About David Lawrenson and LettingFocus

I'm David Lawrenson, owner of landlord advice and buy to let information website, LettingFocus.com.

I'm author of the UK's top selling property and buy to let book as well as being a landlord, a buy to let expert and media commentator, freelance property writer, public speaker, consultant and landlord blogger.

As a consultant I help a range of organisations, from banks to local authorities, with their buy to let and landlord facing products and services.

But I also find time to help private investors as a property coach and mentor at my twice yearly seminars, landlord networking events and as a one to one consultant and advisor.

I show property investors of whatever level of experience how they can make money in residential property investment and buy to let using ethical methods that actually work and without taking undue risks.

And as part of my one to one property mentoring service I can guide you every step of the way.

My Background in Property Investment

I first let out property way back in the mid 1980s just after finishing my MBA at City University (now Cass) Business School. (Before that I went to schools in the Wirral and Dover and my first degree was at Cardiff University.)

In my early days as a property investor, I mixed being a landlord with working as a project manager and consultant in financial services for leading banks.

But my love of property investing finally won the day and in September 2002 I gave up the day job to concentrate on building and managing my property portfolio full time.

As a landlord and property investor I made some mistakes even though I had read quite a few books on the subject.

So, I put down some new ideas which eventually led to a publisher offering me a contract to write the book "Successful Property Letting - How to Make Money in Buy to Let."

About Successful Property Letting

"Successful Property Letting" came out in September 2005 and in 3 months sold out its first print run and established itself as the fastest selling book on property book in the UK.

Today it has sold 23,000 copies and has been the UK's highest selling book about property for 3 years running.

Following on from the book, I'm now often asked to write articles as a property journalist about buy to let, property investing, property letting and landlord issues for newspapers and magazines. I also wrote the Rightmove Guides.

I have been quoted as a buy to let expert in all the UK national papers and leading websites and have appeared on Radio 4 and on BBC Televsion.

I also became a regular speaker on property matters at trade shows and for private companies and associations in the buy to let field.

Click here to listen to an early podcast at the Motley Fool website with Danny Baker sidekick, David Kuo!

Scourge of the Property Con Men

Today, I am well known as a critic of the buy to let fraudsters and con men in the field and I warned many years ago of the problems where inner city flats (or "lofts" as developers sometimes like to call them) were being sold to amateur buy to let investors at well above their long term value.

I am also known as a critic of the buy to let lending policies and processes of most banks and building societies which I believe are still very weak.

After "Successful Property Letting" came out, many people asked me if I could run property seminars which would expand upon the book and which would be completely unbiased by any desire to sell property "off the back" of the seminar itself.

These property networking events are just twice a year.

In my corporate consulting role I advise local authorities, housing associations and banks.

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Whether you are from the BBC, an organisation seeking consulting help or if you are just a private individual needing advice, please get in touch.

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