Cape Town Property

This is the million dollar question.

We are all so busy. But are we being productive? Is this activity being turned into Accomplishments, or are we just busy for the sake of being busy.

Did you know that all the breaks that we need in life wait within our imagination. Powerful stuff, won’t you agree. “Our imagination is the workshop of our mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.” Napoleon Hill

So how does one increase our productivity? The key to increased productivity is to focus on managing actions and energy rather than time. Investing your energy wisely will provide you with additional energy in return.

Step 1:- manage actions and priorities. Time management is action management. Start your day knowing exactly what you intend to day. Outline your day on paper every morning.

Step 2:- Keep skills sharpened. Keep on improving your skills. Invest in a speed reading course, learn to become better and faster at your job. Keep abreast of new technology and learn to use it beneficially.

Step 3:- Focus purposefully. Create a sense of urgency and work towards your goal with purpose. Create reminders and stay within their time frames.

Step 4. Stay flexible and ask for help. Do what you can do effectively, and delegate or ask for qualified help with other tasks that you are not so good at and that will take a lot of time.

Step 5:- Act decisively. All pieces are rarely in place when starting something new. There will always be more to learn. Over-analysis causes paralysis of analysis and holds you back. Fear is also a great thief of time. Acknowledge fears and look past them to see the rewards of your actions. Move through fear by the power of faith in your purpose. Build momentum and keep learning as you move forward.

Hope you are ready for your week, have planned it and that your momentum will carry you to all the goals you have set for yourselves.

Have a blessed week in the Cape Town property market. When conditions are challenging, like it is in the Cape Town property market at the moment, it is vital that we are more productive, effective and that we plan better.

Blessings to all.

Yasmeen Braaf

Nimsay Real Estate

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” Mark Twain.

I’m only 41 and already I can say that I have let many opportunities pass me by.

But hindsight is an exact science, we can see exactly when we have done something wrong in the past.

But life has no favourites, what you sow you shall reap.

Remember he who hesitates is lost.

But remember you must take calculated risks.

We at Nimsay Real Estate take pride in assisting our clients with the facts and the figures in order to make an informed decision.

We have many affordable homes for sale in Cape Town, we have many property development opportunities available in Cape Town, and so much more.

Until next time.

Take Care and Blessings

Yasmeen Braaf

Nimsay Real Estate

Every day is a learning curve for me as I try to establish the secrets of success of great people.

One of the things that stands out clearly for me is the fact that they plan their lives so meticulously.

They get up at the same time every day, do their allotted and important tasks every day at the same time and therefore, not surprisingly, they become more and more efficient and more and more successful.

In fact, they say, they have no idea how much money they have in the bank because they realise and understand that if they focus on the work that pays the bills, they never have to worry about the bills.

Are you one of those people who do it the other way around? Do you worry more and more about the bills and have less and less time for the work that pays the bills?

Don’t fall into that trap, measure the value of the job that you are currently doing, if it doesn’t help you pay the bills, get someone else to do it. You either get an assistant or you are the assistant.

We have plenty of affordable homes in Cape Town for sale. Affordable homes in Cape Town is where the business is at, but this is also where the challenges are.

What is the National Credit Act doing to your houses for sale in Cape Town?

Remember where the attention goes the energy flows.

“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!” – Andre Carnegie

Blessings, Enjoy the Weekend!

Yasmeen Braaf

Nimsay Real Estate

When does one’s character get formed and refined?

When things are going smoothly or when one is challenged?

Obviously when one gets challenged. The more challenges one has faced and overcome, the stronger one’s character becomes and thus the better the person you become.

So if this is so, why do we resist challenges so strongly when they are placed in our everyday lives?

Why do we just want things to go smoothly and moan and groan when we get challenged?

In actual fact, we should welcome challenges and say thank you for this challenge, and exhort that now I have a chance to grow!

But we don’t, because we would like things to come to us easily as we don’t want to exert ourselves.

But this “easiness” is a fallacy, it is not what it appears to be.

