Coming Clean About My Property Portfolio

So-called property training company offers controversial courses on achieving financial freedom.

There are so many questions to ask. There are so many. I've made millions of pounds in property, which a lot of people know about, but I've also lost millions of pounds. And if I died tomorrow, the question is, would people know the real struggle and what I had to do to get there? A group of students on the academy asked me if I could take them around my whole portfolio and show them the lessons, and not just the deals that were good, but also the deals where I lost money, the deals that almost wiped me out. This is the stuff that no one in property investing is talking about.

I bought this hotel with a one-pound deposit. All right, let's go. Land this big for a million pounds is pennies. Hello. Keep going, girl. I was only 17. I'd walk them to the ATM. This deal is a money pit. I got so many more houses to show you guys. This one has been my most high-profit earner. I got some serious to say.

What are you hoping to get out of the journey? Sorry. On the spot. On the spot. Um, I'm hoping to learn from Samuel himself on developments, bridging finance, things like that. I know Samuel is the, the property investor. He's a good guy. Takes like homeless people and this and that, and he goes and buys them houses. Um, but I heard that it's all a bit of a scam. We're doing a tour of all of his property portfolio. A lot of people say his properties aren't real. So hopefully with this tour, we can prove it's not a scam. It's the real deal. Fantastic. You lot. Take care. Yeah.

Expectations. I guess we're just going to see all the great, um, different properties that Samuel has to absorb, learn, and get energized for property. Now, we've all heard about his portfolio, but I'm, I'm excited just to get on the ground. To be with him for three days is something very special. So, I'm very keen to find out where he draws his energy, um, how he stays positive and motivated. So, I wanted to get some life tips from him.

Samuel, please. Samuel Le. This is Samuel Leeds. He dropped out of school at 16 and went on to build a property portfolio worth over 20 million. You're described as a millionaire landlord. I mean, is that accurate? I'd be embarrassed to be a millionaire. I'm a multi-millionaire. You had £50, that was all, and a hotel room. And you had to then make money. Right now, I'm standing in Uganda, and this is the Samuel Leeds School. £1 is how much I just paid for this 26-bedroom hotel. Samuel always asks me, "How did you do it? What did you do?" Because I went from broke to being worth over 10 million pounds in my 20s. And he's teaching millions of others how to do the same. Oh, Sam's fantastic. Kelly is a very kind person. He's doing it from his heart. The best thing about our little son, and I want you to package your deals. That's from the first deal. How's it feel? Amazing. He's the money in the house. I own over 10 million pounds worth of property. But where did it start? Well, it all started with this very first house that I bought 17 years ago. And I came back now for an inspection.

July 2008 was the day I left school. Oh my goodness. The freedom when I left school was just incredible. However, what I found is as soon as I left school, my dad was just like, "Right, on Saturday, you, I need you on the market. I need you to do this." And that was that after working for my dad for about three weeks, I remember thinking, I don't like doing this. I don't like being told what to do all the time. The pay was absolutely terrible. And I Googled, "My dad is keeping me poor," and came across the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. And that was the first book I ever read cover to cover.

First ever house I bought. I was 17 years old, and I bought this house in 2009. I've not been here for about seven years because we're currently housing homeless people, vulnerable adults. It looks exactly like it was, man, when I bought it. The whole house seems tiny. I mean, this room, is this even legal? This seems absolutely. So, this house was bought for 100,000 cash, and then the same day I bought it, I got a mortgage, got a valuation of 120, and I got a mortgage of 100. So, I got all my money back on the day of buying it. When I just completed on this property, the refurb was £25,000, and that's because I did most of the work myself. It needed plastering and stuff, so I was very proudly able to do that work myself. I thought like I was such a big shot. Like, yeah, man, I just bought this house and I'm plastering it. But this was actually a success. Like, I bought this for 100 grand. It's now worth probably about 280 grand. Makes me about a grand a month, and it has been for the last 17 years. My tenants would pay me cash, and there's a little cash machine, an ATM about a three-minute walk away. So when a tenant would come around, they'd go, "Yeah, I want to move in." I'd be like, "Okay, you want to secure it? No problem. Great. Um, you'll need to pay an admin fee of £90 to secure it." And I'd walk them to the ATM. I'd walk them. I was only 17. I'd walk them to the ATM. But then the rent, I got £350 for the, the big room, and then I was charging like £300 to £325 for the other rooms. So, in total, I was getting about £1,200 to £1,300. When I rented it out as an HMO, I was like, "Oh my goodness, I'm making more money from this tiny little house than I am working for my dad on the market." My profit, I was managing myself, was about £950. And £950 for me was huge. But I thought, I can't keep buying properties and trying to get people to put them in their names. That's when I started doing lease options. And I'll take you now to my very first lease option, which is two minutes down the road. You can literally walk it.

Hello. Long time. Sorry, there's a few of us. How are you doing? So, I don't think I've seen you for about a decade. It's been about 10 years. It probably has. Hello. Good to see you, though. We like to pop in. Thanks so much. These tenants you're about to meet, I've been in there about a decade. So, this was like my first house that I bought in my own area. I've been renting it out to the same tenants the entire time. It looks fabulous. I'm doing an inspection on all of my properties and hence the, uh, the documentary on it. It looks fabulous. Oh, we get to go in the kitchen. I think we need to renew the kitchen, though. It looks a bit. It looks good, clean, but it looks like it needs, cuz it must be the same kitchen that's been in there the whole time, isn't it? Like, all of our houses now are managed by agencies, and whereas this one, my wife manages it. So the tenants are like on a first-name basis with us. Oh, John. Hey, how you doing, mate? It's been a long time. It has, mate. How you doing? Not too bad, thank you. Yeah, good. How's it been? Not 12 years, maybe. No, it hasn't. So, were you the first when I bought this? Did you move in straight away? Were you with the first tenants? Wow. Fantastic. We need to get a new kitchen then. What is it? There was originally a board up there. I'll get Amanda to send someone to come out and have a look at it, cuz they don't want it to be making the house cold. And also, we'll get a new kitchen in for you guys as well. Over here, I've got a copy of the actual option agreement that I did like 13 years ago in the title deed. So, you can see it, you can study. So, this property was owned by a guy called Steve. Steve bought the house in 2007 for 95 grand. He wants 95 grand for it, but it ain't worth it. Long story short, I offered him 81, and he said yes. And I offered to give him 81 on an option where I'd agree to buy it seven years later, which meant by the time I came to buy it, it was worth 145. I bought it cash, refinanced it. So, it's basically a free house. They moved in. They're paying like £500 a month rent. I want to honor them for being there that long. So, I've not put the rent up. Rent's probably the cheapest you can probably get, really, especially for that area. Rents quite high now.

When I got my first property, for me, that was a massive breakthrough moment. I think it gave me a real sense of confidence. I've done it, and I've done it once, then I, I can do it again. The rules changed, and the, the market in 2009, 2010 started dropping, and it had to change strategies. Hence why I got into doing purchase option agreements.

Oh man. The table is, it should be all right if we get, if you hold it with your hand there. There we go. There we go. We get one other person on the other side. Yeah. Yeah. Hop in. Hop in. Nod your head and agree. All right. Three, two, one, action. All right, don't, not annoyingly though. I got to actually, I got some serious to say. You know what I'm saying? But I'll show you how I purchased that property. So, this was in 200, uh, I think it would have been 2010. I found the house. It was for sale, but it wasn't on the market. I, in the end, agreed to buy it for the mortgage, 89, but I agreed an option for 10 years, which at the time I thought was kind of good. And guess what? It was, because in 2019, when I bought it for 89,000, it was worth so much more than that. It blew everybody's mind. So, I had to creatively buy it because it was too much of a good deal. Nowhere on land registry is the purchase price there because it's too cheap, and my solicitor advised me not to put it down. I then got it valued at over 200 grand, got a mortgage, and got a big payout tax-free. So, this deal was a little banger, to be honest.

