I had a difficult period in my life not so long ago, and I needed to move home.

A good friend of mine, who has plenty worldly experience in investments, suggested to me:

Top Tip:

Avoid making investments at times of stress. Brokers and the like learn to live and cope with stress, but for the layman stress can have some very negative effects on people and they tend to make bad decisions that can add to the stress!

This advice actually made sense to me on a number of levels and I actually stayed where I was for another six months until things were a little more settled. I am very glad that I did, some of the property I was looking at was terrible and I now think; thank God, I didn't buy then!

I think this is quality advice.

Until you have actually experienced stress in your life while having to make those kind of big decisions its difficult to know how you will perform.

I know when Im stessed I kinda of overcompensate in other areas - which is OK if you end up eating four pizzas a night but you dont want to be doing if you are buying property!

HAHA - Yeah, eat pizza and mull things over for a while, great advice.