I know belle vale, my lad used to play footy up there before they built the school - i'm just further up the road in childwall, by hope uni

I have some student houses in wavertree

I go to hope Uni :) Yeah the 79 bus route is the best, although sometimes the gaps are longer now that they've extended the route to Halewood. Although having the 14 on that route also helps.

Most of my uni friends live in Smithdown Road.

Ah cool, how did you build your money up to invest in those or did you see it as a business proposition? We were just talking about those houses too and how the value of them have shot up because of students leasing them.

Ah cool, how did you build your money up to invest in those or did you see it as a business proposition? We were just talking about those houses too and how the value of them have shot up because of students leasing them.

I bought the 1st one over 20 years ago when I was a student at John Moores - I bought with a mate who lived in it for a year with the students - I only had to put up a few grand as we got a 95% mortgage (cost 47k) -  we added another 2 (borrowing money off parents) but sold one - he moved to Oz so I bought him out about 12 years ago just before they shot up in price

I keep getting letters from firms acting on behalf of clients wanting to buy HMO's in that area but hopefully they will be my pension

You have 15k to spare but wont be too put out if it loses. Keep your money son as you are not a gambler if you are looking for advice on how to to double/treble 15k ffs.

That was some very good forward thinking toffee. Do your student tenants stay year round? I have finished Uni bar exams in the next two weeks and not back until October. How do you fill it during those months, that's if they do go home.

I am a gambler anton in fact I'm bordering on a problem gambler but I have deposit limits on all my online accounts and I'm generally too lazy to go the bookies. On the last superbowl I started off with a couple hundred pound bet which resulted in me trying to deposit £3k to chase my money back because I hate losing. Betfair is the only site I can gamble on now and I have strict deposit limits.

they pay for 11 months from 1st august - a lot of them don't go home and a lot usually stay for a couple of years - houses are already taken for the next couple of years

Haha it was just fantasy talk. Realistically there's no chance I would have had the balls to stick £15k on. I doubt the bookies would even accept a bet of that size, even if they did I wonder how they gave you your winnings as they never have more than a couple of hundred in the shops from experience. If I've learnt one thing in life is that quick fixes always go wrong, just have to work hard for the money like everyone else.