One thing about Samuel is that he used to like having time on his own, even when he was young. I used to say, "What you doing?" And he'd say, "Looking at the carpet." And then I thought that was a bit of a weird thing to do at the age of eight, but never mind. But then when he was older, I'd say, "Can you remember what you were doing when you were looking at the carpet?" And he was saying, "I was thinking." And I did notice he spent a lot of time thinking. And I think that's when he was thinking up ideas. And he's always been like that.

The people that live here, they're vulnerable people that need sort of support and assistance. So Shaq's company provide floating assistance where they go around the properties, provide support. They get funded by the council. It's good to be able to also, obviously, it's a business, but to be able to help people, vulnerable people that that need help, that need some sort of support. Look at a random sock hanging from the wall. That's interesting, isn't it? So that's so they can smoke weed and the alarm won't go off. Say, when you're homeless and you don't know where to go, you don't have to pay your rent. You've got a disability. What do you do? You go to the council. What do the council do? The council provide accommodation through housing associations, often, and the housing association pays me. They pay me £1,600 a month, which I'd be able to get more rent for it if I did it room by room to professionals, but I'd have to pay the bills. I'd have to pay management. I haven't been to this house in seven years, and it's passive.

Hi, how you doing? Great to see you. How long have you lived here then? Uh, only about two and a half months now. What, what is it then? What's So this house, how does it work? HMO, basically. Um, most people are on benefits, and what they do is coming to here, pay £80 service charge a month, and their housing benefits pay for the rest. Like the, like the council pay for, let's say, a grand or £900 for the actual rent that a person should be paying for a year. While we pay a minuscule amount compared to that, just to help us get by. But then the council top up the difference. And then the housing association that you rent from, they rent it, they, they pay me. I get a bit less rent, but it means I'm helping people, and you know what I mean? Benefits everyone at the. Yeah, exactly. All righty. Well, hey, thanks for letting us come out. Thanks for keeping the place in good order as well, man. All right. Yeah, enjoy, man. You have a good. You have a good one, guys. See you later.

We are part of a housing association. Uh, we work with vulnerable tenants. Um, people are homeless, people in need. It's one of the rented properties that we've got with Samuel. It's very valuable because, um, it's helping people who are vulnerable, get them back on their feet, help them get a job. Been recommended for the last five years. It's a good lord. I think it's a different side of seeing to Samuel because when we're on his courses and we're learning all these things, he's all about make money, make money, make money. And then you see a different side to him now where he's like, well, yeah, it's making me enough. I don't need to be greedy about it. They're looking after me, I'm looking after them. It's okay. And, you know, it just shows a different side to him that I would not have expected.

One of the things I didn't enjoy about school was the fact that every 45 minutes the lesson would change. And the way my brain works, I'm a very obsessive person. It might take me 45 minutes just to get into a subject. And after 45 minutes, I'm like, "Okay, I'm getting it now. Oh, oh, I'm getting geography. Okay." And I'd be, as I was just getting beginning to get interested in the subject, then I'd be woof in maths. They catered to me. It was a very small school, and they would let me do one subject all day. But as a result, I sat on my own desk alone, isolated. I wasn't particularly popular. I was failing in school. And I definitely didn't have high hopes for life. So, I was walking home here, and there was a group of kids here, and this is where I got stabbed. I'm just trying to remember how old he was. 14. Gone out for a nice meal with a girlfriend. In the distance, they could see a few lads. Looked a bit thuggy, standing on a wall. Well, as they got close to the wall, one of the lads on the wall kicked Samuel in the head. Other yobos, older, some of them were like 18, ran out with broken bottles and snooker cues and stuff and started attacking them. I've still got a scar. I don't know if you can see it on my head here. When that happened, I was like so angry about it that it kind of jeopardized my relationship with God. And when I was 16, that was when I felt God come into my heart. That one night, just in my room, Holy Spirit came to me and said, "How can you hold unforgiveness knowing I forgive you?" And now all of my businesses and my properties and everything, but like my faith is an integral part of my business. So that was the moment right here.

And that's why when Joseph says Genesis 50:15, "What you meant for evil, God meant for good." So that's like a big part of my story. But anyway, my sermon is finished. Back to business. Back to business.

So, this house was bought by me and my bro for 120 grand. It was already functioning as three flats, but it just wasn't technically split on the titles. So we split it into three flats. It cost us 40 grand for the conversion. So in total, we spent 160, and then we got it valued at 240. So it was a nice clean 80 grand profit. I like to keep my family on the in. Dan Pena told me, "Don't work with your family. You'll never be a billionaire working with your family." That's against everything I stand for. I want to pull my family in. My family helped me. My mom, when I was starting out in property, believed in me. So I like to try and keep everything from within the family, and I think it works.

Growing up, me and Russell always got on. We were always best friends. He was the one older, smarter, better sports, more popular. I was more sort of responsible, and you know, like, for example, when we used to, we used to catch the bus to Warsaw every day, and he was like clueless, like on another planet in a way. He wouldn't know where to get off the bus. He missed his stop or whatever. He was just screwed. He wasn't bothered about being popular or liked or sports. He just kind of in his own little world. I've also found this. This was like his baby, and he told me he was buying this, and I was like, "I make a great HMO." And he was like, "I don't think we should do as a HMO. I think we split into flats." When we decided to team up, we've been running our own separate businesses for years. And we used to meet up once a week and sort of business coach one another, sort of accountability partners. So, we knew each other's strengths. We knew each other's weaknesses. I guess that's when you could argue that I became a property developer. At that point, it was this project kind of turned me, seeing what my brother was doing and his mindset, into a property developer. When we tell people, they're often quite surprised at how much thought and effort went into the partnership rather than just, "Oh, we're brothers, let's team up and do a business." It was very much thought through. What are your skills? What are my skills? What are you bringing to the table? How are we going to work together? So, we split it into three flats. So, in total, we spent 160, and then we got it valued at 240. So, it was a nice clean 80 grand profit. I'm more of a figures, systems type guy. The business is called Samuel Leeds, and I'm cool with that. It doesn't, I'm not bothered. I don't crave attention or whatever. So, I'm very happy to let him have the limelight, him have the glory. As long as I'm getting half the money, I'm, I'm, I'm cool.

"If it wasn't for Russell, I would probably be even more generous than I am, but a lot poorer." What do you think of that? Uh, that's funny. I think I'm just a lot more balanced. I think I keep him in check a little bit, but, yeah, he's very generous, but I mean, obviously, he loves, he loves, he loves being generous. I wouldn't say I was not generous. I would just say I'm more balanced.

See, that doesn't open. I'm pushing it. It's unlatched and it doesn't open. So in the summer, that's going to get roasting. No, we will get a handyman out to sort these out. I'm going to go and meet the agent now. So I'll have a chat. It's a lovely flat, and I'm not going to get nothing like this. You're going to want to stay here? Yeah, but it's just a case of just getting it so the windows are sealed properly. It's cold, but, you know, as I said, it's a lovely flat. Yeah. She's lovely upstairs. No, that's reasonable. I'll speak to the letting agent. I'll see what we can do. All right. Have a lovely day. Okay. Thanks so much.

