I move slowly and I've spent about four months interviewing agents before committing to one. Down to two and I've hit something I don't know how to weigh. Agent A: eleven years, w…
I wanted to be ready. That was the whole logic and it cost me about $1,900. Eleven months ago I formed the LLC, opened the business checking, subscribed to accounting software on…
I've been talking to a coach who runs a small group program, $4,000 for six months. On the call he offered me a second option instead: pay nothing up front, and he takes 20% of th…
I signed up for a free 45 minute strategy call from someone whose videos I've been watching for a few months. Then the confirmation email came with a form. It wants my credit scor…
Sales call last week. Mastermind, $12,000 a year, monthly group calls, two in-person events, a deal-review channel. The pitch number was that 41 percent of members close a deal wi…
The thing my audience asks for most, by a wide margin, is help raising capital, and I'm putting a service business together around it. Not raising it for me, teaching them to rais…
Post mortem on a text-first seller lead qualifier. I built it, I sold it, and messaging deliverability killed it in about seven weeks. What it was: investors upload a list, my sys…
Selling a small inherited house next spring and I decided to run the marketing myself rather than take whatever package comes bundled. Hired copy and photo separately. The copywri…
Builder client, six detached spec homes, 1,850 to 2,400 sf, delivering in three pairs roughly five months apart. Target list is 420k to 465k. I underwrite the sales side and stagi…
My closing disclosure shows a lender's title policy at around $600 and an owner's policy at around $1,100, and my agent said the seller customarily pays for the owner's policy whe…
First purchase, a small house I plan to live in for a few years and keep as a rental after. The commitment came through yesterday and section two has nine numbered exceptions. Som…
I've got twelve hours of recorded material on how to run a rental turnover, filmed for my own crew and then cleaned up. Two people outside the company have asked for access. So no…
Closed on a small duplex six weeks ago that I did not find myself. Someone else found it, negotiated it, and I paid him $6,500 at closing for the service. I was nervous about the…
Sitting on about $1,400 and trying to work out the order of operations on the aerial side, because everyone I ask gives me the opposite answer. One path is spend on the Part 107 s…
I came into this from a completely different industry and one of the first things I noticed is how much of a title search is pattern matching against recorded documents. Which is…
He buys small multifamily and said if I bring him an address he ends up closing, he pays $500 per door. He wouldn't put it in writing, said that's just how it works and everyone i…
I'm funding the acquisition side for a partner who buys and flips 6 to 8 houses a year in a mid-size midwest market. Average purchase is around $145k. Two people pitched me last w…
1,380 sf rehab, fixed price contract at $92,400, three draws at 30/40/30 with 10 percent retainage held to punch list. We're through demo and rough framing repairs. The GC's lumbe…
First loan I'm doing on my own paper, small, on a $95k rehab budget for a borrower I've known for a while. The property side I'm fine with. The construction side is new to me and…
I hold a paper position on a rural parcel, roughly 240 acres, and the borrower has stopped responding. I need to know what's physically out there before I decide anything, and I c…