This entry treats bird dogging as a service business: systematically finding and delivering promising property leads to investors for a fee, operated as a deliberate lead-finding service rather than a casual side activity.
Log in to followTwo investors, two completely different answers, same week. The first one told me to send him a couple and if he likes what he sees we'll talk about money. Friendly guy, buys mayb…
I want income that doesn't turn into a second full-time thing, and this looked like the closest fit on the service side because there's no capital required. The structure I've bee…
I move slowly and I know it. Two years of looking, no purchase, mostly because the small multifamily I want at the price I want doesn't come to market in my county more than a few…
I've been costing out what it would take to fund a small lead operation properly, and I keep landing on a question I can't resolve from the outside. The data version: a list subsc…
Numbers as they stand. I drive roughly 20 hours a month and pull a list of pre-foreclosure and long-vacant records, about 300 records filtered down to 40 submissions. I send the s…
A younger cousin is about to start finding houses for a local flipper and sent me the agreement to look at, since reading paperwork is the thing I do. It's one page, which is the…
Coming into this with no portfolio and no license, so all I have to sell is the finding. Two people I have talked to run it completely differently and both are getting paid. The f…
Application is in, exam is scheduled for six weeks out, and in the meantime two investors I met through a rehab crew both want me sourcing off-market houses for them starting in M…
Every deal that comes in gets underwritten by me, so I have a clean record of where the last 140 leads came from and what happened to each one. Ran the year end cut this week and…
Been billing per lead across three clients since last spring. Two of them are now on monthly retainers and the change came from a spreadsheet I built for my own use, not from anyt…