'I was so skint that I had to borrow money for KFC… now I’m worth £2billion after spotting easy business opportunity'
“I still get emotional about it now. The woman in the bank cut my cards up in front of me. I felt like a piece of s**t. That was my lowest day, and I hated it.”and his dad Jack, 75, became a millionaire but lost everything in the 1990s crash.Credit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun
Bob says: “I was very lonely, miserable and depressed. There was huge amount of shame and it gave me a breakdown. I’d borrowed money off people I’d known since childhood and lost it. He would buy their old homes at market value and sell them a factory-prefabricated bungalow in a new community, each with a drive, a garden and a shed. There are no fees, and buyers keep the equity from their house sale.Credit: Supplied
In a year he had sold 100 new bungalows, and says: “I repaid every penny I’d owed and one of the guys who sued me for £76,000 and put me in the bankruptcy court, we bought his business two years ago for £43million.”He plans to build 2,000 eco-friendly bungalows a year, each costing from under £200,000 to more than half a million.
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