Sue Sims bought her first buy-to-let property at 21 - a shop with a flat over it. She didn’t do much with it for the next 16 years. But then she started investing in more properties, getting more education, meeting more people and going in on some joint ventures.

30 years on and she now has more than 45 properties in and around Birmingham.

Sue, not only runs her portfolio, but she also mentors new investors, has her own lettings agency / HMO management agency Genie Homes (which runs out of her original shop) and is one of the co-founders Partners in Property network community in Birmingham, London and Bristol.

Additionally, she has been instrumental in raising the profile of social housing and how it can be part of every investor's portfolio. Sue's own portfolio is 50% social housing properties and the rest is a mix of SA, BTL and HMOs.