It is customary that at the final workshop of each Mastermind Programme, some of the departing Masterminders get up on stage and talk about their experiences and results. Here is Dan's contribution...

Wow, this is very daunting being up here, genuinely amazing 12 months. I'm not a professional speaker, those of you who heard me speak will be aware of that, so apologies I'll probably speak fast, I might mumble and jumble. You'll see through that, hopefully, you can get a better content from that. My name's Daniel Hill and I'm a Mastermind 11.

My background, so I started my first business when I was 15, Pulse Discos, then I went on to buildings for four years and I shoveled sand for a living. I, then, went on to Nottingham University, I started an events company while I was there, then a clothing company, then another clothing company, that took me up to about 2012. This time last year, I was the Director of Pulse Student Network and the events and clothing company.

Why? Why did I decide that Mastermind was for me? Well, I was looking for a new industry. I've done clothing. I'm a creative profile, for those of you who understand wealth dynamics. It means that we're on to the next thing before we finish the last one. We're always looking for something new, looking to reinvent things, create things. That's my flow, it's really what I enjoy. I was looking for ... I'm speaking very fast, I'm aware of that. Sorry. I knew that this is where we were going next. The company was trading well, it was profitable. It was starting to bring in its own management, great little company. Looking for a new industry to entertain. Tracked it for about two years, didn't have any experience. The property market was depressed, as it still is in a lot of the UK. It's depressed, it's ripe, it's fertile with opportunity, but that's not what you read in the papers, but that certainly is the case. I lived in a rented flat, so I thought it would be a nice opportunity to get my own house, start getting on the property level, and ready for a new challenge. That's my creative profile.

So, I said, "I'm going to sell my business." My company, I've traded for three years, I said that's it, "We'll sell it, we're going to get the money out, we're going to do more deals, we're going to make a bigger business." I thought, "Well, I'm going to get a round of applause, everyone's going to go mad."

HMOs, we thought, we need to start picking this up. This one was mid-refurb, builder was doing a refurb, on the market £120,000, would have got it all day long, sold, follow up, follow up, follow up. The sale at £120,000 has fallen through, so we went in, said, "Stop the refurb, we'll give you 100 grand for it next week." Completed in six weeks, four week refurb, builders finished on Monday, tenants moved in on the Tuesday. £100,000 purchased, £30,000, you can see the figures there, profit £1,600 a month, that's £20,000 a year, fully tenanted. Everything I'm showing you deals with fully tenanted, up and running.

That is a residential house, it was on the market, ex-student let, marketed like that. We took the keys for that on the Friday at £550 a month, we furnished it on the Friday, the viewings on the Friday afternoon, and filled it within four weeks. That generates four grand a month. We're thinking, "HMOs work. They work. Buying them is fantastic. They're very capital intensive. They're very time consuming. There's only so quick you can buy a house. However, they turn out fantastic cash flow, £1,000 - £1,500 a month." When you need speed, or you got lower resources, lower capital, you want to be looking at models like this, the rent to rent model. We've got £1500 in there, fully half of that is deposit, return on investment 100%+. Some of these rent to rents, 500% ROI.

Being from a business background, not having any experience in property, found these two pastry cutters, buying and rent to renting, started cutting them out, and then we just rolled that strategy out. Take this from caveat, every deal that's on there, these are hard. Each one of these is one we've actually done, for each of these that we've done, there's going to be two or three that fallen over, haven't stacked up, and you've really struggled with. I don't know how clear that is for you guys on the screen, but that's the first one I showed you. It's worth £160,000 all day long, makes £1,000 pound a month, 5 room profit. I bought myself a house, [BMV 07:24], £150,000 got repossessed. You guy have been [pull 07:26] sales, they're £150,000 repossessed, be bought it £100,000, brand new, three bed, detached, en suite, very, very nice.

Then, we started figuring, there's other people that want to do this, but just need a little helping hand. So, we started a joint venture, we launched the Relocation Agency. How am I doing for time? Excellent. We launched the Relocation Agency, joint venture with people who do rent to rent. We've got contracts with all the big letting agents, we've got access to all the stock. We now deal with [inaudible 00:09:08] Liverpool, Bedford, Darby, Barnsley, Lincoln, Newark, Nottingham, we do them everywhere. We've got access to stock and we help all the people with that. Of course, we charge fees. That's the money we generate in fees.

From the Mastermind model, you get surrounded by these people, who are incredible people. They inspire you and they drive you. The Wealth Dynamics model that we got taught in Mastermind was the most incredible thing I ever learned about building a business. I've had businesses in the past, and everyone's chipped in, everyone's married in, everyone's doing a bit of this, everyone's doing a bit of this. I did Wealth Dynamics, and I thought, "Oh my goodness, I spent the last 10 years building businesses that are a mess. Let's restructure it," so we flushed it around. Creative, that's me, I talk fast, I'm enthusiastic, I'm passionate, I can really, really, really get things going. But, I can't finish things, my time-keeping's bad, I can't look at the books, I understand the numbers but I can't put them together. You surround yourself with these people, you will build the most incredible business, I can assure you.

So get yourself a team. A team of people who seriously want you to be successful. They're in this room, they're in those chairs, in the folders, on this stage, they're on this cork. If you can surround yourself with people who believe in you, they'll be successful because you'll be successful. They'll want that, they want that more than anything else. If you can get that guys, that's Mastermind, that's not 12 [mums 15:39].

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