Home shop the show and what a special month this month is going to be we've just come back from touring the mother city and showing you some of the most opulent homes that Cape Town has to offer. Now we started off in Constantia there by the hotels by the wine pond, touring a beautiful home that crested and overlooked all of the mountain ranges in Cape Town. From there we shot across down to Bloburg and showed you what a seaside home looks like. We also went to Valdivir to the place where everybody likes to relax, enjoy the view, enjoy the retirement. We showed you a home that I say its architecture only quite is beaten by the decor of that home. We also went into the university town of Stelenbosch which is an incredible diesel estate and then we came all the way back to the famous Camps Bay to show you what being a millionaire and living in Camps Bay in Cape Town feels and looks like. Guys there's so much to show you, there was so much to do and so much that we spoke about so make sure you tune in every Monday and every Friday at 8 p.m. on Facebook Private Property the Home Shopper Show. See you there. Good evening and welcome to episode 300 of the Private Property Podcast. I'm your host Uzaman Dunwa Kumalo. It's a Monday edition of the special episode as we celebrate the milestone of reaching 300 episodes of the only daily property talk show in South Africa that helps you on all your property journey. Before I even start you know the special episode and talk a little bit about how the show is going to be and of course talk about the other great shows that you can look forward to across private properties social media platforms. I just want to start off by saying thank you at home. We managed to not only start the show last year when we're into lockdown but it's certainly grown from strength to strength and now we're celebrating 300 episodes of the show. We wouldn't have done it without you at home. I come to your screens every single weekday at 7 p.m. and every single episode there's only something that I learned not only from the guests that we bring on but from you at home. So thank you for opening yourselves up, opening your homes to us every single evening and of course sharing your own property journey in our comment section down here below. It's always great in the comment section and I only see the various comments and the different conversations that you have during the show and off the show as well. So I want to say thank you very much. We do not take it for granted that you give us 30 minutes off your evening every single weekday as we of course learn various things that relate to property. Now talking about the different things that relate to property, you know that you can also catch other great shows across private properties, social media pages. As it is a Monday later on you can look forward to the home sharpest show that comes to your screens every single Monday as well as Fridays at 8 p.m. And that's a great show where Chad takes you through incredible properties that you can find on www.privateproperty.co.za. So do make sure that you watch that. And of course you can also catch Chad on TikTok where he does absolutely great videos and ST also does the same thing. So those are certainly great platforms that you can also connect with them. And talking of ST class and you can catch her on the first time home buyers show coming to your screens every single Wednesday at 8 p.m. And of course she's always in conversation with people who've not only worked that first time home buying journey but have gone on to grow their property portfolio from strength to strength. And every Tuesdays and Thursdays a warden and farmer brings you the farming podcast where she tackles all things agriculture. So if you've got green fingers or certainly interested in exploring agriculture then you certainly do want to make sure that you tune in to the show. And then of course there's myself that comes to your screens every single weekday at 7 p.m. bringing you really great guests who help us navigate our property journey. And it doesn't matter whether you're a property investor, you're looking to buy, to sell, to build or you're currently renting, the show certainly does cater to you at home. What we did say that for Episode 300, we're going to be bringing you a special edition, the Super Fan Invasion. And I'm quite excited about our Super Fan Invasion and the game that we're going to be playing. Because I think one of the great things about the show is of course the top fan gang members that we often hear me referring to on Facebook who are always the fastest fingers on the pulse and always commenting and really get things going and sharing of course their own property journey. Well, we've brought them on this evening as we do a Super Fan Invasion. We've got five of them. I'll be introducing them shortly and they've formed a team. Every Super Fan, they've formed a team and they're going to tell us a little bit about their team as well and their team name. And I think one of the big things with the Super Fan Invasion, we're certainly looking forward to doing more of these because we know that so many of you at home not only love watching the show but certainly have formed bonds in the comments section. Really, the comments section is where it's at. I mean, the show is fantastic. But if you watch the show on Facebook, you know that the comments section is absolutely where it's at. So we're bringing you the special edition where we're bringing the fans on and certainly going to have quite a lot of fun in this particular competition. And without further ado, I want to introduce the special game that we're going to be playing with our Super Fans this evening. And as I said, we've got five teams that are going to be joining us this evening. And all the teams have a team leader. They also have other team members and the team leaders are going to tell us who the team members are. And we also have 10 questions. And the trick really for all the team leaders is that the fastest finger is to answer is the one that's going to be able to be given the opportunity to answer. So I'm watching them on Zoom here and they have to raise their hand and raise their hand on screen when we ask those 10 questions. And the fastest person to raise their hand, they get an opportunity to answer and should they answer they get a point.  So there's always money on the block here on the private property podcast. You know, we love giving away money, you know, whether it's data or even other kinds of prizes, we love giveaways. And the winning team with the most points will take home 5,500 rounds. The first runner up will walk away with the whopping 4,000 rounds, the second runner up 3,000 rounds and the third runner up 2,500 rounds. So everyone's a winner.  So we know how much of a difference that extra bit can actually go. But that is not all you at home also stand a chance of walking away with with a share of 5,000 rounds. And all you have to do in order to walk away with that share of 5,000 rounds at home is comment down here below. So the first 10 comments to tag three friends and use the hashtag 300 episodes and hashtag why SYR will each win 500 rounds. So down here in the comment section, make sure that you tag three friends. And you also use the hashtag hashtag 300 episodes, hashtag why SYR and you will win 500 rounds and make sure that your friends are actually tagged because sometimes you start tagging, then it doesn't actually tag. It's just the words that's written just Zama and it doesn't actually tag your friends. So make sure that your friend is actually tagged down here below. And the winners are going to be announced on a post that will be posted on our Facebook feed tomorrow morning. So do watch out for that tomorrow morning. And I think the really big thing is we want to make sure that we're also making the property circle bigger. You hear me say this every single evening. And that's why I want you to tag your three friends. Let them know about those possible podcasts you already tune in every single evening. So we really do want to get more of you at home interested. So it's that easy we're at home to also stand a chance of walking away with 500 rounds just for watching tag your friends tag those three friends use the hashtag 300 episodes and hashtag why SYR and you stand a chance of walking away with that the first 10 people to do that are all going to win 500 rounds in cash. Now I want to the show is about to begin just a little bit the show the show is nearly getting there. And this is really the exciting part, right? I was saying to the students that the questions are very easy. I actually think the team made the questions too easy. And you're probably also going to agree with me that these questions are very super easy questions.  One of the big things I want to find out from you down here at home, I think share with us some of your property milestones, especially as we celebrate 300 episodes, we're celebrating a big milestone, which is of course 300 episodes that aren't that many podcasts that are able to get to 300. We are the only daily property podcast in South Africa. And that's quite a huge milestone for us. So share with us your property milestones. Since you've been watching the show, we want to hear from you and also very excited to hear from you at home. Now I'm ready to slowly introduce our team this evening. And I think I'm going to start, I'm going to start with what the first team leader, many of you already know her. And the first team leader that I want to introduce is Umatha. And Martha is Umatha Shinganga. She's the team leader for Legacy Builders. Martha, good evening and thank you so much for joining us in this special episode of the Private Property Podcast. How are you this evening? I'm awesome, Zama.  Thank you so much for having us and for hosting us as the super fans. It's absolutely awesome to be here. Thank you. Martha, it's only such a pleasure.  