When I was in the Birmingham branch of Selfridges recently, I was amazed to find that they had a tattoo parlour in the store.
Now when I was growing up, nobody ‘respectable’ ever had tattoos. You either had them as a result of teenage rebellion, through being a Hell’s Angel, or because you’d got very drunk one night and woken up the next morning with some girl’s name you’d never heard of emblazoned on your buttocks.
But times have changed. In 2020, people of all ages and backgrounds (and both sexes) have tattoos. It’s become fashionable, and the styles and positions of tattoos are subject to fashion too. Where once you might have had an anchor on your forearm, now you’re more likely to have some obscure oriental symbol across your lower back, or a Maori design across your shoulder.
And I think this trend is stark staring crazy.
Why?
Well let me put it to you this way…
Would you go into a hairdresser’s and choose a hairstyle that you were going to keep for the rest of your life. Imagine if Kevin Keegan had done that in 1978! Doesn’t bear thinking about. Would you go into a clothes shop and pick a pair of trousers you were going to be sewn into and never able to change? Of course you wouldn’t, (I might, but you wouldn’t) because fashions change, and you want to be able to keep up with modern trends.
In 20 or 30 years time, young kids will be laughing at the coloured-in older generation, and will be able to age them ~ not by their wrinkles, but by the design of their tattoos. What seems cool, hip and trendy now will seem tired, dated and old hat by the new generation. And the tattooed masses will be stuck with it ~ locked in an epidermal time warp. Just like their anchor-wearing predecessors.
The truth is that fashion is for the frivolous, disposable and temporary things in life. Tattoos are none of these things…
And neither is property.
Near to where I live, there’s a fantastic looking ultra-modern house for sale. It’s all vast open spaces, flat roofs, white walls and sharp edges. It’s priced at £1.5 million, and it looks great. Would I buy it? Not a chance, because today’s cutting edge and fashionable, is tomorrow’s yesterday’s news. And when you’re making a significant life investment, you don’t toy with the vagaries of fashion.
And it’s the same story with moredown-to-earth property investments…
You don’t have to go too far back in time ~ perhaps 12 years ~ to find yourself in a period where nobody wanted to buy a flat in a provincial city for any amount of money. But that’s before fashions changed, and city living became trendy. Our cities became awash with modern high-rise developments to cater for this new trend.
Well guess what…that’s what it is ~ a trend. And that trend will change again, leaving all but the very best of those inner city developments to fall into decline as they revert to what similar properties were before the trend shift ~ squalid ghettos for the underclass.
Meanwhile bread and butter family housing ~ traditional three bed semis, small detached houses and the like in the suburbs ~ will continue to rise steadily in value. They can’t and won’t fall out of fashion because they were never in fashion.
They provide simple, functional and attractive housing solutions for ordinary families. They may not set the pulse racing, but they do keep the family comfortable, dry, safe and warm. And that’s what everyone needed in the past, what they need now, and what they will continue to need into the future.
There’s an underlying long-term basic need that transcends fashion or trend. When you’re looking at where to invest your money, this is precisely what you should be looking for. Something with longevity and intrinsic underlying value, not something, which has had its value temporarily boosted by riding a trend.
When the property market turns tough, I invest more, not less. But I don’t have any tattoos, and I don’t have any trendy inner city apartments either. I’ve never been convinced that either are a good long-term proposition.
I may be too late on both the tattoos and the property for you. But if not, now could be a good time to give some thought to whether you agree with me.
Postscript
A free tip for a big business opportunity of the future ~ tattoo removal. It’s going to grow and grow.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
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“O.k. – here are my updates on the A-B System up to my trading week 51. These are all to level stakes.
Week 40 – w/c 16/2 – loss of 16 pts
Week 41 – w/c 23/2 – profit of 37 pts
Week 42 – w/c 2/3 – loss of 2 pts
Week 43 – w/c 9/3 – profit of 80 pts
Week 44 – w/c 16/3 – profit of 37 pts
Week 45 – w/c 23/3 – profit of 75 pts
Week 46 – w/c 30/3 – profit of 38 pts
Week 47 – w/c 6/4 – loss of 51 pts
Week 48 – w/c 13/4 – profit of 62 pts
Week 49 – w/c 20/4 – profit of 30 pts
Week 50 – w/c 27/4 – profit of 144 pts
Week 51 – w/c 4/5 – loss of 45 pts
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