I don't really generally go to my properties that often. You sort of buy it, get management systems in place, and then move on to the next deal. But I do think it's important to sometimes go and visit and actually meet with your tenants because I've been very surprised. She wasn't unhappy. She likes the place, but there were small changes like the window can't open, and she's boiling in the summer, and she really wants someone to come and fix the window. It's probably going to cost £100 to send them out, and it's going to make the world of difference to her throughout the summer. It shows again the responsibility as a landlord and as a property owner. If you're just a decent landlord, you're making people's lives a lot better. See you. How you doing, mate? Toby. Toby. How old are you, Toby? Five years old. I've got a boy who's six years old, so about the same age. Mate, I've got to show you our bus. Look at this, bro. I'm not egotistical or anything. It wasn't my design. Come on in. When I used to get trolled, your MS used to defend me. Yeah. I remember somebody said to me the once said, "So there was about good landlords." And I remember putting it on your profile once and just defending something. And I said, "Yeah, well, Sam is a good landlord," says Amanda. And I remember them turning around to us and saying, "Well, what makes him a good landlord?" And I said, "Well, actually, he allows us to live in the house, and it becomes our house." And we've been there 10 years now, haven't we, Toby? Well, you haven't been since you're five, you know, but we've been there around them 10 years. But Amanda, his wife, and Sam, if we ever needed anything doing, he, we could literally WhatsApp, text him within sort of 24 hours, if not sooner. They're straight on there for us. I really appreciate everything you've done for us. Actually, you've been an absolute, um, diamond. And Amanda's been amazing, too. Your, your wife is, she's a good egg, man. You know what? The other day, right, I'll be honest with you, she had like a baby in her arms and everything like this. She was doing business, feeding the baby, you know, back as a forks. I was like, she literally is a woman who does everything. I mean, I shouldn't really say this on the camera, right? But he's never even put the rent up. So, you know, for 10 years, if he's, so, he's not a money grabber. They're just beautiful people. There's a couple of times when I change jobs, for instance, and, um, there's one or two times when I had to just delay a payment to the date. There wasn't any issue with it. And I will miss them. Will miss them definitely.

Amanda is the one. If people don't, people don't know, Amanda manages the whole portfolio, everything. And for me, it is quite passive because got tenants, got the management companies, got Amanda. Occasionally, Amanda might ask me, "Sam, I'm like, I don't know, you sort it." She runs the show. What I do is I find the deals, I negotiate, I'll, I'll be the putting the creative plan, I'll be pushing. But then as soon as the deal's done, to Amanda, even the refurb. See, I won't be overseeing this refurb. Amanda will. So, I even message Amanda, I said, "Oh, I just told the tenants in the last house that we're going to get my new kitchen." She just put a thumbs up. That's it. Now, I never hear of it again. Just get sorted. That's how it needs to be. You need, you know, roles and responsibilities. You know what I mean? So, shout out to Amanda.

I think what really struck me today is online, I usually see Samuel talking with big millionaires, billionaires, Dan Pena, Andrew Tate, billionaires from Africa. Yet today, I've actually seen him talk to some people who are just paying £500 per month rent. They're not particularly rich people by any means. Yet, he's also able to connect so well with these people. He's able to engage with them on a really deep level. And you can see the deep respect that these people have for Samuel. Some of these people have been renting from him for five, 10 years.

You might have heard people say, "Buy the worst house in the best street." What I say is, "Build the no house in the best street." In other words, buy land and build. That is where the profit is. These houses that you can see behind me, these three houses, and also there's three behind them as well. And I built all six of them from scratch, making half a million pounds profit in a single year. This is where the true money is made.

This is the famous six-house development. I was really inspired by this, but it's all started from this development. So, this was a piece of land that was found by a guy called Trevor. He said he wanted to do a partnership. After much negotiation back and forth, I agreed to give him 30% on the agreement that I put in all the money. 300 grand for the land, £500,000 for the build. We sell, and then the profit we split. Nine months we built these six houses. We had a GDV of 1.35 million. Now, in the final month, Trevor said to me, "I want to get 50%." And I said, "No." When the projects were finished and we put them on for sale, he rented them out. When you rent out a new build, it drops in value by 10% at least. So, what happened is I took him to court, and I won in court. Not only did I win in court, but also because he breached his contract, I managed to kick him out altogether, and I took 100% of the profit. He made nothing. He made nothing. So, all the profit went to me. And not only that, but because he'd spent the money before making it and being greedy, I took him to court. I liquidated his companies and I bankrupted him personally. I'll happily throw you a rope and help you out, but if you take advantage of me, you're going to go to the cleaners. So, Trevor, you should be ashamed. And that's what happens.

What's going on, brother? How are you? We built your house. Yeah, we built the house a few years back. No, that's a big moment. But you're late. I'm late. I'm sorry. I'm not late. I finished. I know it's yours, but I'm a lorry driver, you know what I mean? Okay. Well, you need to drive our bus then. Okay. Hello. How are you? Good to see you. You guys know each other, right? Uh, not quite. Well, let's introduce you. 5C 5. First time saying hello to each other. Okay. Can I ask you a question? Yes. Was it the one of your first development or your second, your third? I mean, uh, this. Now, I've been in, I've been in property, uh, for 17 years. Okay. Um, so it wasn't my first, but it's the one I'm very proud of it still. Okay. Oh, yeah. The gardens. You know what though? We had to be really creative with these. Yeah. No, no. I mean, like I said, I'm not blaming anything. I'm just saying, like, if they would be a little bit taller. Well, the fences. Yeah, the fence. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. You say that. That's interesting. That's why I got the gazebo. Yeah. You know what I mean? We, we, we, we had a long discussion about this, and we said, if the fences are high, could it feel a bit crammed and claustrophobic, and is it nice that the neighbors potentially can kind of talk? But we didn't realize we're going to have such an antisocial person that doesn't even know their name. You know what I mean? We thought the tenants would be like friendly with one another. So, you know, cuz I, I like to hike. It takes me back to those. You know what though? Maybe we could, maybe we could put, if everybody wants, if everybody wants big fences, everybody, we can put big fences, you know, we could do that. The, the house is, is nice, man. It's really nice and cozy, especially like in, uh, in the winter time. And I think the landlord is, uh, brilliant as well. Do you know what I mean? Very understanding person. Question for you. You know the garden, you know the low fences. Good or bad idea? See, I'm all right to pop in quickly. Yeah, I'll take my shoes off. Thank you. Thank you. So, this is it. £900 a month, friend. It's all right. But the main profit was the half a million pound we made when we finished the build. You know what though? Even though they're quite small houses and the build was quite cheap, it's not been built cheap. Cuz people say half a million, I bet it's like cardboard. Well, it does feel a bit like cardboard, but it's not. It's actually pretty solid. Let me get a wall that's not like cardboard. No, it's all like cardboard. That one. Yeah, that one. That one would do. Don't knock it too hard. No, it's cardboard. Oh, goodness. All right, you win, trolls. Oh, baby shower. Now I need to know. Was it a boy or a girl? Do you know yet? A boy. Congratulations. That's so exciting. So, we've been here for five months. Yeah. And I really think when we came for the viewing, we were really convinced because everywhere was really cool, neat, the finishings were so perfect, and we felt, this is a place to actually be. It's amazing. It's amazing seeing people build families. I've got four children myself. Um, it's amazing. It's amazing. So, thank you guys. This is the whole thing. I mean, it's not about making money. It's about doing something that gives back, that makes a difference to somebody else's life. We can teach you if you want to start building and getting in the game. I can show you how. So, are you? And I, I'd love nothing more than to help my tenants buy and build houses. That's a dream for me. Yeah, I wouldn't mind. Let's do it. Yeah. Let's do it. Great. In a way, for me, uh, I don't know. I believe in faith. I believe for me to be in this property, it was not by mistake. It was something called me to meet up with him, and so maybe in the future, he might be helping, uh, me out to do some property development. It's just game-changer, if I can say, for, for, for myself, to be honest. So, it's a game-changer for me.