Tell us a bit about Legacy Builders. Who's in the team? Why even that name? What legacy are you building? I can really preemptively think what that legacy is. But share with our viewers at home. Why the name and who is in your team? Of course, this is a non-brainer. You know, with property, I think all of us here are trying to build a legacy. And I think that's what the Private Property Podcast actually taught us, you know, all in our different spaces where we are trying to get into property. We're doing it for different reasons. But now we get into this show where we are actually now realizing that we have to be intentional about this and actually doing it for the future. So that's why we are calling ourselves the Legacy Builders. So on my team, I have three absolutely gorgeous ladies and one gentleman that's their thong amongst us, the girls. So I've got two Michels. The first Michelle is Michelle Vormirans. I also have Michelle Grisel. I have Upalisa and the thong amongst the roses, it's Ulhumelo Cozo, also another regular. So yeah, that's my team. And we're quite excited, of course, for Team Legacy Builders. So give it up for Team Legacy Builders at home. I know that they're also watching. And that's, of course, Michelle, Upalisa, Ulhumelo and the other Michelle, so they're two Michels in that team. Very excited to have them also join us. I'm now going to go to let's go to Howard. Howard, we can finally hear is the team leader for Team XL. Howard, good evening and thank you so much for joining us this evening on the special 300th episode of the Private Property Podcast. How are you? Good, I know you. I'm very good, Howard. Howard, tell us a little bit about Team XL.  You can go extra, but why not go bigger and go extra large? So that's essentially where the name came about. So I would raise you and be like, why not go extra, extra large, right? Well, that's essentially the plan. We're going to see you during the show that we're going to go extra and extra. And Howard, tell us who is in your team this evening. So I've got team members from all across the world, really, from UK, Carol and Bailey. She's from Haute, as well as Tepan and Charlie. Those are my three other team members and we did Team XL. Well, all the best to team extra large. I do hope that actually I'm going to I'm wishing everybody well, especially because like I said, the questions are fairly easy.  And I'm moving on to another member of the Top Fan Gang members and of course, a super fan during the special episode of the Private Property Podcast with myself as I'm on doing well. Malo, it's for Glare Chirinda, who is the winner, who is the team leader for Team Agani. Glare, good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Please tell us a bit about Team Agani. Good evening, Zama. Agani, it's a Shangani name. It means Belgium. So from my team members, we are all ladies. We have Mikateko Baloi from Pretoria. We've got Fahana Sadriki from Devon and Anelda Everton from PE. So we are all ladies from my team. And I'm sure ladies are also going to do a great job in assisting you along the way. And I'm very excited to... I'm loving the predominant female teams, I must say, because oftentimes we as women have our own set of challenges when it comes to getting our foot in the property ladder and certainly climbing that property ladder. So it's only so great to see when women are watching the show, engaging on the show, and looking at different ways to start and grow their property portfolio. So that is Team Agani with their team leader, Uglad, on there. And the last team this evening is none other than Usai Mimutadze, who is Team TakeOver. Sami, good evening and thank you so much for joining us. I see it's Team TakeOver. Thank you so much for joining us. Tell us a bit about your team and why the name. What are you taking over? Okay, Sami. Yeah. Good evening. Good evening, team leaders and team members who are on social media. Please, guys, yeah. Assist us. Hashtag. Hashtag. Episode 300. We are taking over. They know for themselves, my team members, even though this was that I'm against today, they used to be my team members. They know what I'm capable of doing. They've just been calling me to talking in the morning to say same thing. How can I come to your team? But it's okay. I told them no, this time just be against each other. It's going to be a wonderful show. Okay, then take take over. You know, when this started, when the property show I remember, I used to, when I was staying this other side of Pretoria, I used to go to the bedrooms, listen to the show. Then I wanted to learn. I wanted to learn what is happening with property. And yeah, we are now on episode 300. I took over some certain department of properties. And I'm hoping that I'll grow very fast. Because I think this, I just realized in property, you can't do these things alone. It's unmarried and it's needed. Guys, we need to work together so that we can build the legacies for our families. And I love that. And your team, and your team members sent me? Yes, my team members is Bongani. Yeah, we, she's Temawunda. We are together here in Pretoria. The other one is Colleen. Hey, I'm not from this province, it's Colleen from me. I want to check. Then we have Umata, oh, Martina. She's since she's from Sushuangube. She's also from Pretoria. Then yeah, those are my three ladies. I'm relying on them. They know our game plan because we've been through out throughout it. We never sleep. The best team we wanted to take over whatever that is happening tonight. Hopefully the hashtag guys, take me, take me. Let's bring more people into the show. I love that. I mean, I absolutely love the team's word that team tape over certainly has. And that is the four teams that you can look forward to this evening on the special episode as we celebrate 300 episodes of the private property podcast. Well, we're about to start with our game, which is going to be quite exciting. Just a snapshot of how the game is going to go. So shortly I'm going to start the game where we're going to ask 10 questions, and the team leaders have to raise their hand. And I've told I've briefed them even before we came on air that when they raised their hand, they actually have to wait for me to finish the question. So we're only going to look at hands that are raised after finished reading the question just because we don't want somebody preemptively reading that I still need to finish the question. No, no, you must wait. I must finish. If you raise your hand before before I finish, then we don't count it. Obviously they're going to be raising their hand electronically here. And I will ask the question as I'm asking the question. I mean, I think even you at home, if you want to get involved, you certainly can. I think one of the great things you're going to realize is questions are fairly easy, especially if you've been watching the show. If you've been watching the show, this is going to be one of those. You know, when you get given a spot test in school and the teacher says, if you've been following with the lesson, you're going to get 10 out of 10. This is one of those. So you're definitely going to get 10 out of 10. If you have been following with the questions, I mean, certainly with the show and to get us started this evening, I want to find out for me before we start the show. What what property milestones do you have or that you'd like to share with us since you've been watching us? We've been on air for over a year, 300 episodes. And of course use that hashtag hashtag 300 episodes. And why is why are we want to hear from you at home? Well, to get us started with our first question. So the team leaders, are you guys already? Are you ready for the competition? Are you sure you're are you ready? This is Saturday. Is everybody calm? Is everybody ready for the very easy question? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Are your teams ready? I want to see also down here below from the different team members. Are you guys ready to support your team leader? You're going to have a few seconds, of course, as I asked the question, if you want to consult your team members, you don't have to consult. Maybe you'll just know the question at the top of your head, which of course, we are counting on, but you can also consult team members. Samuel is already saying to the team, listen, reach out to me as the question is asked. So I absolutely love the teams that team take over has on this one. Well, to get us started with the first question. Now the first question of our superfan Invasion, the first time that we are doing this on the private property podcast, the first of many we do hope. I want to see from first of the team leaders. Are you guys okay? Are you fine? Are you ready? I think if everybody is ready, okay, everybody's hyped. So we are already right? So drumroll, drumroll, drumroll. We're going to go with the first question. So the first question is how many times can you watch the private property podcast in one week? And we've got a raised hand. The first raise hand was semi mashatse. Sammy, what is the answer there? It's five times a week. And that is the correct answer. And I did say to everybody, they're relatively easy, right? So so you've got in the sense of how easy this is, right? And I think you've also got in the sense that we've done the first question of how we're going to go. So is everybody now ready for the next question? Question two at home? I think Sammy and glad you can take your hands down on the screen. We go and question number two is if no, Sammy, there we go. Question number two is name three platforms where you can watch the private property podcast. And the first person to raise their hand was Howard from TXL. Howard was the fastest thing. And I repeat the question for you as a role. You can also see it on the screen named three platforms where you can watch the private property podcast. Howard, let's let's see if you can mean incorrectly. Sammy, you can catch the podcast on Facebook, on YouTube and Instagram. And that is the correct answer. So that would be the the three platforms where you can watch the show is C. So you can watch the show on Facebook. You can watch the show on Instagram and you can watch the show on YouTube. You are, of course, able to also follow us on your TikTok and other as well as on Twitter, but we do not have the show on those two platforms. And then the third question, this one, I love this question. Is everybody ready, Sammy? Hands down there. There we go. And the third question is what is Zamanthu was last name? The fastest finger was again, it was Howard. What is Zamanthu was last name? No. It's right on the screen. Why did you shake your hand? And then he waited until the end of he waited until the end. Yes, I actually watched because I was like, he waited until the end. Howard, what's the answer there? Zamanthu was Kumalo. And that's an easy one, right?  