Getting quotes for media on the first flip and the photographer offers two tiers. Ground only, 35 stills plus a floor plan, $310. Add aerial, 12 aerial stills plus a 75 second edi…
An owner forwarded me a screenshot of a caption on one of our rental listings: "ideal for a young professional couple, walk to the brewery." She drafted it in an AI tool and it we…
This is the first marketing contract I've had to read rather than a loan document, so tell me if I'm looking at normal industry terms. Situation: I'm on the capital side of a smal…
Running about 260 to 310 inbound seller leads a month across paid search and direct mail, two acquisitions people, no dedicated ISA. Measured speed to lead over six weeks and the…
I ended up with a 1950s farmhouse on nine acres and it needs everything: roof, panel upgrade, two bathrooms gutted, new well pump. Two different people gave me two different answe…
I've been putting small amounts into other people's deals and mostly staying passive, and now a general contractor I met through one of those deals wants working capital from me d…
I've been coordinating files part time for two agents at a flat $425 per closed file, mostly resale with financing, average 34 days contract to close. That number works because th…
An agent I know offered me $350 a file to run her contract-to-close work. She has maybe four or five deals a month. I said yes before working out whether $350 is normal or whether…
I bought a 1960s three bed in a working-class suburb with the plan of holding it long term. Inspection scope came back around $64k in materials and trade labor: kitchen, both bath…
A friend on the leasing side sent me two proposals for the same job, generating owner leads for a small management book. One promises 25 qualified leads a month or the next month…
My agent asked what the top of my budget is. I said $260k and my actual ceiling is closer to $310k on the right building. I held back because I've watched a friend get walked stea…
Five years running content for agents and a couple of small investment shops. Standard package is 16 posts, 4 short videos, and two listing writeups a month at $1,450. Since sprin…
I've been trying to put the aerial line item somewhere sensible in a marketing budget and I can't get the benefit to sit still. The case that it buys days off market goes like thi…
Rough model I keep coming back to. Eight listings, call it $55,000 gross booking revenue each per year, which is what the market data I can find suggests for a 2 bed near me. That…
I'm still building the owner list rather than managing anything, but every co-host I've talked to this month splits hard on the same question, so I want to see where this room lan…
Got a media quote back yesterday on a small flip and it was one number. $625, stills, walkthrough video, aerial, done. The pilot I used before that charged $340 for stills and vid…
The PPM I'm working through names fund administration as a fund level expense and then names an investor portal separately in the same paragraph. The sponsor's cover letter says i…
We took on a sponsor client in July whose entire investor record lives in spreadsheets plus a shared drive. 340 unique LPs, 11 deal entities, three of them from 2018 and 2019 vint…
Reading a proposal for a build across a small portfolio and the deliverables section is all nouns. Pipelines configured, sequences written, integration connected, training session…
I've been building a comp file while I look for my first couple of deals, and I can't get the two claims about staging to sit in the same model. Claim one is price. Staged houses…