If I'm buying land without planning, what I always do is buy on an option. Buy on an option, get planning, and then build. Now, sell with planning, and you can do that in a pension. So, if you've got a SIPP pension, like I have, you can buy commercial property, i.e. land, tax-free, get planning, and then sell. All the profit goes into your pension. You pay no tax. We don't own it anymore. So, don't be like going into the windows and stuff. This is something I did with my mom. Little side quest. Mhm. There was a garage, and what we did was knock down the garage, and then we split the title. We sold the house for 185 grand, but the land we sold separately for 77 grand. Generally speaking, the profit is not in the build. The profit's in the planning.

All right, let's go. Welcome to sunny Buckinghamshire. So, using my old-school method of buying a house but paying for it later, I apply that to land. So, I'll find land that's not got planning permission. Land without planning permission is just grass. And this land is a prime example. So, right from the very beginning, where the road is, up until almost as far as you can see, all of this land we've secured on an option agreement. So, we've agreed to buy it subject to planning. How much do you reckon I paid? A pound. A pound. Of course, initially, we put a pre-app in that was rejected, but they came back and said, "Look, access is fine. We're happy for you to put a road. We like the scheming principle, but it was just too many houses." We're putting another scheme in now, which is just for seven houses, but kind of big houses, cuz we're in quite a nice area. Then what we'll do is we'll build the houses. Yeah. No. We don't want to deal with all that. Then what we'll do is we'll assign the option to someone that wants the trouble of building the houses, but our profit is in planning. There's a reason that I don't normally show off all the stuff that I'm doing. You have to keep things a bit quiet. I say that on camera. It's annoying because it's like, man, if you've got land, and the government right now is saying that to be on track, we need to build a new house every two minutes, and I'm saying, "I got land, I got money, let's go." And they're going, "No," because there's a tree over here, and it's like, "Move out the way." When I build houses, do you know what happens? It means that houses become more affordable. So, we're moaning about cost of living crisis, housing crisis. I'm here trying to change it and save it, and the councils are making our lives a misery, which is really frustrating.

What's the problem here? Cuz the government's instruction has to be build more houses. Correct. So, why are they doing this? It's, it doesn't make sense. You're preaching to the choir, sister. Doesn't make sense. What's that? 11. Well, I don't really like this. Uh, no. I hate filming. I'm Amanda, and I'm Samuel's wife. We've been married for 10 years, and we have four beautiful kids together.

So, I've known Samuel for 11 years, but we've been married 10. We got married like pretty fast, within nine months of knowing each other, meeting for the first time. So, me and Samuel met at a wedding, and it was really unexpected. I traveled from Leeds to Warsaw for this wedding, and it was an African wedding, so it was Zimbabwean and someone from Ghana getting married. And then he turned up, and he looked a bit out of place, and I wondered like, I wonder who he knows here. And then he ended up at the table with my family, and he then started doing some magic tricks, and then he ended up sat next to me, and then that's how we started talking. First month was literally just we'd be up on the phone all night until the early hours of the morning, asking each other all the deal-breaker questions. And then I think after the first month, it was just like, yeah, we definitely want to be with each other, definitely want to get married. Family is everything to Samuel. That's one of the things that attracted me to him. I remember when we were first dating, he invited me to come around for Sunday lunch with his family, and I thought, "Oh, that's really sweet because not many guys would do that." So, we got engaged in December 2014. Leading up to that sort of time, one day he just said, Samuel just said to me, "Oh, I've got something to tell you." And I was just like, "Okay, what?" And then he said, "I'm actually a million pounds in debt." And I was just like, "Oh." I was like, "Oh, don't worry, babe. Like, you know, we'll just work hard and then we'll just pay the money off, you know, at some point." Like, it didn't really faze me. And then he said, "Oh, but actually, I've also got, you know, lots and lots of property. So, actually, yes, I'm a million pounds in debt, but, you know, if you average up my net worth, I'm actually not not in debt like that. I'm a millionaire." And I was just like, "Oh, okay. Well, that's good then." I loved him so much, it didn't really matter to me about the debt.

I've always been quite public about my properties because I'm from the Black Country, and I'm from the business groups and the clubs, and people knew me. So they'd be like, "Oh, Samuel, can you speak about what you've done?" So I'm like, "Oh, yeah, sure." So I, I started sharing my tips and successes. I get so many opportunities because I'm public about what I'm doing. But that has its downsides as well.

Hello. I'm just thinking about a property that I saw on 275 Broad Lane in Bloxwich. Yes. What's your name? Uh, Samuel. Okay. And who could be moving in? Uh, is it, is it for sale or is it for rent though? Cuz I thought it was for sale. It's for sale as well. Oh, it's for sale and for rent. Yeah. Okay. What, what, what's it on for sale for? £148,000. 148. What's the, what's the rent on it? What's it on for rent? £900. £900 a month potentially. Would I be able to rent it, but with an option to buy it down the line? No. No. No. No. But is it not for sale and for rent? Yeah, it is for sale, but not with an option to buy down the line. So, but would the, if, if the seller wants to rent it and potentially also wants to sell it. Very interesting. Thank you. Goodbye. Oh, okay.

Yes. What's all this? I want to be extra safe by getting like lots of surveyors to come. You are coming in yet, does it? It doesn't. It's not completed yet. No, but we're in, we're in, um, conveyance. Well, the property hasn't gone through yet, so it's not, he doesn't know it yet. I'm so, I'm so sorry if the memo didn't, didn't get passed. I know we've not completed on it yet. I think we're due to complete in the next few weeks, aren't we? Hopefully. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just thought I was meeting you. I didn't know about this. I'm sorry that you didn't get the memo passed, but we'll only be 10 minutes anyway, and then, and then we'll be on to the next. But, right. So, room number two. She was so angry. I don't get it. Why was she so irked? We weren't filming her. We were filming a property that I'm buying that's weeks away, two, three weeks away from completion. And it was my first time ever seeing it in person, and I'm filming it, and I'm bringing a few friends. What the heck? She was fuming.

Samuel said that Samuel Leeds. You know who he is. She said, "I know who he is." Oh, did she? As in like she knows who I am because I'm buying the property, or as in like I hate every. Oh, so she's a hater. Tonight we investigate the so-called property training company, which exposes these property gurus such as Samuel Leeds. There are so many questions to ask Samuel Leeds. There are so many questions. Samuel's had a lot of hate over the over the years, and particularly, uh, back in 2019. Samuel Leeds offers controversial courses on achieving financial freedom. It was, it was tough. I mean, we went through different stages. So, at first, everyone's advice, all the PR firms and everyone's advice was just, "Ignore it. It'll go away." The problem is, and we've learned a valuable lesson here. And actually, the guy that helped us shift our approach to dealing with it was actually Grant Cardone. We're having a chat with Grant, and we said, "Look, everyone says ignore it." And he's like, "Lean into it, bro. Lean into the hate. They're giving you energy. If it's not true, then you need to tell the world it's not true. You got to fill the vacuum up." So, that was when we put together the video which Samuel obviously released. I'm going to address some of the things that have been made up about me. I don't sell expensive information. I sell training. I've got the email thread proving that I booked a business roundt session with Lord Sugar. I got real people, buddy. These are real people. The media are trying to make me look bad and trying to discredit me, but it doesn't matter. 93% rated us between a seven and a 10 out of 10. I'm proud of my results. I'm proud of my training. Stop spreading fake news. Explaining and saying, "No, all these, these are lies. Here's what actually happened," and putting his side of the story out. And that's where it sort of began to began to shift. And everyone was like, "Okay, there's now two sides." If I had to sit back and go, what was the most groundbreaking piece of advice as a business that you've had since working with Samuel? I would say that conversation with Grant was probably the most important conversation that we'd ever had.