That one was a giveaway. I shouldn't, we should have made the first question because that's just a dead giveaway. And that is of course the correct answer. A my surname is Ukumalo. What is that, Sammy? When it doesn't suit him. Some of you are the first one though. So if Howard had gotten everything, then I'd be like yo, but you are the first one. So you know that it works and it works well. We need to see, we need to see that we need to raise our hands once the question is. Yeah, and I look at when I finished the last word. So if a hand were to go up while I'm reading, that won't count. And I know all four of you are, you are going to keep to the roof. And we're definitely mindful of that as well. Team Legacy Builders, as well as Team Macadney, we need to get you on to the scoreboard. So do make sure that you get your fingers ready. Wait until I finish asking that question until of course you raise your hand. And the fourth question is the private property podcast hosted a competition called pick your home. True or false? And this one, it was a Ghani, a Oogled team, a Ghani was the first finger up in the first hand up. And the answer to the private property podcast hosted a competition called pick your home. True or false? The answer is false. And that is indeed the correct answer. We didn't have pick your home. I would certainly hosted a number of different competitions. The most recent one, of course, being the Sherlock Holmes competition that many of you, even the top band gang members participated in. And we had quite a lot of fun with with that one. And I'm sure we're going to be bringing you many more competitions, especially going forward and across the other shows as well. So that is correct. The answer is a false with the fourth question there. So I think let's do a temperature temperature check. Is everyone still okay? Is everyone still feeling good to be asking? No, I'm not okay. But there's the only one who doesn't feel like it's on the scoreboard. What's happening? Team Legacy Builders, what's happening? Why are you not on the scoreboard? No, my mind is not working. Why is happening here? My body is not working. We're building a legacy. So you need to be on the ball.  And I'm sure your team members are also like, ah, what's happening here? They're giving me such a hard time right now. They showed, right? So Legacy Builders, please get in on the matter because Lendaians are you. My brother is not working. I'm convinced. She's treating you the way matter you're treating Legacy Builders. So you need to do better in case achieves where there are hopes in them. Oh, that's all. Yeah, we're still in place. Listen, all I can say when it comes to case achieves, I didn't support them this season. And I think last season as well, I supported Sundowns and I'm at I grew up supporting case achieves. I've literally got like shirts even the Fana Fana shirt, the Misa Cup shirt, all of it. And then I was like, guys, we went into lockdown with top of the log and then we didn't win. I was like, I'm done. I'm going to support Sundowns this season. So it turned out and Jess and Jay, I'm like, no, no, no, this is an I hope they're listening to you. You don't want to see emceeing their their awards one day. And I will and I will emcee and I will also tell them what to know, guys.  I will once once they shape, I'll go back, you know, I'll go back home once they shape. So far, Sundowns is treating me well. So it's okay.  People have our hope. We had our hopes. The whole nation, I even saw pirate fans being like, you know what, just for tonight, so the support I get because let the cup come home, but yeah, it didn't. So I said, you want to find out from you as we celebrate 300 episodes of the private property podcast. And of course, firstly, we always going to keep saying this. Thank you so much to your home for always tuning in, always engaging us, making the property circle bigger and to celebrate this special 300 episode we've invited our super fans for a super fan invasion. And they are four teams, also comprising of other team members, and they are making up the super fans. And we're going through 10 questions. And the winners of the 10 questions get to walk away with amazing cash prizes, but also, of course, giving away cash prizes to you at home as you are watching. So do continue commenting down here below, sharing the live as well. And one of the great things with the live is when your friends and family on Facebook see that you know, this, you know, this person is watching this all the same property thing. Oh, Matt, they always also see a resharing and glad resharing and being like, if you want to know more about this, you know, make sure that you're watching this podcast. It certainly helps you do keep doing that at home. We love seeing it and certainly love seeing more people and new people in our comments section. Well, we nearly halfway into our competition this evening. And the fifth question is everybody still still okay? Everybody still alert? Now we are here. Oh, yeah, everybody is here. Hey, Tim Tecquo is here. Tim Tecquo is here. They're just like, yeah. See. So so the first the fifth question on our special episode this evening is on which day do we get a visit from Apsa and the fastest finger this time around was Sammy of Team Takeovers. And let's let's hear it, Sammy. And look at who say I read it.  If you saw.  So, Sammy, on which day do we usually have Apsa on the show? On Wednesdays. Ah, that's an easy one, right? And that is exactly the correct answer. We usually have somebody from the Apsa homeless team every when every second Wednesday rather on the private property podcast. If you want to hear first hand from Apsa, you want to make sure that you're tuned in on Wednesdays. That is when we have them on. I see Team Takeover is taking over, right? They're here. Even the energy that Sammy is bringing. Father, glad. Please, please, please. We need to go now. No, we need, we need to we need to first this thing as first, please. Wow. Questions. It's working there. They are they are typing. They are raising their hands and they're suddenly going on. So question six and question six is what is the most important document as far as property ownership is concerned? Sammy, your friend was up first. Let's hear your answer. Document that is the most important, important, important. It's your title deed. They will matter, matter, matter. You're doing matter. No, I'm having deja vu of the case that he's in an early match. Asia, because when that second goal went in, now that's when I stopped watching after the second goal, I was like, no. Can I live now? No, don't matter. You're not leaving. We're not leaving matter. We're building a legacy. I mean, we're building a legacy and this is a legacy. We're building a legacy. And then I'll use will you will use a property analogy matter. I need to sometimes in property, you know that some people are able to, for example, they say by land and then they built fast, like they pay the land. The construction starts within three months. Our building is done. Next thing is people are moving in.  So Nani and Nani will get there. Whether you're getting the entrements in three years, we will build a legacy. It doesn't matter how slow we go. The aim is not always to go fast. So we're not leaving. We don't give up. We don't give up. We must get you on the scoreboard. I think don't be like KZ Chiefs that unfortunately didn't get on the scoreboard. You know, I think, because at some point I was like, how can I start? That's really what we want to see from legacy builders. Of course, we want to hear from you at home. I want to hear from you at home certain milestones, property milestones that you have reached as you've been watching the private property podcast. I sometimes have people, you know, tweeting me or sending me DMs saying, you know, we really enjoyed, you know, the episode on negotiating for better interest rates. I got quoted prime plus two. Then I went back. I didn't even know that I could negotiate for a better interest rate. I was able to end up getting prime plus, you know, 0.25, which is a huge, huge saving. So we love hearing those big milestones that you're able to reach. It doesn't matter. It can be something as big as, you know, negotiating your interest rates or even during this time being able to negotiate lower rent. You see the ad, it says 7,000 Rens. You view it. You love it. But you're like, as in the market, yeah, I want to actually pay 6.5 and you negotiate that. That's a huge milestone because not everybody is able to negotiate those certain, those kinds of things. So do share with us down here below some of those milestones that you have been able to reach by watching the show. Everybody glad? Are you still fine? You're very quiet. Are you still okay? Are you still with us? It's a tie. So how are you doing? How are you doing? Team Excel? Everything's fine? Same you overtook me. We've got a problem. I need to take over. Then you must overtake him as well. It's not over. Let me in guys. Not over until it's over. So let's move on to our one next question. I love this question. Our next question is, do you need an interior designer or conveyance when you're in the process of buying a house? And we've got the mother from Legacy Builders. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Finally, cheers guys. We don't just get on the scope. It's not over until it's over. So Martha, which one is it? And the answer of course is a conveyancer. And she says, of course, because she's a regular viewer of the private property podcast, but take every single weekday at 7 p.m. And that is indeed the correct answer. You need a conveyancer when you are in the process of buying a house. What's working, Sami? My game plan. And now I think that I want you to get this next question. Are you doing reverse and quality lines? The same is being a technical player and he's like, ah, laugh. If I'm not going to win it like this, I'm going to write them. No, no, no. We are one now. We are one now. Bring it on. Everybody is one good, but the other one is one good. Every team is one good. So let's not get in this one. I'm good. So this is out-of-war. This is classical out-of-war stuff from standing on team takeovers. This is their takeover strategy, right? So maybe this is exactly what they wanted to find out if they'll be able to take any. Listen to that. We'll see. So Howard, this is the opportunity to step up. The next one is mine. I think you must crash his game plan as much as you can. On mine. And as we get ready for that next question, and the next question is, or maybe before we go to the next question, because you know, Sami is so confident guys. Let me go to a few of the comments that we've received at home. I actually want to see a few comments from our viewers at home, when they're sharing, of course, what they've been learning and some of the milestones, because we need to calm things down. What do you