I am a little more conservative in my vacancy and use 8% or 1 turnover per year. 5% vacancy translates in to your tenants staying an average if 20 months. 5/100=1/20.

I learned the hard way (which translates to; loosing money) to leave emotions out of the picture. 

Glad to see some of the findings in the article have translated to your real life experiences.  

The article is written for young people in the US but I think almost all of it would translate to investing in the UK. https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

If you do not understand it, have someone translate it for you now, or request a translation from your landlord.”

This calculator assumes income growth by 2%/year and that translates into cash flow increase.

This translates to about a 20k sunk costQuestion is, should I sell this at 180k now for liquidity, or should I hold onto it and re-rent it out and sell it to an investor later on at 180k?

On average, tenants move every 2 years, which translates to one empty month out of 24 for turning a unit.

However, buyer/sellers don't deal with the inside baseball aspect of it - Hence the need to "translate".

If your target markets are viable from an SEO perspective, it might translate to a higher ROI (once you stop paying for PPC ads, you stop generating traffic, but with SEO, after you stop paying the SEO agency, you keep the results).My company is based out of the U.S., but we do have experience with the complexities that can come with international SEO.