2 years ago I stepped out into the unknown and decided to build something that did not exist yet. I thought I understood what that meant. I absolutely did not. The first reality check was cash flow. It is one thing to talk about runway and projections on a slide, it is another to look at your bank account on the 25th of the month and wonder how you are going to stretch every pound to keep the lights on, the tech subscriptions running and yourself vaguely sane. There were weeks where it felt like every payment in was late and every payment out was early. Those are the days you question everything, from your pricing to your purpose to your own competence. Self doubt has probably been the hardest part. Not the social media version where you post about resilience, the other type, that turns up at 1am when a campaign has flopped or a webinar has five people registered and you are wondering if you are just playing business. I have had moments where I looked at other founders and thought they were built from a different material. The truth is they are not. We are all winging it to some extent. Some of us are just more honest about it. And then, somehow, in between all of that, the incredible moments started to land. Hitting our first thousand members in UK Homes Network felt surreal. That was not just a number on a dashboard, it was proof that property professionals across the country actually wanted what we were building. Then we ran our first live events in Birmingham and Manchester and watched people who had only ever seen each other in profile pictures suddenly shaking hands, sharing deals and staying in the room long after we should have been packing up. Those nights made every tense cash flow conversation worth it. The best part of the last two years has been doing it with my brother David. Building a business together has not just been meetings and roadmaps, it has been the phone calls when one of us is in a hole and the other has to drag them out of it. There have been difficult conversations, honest disagreements and plenty of “what on earth are we doing” moments. There has also been a lot of laughter. I would not have got through the darkest days without him and I think we both know that. Looking ahead, we are not slowing down. Our target is to reach 3000 members by the end of this year and we are treating that as a baseline, not a wish list. In January we will be announcing some big moves that we believe can completely change the trajectory of UK Homes Network and put us firmly on a path to industry domination, at least we hope. If you have been part of this journey so far, whether you joined the app, came to an event, spoke at a webinar or just messaged me when things looked a bit heavy, thank you. Two years in, I still feel like we are only just getting started.

Posted by Chris at 2025-11-21 11:36:56 UTC