Welcome to the Property Investor's Forum

About this Forum

 

The role of this forum is to provide a way that property investors can learn about property investment from fellow investors. To this end the forum is a place for investors to:

• Discuss property investment issues in general
• Share reviews and recommendations on a wide variety of investment resources and services (everything from events, books, software, websites, sources of finance, property-accountants, etc).
• Help each other evaluate property investment opportunities
• Keep abreast of important education events (courses, seminars, workshops, etc)
• Keep up to date on the latest innovative investment techniques
• Make friends, keep in touch, motivate, support and mentor each other

This Property Investor Forum has been a natural extension of what Jan and I have been trying to achieve through our books and software tools: to help fellow property investors and potential property investors gain the knowledge necessary to confidently invest in real estate. In this regard the forum has already proven to be a great success, with thousands of investors taking advantage of it to network and learn from fellow investors. In fact, I would love to take the credit for the idea of establishing the forum in the first place, but that belongs to someone called Les (now one of the moderators on the forum). Its popularity has been such that the hardware and software resources needed to run the forum have been upgraded several times now to cope with the demands and its latest metamorphosis has largely been the result of the efforts of another forum member who goes by the nickname of Sim (now one of the administrators and moderators of the forum).

Forum Policy

 

Both Jan & I strongly support the concept that you stand to learn a lot from the experience and independent advice of fellow investors. However, this is not meant to suggest that such advice is always the best advice or that advice from industry professionals is always coloured. There are many industry professionals who also give freely of their time and expertise to make valuable contributions to the forum.

But always remember that it is a public forum and, as such, the views posted are not necessarily those of Somersoft (Jan or Ian Somers) or of any of the forum moderators. Nor does Somersoft recommend or endorse any specific investments or business opportunities discussed by participants in the forum. In fact, the forum is not meant to be a place for classified advertisements. However, there may not always be a clear line between sharing information on investment opportunities and using the forum as a place to simply market products and services. If you think that your post might be interpreted as spam, don’t post it. Furthermore, self-promotion should be by way of deeds not ads. We recommend forum members make their own assessment of what industry professionals have to offer based on the utility of their contributions to the forum.

We do not support unfair, unethical, unsupported, libelous or crude comments, no matter who makes them. We reserve the right to delete any posts we consider to be distasteful, disrespectful, degrading or in any way outside the spirit of the forum.

Click here to view the Term of Use

The Moderators

Moderators have been chosen to help facilitate the smooth running of the forum based on their expertise in their respective fields, the utility of their contributions to the forum over the past couple of years, and their relative independence. All of them have earned the respect of their peers during that time and they all give their time and share their expertise voluntarily. We would like to formally acknowledge and thank them for their efforts in this regard.