Reading a management agreement for a small portfolio and there's a clause tucked under reporting that says the monthly owner statement the manager issues shall constitute the owne…
I'm working toward the lending side rather than owning, and a few people told me I should have some kind of presence before I start asking anyone for money to place. Someone reach…
I got two quotes for content help and I'm trying to make them comparable. First one is $600 a month for 12 static posts, 4 reels, and one email blast. Divide it out and that's abo…
Nine deals in, mostly light rehab resale in a mid-size market. Last four listings I wrote the copy, built the renovation one-pager, and shot the before-and-afters myself, and my a…
I own six units across two small buildings and I've never hired anything bigger than a $9k bathroom. Now I have a two bed that needs about $24k of work and every crew I call tells…
$2.4M acquisition, 14 units, 1970s brick garden walk-up, 62 percent occupied at takeover with a real path to 92. I wanted a 24-month bridge at 70 percent of cost with 12 months of…
I set up the scheduling and invoicing side of a small shop a few years back, so I know what it feels like to configure a system for people who don't want to configure it. Now I'm…
I put out six short videos on how a small service business around real estate actually gets its first ten clients. Nothing fancy, phone camera, maybe 300 views total. Two people e…
I've done six assignments. The way it works for me now is I get a house under contract, I market it, whoever pays the most gets the assignment, I collect the fee at closing. Simpl…
A buy-and-hold client wants my small acquisitions team on a per-house fee, where he signs the purchase contract with the seller directly and we get paid for the finding and the ne…
Construction is what I know, so when I bought into a 31 door scattered portfolio with a partner I looked at the manager's fee sheet and saw a 10% base plus a maintenance coordinat…
Running seven seats across four clients, all hourly, bill rates $14 to $19. Gross margin sits around 41%. Two clients have started asking why they pay for hours when a chunk of th…
I've been sitting on two tabs for about a month. Program A is run by a guy who is clearly still buying. He posts closing statements, he'll talk about a deal that fell apart last T…
First appraisal I've ever watched happen start to finish. Small three bedroom, nothing unusual about it, lender ordered it for a purchase. The appraiser arrived, walked every room…
Working out the plumbing for a service business I'm setting up around seller leads, and the first real fork is where the lead lives. Two agencies I talked to want opposite things.…
Pulled our placement data for the last four quarters because a couple of our private lenders started dangling tier pricing and I wanted to know what we'd actually be giving up. 38…
This line item has beaten me, which is a little embarrassing given what I do all day. We hold 31 doors across two small markets plus a rotating three or four flips a year. Nine mo…
Two agents in my building asked if I'd take over their Instagram and I quoted nothing, because I genuinely don't know what this work goes for. One said her last person charged fou…
I run a paint and finish carpentry outfit, five years, four guys. An agent I've done punch-out work for since year one asked if I'd stage her next three listings because her usual…
Situation as it stands today. Two wholesalers in the same metro, both doing about three contracts a month each, so call it six a month coming to me. Their reported average gross s…