say, Sami? Sami is here. So we certainly want to hear from viewers at home, what have been your milestones as you watch the private property podcast with myself, as I'm going to walk. As we celebrate 300 episodes, and of course we couldn't have done this without you at home, and we absolutely love hearing from you at home. We love the questions that you're always asking, really engaging questions that, of course, help us along on our property journeys. And it really has been questions from tenants wanting to better understand, you know, terms of their lease agreements, to landlords wanting to understand terms of the lease agreement they are about to share with their tenants, and of course, also getting a good sense when you are buying and when it's during the buying process. I mean, one of the things that we sometimes tend to get a lot in the comments section is, if you went and you viewed your place, especially a house and it's got really great fixtures, you know, the bright area looks a particular way and you put in an offer and then come the date of, you know, registration, and it's now been registered to you and you're moving in or the handover is happening. You then sometimes find, the owner has taken fixtures. Like all the nice doors that you saw must keep healing. The price then where you are like, yeah, here I'm going to host people, they have taken it. And people wanting to know, you know, can they do that? Was it something that was supposed to be put in the offer to purchase? And really having a better understanding of that at home. We certainly want to hear from you because those are some of the issues that we absolutely love covering. I think to the, you know, teams, I know that they're still fine. We've got Krish Naidu saying, I'm still renting, hope to buy a home one day. We absolutely love that, Krish. I think one of the great things is that move from, you know, renting to buying can be both exciting and daunting. And one of the great things that the show has been able to do is help some people make that transition, help you in negotiating from, you know, the point of dealing with the estate agent and even help you in how to view. Because I think many of us don't even know what must we look out for when we go view a property because we've never viewed a property.  You must look out for certain things. You must also be asking your estate agent questions. You must find out why is the owner selling, if there's a tenant in place. And this one I absolutely love. When there's a tenant in place, ask the tenant questions about the complex, about the unit. You know, are there any loud noises in the unit? Because there are sometimes noises, you know, when you open taps and it's just one of those things that never gets fixed. Tenants are usually very open and forthcoming about these kinds of issues. So do make sure that if there's one there, ask them those few questions so that you're able to get a good sense of what is what. And of course, one of the things is my colleague who works behind the scenes, she's just saying that everyone is rooting for Usemi. So a lot of the people in the comment section are rooting for Usemi. I think this is a challenge to everybody at home too. Not just at home, but it's a challenge to the team leaders. The team leaders, this is a challenge to you because people are rooting for Usemi. It's like, you know, like last season when people were rooting for each each other because we're at the top and we're at the top for a long time. We're not sure what's right guys. Just give it to us. I mean, just cool it down. It's COVID. We've just give it to us. And then it's actually easy, right? It's actually easy. So it's in the Zawaz Uptiga and I think we certainly need to make sure that if Nifuna Wutsu is in Tosijige, you must stop Semi in his tracks as Sundowns certainly did stop KZ Chiefs in their tracks last year. Maybe Howard will be, maybe Team Excel will be the Sundowns. And of course, you at home, we absolutely love hearing from you. So do keep sharing with us your own property milestones here on the show. Now getting back to the team, the super, the super fan invasion game that we're playing this evening. Of course, we've got four teams consisting of some of our top fan gang members. We've got legacy builders. We've got team takeovers. We've got team Excel and we've got team Akani. And they are fighting off to win 15,000 rands in cash for their team. And we're going through 10 very easy questions. And the fastest finger on the dial gets to answer the question.  And to your home, I know that by now we would have probably gotten the first 10 comments. You can look forward to announcing the announcement rather of the winner of that 500 grand cash prizes. Those are the 10 winners who are going to get 500 rand in cash. We're going to be announcing it tomorrow morning. So do watch out for that on our Facebook pages. Well, to get back to our game, is everybody ready? Is everybody ready for the last question? So this is now the the DSTV Premier League. The country's opened up a little bit. Keiza team is on the top of the league. And, you know, Santan said has made inroads there, made inroads. And it's now we are coming. Are they going to take it? Are they not going to take it? It's the milestone. It's the milestone. And then they eventually took it, right? So let's go to our next question. And our next question is, and it's a true or false question. Our next question is, you don't need a good credit score to apply for a home loan. And we actually had Howard from Team XL being the first kind up. And Howard, what is the answer to you don't need a good credit score to apply for a home loan? True or false? It's false. You need to be super clean. And that is, of course, the correct answer. I know that everybody who watches the Private Property Podcast knows how important your credit score is. Always say, make sure that you keep it clean. And in the event where isn't does that work on getting back on the bandwagon? Because it's a very good credit score helps you a lot when you buy a property. When you have a bad credit score, you probably will not get a home loan. When it's borderline, you very likely get quoted higher interest rates. And you won't be able to negotiate with the different financial institutions for them to lower that rate. So you want to make sure it's as clean as possible so that when they give you that quote of prime plus one, you're like, hey, I want prime or make it a prime minus. And we know how much that percentage or even a 0.25% reduction, it makes a massive, massive difference.  So those are some of the tips and tricks that you're able to learn when you watch the Private Property Podcast. And of course, if you haven't watched other episodes, you want to make sure you go back and catch up on all those great episodes. And as we are slowly rounding up, we'll see if other teams are going to take over. I want to share a comment here that we got on Facebook from Utardo Tatohadz saying, I'm in the process of buying my second property. And one thing I've realized is that there's only something to learn from the process, thanks to Private Property for coming through for the girl. Tatoh, I absolutely love that comment because I think it's one of the things that even the top fan gang members will attest to, even myself. I've been doing property for quite a number of years. I've bought multiple properties over the past couple of years, had tenants sold, the full spectrum rented, going from renting to buying, making all kinds of mistakes and really learning along the way. And I think one of the things that you keep realizing is that there's always so much to learn. And one of the things I think that we also appreciate is it shouldn't be overwhelming. The learning process shouldn't be overwhelming. You will know as much as you learn and you put your best foot forward. And sometimes I think you'll make a few mistakes. I've made them and I always like sharing the story of the first acquisition that I made for the first, when I bought property for the first time. They're laughing because they've heard the story. I think they're laughing. They're laughing. They've heard this story many times. And that is, when I bought my property, I was 26 and I decided to buy myself two properties for my 27th birthday. And at the time, all the research that I had done, I knew that there's a conveyance that's going to be part of the property buying process. I thought it's one property, even when you buy a bonded property. Because it would be one if it's not bonded. So I wasn't aware that when your property is financed, they actually two attorneys for that property transaction. So there's the transferring attorney and then there's the bond registration attorney. So I only knew of the transferring attorney. I didn't know that I must pay an attorney to register the bond. And so I get the invoice from the first attorney. I knew that was coming and I anticipated it. I get the second invoice, a different attorney. I also knew that was coming. So I'm like, yeah, Nisha, how? Third invoice comes in. What's happening here? Fourth invoice comes in. I'm like, hey, somebody cloned my identity. What is happening? And I actually let those emails, I amize those emails for a little because this is some fraudulent activity happening. You know what? I genuinely thought it was a scam because these things happen, right? We get scammed all the time. I thought I sent my ID to the estate agent to the bank, maybe somewhere along the land, somebody shared my data and now I'm being scammed. And maybe by like after a few days or even up to a week, I call one of the attorneys the third invoice. And I'm like, I know I'm getting this. I'm a bit confused. Like, okay, who are you? And then that's when, and I'm so grateful that she did that. Because then she explained that, oh, okay. So when you buy a property and it's a bonded property, there's the transferring attorney and this is what they do. I was like, okay, yeah, I was aware of that. And then she's like, there's also the bond registration attorney and the bond registration attorneys are pointed by the bank and this is what they do. And that is how I learned that they're two attorneys per bonded property. And of course, as you can imagine, I had not budgeted for paying four different invoices. I had only budgeted for two invoices. So that was a mistake that ended up costing me quite a bit. