Sean Wheller - Articles

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Sean is a property investor and estate agent in South Africa. He is actively involved in helping investors find property investments and beginner investors to climb the property ladder through education and knowledge sharing. Sean is the founder of Property Axis a free property listing website and Property Investor Network, a community knowledge portal.

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Can’t Pay the Mortgage? This is How you Can Save your Property and Avoid Repossession
It is sad see that there are many property investors and home owners that can’t pay their bonds due to the recent interest rate increases. To add to the trauma, many have refinanced properties to the extent that getting a quick sale in the open market is close to impossible as there is no equity left to make the deal attractive to another investor. Here are some options, where to go next to save your properties or home. Read
By: Sean Wheller | 17/11/2007 | Real Estate
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Is the Nca Going to Bring the Country to Its Knees?
It has been a whole month and a half since the NCA has taken its’ full force and affect and the horror stories are starting to pour in. I think that the whole picture of the NCA is not fully clear yet, but the effects have started to take shape. Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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Is the Nca Contributing to a Better Rental Market?
As a result of increases in interest Rates and changes enforced by the New National Credit Act, many are predicting that the rental market is about to blossom for buy-to-let investors. The reasoning for these predictions is logical, increased interest rates combined with lower Bond qualifying amounts for property buyers will temporarily forced many people to rent. How true is this prediction? Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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How Can Some Property Investors Profit From the Nca and is it Morally Right to Do So??
The country is starting to face the repercussions of the new credit act. Lending is getting tighter and everyone's affordability has been dealt a double blow with increased interest Rates. Many people are not so happy about the new set of circumstances they find themselves in. For many property investors, months of long strategic planning seems to have been for nothing. As most investors go back to the drawing Board, we ask, “Can one profit from such events?” Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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Property Investors Need to Keep Up With Their Tenants!!
In today’s information age anyone can find anything they ever want on the Internet. There is no lack of information, by FAR, there is excess more often than not. In today’s world mothers arrive at the doctors rooms with 50 pages of data, printed from the internet, of what can be wrong with their child. There only reason for a visit to the doctor is to confirmation what they think they already know is wrong. This may not be such a good practice, but it is no joke. From doctors to property investo Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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Unfortunately, I Have Some Bad News for you
By the day tenants are gaining unfair advantage! "How long did you think you would get away with it?" "I don’t know what you are talking about….” This is a quote from a conversation that was relaid to me. It took place between a property investor and his tenant. Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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Don't Unknowingly Take on Unnecessarily Liability
When it comes to letting, it's amazing how many property investors unknowingly take on obligations without ever knowing that they have done so. It happens in away that is so accidental, so transparent that in many cases tenants come and tenants go without either party ever knowing that this was the case. Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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Increase your Profits With Prepaid Electricity Metering
Metering of electricity with secondary prepaid electricity meters is an excellent way for property investors, landlords and letting agents to avoid the risk of having to pay electricity utility bills, when tenants don't pay. However, feedback from the field shows that prepaid electricity meters also have other benefits. Customers who have installed prepaid electricity meters, in their rental units, are telling PrepaidMeters.co.za that one of the interesting benefits of using prepaid meters is t Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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How Does the American Property Market Influence South Africa
Recent property media has been abuzz with news of the real estate down turn occurring in the United States. With all the media sources available today you can’t possibly avoid hearing about the doom and gloom of the US Property market, not unless you live under a rock, in which case it won’t affect you anyway. News travels fast and stories of the downturn in US real estate markets is quick to hot South African shores where people are now, as a result of the phenomenal property boom experienced i Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate
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Did the Nca Save South Africa From a Fate Similar to the Us?
Many members of the Property Investor Network have expressed their concern with the newspaper headlines surrounding the NCA and also the fact that several banks seems to have suffered as a result. Read
By: Sean Wheller | 18/10/2007 | Real Estate