Re-invest your dividends

[RightLaugh]

Might be 2 years wages...

My great grandfather bought 2 houses for £600... can't imagine how.

They were compulsory purchased in the 70s & my great aunt got £1200 for them...

We're talented with money in my family.

so you've only got a talent in 1 thing then.

[Churchill]

Indeed.

And I can't remember what that was...

That's your amazing memory trick gone for a burton then, eh?

[NickFitz]

What if the bloke had bought a dozen BTL properties instead and then continued to buy more on the back of the income he had received in rents?

They would all have been destroyed in the Blitz.

HTH.