That's meant buying, renovating, and selling 18 properties in Portugal. It's also meant seeing what goes wrong when buyers move too fast, trust the wrong people, or assume the market works like it does back home.
Flippin with Jim started because I got tired of seeing foreign buyers make expensive, avoidable mistakes. A YouTube channel was the fastest way to get the right information to the people who needed it — without the sales pitch.
I've been in property and construction for over 30 years. Not reading about it — doing it. New builds, renovations, structural repairs, project management, inspections. Across the UK and, for the last six years, across Portugal's Silver Coast.
The Silver Coast is where I work. It's also where I live. I know the area, the market, the common condition issues in older Portuguese properties, and the parts of the buying process that catch foreign buyers off guard.
The inspections, consultations, and the course are all built on that experience. No theory. No recycled advice from a blog. Just what I've actually seen on the ground.
I don't work for estate agents. I don't get referral fees. I'm not trying to get the deal done.
That means when I look at a property, I'm looking at it for the buyer — and I'll tell them exactly what I find, whether that's 'proceed with confidence' or 'walk away immediately.'
That independence is the only thing that makes any of this worth paying for.
Every week on YouTube I cover what foreign buyers need to know about buying, inspecting, and renovating property in Portugal. The videos are free. The goal is to help people avoid the sort of mistakes that cost real money.
If you haven't watched any of them yet, that's the best place to start — get a feel for how I think about property before you decide whether the inspection, the consultation, or the course is right for where you are.
Buying property in Portugal? Every couple of weeks: what catches foreign buyers out, what to check, and what the real costs look like. No pitch. No fluff. Just straight answers for people making a serious decision