Later on, we spent hours on end with Word Rescue, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Carmen Sandiego and even Hugo’s House of Horrors, Quake and Doom (not every game was educational!). We wrote newsletters and stories on Creative Writer with McZee, and my first digital art was in Microsoft Paint. When I was little, I had a children’s book called Katie and the Computer that explained ROM, bytes and stuff. My dad was one of the first people around to have an Atari system, and so from an early age (as you can see from the photos) we were playing Shamus, Fooblitzky, Seven Cities of Gold (AMAZE THE NATIVES!), and other favorites. Center - the country life lent itself to a good amount of boredom, too. While my sister and I did our fair share of stuff straight out of the Berenstain Bears - playing in the woods, going to friends’ houses and biking down to the Rec. See /listener for privacy information.I grew up in rural Killington, Vermont. He is a system and spreadsheet geek and has developed a complex, confidential deal analyser system of buying residential, commercial and multi-let properties. Mark has bought, sold or has managed around 1,000 property units for himself, Rob, his family and his investors since 2003. “The whole planning system in this country is a big web of individual offices making arbitrary subjective decisions made on whims and what they feel” “It’s a virtual guarantee that they will spend more in the long term with a product like that” “It some ways it’s quite good as those sort of landlords that aren’t compliant they are weeding them out one by one” “They’re getting a heating system that I don’t think is very good” “Electric vehicle charging points won’t have any value at all”
Part of the difficulty with these things is that planning decisions are made by individual/regional offices that all make different subjective decisions. Once areas run out of brownfield sites there are only greenfield sites or previously declined sites: this is probably why there are more instances of new builds etc flooding. Local councils are under huge pressure from central government to build and consent more residential schemes.Mark states that essentially it is ‘insurance’ as fixed mortgages are and people will end up paying a lot more for this product. A new product on the mortgage market is a 40 year mortgage with no early repayment fee.They are a high cost and are unlikely to bring bills down. It makes them worse for the environment if they don’t work efficiently. Heat pumps are really ineffective for many types of houses.There’s a lot of new legislation around wall buildups, cladding and building regulations are being properly enforced that were previously ignored by unscrupulous developers. There’s been massive change in the construction of residential blocks since Mark first embarked on this project.Costs and challenges are inevitable so you need to have that margin of error to deal with these things. The key with any big project is to have enough profit to make it work.He also talks about planning decisions, the impact of new building regulations and the many new environmental policies such as heat pumps, new EPC thresholds and electric charging points. One of Mark’s biggest property deals, a conversion of an old M&S building into residential apartments and a supermarket is almost complete and in this episode he talks about the many lessons he learnt.
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