Sam meets with Tom Sumner of Flo Bathrooms and Rich Coulthard of Ison Harrison Solicitors
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So we're here today at Flo Bathrooms with Tom Sumner, who's been a long term client and advertiser and friend of mine, working with Blue Bricks magazine for the past two years. We wanted to do this video to demonstrate the collaboration that we're bringing to the market. And if we try to distill some of the advice that we get in blue bricks magazine from every successful investor, developer, and entrepreneur we've ever interviewed.
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One of the things that comes up time and time again is working with the right people. Sometimes that means employing the right people. Often times that just means using the right professional services and having the right. For lack of a better term, a team around you. With blue bricks, we really have a great team of architects, planning consultants, accountants, solicitors, financiers and people that help our members with their property projects.
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With that, someone that's working on the 10th property deal or someone that's working on the first, and this project with Flo, which is one that was worked on by many of our advertisers. And Tom, Tom Sumner himself perfectly demonstrates how our community coming together to collaborate on real projects. Hi, Rich Coulthard here from Ice Harrison Solicitors, were a full service law firm based across 25 offices and were delighted to have been working alongside Blue Bricks and Thomson here at Flo Bathrooms.
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So, we help do all the legals in terms of the in the premises. We've also helped Tom on various other matters around, you know, structure, business and things like that. As a full service law firm, we obviously advise property investors on the full spectrum of work with us buying property, leasing property, joint ventures and alike. And we love being part of the Blue Bricks network and collaborating with, members of Blue Bricks, whether that's finance providers, whether that's architects, whether that's, other people involved in property.
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And for those involved in property, you really understand that a lot of those people are successful when dealing with property. It is about collaboration. It is about the people that you know about the people that you trust, whether that's bringing in the architect of the surveyor or the builder of all your contractors or you your finance, and knowing how you have different finance options, having the right trusted advisors, whether that's solicitors or tax advisors or accountants.
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So a blue box office is a great network in which you can, collaborate with people who are involved in the same industry. You can get recommendations in support network. And we're delighted to be a part of that. We've done work with various people involved in Blue Bricks, other advertisers and and been involved in various of events. So, you know, couldn't recommend blue bricks in the network highly enough.
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And we've really enjoyed working with Tom on this project and other future projects. I know that he's got in the pipeline. So which cold hard ice and Harrison Solicitors. If you ever need any advice around property portfolio structures on on succession planning, our joint venture contracts, we're here to help. And we always love, helping those involved with blue bricks.
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Hi, I'm Michael Allison, commercial director at Roma Finance. We are a relationship led lender. However, when we zoom out for a moment, our relationship led approach doesn't just mean being there for our customer throughout the lifecycle of the loan. It's building important and incredible relationships across that property ecosystem. And we feel that since we've been working with Blue Bricks, we've really enabled us to strengthen that ecosystem.
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A good example of this is probably what we're doing with with Tom and Flo and the other projects that is looking at, but more importantly, we're all there for the same person, which is the end person, which is the customer. So that may be that we provide the finance. So like procurement for house builders can provide the procurement materials to create the new property or renovate the existing one.
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Some of that, Tom, can provide the knowhow and knowledge of how to maximize that piece as well. And across that blue bricks ecosystem see more and more opportunities to work with like minded businesses and sometimes introduce them to others. And we're not even part of that transaction because the person who wins in the end is the property investor who wants to create wealth for themselves and their family through property, where firm believer that Roman relationships are everything because ultimately relationships underpin good business and we're all here to do good business.
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And if you can do business with people you know you like and you trust you really winning the battle to be able to build something that's really sustainable for you as an individual, and it's great to see all the people doing well. Where's your doing well as well. So and introducing people with confidence to say there's nothing in it for us as a lender, however, speak to this lawyer or speak to this failure, or speak to this property professional within this area because they will know how to answer that particular question.
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Even if that customer doesn't come back round, then we're adding value back into that ecosystem. What Blue Bricks enables people to do is share a space where we can all collaborate effectively without competing. It's not a competition place. It's about knowing that we've all got our own strengths, we've all got our own niches as a business, and it's enabling and elevating each other up to provide real, good, scalable growth for all of us on that property.
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Professional. At Roma, we lend all across mainland UK and we see that our community spreads across mainland UK as well. That gives us the opportunity to know what's going on in Middlesbrough, what's going on in Truro, what's going on in Carlisle and what's going on in the center of Manchester. Our vast reach and boots on the ground approach means that we can have informed discussions within certain areas about those growth opportunities, about where to invest, what type of property works really well, what the rental piece looks like, is it a flat market?
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So we take all of that information and we pass it out. We pass it out into our ecosystem. We invite people to be part of it and contribute to it. If you're looking to continue your property growth and your property journey, you can find no better place than Blue Bricks and their associated people with it. Because we're all here to help you.
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And so the Roma finance are proud to be a partnership of it. Thank you. Yeah. Welcome to Flow Luxury Bathrooms. This is one of my latest projects. Which here in Blackpool. So it is a luxury bathroom showroom. We sort of help developers, the general public, sort of create their amazing spaces for them to design everything in-house and supply all the materials for them.
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As a developer myself, and spent so much money and time, on the sort of bathroom area, floor and space and everything, I decided to set my own place up. And obviously with being part of Blue Bricks, I think the collaboration side is super, super important. And obviously using and being around the right people and obviously Blue Bricks is, is sort of created that collaboration.
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So we used quite a few people from there. So, us and Harrison, for all the soliciting and all the, technical agreements that we've used, to, to make purchases and, and create deals like I do, with these roam finance on a multiple projects, which obviously they are an amazing other amazing team and do an amazing job.
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Hence why I use them, because it saves a lot of my time, because it's so efficient. With house builders as well. I got an amazing, amazing service. So it's sort of using all these different, all these different businesses, which have all come from being part of that network. Blue brick. So unbelievable. I'm ready to move on to the next project now.
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Another huge project which is a business, a networking center. So watch this space I'll be using all the same, all the same people who were part of this power team as well. So again, look out for that on social media. So we're here today at Flo Luxury Bathrooms, one of the latest projects of one of our long term readers, advertisers and partners, Tom Sumner and we wanted to do a video today on collaboration in the property industry over the years.
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So we've been interviewing some of the leading developers and investors for Blue Bricks magazine, one of the same pieces of advice comes up time and time again when we ask people what the secret to success is if there is such a thing, and that is working with the right people, sometimes that means employing the right people, but it also means having the right partners, the right service providers, and the right contacts to help you succeed as a property investor or as a business owner.
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Blue Bricks magazine. We work with some of the leading companies across the UK, people at customer service at the heart of what they do. And this project perfectly demonstrates how working with the right people can really make magic happen. The property industry is a lonely industry, and one of the ways to overcome that, and one of the ways to go further, is by working with the right people.
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People have the right morals, people have the right values, but more importantly, people that are competent and capable a know how to deal with the complex world that is property. And that's why it. Blue bricks were very careful about the service providers that will work with making sure they have a strong reputation and a good track record of success with their clients.
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We've really enjoyed spending the day with Tom and the team. These are all people I've worked with for years and people that we love working with, and this project really demonstrates what happens when people come together to collaborate with Blue Bricks magazine. We are looking for more partners to work with, and as you can see from this video, the way that we collaborate both with our readership and both of our advertisers, we're working on real projects with real developers.
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If you have a business that you want to get in front of more investors, more developers, and you want a business that can collaborate on projects like this and then get in touch with us today. You can contact via email at High Up Blue Bricks magazine.com, or you can contact us on social media at Blue Bricks magazine.