I think that when you're doing property, if you do it quietly, it's fine, but as soon as you bring cameras and stuff like that, people hate you. Which is why I get a lot of hate. I mean, going around, look, man, I got millions of properties, and I'm in a bus, and here's my face on the bus. Look at me, I'm rich. Like, that irks people. Oh, the hair is absolutely awful. It really annoys me because I just think people online love to say things, but it's always people that have never actually experienced Samuel. If you know Samuel and you know his heart, you just would never ever say anything bad about him because all he's doing is good. There's never going to be someone who's doing better than you that's, you know, tearing you down online. So, usually I just think, oh, whatever. But I wasn't wanting to go to the outside just point.

Have you any fl? Yes, if you could. If you don't have boots, I didn't, I didn't have boots last time, and I was just like, man, I'm calm. I didn't have any boots. I was wearing pumps, and then within 20 seconds, I stood on a nail, and it went right into my foot, and I had to get Hector's jab. So, definitely you should wear boots. All right, in a bit, guys.

Hey. There we go. Right, come on through. So, we bought this, uh, on an option agreement. Um, paid £25,000 only as the deposit, and the agreement was that we had the option to buy it for £975 grand, i.e. a million pound in total. But then when we paid the £25 grand, we then got planning permission. So, we got planning permission accepted for 48 apartments. Yeah, it was a rundown factory. You know what it produced? What in rent? The factory, mate. All I know is revenue, brother. Oh, jeez. Does anyone else want to be? Is anyone else a bit more, um? Go on, Nel. So, these are the codes I've got. These are the many codes. You got it. Should you even know the code? There's me with the code. All right, let's go. Watch your feet. Watch where you step. Land in this location, this big for a million pounds is pennies. So, it was about two years ago now when we first found this site. And, you know, it's kind of an impressive site. It was brought to us by a student. Now, the best part is, how much money do you reckon I put in to buy this? None. I didn't put a penny in. It was financed, uh, by private investors. So, we got people like I'm one. You are one. Now, this is the interesting part. Now, we already had a planning application for 48 apartments. So, rather than resubmitting the plans from scratch, what we did was we piggybacked onto his planning application. By the time we'd amended the planning, our builders had gone on to other jobs. By the time we found new builders, guess what had happened? The cost of the refurb went from 3.5 plus all the professionals, about 4 million, to like 5.9. Wow. It just killed the profit. I then get an offer, and we worked out if we sold.

It for 1.5 million, we worked out we'd make a profit, a net profit percentage of 19.6%. So when we had the offer to sell it, we approached our investors and we said, "Look, we've had an offer to sell. The profit's going to be 19.6%. We'll round it up to 20. And we paid our investors back. So, you've been paid back, right? So, we paid our investors back with 20%, right? He's honest in in his dealings with his investors that sometimes things happen. He gave the choice to either keep investing with him or to take the money. But that just shows his integrity as a person. He's honest and he says what he does and does what he says. But I'm also pleased that I invested and I got my return on investment. So now I can find my own BRR and and and take things from there and I'm I'm happy. But if I'm in a project and I'm relying on the council, I'm relying on this and I I I just don't want investors. I'd rather just say, you know what, guys, let's get you out of the deal and then I can just breathe and it's my project. I ain't got to worry. Especially if I've got investors that are like, "Fucking Sandra, she come for me." You know what I mean?

If we finished it now, I I reckon we'd be hardressed to even get 20%. So why am I going to finish it when I could just sell it? In fact, everything's for sale. All my portfolio, all my businesses, everything's for sale. What about my training? My training business. No one buy because it's a job. My training business is a job. Also, I tell you something interesting. Guess how much money my training business made last year. Nothing. Correct. None.

Also, a lot of our 30% of our academy members now are associates. Associate members paid £2,000. And for that, they get all the dinners, all the mentor, and all that. We lose a lot. But I'm doing it because do you know when you got people like Amazon, all these companies don't make money for like decades because they're in I'm in this for the long game. I'm not trying to make a quick book and sell a course. I'm trying to grow an infrastructure and create a movement and do something which is going to be remembered for hundreds of years. Legacy. Correct. Honestly, when I make decisions on my businesses, I'm thinking about 50 years. You know what I reckon we should do? Get hard and get some freaking high vision. Get some pictures. Get some pictures, get some content. You guys can film some content in here as well.

I started marketing my services on YouTube. So, my own houses and my investors houses I'd show on YouTube, hey, I've just bought this house for Bob. And uh Bob's really happy with it. Bob, what do you think about the house? And then Bob would talk. We do a little tour and I'd say, if you want to uh buy a property like this, then give your details below and I'll put you on the list. The property business is not a property business. It's a people business. Money doesn't come from property. Money comes from people. This is a site where where where you know the profit's been made. Sandra's made her money 20%. Do it now, Sandra.

All right. It's an investment that I invested in two years ago and I got 20% return on my investment. Um, and I'm truly I'm not good at this at all. Keep going, girl. This is a 20,000 square foot factory. Was a business and now it's a bit derelict as you can see. Um, we're on a site tour. I invested in this investment. He's working on the caring commission. So, this is how it is. Um, I invested some money 2 years ago and I'm happy to say that I got 20% on my return on my investment. And so right next to one of Samuel's projects from about 2 years ago now, he showed us his 10 million portfolio and I am glad to say that I have made a 20% return on my investment. Okay, that's good, man. It's such a strong group of people that he's he's invited to come for this. And I mean, I can't wait to see what everybody does now as takeaways in business. It's just going to be very exciting.

This deal is a money pit. I bought it for 810,000 and I worked out that if I restored it, the end value would be 7 million plus. But it didn't it didn't work like that. when we'd spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on Gibbsford House, but it didn't look any different. And I realized, oh my gosh, I'm going to have to spend six figures a year just to keep this place. It was quite demoralizing because all the other deals that I was doing, these little houses, and the profit was just being dumped into this big green machine that was just taking all my money.

So we saw Ribsford for sale on Right Move and it was just like how can that much property, you know, 8 acres of land, 20,000 square ft building, looks like a castle, how can that much property be so cheap? Like surely there's going to be some profit in there somehow. So we were quite excited about the prospect of it, but looking back we were so naive. It was unbelievable. The reason everyone was scared to buy it when it was on auction. It was like, "Oh, Japanese notweed. It's riddled with Japanese notweed. Oh, there's structural problems. There's cracks. It's got structural cracks. Oh, everyone's worried." I bought it real fast like a G. Got the Japanese notweed sorted in 3 months. Got my expert guys in. We got crack stitching done. Structural engineer signed it off. Sorted. So, very quickly I'm like, man, I'm banging this out. This is but then we we we ran into uh into further problems.

The problem with this building has not been that it needs a big refurb. It has been dealing with wire forest council. It has been dealing with English heritage. It has been dealing with the bat license. After we bought it, we found out that there was bats living upstairs. What I didn't realize is you can't disturb the bats. The Batman told us that we needed to rehome the bats. So, we had to build a hot box upstairs at the top of the at the top of the castle for the bats to be able to hang out, mate, do their thing, have fun, have a party, rentree forever. Literally that delayed us over a year. It was my very first proper development project. It was it was a little bit embarrassing as well because it was in the papers and stuff like, "Oh, wow. Young entrepreneur buys a castle. He's going to renovate it." And people were asking me every week, "Have you finished your castle yet? Have you have you made your millions on on the how's the castle can? And it's like, yeah. Mhm. We bought that one first. The amount of deals that we've bought since and completed and built since completed and that's still there ticking along in the background is uh is unbelievable. But we've learned so much from it because everything that possibly could go wrong or any obstacle or problem that could come up that you might face has hit us with Ribs House. So from a learning perspective, unbelievable.

