Steve interviews Andy Gaught, a property investor, mentor and coach who has been running his own property investment business Asset Living for the past 7 years.

From an early age Andy has been interested in technology, from upgrading computers in his teenage years, to studying mechanical engineering at Southampton University. After a couple of years working for TV post production companies, in 2014 he joined the 2 year Sky TV technology graduate programme, before becoming a project manager for Sky's online TV services Sky Go and Now TV, where he was responsible for delivering technology change projects.

He is now a full time property investor with a portfolio of single lets and HMOs across the South, and he continues to invest in high quality rental accommodation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Andy has built a portfolio and outsourced and systemized his business Asset Living for the past 7 years.
Outsourcing and systemizing can improve speed, efficiency and reduce errors.
Once you’ve captured and documented a task you are then free to improve its process.
It doesn’t have to be complicated to make big differences. It can be small systems like where you store or save files or a simple checklist.
Systemizing and outsourcing repeated tasks frees up your creativity.
When sourcing VA’s be very clear and specific about the type of role you are offering.
Don’t rush the process of finding a VA. Make sure you get the right person the first time.
Be wary of recommendations on apps because people have different tastes in what they like to use, what suits them may not appeal to you.

BEST MOMENTS

‘By using technology or other people it frees up your time, it enables you to scale, it enables you to do so much more in your business.’ – Andy

‘It doesn’t really matter how complex the stuff gets, the simplicity of actually just noting down “this is what I am doing today”. Because it's just the act of documenting the thing that I’m doing, the steps involved.’ – Steve

‘It was simply a checklist, my first system. This is what I do once a year so I don’t forget to do anything important.’ – Steve

‘People may sometimes think that systems are restrictive or that they prevent creativity but by having systems in place it then gives you structure and you can be more creative and have more inspiration than other times.’ – Andy

‘I think also, don’t rush into it. You want it to be a long term relationship and it's such a painful process and time consuming process to find people, you don’t want to onboard them, spend a couple of weeks and realize that it's not right.’ – Andy

‘Seek out help so that you can do the right thing for your business and then you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it so much earlier.’ - Andy

GUEST RESOURCES

Website:

► www.asset-living.com

► Instagram:

@andy_gaught

► LinkedIn:

Www.linkedin.com/in/andy-gaught/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Facebook:

Facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/

Website:
www.SystemizeYourSuccess.com

LinkedIn:
LinkedIn.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/

YouTube:

YouTube.com/DrSteveDay

The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day:

http://bit.ly/sys-10

ABOUT THE HOST

Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.

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