.

This is because, on a building site, it is generally recognized that the carpenter is in the most highly educated tradesman on site. It is for this reason that most general foremen are carpenters. Under the general foreman, there may be a foreman bricklayer, a foreman painter et cetera, but the foreman of these foremen is normally a carpenter.

Therefore, other skills will have to be learned too. Once the student has left school and found a job, it is worth still going to night classes or asking the boss if there is a day release scheme to continue education. If being foreman is an aim, then you will require a good command of language in order to liaise with customers, fellow workers and management.

You will need people skills too and an ability to read plans and drawings and understand the financial aspects of a job. You will also have to be able to handle rude clients and grumpy bosses and learn what you can and what you cannot do to correct late or lazy workers.

They may teach some of the theory of these subjects in woodworking school, but not as much as you will learn on site. Once you have learned the essentials of how a real site works, then you can go back to night school to learn the finer points. In woodworking, as in all professions, you never know enough so you must always keep learning.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with a favourite subject, wine rack plans. If you are interested in Desk Woodworking Plans, please click through to our site, where we have 14,000 wood working plans.

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