The fact that it's grade two star listed means you can't change anything without making it like for like. So when we had changed the windows in my mind, I'm like, okay, windows cost a couple thousand. Oh, these windows. Oh, 50,000. Okay. And also the annoying thing about this building is I've got the money and have had the money for years to refurb it, but I'm just not allowed, which is really frustrating because it's a listed building. What that means is that means the building is of the public interest. I mean, this building's got its own Wikipedia page. During the war, we had 200 free French soldiers that lived here and trained here for the war. In fact, when I bought this building in 2018, one of the last standing free French soldiers reached out to me. He sent me a a handwritten letter and he said, "I saw the building going to frack and ruin and wearing down and I'm so glad that you bought it and I'm so glad that you're repairing it." I mean, for me, we're restoring a legacy. We're restoring a piece of history. It's it it's a slight sentimental thing as well. I'm just going to show you the magnitude of the size of the building. Bear in mind this is just one wing. Bear in mind we have 8 acres of land. This is a 20,000 square ft. Also, when you look out the window, as far as your eyes can see, it's all part of the estate. If this went on rate my deal, I think it would come back with can't be rated. Even now the levels of due diligence are impossible to do because how can you quote do you take this off plaster paint? What what's what's behind? And with everything being listed, how much is it going to cost to change that window? It has to be exactly like for like how is it possible for anybody to know the investors that put money into this. By the way, after about 18 months when I realized, oh my goodness, this is not quite what I thought, we paid the investors all their money back, gave 10% on top because that's what you do, right? Reputation is more important than revenue. It's not a case of lack of vision. It's not a case of lack of finance. It's a case of lack of permission. And for someone that is your own boss, I want to do what I want. If you've got a listed building and it's protected, it's not my building. Everybody else has a say, which is which is fine. That's what I signed up for when I bought it. I could sell it tomorrow. Any offers? We got the structure sorted. We got the Japanese notweed gone. We got the Batman off our back happy. and everything was fine until in 2023 there was a terrible thing that happened. If you've got 24 people all living here, what do they all need? Parking. Car park that was there when we bought the property was not a car park. It was a forest. The seller, he got permission from the Forestry Commission to knock down the trees with the clause that he would replant the trees within two years. He knocked down the trees. He turned into a car park to sell the building. He sold the building to some dum dum, namely me. So when my planning consultant looked at the drawings and everything, my planning consultant was like, "Yes, we think you'll be okay. It should work. Everything was fine. But then what happened was I got an email from Forestry Commission in 2023. Basically says in summary, there's a clause that was somewhere in your legal pack. If you didn't see it, not my problem. But you have to change the car park, turn it back into a forest, and you have to by law plant 300 trees. Oh wow. Where the car park was. So, we had to plant 300 trees, which then meant that the council said, "Well, we can't give you planning permission to to for these apartments and houses because you got in a car park." So, you've got Forestry Commission saying one thing, English Heritage saying another, the council all with their own agendas, and then me in the middle trying to keep everybody happy, but also trying to make a small profit, but really at this point given up on everything apart from just wanting to finish the project, but can't. Let me show you the old car park. It's now forest. We agreed to put the trees down Sunday the 15th of June and then guess who was here 8:30 on the Monday? Forestry commission to check that we' done it. And they actually was shocked that we did. He said to Simon, he said, "Most developers wouldn't do it, but what can you do?" Anyway, welcome to our new forest. So, I officially planted 300 trees. I think sometimes it's easy to say, "Oh, I know that." Lots of people say, "Oh, I'd known not to have bought it." But you don't know something properly until you've lived it. But it was tough. You know, I was just in my 20s. And what it did do is it forced me. It forced me to get better. Jim Ran, who I've spent thousands of hours listening to, even as a kid, he said, "Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills, and never wish that it was easier. Instead, wish that you were better." And I think through the struggle of that, not only did I learn loads on the site, but the fact that my cash flow was being taken, it forced me to have to get some more lucrative and bigger deals. Um, and all these years later, it's still a money pit, but we are where we are.

You can do deals and you can make a bunch of money and you can think like, "Oh my gosh." And you end up thinking, "Everything I touch turns to gold, man." And then when you become arrogant, that's when you normally have a downfall. You're going to get hit. You're going to get some bumpy roads, but it's part of the journey. So, all right. Motivational enough already. Hey,

I just bought this piece of land in the center of Buckston in the Peak District and this has got planning provision now for 30 glamping pods. That is how you can buy a cheap little bit of land and get a lot of revenue from it. And the best part is when you buy commercial land, you don't pay the same stamp duty rates and you can buy it in your SAS fund which means that the income is completely taxfree. So, welcome to Staden Graange. This was a hotel I purchased just last year for £1.4 million. We're right in the heart of Buckton. We've got over 2 acres of land and the area for this I know works because I've got other properties in the area that work really well. So, the market's pretty tested. So, when we bought this hotel, it had 24 rooms. What we've done is we've reconfigured it and turned it into 13 cottages. This side, this is all going to be one cottage. No, everything you see is all this is all one. Yeah, they're all big. So, this is all going to be a living room with a open kitchen, beautiful high-end. And this is your on suite bedroom. Normally, when you rent a hotel room, you'd rent this, but you've got this, but then you've also got your other bedroom. You've got your lounge, your kitchen, you've got the whole So, it's a holiday home. So, the space was big. The location was fantastic, but it was marketed badly. They weren't using the space right. And I saw the value and thought if we could lift the commercial revenue, we could potentially even double the value of the building. Cottage 2 is everything that's to the right here. This is pretty much ready to go, man. Kitchen, lounge, bedroom, on suite, small self-contained holiday l cottage number three starts from here. So this is the door. The views are fantastic. You can see all the land. Oh, how beautiful is this? I stay here. So in total there'll be five units this side and then there's four here and four here. And we've got planning permission already in place for 30 glamping pods. That's again going to increase the revenue which ultimately increases the value of the entire estate.

One of the biggest questions that you guys have asked me on a one-on-one basis whenever I've been chatting with you is what's the reason that I even do this? I guess the reason I'm doing this is because when I started, when I was 17 years old, there wasn't really anybody that I could look up to and admire that was the real deal that would actually just say, "Here's my portfolio. come look around. Here's my strategies. So, for me, why am I doing this? I think it's because I'm trying to um create uh a a culture of transparency and to create a culture of leveling the playing field. For me, that's a purpose. That's a that's a a mission. That's something that will last. And here is to the next best 10 years.

So the community in the academy is what's got me through the last 5 years. I knew hands down from first experience the difference that he made in my life even today. I was having a really really hard time today. And then I just sent him a message and I said, "I I don't know what to do, but I have to go and I I can't go to dinner. I can't go tomorrow. I have to go." And then immediately he's like, "You can get off the bus and I'll pick you up." I had like a whole chart of problems. So many problems like immigration. I'm playing three lawyers. Immigration, a marriage, divorce lawyer, and property and business. And there's no one magical lawyer that knows everything. But Samuel's just like, "So, this is what we're going to do, and it's going to be okay. And you know what? You need to say this, and this, and this, and I'm going to find somebody to do this, this, and this, and it's going to be okay. You need to come up with a plan. We're going to help you come up with a plan. It's okay." I'm like, "What do I do? Do I tell my mom?" And he's like, "Yes." And I'm like, "What? Yes. I'm like, "Okay, it's really something to have. He's like my godfather even though he's 15 years younger than me. He's just such a protector and he's always been like that from day one.

Hey babe. Hey. How you doing? Nearly there now. And all the tenants of the little houses were raving about you. They were saying you're the best land lady. Oh my gosh, that's so sweet. It was. You'd have actually quite liked it. I'm looking forward to going back. Oh yeah. Being in my own bed. I'm looking forward to getting back. I'll speak to you in a bit. Bye. Love you. Love you. Bye.

