In this day and age of uncertain pension plans, rising unemployment, and a general feeling that however hard you work, doesnt it amaze you that your bills just somehow seem to keep pace with your earnings?Want a solution? Then use Other Peoples Money to make yours!So, how does this work then, and how can it make you wealthy?Let me use a real live example. About a year ago, my friend Mike and I purchased an investment property each in Middlesbrough. He paid for it out of his savings, I paid for it using Other Peoples Money.

Mike is not a risk taker. A nice bloke, but he likes to take everything very carefully without taking any risks. So he thought, by paying cash for his property, he was minimising his risk, as he would not have to be dependant on tenant incomes to meet his repayments. But, he was not trying to WIN, and unless you at least try to win, you will, out of definition, Never Win!So lets examine these two investments side by side Mike with his cash deal, and me with my Using Other Peoples deal.

Mike drew his 100,000 out of his savings account (where it was making around 5% per annum anyway), and luckily got a tenant in place the day after he completed. So from Day 1 he was earning some 500 a month from his investment.

Now me, I borrowed 85% of the money to purchase my apartment, which was going to cost me some 430 a month with an interest only mortgage. And, as luck would have it, it took me two months before I got my first tenant, also at 500 per month.

So, in the first year, Mike earned 6,000, which, after tax, generated him around 3,600 in his pocket, as he had no outgoings such as a mortgage to offset his tax liability.

Now for me, as I had a two month void period with no tenant, my income from rent was just 5,000. Now, as I was paying 5,160 a year in mortgage, I had no tax liability, but looked like I lost 160 in revenue on balance. If I had had a full years tenancy, I would have actually made a surplus income of 840.

But now lets look at the capital gains from both of us.

Mike, who was getting 5% in his savings account with his 100,000, saw his property go up in value by some 10% last year. So he made double that in his property, and actually gained some 10,000 in equity in his property, or a 10% growth on his investment, using all of his own money.

Now me, being a tight-wad, and never likes parting with money, especially my own, also saw a 10% appreciation in the value of my property.

But look, as I had only used 15% of my money and 85% of other peoples, my deposit of 15,000 had returned me 10,000, or a 67% increase in my investment.

If I had managed to get a deal where I only needed say 5% down payment, my 5,000 initial investment would now have returned me some 10,000, or a 200% increase in my capital.

What does this mean? Well, if Mike wanted to buy another 9 houses, making a portfolio of 10 such houses, he would have to use (if he had it) another 900,000 of his own cash, or ONE MILLION of cold hard cash that could have been earning at least 5% in any old savings account.

Well OK, if Mike had bought another 10 houses, and they were all fully tenanted, he would have generated an income stream after tax of around 36,000 per annum, or a 3.

6% return on his investment. The return on his capital would have been 100,000, or 10%.

Now suppose I were to buy another 9 such properties, but this time, using a lot more of Other Peoples money?Well, I would have had to invest 50,000 of my own money, alongside 950,000 of other peoples money.

My net revenue income would have been around 8,400, but by the properties all increasing in value by some 10%, my 50,000 would have generated me some 100,000 in increased equity, or 200% return on my investment.

After three years, I could probably sell say four of those properties, and assume the growth was 10%, 5%, 5%, and then excluding my deposits, I could have withdrawn some 85,100 from the deal, to re-invest or to buy a few luxuries but my choice and still have equity in the region of 127,650 plus my deposits left in my other houses.

The important thing here to realise is that I have actually created this extra 85,000 in cash and the remaining 127,650 equity, mainly by the use of other peoples money!Just think how much Mike could have made if he had invested his whole MILLION alongside 20 MILLION of other peoples money.