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to be able to make that third and fourth payment. Needless to say, I ended up eating, yeah, literally eating Ichuna for most of the day. I mean, sorry, for the next couple of months, that's what I was essentially eating. So those are some of the insights that you're able to learn even when you are a tenant. So that when you buy, you don't make those mistakes. You know what to budget for. You know what to be ready for. Well, we're slowly rounding up our episode this evening as we go to our next question. And our next question is, everybody ready? Everybody ready? Everybody ready? Everybody ready? And our next question is name a place you can obtain a title deed. And the fastest finger this time around was team take over. Team take over. What is name a place you can obtain a title deed and the office? Can you just repeat that you broke on my side? Okay, this office. And that is the correct answer. C is a correct answer that is in the deeds office in deed. And I'm sure many of certainly every person who is here know how we don't do that because we learn, right? We're all learning with some people they may not know. So you never dealt with the title deed office. If you don't know about the deeds office, you won't know. So I think that's one of the realities when you've never actually anything property related that you actually don't know of the deeds office until you need to know about it. And our next question is what is another word for mortgage? And the fastest finger there was team with glad glad. What is another word for mortgage? Another word for mortgage is bond. And that is in fact the correct answer. A is the correct answer. And that actually brings us to the end of the questions. The team is going to round up the questions for me down here below. They'll let me know what's what. But as we wrap up, how is it? Let's start with Matamata. How are you feeling? No, no, I'm not okay. I'm not okay. Please bring an ambulance. I'm not okay. I think I just collapsed. We need an ambulance service to make sure they take care of Matamata. Glad. How are you doing? I'm okay. I'm okay. Are you okay? And then let's see. Howard, how are you doing? I'm super. We get in there. Look at the fire there. We're heading for a tie. And let's see. Sammy, how are you doing? Oh, I took over. And that's why I wanted to end up with Sammy. So the tally of the Superfan Invasion is Team Legacy Builders has one point. Then we've got Team Akani with two points and Team XL with three points. And then, of course, Team Takeovers with four points. And that's a big congratulations. The leaders are Matamata and Team Takeover. And they haven't taken over, right? So congratulations. Okay, okay, Sammy. Well done. Matamata, I'm glad that's up. Thank you. Thank you, my people. You're still part of the team. Oh, goodness. You're still part of the team. Thank you, my people. Oh, thank you. Matamata, I think don't be... Let's give Sammy his 10 seconds of fame, Team Takeover. Your final words. So this is your... This is the post-match interview. So, Sammy Matata of Team Takeovers, what was the game strategy going into the Superfan Invasion game? Tell us what the game strategy is. The team strategy, we've been strategizing with my people, with being not sleeping, calling each other at night, doing... Going for team meetings every hour. My people were all made to say, go read your property guide. I want a property. If people can get it on the website of private property, that book is so informative. There are so many information, and most of the questions that they were asked, they are inside the book. People have been... There was one question that Zama always just spoke about, about somebody buying a second property. They must get the book so that they can be able to learn more. In property days, you will never stop learning. You will never stop learning. My team were encouraging each other. We were so proud of ourselves now. Colleen, Bongani, Martina, we did it. We did it. This is for us, and I know my team members, they are also my team members, my team leaders. We did a lot. And I remember at some stage, I didn't want to get into the shibas, like Marma first, just going into the lion's den. Because I know... Well, I'm very glad that Matha did just that. Congratulations to Team Takeover. And the book that Sami is making mention of, is this one, and it is the property guide. So if you want to get ahold of it, you are able to see it on our website. And of course, we'll also share the link down here below. And as we wrap up, I want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you firstly to the top fan gang members here at home. And here, of course, on the live pool was able to join us this evening. We really do appreciate you joining us this evening. And we look forward to seeing you in the comment section, engaging us as you always do. And of course, thank you at home. I think one of the big things is that this show wouldn't have been able to grow from strength to strength, had it not been for you at home from watching, engaging us, sending your questions and the comments, sharing the love with your friends and family as you share the various episodes that we have. So also, I think a very big thank you to you at home. And of course, everybody, certainly everybody in the, that's joined us this evening is able to walk away a winner because in as much as the, you know, the overall winners walk away with that 15,000 Rens that they're able to share or rather the accumulated money that the various teams are able to share is 15,000 Rens. Every team is able to also walk away with the cash prize that they'll be able to share amongst themselves. But before I close up and let everybody go, I think we're going to hear one last word from every team member. And the question that I want all of you to answer. And glad I'm going to start with you. It's been 300 episodes of the Private Property Podcast. What has been a highlight for you as we celebrate obviously the milestone? What has been the highlight or certainly share a property milestone that you have with us? Very briefly, 30 seconds each as we wrap up. Okay, my milestone on Private Property, it was a show done by Matthew Seidu, the Fleece Subsidy. That stood out for me. It was very, very informative. I didn't know about Fleece before I joined property. So it touched a very important topic that reached out to so many who were listening and it was very informative. Thanks to you, Zama and Tim. Absolutely, love that. And let's hear from Martha with one milestone highlight. So Zama, I think for me, all this, most of the episodes, they really came together. But I am so excited to just share with everybody that through the show, I mean, I met Howard who has helped me so much, you know, with a lot of advice and all of that. And through this network that has been provided, I was able to register my first property company and bought a property. And I've been moving from strength to strength ever since. So really this legacy, it's on the build and it's on the app. So thank you so much. Thank you so very much, family. Truly, truly appreciated. And this is why, Martha, we don't fall off the wagon when we don't have a score on the scorecard because we're building this legacy by Howard on your end highlights of, you know, the past 300 episodes or any milestone that you'd like to share with us. Yeah, Zama, thank you. Really, like Martha just said, it's really a combination of every episode. And as Simu was saying, you never enough information with the property.  And the more you engage with every second person, you're always going to get a bit of something from somebody. Every time you engage in any property engagements, there's always something new you're going to learn that you thought you knew and yet you didn't know all of it. So really all the episodes, they do matter. And they absolutely do. And let's hear the last word. Very briefly, Sami, any highlights you'd like to share with us? The winners, of course, are the first ever super fan invasion. Let's hear from you.  You know, reading is very important.  He's one of the people that needs to follow on social media also. He has so much information. He's sharing information for free. He has a book. People can just follow him, check the book. I don't want to advertise him a lot, but I know there's a lot that don't learn from him. And also, Zama. They need to follow you. There's so much information. We'll forget about you. Zama, yeah, you know, people, they don't know this 300 episodes. We are talking about Zama. Zama, 100 episodes to be possible. You thought Zama, they won't be having so many property gurus out there. Property gurus, more than Zama. Oh, man, I love that. And because Howard, I know watches the show a lot. I always try to shy away from putting myself on the spotlight, especially during the show. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Now I'm having the biggest invasion of the evening. So you've been on the show for about 300 episodes. Each one of them you've been stepping up every evening. You have prepared. You've engaged the various guests that we've had on the show to make sure that you bring the most relevant information to help us on our property journeys. Yours has been the best kept secret. Like you, like you were just saying that you have been shying away from all the questions. But guess what? For one night only, private property is allowing us to invade you. Yes, the spotlight is on you. There we go, there we go, there we go. So it's on you right now. It's on you, so I think the questions for so many episodes, for 300 episodes, now we get to ask you the questions. And I believe you've got a surprise. There is a surprise. We've got an envelope with you. Do you want to show it to me? Can I see it? I actually kept it close by. So it is here and it's back. And so am I supposed to... No, no, no, not yet. So you need to unlock it. You need to unlock it and the rules. There's only one rule. This is a no-holds-butt. We ask the questions and you answer all four of them. There are four questions. Oh, yes. You got invited on your own show.  