The same goes for challenges.  Challenges are good, it is not what it appears to be!

So today, when we have a blue Monday, or things are not going the way we’d like it to, lets undertake to ask “What am I supposed to learn from this, how am I supposed to grow through this challenge”.

It’s all in the mindset, lets change our mindset today.

Because the point of power is in the present moment.

Go out there and find your property investment opportunity that is waiting for you.  The one that appears challenging, but with some hard work may become the most profitable one for you.
Kind Regards

Yasmeen Braaf

082 7706808

So last week we esatblished the good habit of doing daily reports.  And this week we try and implement it.

They say that “one first make our habits, and then our habits make us”.

But it has also been proven that it only takes 21 days to form a habit.  My personal view is that bad habits take 2 days and good ones much longer than 21 days.  Ha! Ha! Just joking.

Seriously, one can establish new habits in 21 days!

So who of you have tried to do the daily report story?  Too much hard work, I hear some of you say!

But how do you know where you are going to if you do not track your activity.

From my daily/weekly  report of last week, I could see exactly how many calls I made, how many appointments I’ve been on, what I spent in time and money and what my income was for the week.

Powerful stuff, isn’t it.  Now just to form the habit, I’ve got some 15 days to go until I’ve formed this habit.  And you?

Have a good and profitable week everyone!  How will you know if you’re having one if you don’t track your activities.

Just do it!

Kind Regards

Yasmeen Braaf

NIMSAY REAL ESTATE

082 7706808

I’m tired, I work hard and have to struggle with burnout, but this morning I read an article that was quite enlightening.

Listen to this, it says that “as far as the brain is concerned, it can work as well and as swiftly at the end of eight or twelve hours of effort as at the beginning” The brain is utterly tireless….. So what makes us tired?
One hundred per cent of the fatigue is due to emotional factors! This is quite a mouthful, isn’t it?

“Boredom resentment, a feeling of futility, hurry, tenseness, anxiety, worry – these are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker.”

We get tired becuase our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

“Hard work by itself seldom causes fatigue which cannot be cured by a good sleep or rest.”

So remember a tense muscle is a working muscle. Ease up! Save energy for important duties.

So the moral of the story is to relax, learn to relax while you are doing your work. Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. And bad habits can be broken and good habits can be formed.

How do you relax? Do you start with your mind, or do you start with your nerves?

You don’t start with either, you always begin to relax with your muscles.

Did you know that the most important organ of this relaxing technique is the eye? It has been said that if you can completely relax the muscles of the eyes, you can forget your troubles. Why is that? Because they burn up one fourth of all the nervous energies consumed by the body.

So let go, let go and relax.

And remember to ask:

Please give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Remeber we are not in charge, what will be will be! But we must try our best to influence the outcome of events. We can do no more, no less. Intersperse this with a little faith and there we go!

Have a good week everyone. Remember the bow that is always tight, will eventually break!

Kind Regards

Yasmeen Braaf

082 7706808

South African properties are still very sought after by Overseas Buyers. Everyda yone hears about overseas property shoppers arriving on our shores looking to buy a share of our beautiful country.

If people are coming from other countries to invest in South African property, does it not stand to reason that one of the best ways for us locals to invest our money, is to put it into property?

This has yet again been proven by the downward movement of rand.

South Africa has got its fair share of domestic turbulance, we see it every day. When you watch the news or read the newspapers we are inundated with negative news and we have become hardened people through seeing so many acts of violence committed that it no longer affects us.

But we must be vigilant about this. We must not accept this level of violence because it impacts very negatively on our South African Property Investments.

What are we going to do about this? Men what are you doing about it? It has been proven that most of the perpetuators of violence is the male population.

It has been suggested that maybe it is time that the South African goverment looks at instituting different tax levels for men and for women.

The only time people respond to anything is, when it hits them in the pocket.

Maybe by making men accountable may we possibly see some positive action on this unhealthy state of affairs.

Men, I'm sure you have your opinions on this post. Let me hear from you, as I would like us to have some constructive debate around this contentious issues.
The women are saying that they are tired of paying for the misdemeanours of the opposite sex.