I think for me what's more impressive in a way and what's more meaningful is not the buildings but is the people. So most of the people that are here on site coming out with me are property millionaires and they've got their own stories to tell. It's almost like my drive is to achieve success, to be able to be a role model and to be able to show people that are also maybe from Warsaw with nothing to show them what's possible and pull them up. Samuel Johnson came to the country with nothing. He spent 6 months trying to get his first rent to rent, getting rejected, rejected, rejected. Now he's got 56 units. like seeing the the stories of the people I think is more of a legacy than even the the building itself.

So we just got a new sign a Samuel Leeds Hotel. Now I've sent you guys everything. I don't know if you have had a chance to look at all the documents. Covenant restriction order, public notice order, title deeds, plans. Took me quite a long time to negotiate. The seller who was selling it was from Hong Kong. They wanted two million pounds for it and I negotiated to buy it for 2 million pounds but I had a 10-year option and in the meantime I'm paying six and a half grand a month rent just so it can wash its face and then I'm paying 2 million in the next 10 years. I will not pay 2 million in 10 years though. It will be less than 10 years cuz as soon as this property becomes worth about four I'm going to buy. My sister said £1 option is kind of taking the mickey a little bit. Why don't you do a £10,000 option? But I wanted to buy it with a one pound deposit just for the story, just to be able to forever say I bought this hotel with a £1 deposit. So, at the moment, we're charging about £110 per night. The plan is to increase that a little bit as we get more reviews. It's a C1 property, so it had planning permission to be a hotel and it was running as a hotel, but it was a little bit shabby. Just before co it was used as a school, so it was a little bit confused. So you'd walk in and there'd be like a shabby hotel room and then here there'd be like a whiteboard. It was all a little bit confused. It really needed vision. And my vision for it was to turn it into a high-end hotel and rent it out. What shocked me the most is how low the rent is and how much of a steal it is. It's like a hidden gem opportunity. Obviously, it's a gorgeous building. I think it's got loads and loads of potential. I mean, I'm not surprised cuz Samuel's got his fingers in everything.

This is the reason why when I've got some of my other developments like Rubford House and it's like, oh, it's painful and I'm not making money on it. But you have to look at the portfolio as a whole and it's a game. It's a game at the end of the day. You're going to have mistakes. You're going to win some. You're going to have losses. You're going to lose some. It's part of the game. So, so far this one has been it's my most high profit earner. But you don't know. It could be that we go into another pandemic and suddenly I lose all my bookings. You can't get too comfortable. You need to continue pushing and pushing and pushing. Pride comes before a fall. So, as soon as you get too arrogant and why, then that's when problems can come. So, you're best off to just keep calm. See the money coming in, fine. See the money being lost over here, fine. It's part of the game.

If you buy a building and you refurbish it, that refurbishment is not tax deductible. However, with this building, we don't own it yet. We're renting it. and our company that's renting it, namely Samuel Leeds Developments, can't rent it out properly without a refurb. So, it needs to refurbish it in order to rent it. Therefore, the refurb is tax deductible. The refurb is now a loss. Samuel's Development is now sitting at a £200,000 loss, which means that when Samuel's Development starts making money, it can claim that loss against the profits. And not only that, but we're benefiting because we're adding value to the building which we've got a set price of 2 million to buy it. So Adam is the manager of the hotel. So even though it's service accommodation in sense of we've got everything's all keypads and it's all systemized and automated, we do still need Adam of course otherwise I'd have to do everything which would be an absolute disaster. Yeah. in the hospitality industry. There's not there's not very many jobs like this. And actually, I'm really quite privileged to be working in some place like this and turning what was once a wonderful Victorian mansion house back to being a wonderful Victorian mansion house. So, um yeah, thank you for the opportunity, Sam. Well, it's um it's a privilege and it's it's great to be here. We got six rooms up here that we're doing at the moment and it's the Victorian wing of the house and so we're sort of attempting to keep it as traditional Victorian as we possibly can do. How much do you reckon we'll get for this room a night? We'll be looking around about the sort of 3 400 mark initially, I think. And I think as we progress the building and start bringing in some of the wedding business that we're trying to bring in, I think we can probably push that that little bit further. And that sounds like quite a lot cuz at the moment we're getting like £110 a night on average. So 350 sounds like a lot for Yeah. But there's very little else in Cambridge that is this quality. There's a couple of really good hotels in Cambridge. And there's a couple of new apart hotels that are opening up, but they don't have this. Go into Cambridge and you can't walk on the grass. Come to Winningham House, you'd be the lord of Lady of the Manor for a weekend. And I think that's the selling point that we have.

Question, Chuck GBT. I'm the owner of Willingham House. It's got 26 bedrooms. Last month we had our best ever month with a turnover of 83,000 pounds. However, that was me really actively pushing it like mad. Question for you is, do you think 1 million pounds revenue next year over a 12-month period is realistic for a building like Willingham House? Congratulations on your brief moment of peak performance. If you actually invest in real marketing, optimize your pricing, squeeze in events and weddings, you could get past the oneman pound line. But that's not passive income, my dude. That's hustle. How much do you think the building will be worth once I've been able to show multiple years worth of proven revenue at the hotel? With clean books, decent profit, and no major red flags, 2.9 million to three points conservatively. Could it be more? Absolutely. If your branding is strong, then sure, 4 million pounds isn't a fantasy, just a very demanding one. If you've got a set price of 2 million to buy it in two years, if it's if it's worth 3 million in 2 years, I'll probably wait a little bit. When it gets to worth 4 million, I'll buy it.

So with these guys that I'm taking on this tour, they're my academy members. So I set the community up not just to mentor people and to train people and and educate people but also to give them a leg up. My life would be very different. I would never be you know being able to have three holidays in a month or three holidays every 3 years. You know I do what I want to do when I want to do because I have the finance to do that. For someone like me who is zero knowledge and nothing I think it's the best best place to start. I never thought that I would do this many HMOs. I never thought 5 years ago that I'd be in a position where I've got Samuel Leeds face to face and ask him for advice.

Our academy is a paid membership fee and then that money that they pay goes back into the business. So we put dinners on networking events. I also have my solicitor, my accountant, all the members of the power team. I pay them to mentor the academy members. Samuel, one thing he's done, he's instilled belief in me. Whenever I'm around him, I genuinely have the belief that I can do exactly what he's doing. It's a phenomenal thing knowing that he's there. I know I can call on him and ask him for advice and especially with legal matters, he'd have our backs with that. We've seen the good, the bad, the ugly. There's nothing that he hasn't done. So, anything is achievable. I'm probably more proud of the deals that I've made happen for them than the deals that I've made happen for me.

Originally, it was just going to be a BR to single let in the end. Actually, circumstances wise, we ended up selling it, but we still made a tidy profit about 40 grand profit, something like that. So, we struggled to get finance at the start and we was waiting for about 9 months. So because it was going to be my first property that I've done since joining the academy, they wanted to know the experience side of things and it meant higher interest rates on the bridge that that sort of thing and it had killed the deal if I'd have gone ahead with the original bridge. But luckily we had Samuel Leeds Finance who stepped in at the last minute saved the deal for us. Samuel's Finance is essentially a bridging company. They'll loan the money that you need for property in the short term. Traditional bridging loans, they're meant to be quick, but they're really not. There's so much paperwork involved. You do a load of paperwork and then they've got more questions and more paperwork for you to do. But then when we went to Samuels, it was like we had everything you wanted already. It was so straightforward. Couple of questions and then bam, the money was there as soon as we needed it. Using the finance as well was it was so quick. I got a decision in two days for a to agree to loan and then I think it was about two months to not even two months before we completed on the purchase. So really quick, really efficient and surprisingly saved me money. I can't rate it enough. I'd definitely be using it again. I think he's done it for multiple people. I'm definitely one of many.

