'I borrowed £20 to set up a market stall - now I have a property portfolio of half a million pounds'

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He started off making Christmas decorations from scraps of wood

“I left the market almost a year to the day and moved into the shop in 2019. I took the risk, and had to borrow a lot of money, to purchase the building off my former landlord. The plan was to always buy the building but we expected it would take five or six years, not within 12 months of being in the shop.”

He said: “Whenever there is an event in the main precinct, market traders get moved to a side-street and forgotten about. This was happening more and more and I thought it would be better for me to move into a shop where I could make and sell six days a week. I couldn’t make stuff on the market so I was losing two days a week.”

Scott said: “I used to work with my dad, who was a kitchen fitter and I found out that I hate working in a factory, so I vowed to never work in one again. I had to find something that I love - and I love doing this, it doesn’t feel like coming to work which takes a big weight off my shoulders. “There was just no work because the weather was so bad and I got myself into a bit of a depression. I sat there day in and day out playing a game on my phone, rather than getting up and doing something.

 

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