Seven years ago before I met my now husband I was a struggling single mother supporting four kids on my own.

I found the buying process really complex and long winded in contrast to buying in the UK and so set up Dream of Lisbon to help international buyers and investors with on the ground support in finding and buying properties in the Lisbon and Portugal as a whole.Would love to discuss the market, investment opportunities and speak to anyone interested in buying in Portugal.Thanks,Hugo

It's an active business, not passive so I believe that requires continually evaluating the property, adjustments to decor, etc may be needed as well to make sure I'm fully optimizing the property.I have a lot of home renovation experience from my own personal home and my LTR's already so I'm very used to this kind of work.

You may want to establish what kind of property you want as well.

The long-term treasuries are screaming higher rates and inflation being heavily persistent, which usually means underlying house values will go up but I don't think we see that if wages aren't supported in the short term.

Your savings is good, but your income won't support that many properties if you do them wrong and need to carry 15k min reserves for each one.Focus on what the next property should be, maybe upgrade to a two-family and see how that goes.

Before coming to BrightSide, I was the manager of a successful home inspection company based in Knoxville, Tennessee.Since March 2023, I have been helping property managers in the short term vacation rental market learn to use our product and provide support.

Kind of annoying tbh. 

Thank you again for your support!

If I didn’t have the support of the group in addition to being coached by Palak, I don’t think I would have had the confidence to pull the trigger and would have been stuck researching Facebook groups and asking people but not getting clear/direct answers.