Most people in the UK have probably thought at some time or another that life would be better if they were a full-time property developer.

It’s an easy dream to feed. Rather than sit at work all day in a job you don’t like, slaving to fill someone else’s wallet, you can spend your time doing what you want to do, that will make you a profit down the line.

PropertyToday.co.uk – 18th February 2008

Many of the property shows on TV appear to show how easy it is to be a property developer. You watch someone with no developing experience buy an outdated house, make a series of apparently basic mistakes while doing it up and completely ignore the advice of the expert, and STILL make a serious profit when they sell it.

Faced with that kind of thing happening around you, it would be easy to believe you should jack everything in and go for it, follow that dream and become a property developer – full article