In reply to Coel Hellier:
> So long as you're ok with the considerable hassle of doing that.
Many letting agents (estate agents) will do almost every part of property management including finding tenants/collecting rent/maintenance if needed. Most do it for a percentage of the rental money, often quite a low percentage. If he's getting the mtg covered and can pay the agents as well it's a pretty successful way to invest.
> Why? I'd have thought that for most things, most people can judge themselves sufficiently well. For a 10k pot, the fees of any advisor would be a large fraction of any return.
Well he posted here, on ukc, about buying precious metals for investment purposes... not bashing the OP but anyone who does any sort of investing whatsoever will tell you PMs is very much not the way to go. Therefore getting serious advice from a professional who could point in the right direction would be money well spent imo. I think you're overestimating the amount of money something like this would cost.