If we all work together, we will all benefit together. We will benefit by a happier and healthier environement. We will benefit by a stronger economy and more investors seeing South Africa as a profitable investment opportunity.

We can only win if we tackle crime together.

Kind Regards

Yasmeen Braaf

What have you got planned for your financial life this week?

How many people ask this question of you? Very few, I’m sure.

People are always asking you what have you been up to, what have you been doing, but very rarely do people put the same amount of energy into their financial life as they put into their social lives.

It is therefore not surprising that so few of us achieve the financial success that is out there for us to claim.

Yes, it is just a matter of reaching out and claiming what can be yours, But you must also feel you are deserving of it.

But it depends on where our focus is. It has been said where the attention goes, the energy flows.

So this week, may I ask you to please focus your attention on your finacial life – look at what houses for sale in Cape Town / Property for Sale in Cape Town are available to you.

Life is all about planning. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. It is that simple.

Plan what property acquisitions you are going to make this week, plan what you are going to invest in – be it residential or Commercial property.

Remember, you choose whether you are going to be a consumer or an investor. Being a consumer is easy and self-indulgent. It takes self-discipline to be an investor, but the rewards are much more long-term.

Investing changes your life for the better. Consuming provides you with happiness for a short time, and then you get “buyer’s remorse”.

Yesterday I went to buy some shoes. There was this beautiful boot that I wanted to buy, but the price would have made me a consumer. So I chose not to buy it. For the same price of this boot I could have bought 3 pants, 2 pairs of good shoes, and maybe a jacket. I must admit it really took some self-discipline not to be self-indulgent. But my head won, I try to buy with my head and then with a little bit of heart as well.

They say that when you do the little things correctly the big things come by itself.

Look at my property propositions and call me on 082 7706808. Remember buying property is just about the financing. If you buy well, everything else will fall into place.

May this week be a week of acquisitions and lets attempt to change our mindset and become Property Investors, by far the safest way to spend your money.

Regards and good luck for this week.

Yasmeen Braaf
Nimsay Real Estate

Strange Topic for discussion isn't it?

We, Property Consultants, are akin to financial doctors.  We get to meet many people from all walks of life, some rich, some poor, some happy, some sad, the only constant is that no two people are alike.

Everyone who has a house to sell in the Cape Town Property Market is different and every situation requires a different approach.

Sometimes we meet people who have financial challenges and need to access money fairly urgently.  The most obvious place where they can access money is via their house/s, so they call us to come and do a valuation because they are considering selling their homes in order to access their money.

Most of the time, these people are under tremendous duress, because of their financial position and thus are very vulnerable.

Estate agents earn a living through selling houses on behalf of their clients, but I believe we also get paid for the quality of service we deliver, but most times people overlook the "service" that we provide when we sell houses in the Cape Town Property Market.  Many people feel that we earn lots of money for doing nothing.

I cannot agree with this as we sometimes do so much work for absolutely no payment.  For example, I can have a property which I have worked on for maybe +-4 weeks, spent lots of time and money on the marketing of the property and it does not sell. I have to walk away with having incurred a loss.

On the other hand, I can have a property on my books for 2 days, under Houses for Sale in Cape Town, and I can sell it immediately.  Here I walk away with a profit, so in the end our losses and profits cancel each other out and we get a more or less steady income.

So coming back to "my client" above who has said that he/she would like to sell their house and after having done an analysis of the situation I establish that obtaining a second bond for the client would solve their problem.

What do some estate agents do?  What must I do?

Remember I am an estate agent and I make my living by selling houses. What would you do if you were to be in my shoes? 

There is only one answer for everyone, isn't there?  You do the right thing!  You get a second bond for your client and hope to make a profit on your next deal.

I am happy with myself and who I am,

Warm Regards

Yasmeen Braaf  (your ethical Real Estate Consultant)

082 7706808 

NIMSAY REAL ESTATE

Quality of Investment is what counts, Not the Price!