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 followSix weeks in and I want to write down what happened while it's still clear. I'd built a list of 340 candidate properties in two zip codes, sourced from a mix of code violation pos…
Hired one part timer in October to do the phone half while I do the sourcing half. Posting the numbers because everyone tells you to hire and nobody tells you what the middle thre…
Wanted the fee structure settled before I had any leverage, so I built something a bit odd and it held up for two quarters. Structure: 175 per accepted lead, client has 5 business…
Still stinging so I'll keep it factual. I got introduced to a flipper through a local meetup. He said he pays 1,000 on any lead of mine that he closes. No fee per lead, no retaine…
Six weeks of paying someone per address and the invoice math came out worse than if I had done nothing at all. Setup. I hold a small portfolio and started running leads on the sid…
Ran this for seven months and shut it down in March. Posting the whole thing because the failure was at step one and I didn't see it until step four. The plan: serve two investors…
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…