When starting up this Company and putting together the website, the first words in our description of Ubud were: “Ubud is a town unlike any other ...” My feeling at the time was that this statement may be a bit over the top. However, when listening to what expats had to say who knew Ubud from the last century, Ubud life must have been truly magical. Look up some of the old photos. (You find books at Ganesha Bookshop, Jl. Raya Ubud near the Post Office). I only joined the Ubud Community in 2000, but even then when the streets already started to fill up with traffic, immediately felt - ‘this is a place where to expect ‘The Good Life’ to happen.

To start with, you first want to consider your skills and capability. As a property investor you should not sell your properties just for the sake of ‘flipping over’, otherwise you are no different from a Property Vendor. More often than not a Property Investor will loose money when selling the investment on short notice again. However, if there is no sale, then there will be no money to purchase the next property. The property investment should be part of an asset allocation, besides saving deposits, bonds, gold and stock. So the investor should use ‘cold cash’ or long term- debt. The Property Investor should have two goals : cash flow and capital gain. This is the property investors specialty, because other investment will only give you one benefit.

Until the property market went quiet in the second half of 2014 and continuing still today, - all property professionals reminded us: “It’s all about location, location, location…” Now, while being still valid that LOCATION is important, it is certainly NOT THE ONLY factor for creating success in property investments. What I have seen (and my opinion seems to be close to the mark here) - if you seek success in property investment there are the following THREE issues to be analyzed:

Being in this business for 8 years, saya ketemu banyak investor "galau", terutama investor pemula. Ciri2 nya biasanya beli dulu karena kesannya murah atau karena temennya sudah beli di sebelahnya. Setelahnya jadi bingung itu property mau diapain. Dijual ga laku - laku, mo disewain lakunya murah. Sayang, engga efektif. Moga2 engga pake utang ya beli nya;-) Atau, maunya beli yang paling bagus dan paling murah! Udh setaon keliling liat dari Uluwatu sampai Lovina, engga beli juga karena takut belum nemu yang sesuai. Akhirnya kehilangan momentum, harganya udah pada naik.

Being in the property business by now for 8 years, I have met too many not yet qualified investors, especially the ones who just started. Normally they stand out by their poor strategy in buying property without doing research first. They are going to buy a property because the prize seems to be cheap or their friends have bought some plots in that area. After that often confusion sets in and they don't know what best to do with their new acquisition. If they want to sell, nobody wants to buy.