Biography

OK heres how it is, or has been, shall I say.

Public school from '80 - '85...got loads of a-levels, o-levels and all that.

From 85 - 89 I went to 3 different colleges in the arts and design field and came out with a bunch of qualifications.

During that time (85 - 89) and much to the anoyance of my parents and teachers, I discovered surfing. So as you can imagine most of my time was at the beach, however, it wasn't that much of a waste because I started to get work designing graphics for a local surfboard shaper. This led onto doing artwork for a big windsurf manufacturing company which, in turn, led onto designing the branding for jet ski/windsurf teams, life was looking good and I was enjoying it.....At this point in time it was the end of the 80`s and if you will forgive me for saying, the arse fell out of the economics of the country. Things were on a decline, money stopped going to frivolous ventures such as having fun and my work declined rapidly to match...oop`s.

The 90`s emerged and not being one to give up I started touting my skills to the automotive industry and within a short time I was designing the branding for various racing teams and manufactures within the motorsport industry. Clearly I was enjoying life again, surrounded by racing cars and traveling the motorsport circut's is a fantastic job whichever you flip it on it`s head. Alfa Romeo, Ford Motorsport, Nissan, Toyota we even did stuff for F1...which was a feat of it`s own right!

'99 brought that to an end, I was made redundant and for all of you out there that have not been made redundant...you just wait...on a serious note, I hope it never happens to you. One thing it did for me was I realised that there is no such thing as job security anymore...and that hurt. At this point I`m 34 I have been working in the arty side of work all my life and I was struggling to get any more.

For things to change, I was going to have to change myself.

I floundered around doing odds and sods for a while when I met my wonderful wife Vanessa (Vanessa Warwick of MTV`s Headbanger's Ball fame, the longest running show on MTV Europe) she was working in the TV industry as a music video director. It was love at first sight...She must have taken pity on me!! However, she did have a good idea, remembering that I have been an enthusiastic stills photographer most of my life She said, "why don`t you become a video cameraman, Nick, you`d be good at that?". So I did, I went for some training and was in work straight away. For he first 9 months I became Dido`s (UK singer/songwriter) video-ographer, I've worked with a whole host of singers from Pavarotti to Motorhead. For all of you reading this who are thinking..ooh music industry, that sounds good fun..it is, however, it`s still only a job and all I was doing was making someone else wealthy!

Now this is where it gets interesting.

Being as though cameramen tend to have a lot of spare time on their hands. as I did, I started to gain an interest in property. That was 3 years ago (2003) and a lot has happened since then.

I have now given up camera work completely (apart from the enthusiastic amateur bit), I now own £4.5 million work of property with a shed load of equity in it and for the last few years I have been touring the UK as a "property speaker", trying to assist the UK population with their investment career. Ive done 648 workshops and 108 seminars...I have a lot to say and it needs to be said, there are so many different ways of constructing a portfolio depending on your strategy.

I suppose what makes me different, apart from the haircut, is my portfolio. I havn't spent a lot of money aquiring my "stock", I subsidise none of them (which is how it should be) and they subsidise me. Not only that they have given me more of an income than I ever got as a cameraman which was a reasonable income anyway. For the last 2 years I've not even had to pay my own mortgage ( and I live in 2, 4 bedroom townhouses), it`s not that I don`t have any mortgages, it`s the fact that I have passed the liability on to someone else..the tenants.

I`m 40 this week and although I still feel like the brash, head strong and anarchic individual that I was during my 20`s, life is still fun..which is how it should be.