So the tables have turned now. So I've got four questions from the Superfans represented by the four teams this evening. So I'm going to ask you the four questions and you've got to answer all four of them before you unwrap your surprise. Are you ready? Okay, okay. Maybe or not, you're doing this. Yeah, very unexpected. Okay, I'm ready, I'm ready. That was the whole idea. That's the whole idea. So should we give you a second to collect yourself? So just Woosa, I'm going to ask Biola to just only show Martha on the screen for just a quick second as I gather myself. So Biola, just Martha on the screen for a quick second. Okay, then one moment there. Awesome, awesome, awesome. As we get ready to invade on our host. Right, we're putting her on the spotlight for 300 episodes. She's been asking others questions, but this evening we get to ask her questions. So this is an exclusive, about time indeed, about time. Okay, I'm back, I'm ready. Yes, there we go. So I'm back, I'm ready and the invasion, I'm accepting it. So that's the first question. So we're going to start with the team that took everything. I'm so so about that. So team takeover, that is takeovers, that is semi-steam. They want to know how would you advise a young person who has been working for two years? They are earning about 16,000 grand after deductions and they want to start their property investment portfolio? That's a good question. Right. Must I answer after you ask it or we're going down? No, no, let me take your question then answer. Okay, so 16k net, that's actually a really good price point to be at. It's probably the top 10% because we also know our salary data in South Africa. I think the first thing if you want to go into property investment is to decide what kind of strategy you want to go into.  Are you willing to, if you're staying at home, are you looking to move out of home to rent or are you looking to move out of home and buy a property that you're first going to live in before you buy an investment property? I always encourage people, if you can stay at home for as long as you possibly can, like literally, if home allows, because you're able to save quite a lot and really make inroads when it comes to building a property portfolio. And then decide what strategy. So are you looking at property investment or do you want capital appreciation? Leave a little bit of both. Obviously, watch the Private Property Podcast, go back to old episodes that can help you understand what do we mean when we say cash flow strategy or when you talk about capital appreciation. Go on privateproperty.co.zare. You can follow myself on social media at Zaman Duma underscore K as you look through what to think about before you start your journey. And then you're ready to start your search. And once you're clear on the kind of areas you want and you do your research, you'll start viewing. So there are many different ways to get there, but the really crucial thing for young professionals who are looking to get in is understand the numbers. And the numbers isn't just the bond amount. Like I was sharing earlier, it's also the cost of getting that property and the full cost and also the cost of owning that property. So the monthly costs from utility, water and electricity, your navies if you're in a sectional title. So it's really about first understanding the numbers as much as possible before you even view properties and fall in love with the property. Absolutely. So run your numbers as you always say. And all this information we've gathered in all the 300 episodes, not forgetting the private, the property show that went on for about two days. And now for the first prize winners and that's team extra large, they didn't go extra extra, unfortunately. But anyway, their question is, what has been your biggest investment property regret or challenge? Oh, that's such a good question. Yo, these are tough questions. I know. So I think in the past, there was a time I bought, there was a time I actually the biggest regret was over leveraging too soon in my property journey. And it's both a mistake and a regret. And it's something that earlier on I didn't understand, right? So in as much as not in as much as you want to get, you know, home loans from the bank, you want to get 100% loan to value. And you want to maximize every 100% loan to value that the bank gives you. You also end up exposing yourself quite a lot if you do that. So I think being heavily geared, sorry, not over leverage, being heavily geared, there are disadvantages to it. And it does actually have a negative effect on your portfolio. So at times where you can do put down the deposit so that you're not overly geared. So I didn't understand gearing early on. And I think you only really pick it up and understand it. Once you're not looking at skating your portfolio that actually there are disadvantages to it. There are people who believe in doing that a lot, but I am not one of them. And I think it's sort of come back to bite me. So I learned the hard way that being overly geared is, yeah, it's not it's not the best thing that you can do. Oh, wow, that's a lesson for me. So maybe that's something that we need to discuss in the next show. Absolutely. So the team will take the notes. We'll look at how to best care your property and not being overly geared. I know I learned that once I was way, way, way in. So having that topic. No, that's a lesson. That's a lesson for me as well. And now we almost at the end. So we're now going over to Tim Akani. And their question is, what strategies do you use to determine the price when you put down an offer on a property that is up for sale? I share this all this is a good question. And it's something that I share on on the show as well. There are different resources that you're able to use. Some of them are free. Some of them I'm fortunate to have access to them. So some of them may actually have to pay for them to first get a sense of the price point in the area, the price point in that complex and also where the market is. So when we were buying property, for example, 18 months ago versus now, it's very different. Excuse me, in terms of what we're asking and what ultimately ends up being the price point that gets sold. So after gathering all of that and when I also view the property, talking to the agent, trying to get a sense, why is this property being sold? Speaking to the tenants who are living there, when I can see that actually this is a distressed sale, they want this property to go very quickly. So I'm able to have a bit more room to even negotiate further down than what I probably initially wanted to negotiate. That helps me quite a lot. So going in there and knowing that the price I saw advertised, that's just the starting point for them. But I've never paid, for example, a price that's been advertised in any property that I bought. And so it's really important to understand the activity in that area for the type of property that you're looking to buy because that equips you to make a cheeky offer sometimes if you want, because you know that actually this has been sitting on the market for a long time and they haven't been selling for a very long time. So I'll offer, let's say, 20% less than what they're asking. And by then, if it's been sitting on the market for like 10, 11 months, I know that they're most likely at this point to now take it more, but they just want this one. So I use a combination of those before I then make my offer. No, great strategies indeed. I think research, research, research and save that back. And of course, we save the best for last. The best, that is us. Team Legacy Builders wants to know, okay, Zama is still laughing at that. Okay, Zama, we didn't win, but it's okay. No, but you are the best. We have saved the best for last. What is the question? You are the best for last. So Team Legacy Builders, we would like to know what has been the greatest property lesson that you've learned from a mistake? Accept that one about conveys us. The greatest property lesson I've made from a mistake is you don't have to buy many quickly, right? I think there's a fixation, and this is when I was young, there's a fixation of having X number of properties, right? Sometimes I'm like, oh, I've got five or whatever, or this year I bought five. You don't, property really is a marathon. And I think for me, in the early days, I treated it like a sprint.  And sometimes you make these different mistakes, but the ones that I've shared and I show on the show, and it's because you are treating it like a sprint, like it's just a bye, bye, bye, bye, and you have many, many, many, not also understanding that you also need to get a sense of how to manage tenants, right? How, what systems can you put in place when you manage a tenant? There's a difference between when your one property, for example, only has one tenant versus when another property has, for example, three tenants. And so I think I did a lot of the heavy buying very quickly, or there was a stage when I was just like sprint, sprint, sprint, and there was a big mistake. I think it's probably better, and I'm realizing this now, is it's sometimes better to have different stages. I mean, I know property investors who say they buy a property every month, for example. So every month they add one property to their portfolio, and that's more of a grouping, your setup, where others are like, quarterly, you want to add a property. And I think rather located from a strategy perspective, as opposed to a, at every opportunity you're buying. So you're not even strategically buying in terms of, we're now looking for a property that will get the portfolio from this level to this level.  So I think the big thing is, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon, and in a marathon, there are times when you're jogging faster, times when you're not taking it slow, you walk and it's okay. So it's not that you're not moving, they still movement. And I continue to learn that, because there are also times when I just want to buy, because you can see great properties, but I'm like, it's not part of the strategy, but not doing that. This is a marathon, we're not sprinting. So probably we should be saying that you need to run your own race.  And even when you assess your own race, be clear on the fact that it's still a marathon. So don't cheat if it is, it's still a marathon, but just end up running at your own pace. Yes, what's important is that you keep moving. Yes. Awesome. Just like the legacy goes, right? It's like that. Like us. One of the things will be the team takeovers. Kazama, thank you so very much for opening up. We know that it's not so easy for you to do, you hardly ever do that. So we really appreciate this opportunity that you could just allow us into your space to tap in into your insights, your journey. And yeah, it's been awesome. So now you've actually earned the right to open your surprise. And that is from the entire private property community. So that's the private property as the company and us as the fans to say thank you so very much for your commitment. Thank you, Zama. We appreciate you. We appreciate the time that you make. We appreciate that it's a commitment towards building property moguls. So once you're at the time, you are such a vibe and we stand. Thank you so very much. I love that. Awesome. Thank you, Zama. Thank you so much, Matal. So open up. I can open. Yeah, open up everyone. Yeah, I don't know what to say. Open up. I love gifts. I love gifts. I think anybody who follows me will... Oh! Enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it. Oh, I love this. So to the viewers at home. So it is one of the things I always say every time we have a competition we'll give away money is I wish I could have a little bit of that. Even if it's like I wish I could have like 500 lines. And now I get to have my own. I will be able to shop at the 5,000 yen voucher from the team. