Reading a listing media agreement before a client signs it. The grant clause licenses the images to the listing brokerage "for the term of the listing agreement, for marketing of…
An investor reached out about coordinating work on two of his rentals. In one sentence he asked if I could "put a rehab crew together" and in the next he asked whether I was a lic…
I've been running pipe for eleven years and I have never priced anything except my own work. An investor I've done rough-ins for asked me to bid the whole rehab on a 1,380 sq ft r…
Nine deals, 240 LP positions, 170 unique households after I dedupe the joint accounts and the two people who invested through both an IRA and a trust. Two quotes on the table. An…
We closed a 14-unit value-add last month. $1.9m purchase, $640k of LP money from eight people, renovation running unit by unit as they turn. My partner handles the money side, I c…
I asked four people to quote the same job: listing copy, twelve social posts, one short walkthrough edit, for a single family rental I'm putting up for lease in the spring. I aske…
An operator with about 400 people in his paid community wants me to build and run the onboarding curriculum for new members. Terms as sent: $2,500 a month for 12 months, six modul…
I'd like to end up with the one that actually works, so I'm doing diligence on two programs before I spend $9,000. Both have testimonial pages. Both have a number on the homepage,…
First rental closes next month, small two bed, and the rehab is about $22k. Two of the three bids handle materials completely differently and I don't know which way to go. Bid A i…
Agent quoted me 2.5% buy side with a $6,000 minimum. I'm looking at four to six houses over the next 18 months, $150k to $220k, light value-add rentals I intend to hold. Call it $…
Sat in on a budget call for a 224-unit mid-90s garden community last week, third-party managed, fee is 3.5% of collected revenue. The manager brought a proposal for leak sensors a…
I'm looking at hiring out prospecting for small-town properties and the two proposals I got split on who handles the compliance side. One shop says they scrub against do-not-call…
Ran a one day workshop for people coming out of the trades who want to start buying. Four seats at $400, so $1,600 collected, $180 for the room and $60 on coffee and printing. My…
Ask me about scope creep and you'll get an hour, but the version that's bugging me this month is software scope creep. I run acquisitions and rehabs. Sellers, agents, wholesalers…
Onboarding for a raise I'm helping on, and the welcome email drafts split two ways. One says "our investor relations team" and signs from the fund. The other names the outside fir…