Disha

Feyikemi was an accountant who used rent to rent to break free from the 9 to 5. With mentorship and a clear strategy, she secured a three bed new build house in Essex. She shares the steps she took to move from a stable career to building her own property business, and what made it all feel achievable.

Yasmin worked in recruitment and then university careers advice, and Pash spent years as a solutions architect in tech. When both stepped away from work for family and personal reasons, they asked themselves how they could earn money working for themselves. They had tried an Amazon drop shipping business before, where the promised training and one to one support never really came, so they were sceptical at first. Simon reassured them, and the support started straight away: a call with Guy, weekly group calls and a community that has been amazing. Within a week or two of starting, Pash found their first landlord on OpenRent. The flat had already been an Airbnb, so the deal was done quickly. They are now on deal four with a fifth in the pipeline. Their London Bridge flat was fully booked for two months within four days of going live. Yasmin's advice: "Do it. It's scary at first, but it is absolutely worth it."

Karen spent years working 13 hour days in dentistry, raising two sons alone, with buy to lets that barely broke even. When her health forced her to face reality, her son introduced her to rent to rent and she joined SSO. She turned her underperforming buy to lets into serviced accommodation and saw an incredible first month. Since then she has launched three rent to rent deals in Cheltenham and secured another property in Cornwall. With the support, accountability and straight talking advice she says was missing from every other programme, Karen is finally building something real for herself and her family.

Marina works full time as a contract manager, and her partner Kate already had some buy to lets. They wanted quicker cashflow than buy to let gives, so they looked at different property courses and chose Simon. Rent to rent clicked instantly: it didn't need much money up front, so they could do several deals with what they had. Marina booked a call and joined that same evening. Her only worry was that it was Kate's money, but hearing the success stories on the calls convinced her: if others can do it, so can we. Within a couple of months of really getting going, they had signed three deals, two in Coventry and one in Leamington Spa. Now landlords are coming to them, including a landlord's sister and even their decorator, and Kate has handed in her notice. Marina's advice: "Follow the process and trust the process, it will work."