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. I love this. Enjoy it. So I'm going to go over here. Ah, thank you. I will share what I have with this. We'll probably do something for one of the properties. We'll see. Of course. But thank you so much Matal. And thank you to the team. And thank you to the team. So before I wrap up, I think the first thank you is to the team that's behind the scenes. But you get to see me every single weekday at 7pm and we get to spend time together. But they really is a team that puts this together and makes it a reality. So it's not just me, from Ubi Ola to Amu who's also messaging me now to, you know, Guy, to Kizito, to Unom Fondo and her team. So there are quite a number of people behind the scenes who make this happen every single day. And I think you've certainly seen us, not just this show, but all the other shows, you know, grow from strength to strength. And as private property, we continue to share the different milestones that we've also reached. Even when we got to 50,000 subscribers on YouTube recently, we love sharing all those big milestones because we know that we couldn't have done it without you. So a big thank you first to the team behind the scenes that makes this possible and always willing to reach and replay everything that we do along the way. And of course, also Tracy from Private Property who has been a huge support and encouragement, not just of the property, but also of, you know, the brand and growing it from strength to strength. And a very, very big thank you, of course, to you at home. This would not have been possible had it not been from, well, had it not been because of your, you know, continued loyalty and support and continually engaging with us all the time. And I think we certainly, as a team, don't take it for granted that we've got such a great community and it really is a community that gets to interact with us and share with us different milestones, different mistakes and different lessons that you're, you know, picking up along the way. And I think one of the great things that you're able to also see with the community is that different people also meet each other. You know, the fact that, you know, Martha and Nick Howard and they're already doing work behind the scenes, we love hearing stories like that. And do you please continue, you know, sharing with us the different milestones that you're able to reach by watching the show and the different shows that we have. And I think it's such a great thing for us who are behind the scenes and are putting the show together to see that the work that we're doing has such a huge impact to you at home. So thank you very much, Siaba Ongaria Lebocha for the continued support. We're going to keep growing the podcast and certainly the other shows from strength to strength as we, of course, make the property circle bigger. I'm going to wrap up. This has been an incredible, incredible 300th episode. And I think we don't take it for granted that we've gotten to 300 episodes. Thank you very much, Martha, Sammy, Howard, and Glad. It has been such a pleasure to have our very, very first super fan invasion. I know the first of many because after this, I know there'll be other fans who will be like, yes, Mammy, I want to be, I want to be part of the invasion. So we're definitely going to... I want to be part of the show now. I see it's nice. You see? So if you want to be a super fan, if you want to be part of a super fan invasion, you need to keep engaging down here. And we're definitely going to move to our next super fan invasion because we love, we suddenly love having you on the show. I mean, this is actually the first time we have our fans on the show like this. Previously, we've asked you to send us videos and play them on. But this is the very first time we have our viewers at home on the show. So thank you very much. I'm going to wrap up. I know that we've gone over our normal allocated time. This has been quite a huge pleasure. And I think I'm looking forward to the next milestone that we're going to reach as the show. And as usual, I hope at home that you stay home and stay safe. Stay safe. Thank you.


I seem to be filming a lot of these videos vlog style lately What do y'all think of that? Are you good with it? Do you not want to see my face? Do you want to just see the table? Let me know inquiring minds want to know Anyway, we're here for another digital background collab with shell see Peg Robinson and Bea grob and This month the theme is summer.  There'll be a Dropbox link in the description below. So check it out Also down there, of course, is my happy mail link my link tree list of links for social media Places you can support the free content here on YouTube and over on Facebook All that stuff so check it out. Anyway That being said I decided to do something a little different this month with my digital backgrounds from myself and everybody else Let me show you what I did Okay I'll explain what these are in a minute. So to do this project you're gonna need Some Reynolds freezer paper. There's some glare. There we go Reynolds kitchen freezer paper plastic coated so it Is shiny and waxing on one side and plain paper on the other side and I've had this one roll for a really long time Because one if you're just using it for craft purposes one roll is gonna last you forever And I recommend Reynolds because it works better than other brands You're gonna need some fabric White fabric it could be white muslin. You'll see this is a white on white print.  Anyway, I've done this before a really long time ago and I thought I would revive the idea for this project I'm really trying hard with these digital backgrounds to bring you less of actually creating the background and More of something unique with what you can do with all those digital backgrounds that you've bought from all the artists You admire on YouTube or that you're following on Instagram or whatever. So this is one of them So you want to iron your piece of fabric to the shiny side of your freezer paper now the fabric I buy? I either get about a quarter of a yard or I get The best thing to get is go to your quilting department of your fabric store and get what they call a fat quarter a Fat quarter is a square of fabric It's a half of a half of a yard and it's a good piece of fabric for this They usually cost around a dollar or two max and a lot of different colors I buy them for lots of different kinds of mixed media type sewing projects, but for this they really work really well You can get plain colors, but you also can just get some white on white prints like this Which is this dotted one is really cool And I have big dots I have this one can you see what that is there we go That was a fat quarter and then I have these little small dots Once you get your Fabric iron to your freezer paper, then you want to cut it into eight and a half by eleven inch sheets Then you get something like this Then you want to iron it again. So what I recommend that you do is turn it over Iron it again Turn it this way iron it again. So it's stuck really well. You'll notice on that one. I was just showing you this one It's not stuck very well That's because I only ironed it once enough to get it to stick enough to the paper to cut it out So you really want to iron it a few times and get it really well stuck You may want to if you get really frustrated and or depending on your printer take a piece of masking or packing tape and Put a little bit of it on one top edge. I'll show you and I'll show you why This is just masking tape Regular thing masking tape So put it a little bit like a quarter of an inch or an eighth of an inch away from the edge Push it down really well and then wrap it around the back side Pulling it nice and tight making sure there's no wrinkles Give it a trim And then it doesn't hurt so you just rub it again and hit it with a bone folder Rub it and make sure it's really on there really well And then this tape end is the one you want to feed through the printer first The one that you want the printer heads to grab first and now I have an HP printer And when I feed it into the paper into the printer it pulls it up and then prints it this way I wanted to print on the fabric. That's the whole point of doing this So I want to make sure when I put it in the paper tray I put it with the freezer paper side up So and with the tape edge facing in so it grabs that edge first and pulls it around and then prints Having the tape up there helps eliminate a lot of jams Because as it's going through the printer the paper can get stuck and jammed up and you'll see on this one That happened and I have one. I Finally gave up trying to print on it because it kept jamming Like that so I'm going to Print these last two. I'm actually going to tape this other one And how long did I keep the iron on there about 30 seconds every time? I had the iron to the paper or the fabric. I have one of those Easy press machines I'll put a picture right about here somewhere It's a big basically a big square flat iron and it has a temperature thing on it and a timer so You don't have to have that you can do this with a regular iron And just you know count one one thousand two one thousand Don't have it on there too long trim The other thing I will say is don't expect that you're going to be able to do a whole stack of these and put These in your paper tray. You really need to do one at a time Yeah, so let's go to the printer. Hang on just a second. Okay here. This is my printer. It's an HP Envy 5660 It's getting a little old and past it but anyways, so this is freezer paper side up and my masking taped edge in And I'm going to slide that into the paper tray and then we're going to print on it So hang on just a second So you open up the document on your computer just like you would any other digital document and tell it to print to your printer Only this time instead of having paper in the print in the paper