I'm interviewing agents for a family property and read that the listing presentation is basically the pitch meeting. Two of them have offered to "come present," one just wants to…
I've been building this thing sideways for a year and I'm now at the point where the next six months picks one shape. Current mix is nine solos paying $380 to $520 a month for a l…
We manage 140 doors across roughly 60 owners. Eleven of them have asked in the last year some version of "find me another one." Right now I hand that to a brokerage we like and ge…
Term sheet in front of me from a small fund buying rentals. Structure: $8,000 per closed acquisition, target 25 a year, I'm exclusive to them in three counties, no retainer, no re…
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…
Five retainer clients, all residential agents and one small investor shop. Until last spring every one of them was priced on a deliverable count. 16 posts, 4 reels, one email a mo…
Third flip in a row where the media schedule and the punch list have argued with each other and the punch list lost. My pattern has been to book the shoot for Thursday morning so…
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…
A pitch landed in front of me for a "full-time real estate VA" at $1,600 a month, 40 hours a week, cold calling and CRM cleanup. Then I went looking on a freelance job board and f…
I own four small rentals and I spend maybe ten hours a week on things that shouldn't take my time. Chasing insurance certificates, updating the rent roll spreadsheet, calling back…
A guy with a real audience, maybe 30k email list, runs a $4,000 program on buying small service businesses adjacent to real estate. He wants me to build and deliver a four-week mo…
Construction background, learning the investing side, and I've been pricing out education. In one week of looking I got quoted $997 for a course, $12,000 for what was called a men…
Working through a structure and I want to know if it's even legal ground before I take it to anyone. Buyer agent has a signed agreement with me at 2.5%. I put a property under con…
I'm stuck on this and I've rewritten this addendum four times now. I want to sign an exclusive twelve month buyer agreement with one agent. She's earned it, she's fast, and exclus…
I finish my producer licensing in about six weeks and I have agency appointment paperwork from two underwriters sitting in front of me. They are not close on terms and I can't tel…
Running numbers on a $300k rate-and-term refi in a filed-rate state. Loan policy comes in around $1,000 to $1,400 depending on underwriter and endorsements. The attorney opinion l…
I'm studying for the Part 107 while I finish my license paperwork, and I've been pricing drones. Every list I find stops at the aircraft, which reads like the smallest part of it.…
Last year I brought aerial in-house for my small media and turnover crew instead of subcontracting it. Numbers first because that's the only part that's useful. Startup: $6,800 fo…
Someone reached out about doing property data collection for hybrid reports. I go out, measure, photograph to a standard, upload it, and a licensed appraiser I never meet writes t…
A 96-unit value-add deal in a southeast secondary market, $150k in for 4.1% of the LP class. I did what I tell everyone to do and sent the PPM, the LP agreement and the subscripti…