Do you know how much money he puts aside to do this? It's in the millions. I wouldn't be where I am today without the help of Samuel and his generosity as well. I know he does a lot of charity work. He's built a lot of hospitals and schools in Uganda. He's doing a lot of work there, giving back to the community. He's doing a lot of good stuff for He doesn't have to go out to Uganda and build schools and build hospitals, but he does. And it just shows you what type of guy he is. He's very generous, very humble, and he just loves to help people. It's his mission to help.

I think it makes it more vibrant that you have everyone in the academy that you can go and speak to people irrespective of your differences or cultural differences. So I think that's a great strength. Being 23 now, I've already built up a business of 15 service accommodation units. But it just goes to show that what Samuel's created is really powerful. I can't have any more respect for Samuel than I have. He's making so much of a difference in everyone's life. To Samuel can do it. Thank him, you know, from the bottom of my heart. I genuinely believe he's he's got a heart of gold.

As we drive to my house, we'll go past a bunch of little houses that I own that I bought for people. As I said, I've moved 56 people over to this village in total, including children. Um, started a little school. My kids go there. My sister's kids go there, my brother's kids go there. So, you know, we've got our own little school in the village. For me, a big a big part of my long-term mission is to bring financial literacy into schools and to empower kids to actually start businesses, be entrepreneurial, cuz often the naughty kids are the are the entrepreneurs. They're the future leaders. They're the movers and shakers. What I will do is start a curriculum so people don't have to move to Beckensfield to come to my I will start a curriculum which which people can when when they home educate their kids they can use the curriculum. Interestingly, there's nothing wrong with making money. But the question is what are you leaving behind? I'm trying to make money. Absolutely. I'm not ashamed to say I'm not apologetic to say that I'm a businessman trying to make money. But the big question is what difference are you making for the world? Are you a net positive? What lasting effects will you leave?

The car is here. I'll say I'll tell you one thing. The Range Rover is actually smaller than than the Mercedes. Really? Yes. Beautiful. tools. Is this it? Yeah. Oh, this is brilliant. This Oh my word. My name is Born Chikyanga and Samuel is my son in our culture. He's my son because he's married to my daughter. Hello. Pleas to meet you. This house um was given to us on Mother's Day as a present. Your Mother's Day gift. We were so thrilled, but it was a shop, but we were so happy. I want to give a shout out to dad because when I first started um property education and training, uh dad used to come all the way from Leeds to uh Warsaw. Yes, that's right. In his suit. Yeah. and come down. But to every event, every event that I was running, Dad would always come down and just support and show support. So, I appreciate I appreciate that. Thanks, so thank you. Thank you, son. Nice to see you. Thanks for that. Speaking to a lot of people, you you hear how their lives have been changed, impacted by how Samuel runs, you know, his courses or in my own experience, I've not seen anybody who has impacted community like Samuel.

Hello. Come here. Yeah. Wait, how you been? Hello. How have you been? Good. You've been good. Do you want to go see daddy's new car? Yeah. Come on then. Okay. What do you think of the car? Who's that? Daddy. Come on then. Get on. It's It's grudge. It's a butt. They're used to that. Like they're obviously just used to seeing my face on stuff because they didn't really say anything. They were just like, "All right. Nice design." Hello. Right. Should we go back in the house? Yeah. Come on then, guys. Your voice is so cool. It's so cool, isn't it? Yeah. All right. Okay. I'll race you. Okay, baby. We come in there, sweetie pie. How's How have you been? Good. Have you had a lovely week? I've missed you. Samuel retired for a little bit when we were due to have our first baby, Ruby. And he was just going to be a family man at home all the time with the baby. So, the baby was born in October. In December, he'd booked to have a cage fight because he had all this pent up energy that he needed to release. And then basically in the new year after that, January time, he was just back to it. He's just not good at home. That's not his role. I think his calling is truly what he's doing now.

Hello. You're having a bit of You were having some alone time with mommy and now there's 20 people in your house. Is that what's going on? Really wanted to show it. What is going on? Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle. I think he's a bit on the fence. He's a bit shook. It's not about the money for him. I think he just loves helping people and that's his thing. So, I don't necessarily think that what keeps him going is like the money that he's earning or anything like that. I think he just wants to impact as many people as possible and he can only do that if he keeps going and going and yeah, that's where I think that comes from. We moved into this house in 2019 and it looked so different to this. Everything is completely changed now. In there is Samuel's home gym. It's not massive, but it's got everything you need. This is where the kids are allowed to do whatever they want. They can like break anything, do whatever, right? Wow. Within reason. I actually don't think that Samuel will ever retire. He loves challenges. He loves work. And he's constantly pushing. Like even now, we live in a beautiful house. Um we have our family. He could retire if he wanted to anytime. But I think it's just in him to work and to grind and he's always like pushing pushing pushing to do better. So no, I don't think he'll ever retire. So bedrooms. Luke's room through here. Oh, and Luke's showing off his room. Ruby's got a room as well. And then we have Joseph's room. And then this is our bedroom, the main bedroom. When we first moved in, we used to just have a TV stand and then the TV there. But when you're in bed, you had to sort of be looking down at the TV. Get a TV there. Then when we're laying in bed, it's perfect. It's just so

When we were away filming on the property swap, Samuel said, "There's absolutely no way I would be where I am without Amanda." How does that make you feel? Oh, Darren. Oh my gosh. I could literally cry. That's a I don't want to cry. That's really sweet. Oh, I don't want to cry. Need some tissues. Yeah. No, that is Yeah, he's he's amazing and I love it. I think I'm just a really good support for him and I think that we work well as a team. I sort of hold it down at home and then he runs the business and together together I think it just works for us. So yeah. Gosh, as if I'm crying. But yeah, no, he's amazing and I think that yeah, I think together we've just done amazing. So I'm grateful for him as well and I appreciate him a lot. I love him a lot. So,

you know what though, guys? What a perfect week. Is it what you guys expected when I invited you this week? Much much more. Why is it more? Why? Why did you For me, you really transparent. You share everything. And I don't know anyone that does that. Show like the good, the bad, the ugly. You've showed your failures and you're not afraid of that, which is absolutely inspirational. The difference between making 10 million and 100 million, no one cares. That's just about ego. Oh, I actually I'm worth 200 million. I'm worth 250 million. Who cares? What people actually care about is how many people did you impact? How have I made it easier for other people to be able to get by, to be able to have a better quality of life, have more successful business because of what I've done? I think he'd want to be remembered as just a great man who did great things and helped many, many people. He's changed so many people's lives for the better so many times. He's helped so many people get onto the property ladder and be voluntary free. He did whatever he could to make sure that I succeeded.

I guess the question is financially free. Free to do what? Free to build more. True happiness is found in progression. Did you know that my biggest development I've ever done is not in the UK? My the biggest thing I've ever built is the hospital in Uganda. Helping people is a big part of why he also does what he does. These charities that many of us are supporting, these people who have nothing, they're benefiting from what Samuel is teaching. If you're like, well, actually Samuel has challenges. Everyone has challenges. It kind of makes you deal with your setbacks better. He's not just doing this for the money. He's doing it to help the ordinary person on the street. I just really appreciate his passion to help people. He certainly helped me and my family. They're very supportive. Absolutely amazing. I could not have gotten through anything if I didn't have the academy. It's been a great journey. It changed my life. I honestly wouldn't know what I'd do without the academy now. I'm a lifer. The community is invaluable and it is like a little family. Samuel has completely changed our lives. So legacy is not about how much money you've made. Legacy is about how many people you've impacted through your message, through your teachings, through your business, and leaving something in people. Whether that's part of my story or I think that's that to me that that's what life is about.