tray. You have that piece of fabric It's a little loud. Sorry, and then it prints that image on your fabric So I'm going to print one more and use up this last piece of paper And then I'm going to show you quickly what our next step is Coat one we're going to let that dry I'm going to put on coat two and then I'll take it back upstairs and I'll see you there Once you have two or three coats of the matte Finish spray on there. You can pull them off of the freezer paper This can be used as palette paper. So you can set that aside to reuse and Then the fabric can be used in any mixed media applications that you would normally use fabric Now the thing is though, I've printed these with an inkjet printer So they're not going to be washable despite the fact that I've sealed them With the matte finish spray, I really wouldn't get these wet So they're good for any mixed media Sewing applications, but something that's not going to get wet that being said you could make a pencil bag out of it You could make A journal cover out of it There's a lot of things you can do we're going to do a little mixed media quilt And I'm going to peel all of my fabrics off here I'm going to do it With just an inexpensive little genome new home sewing machine. It's One of the little inexpensive ones I use for mixed media applications. You don't want to use your nice dressmaking sewing machine for this because or for any mixed media project really because Paper pulp will clog up the motor in the machine and The matte finish spray and those kind of things aren't great for your machine either If you if you only have one machine and you're going to use what you have I applaud that But I would say that you want to be more diligent than normal for keeping it clean and well oiled Because it could get clogged up So there we go, we've got all our papers peeled I can put these over by my easel and use them later for palette paper I'm going to change out the presser foot on my little genome machine because it's got the wrong kind of presser foot on it And I'm going to set it up and I'll be right back Okay, so we have kind of a weird camera angle here because I want to try to get Some of the actual sewing in the shot along with the cutting and piecing and then we'll do an overhead shot of when I'm done For the most part i'm going to speed forward through the process. I am Just going to be doing random piecing. I'm probably not going to do a lot of More traditional sewing where you have the we're going to show you here Where you have the right sides together You stitch the seam and then you fold it open and then you press it We're probably not going to do that on this particular piece I don't think i'm going to mind if the raw edges stick out.  I do have a particular image Sort of in mind. I don't know if it's going to work out or not, but I guess we'll find out And I did change out the presser foot on the machine to the traditional foot I did have a For those of you who know anything about sewing. I had a free motion Oops, where are we there? We have free motion foot on the machine Which is great for like doing embroidery things but for the process we're going to do this is the wrong kind of foot So I changed that out and I put some white thread in because at least to start I want just white thread I may change that out and do some accents with black, but I have white. I also as you can see have scraps of traditional fabric. I have this bin This is my scrap bin and it has everything from fabric To for whatever reason there's some denim patches in here some Left over pieces of zipper tape, which we might actually use today Little pieces of the lot. There's all kinds of stuff ribbons Yeah, so that's just sort of the when I need a color Or texture of something to add to the piece. I'll be pulling from the scrap bin I also may pull some of this produce whoops where there we are produce netting From like onions or like this one is from tangerines um, and I have some of my tea bag Where are we tea bag quotes? Um on the table, so I may be pulling some of those So we'll see where I go with this. I am going to um get to sewing I'm going to turn on pandora in the background. You guys won't hear that but that's what's going to be playing in the background and uh Let's see what happens. All right. I'll be back Okay, this is our finished piece. I actually really like her a lot more than I thought I was going to Like a lot of things that I do about halfway through I go. Oh, that looks like a hot mess But I really like her and I made sure to put a few tabs on the back at the end um, so that I could hang her from something and I actually thought I had a little like mini um, sort of a curtain rod in here somewhere And I can't find it, but then I had this old knitting needle and I'm thinking Hanging her on the wall from a knitting needle might be cool. Anyway Um, I was going to also I was going to back it with some just regular fabric. I thought you know, I still have some of this um Summer backgrounds printed on this fabric. Let's just use that on the back and I love it. I absolutely love it I did put the freeform Foot briefly back on the sewing machine with some black thread to just bring out a few things Like her eyes and the shape of her face and some of the curls in her hair I used a couple of the t-bag quotes as sort of earrings, which is really cute and this is one of the one of the onion bags Um, I love her. I want to show you guys um, something couple other things that you can do printing your artwork And backgrounds and things on fabric now, of course, you could have taken this you could have made a pencil bag Um, you could have used it as a journal cover You can probably glue it down on things But you don't want to get it wet with a glue that say has a high water content Not if you've printed it on an inkjet printer, even though you've sealed it So you probably want to use something more pasty like a yes paste That being said don't use any more than you absolutely have to because And I would do a few experiments to make sure it's not going to run. Um, I definitely wouldn't get it wet Now years ago I started playing with fabric in my printer By doing a couple of sort of memorial pieces and this one's not going to fit on camera, but I'll show you what I can um, this is actually a pillow cover um, that's seen better days But we still have it and I don't get rid of it even though it's looked Like this and been worn out like this for at least 10 years These are my father-in-law's neckties And he passed away quite a few years ago And these are pictures of him one with his granddaughter Ashley and He's in both of them and I made this pillow out of the neckties and printed these photos on Paper the same way I did the backgrounds and put them on this pillow And this pillow was used and loved and it was on my daughter's bed And it was her sort of her stuffy and you know, it had her opa on it for a long time And I never have repaired it or anything at some point. I probably will I actually might add some of my husband's next tie neckties to the pillow to be honest and frank Um, and that might be interesting, but I am not going to get rid of it. It sort of has precious memories And then this one This is not going to fit on camera It's just not so this is a quilt and I had surgery on both my feet years ago And I knew I was going to be laid up for a while and anybody who's had surgery on their feet knows I had one foot done at a time so I wouldn't be wheelchair bound that being said you still can't do a lot and um So I prepped the panels for this quilt before surgery and then when I was laid up I did the handwork on them and it is a family tree quilt Hold on Okay, it's a family tree quilt and the pictures on the quilt Are printed just the same way we did the backgrounds. This is my husband and his older brother This is my grandfather and his brother Each one's different each one has sort of little memory things attached to it Family pieces old buttons. This is another picture of my grandfather when he was a little boy This is my parents on their wedding day Hold on My inlaw. Um, sorry my dad's parents on their wedding day Stuff is going to fall off the table. I know it is. Um my in-laws Oops oops Um The this one hold on. Okay.  That's my dad This is me and my two sisters You get the idea This is My husband's grandparents This is my grandmother and my mom Um another set of grandparents of my husband's The they're both German.  Um Yeah, so this was a remembrance quilt it hung on the wall at home at the old house for years And when we repainted we took it down and it just never went up and there's just Not really a great place here to hang it up. So it's been folded up in a closet But that being said it was hung up for a long time. I didn't protect it from sunlight or anything else I prepped the photos the same way we did the backgrounds Exactly the same way. I didn't do anything else special to them And it has lasted so, um, I can't I won't guarantee it's gonna last, you know A hundred years or anything, but it's done pretty well. So give it a shot and play Whether you do something like this and on this too just like on the face I didn't I didn't put the edges under I did pink them, but I didn't Talk them under I didn't you know put anything on them to prevent them from praying or anything. Um And I didn't with this one either so play with it have some fun with it Think of it as another collage element or another Art element in your mixed media work Play and have some fun Download the backgrounds and see what you can do with them. I would love if you share Over in a life of art and self-expression I know peg is going to have some stuff going on over an art joy of sharing I'm going to click I'm going to link all of their videos in the description below So I'd appreciate it if you click over to their channels Watch what they do with the same backgrounds. See what they come up with Go show them some love like share and subscribe to everybody's channel Support the free content here on youtube and over on facebook by checking out everybody's video description Um, I have a link tree in mind and that will give you a list of links places. You can follow me on social media Um, my amazon store my etsy store patreon Uh teespring society six spoon flower like all kind of places you can get my artwork Original pieces or pre pieces printed on fabric or something else Um, and I know they most of them have that too. So check out the video descriptions I certainly would appreciate that the most important thing of course is go out Have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys