Passed the Part 107 in the spring and started taking paid work in July. Eleven weeks of numbers, because I read enough vague posts before I started and they didn't help me. 22 fli…
Getting quotes for a service business I'm building around listing media, and one pilot broke his price into $400 for the flight and $250 for editing. The flight I understand, he d…
Running roughly 15,000 messages a day across 60 numbers, all registered under 10DLC, single campaign, same three message templates I've used for months. Response rate was sitting…
Planning my first purchase and trying to work out the order of operations. I keep reading that off-market deals come from prospecting, and there are services that will do the call…
I've been building a small service offering around agent back office work and last year I finally got the unit economics to sit still, so here's what happened. The product was lis…
Everything I read frames bird dogging as the thing you do for six months before you start wholesaling or buying, which makes it sound like an internship you assign yourself. But s…
Four unit turn in a small multifamily building, all four vacant at once after a roof job pushed everyone out on schedule. I decided to skip the local leasing agent and hire a mark…
Sitting with a proposal I'm about to sign as the buyer, and the structure is bothering me more than the price. It's $1,900 a month for a mid size agent team and the deliverables a…
I want something to show an investor by the end of next month and I've got about $300 and four free weekends. Two ways to spend it and I keep flipping. Option one is data. A list…
I've read management agreements on five apartment deals in the last two years as a passive investor, and the base fee is almost never the interesting part. Everybody's at 2.5% to…
I do renovations, so I read a lot of inspection reports on houses that are about to be torn into. The reports are good. The pricing makes no sense to me. A guy spends three hours…
I got the inspector's agreement by email before he'll schedule, and I read the whole thing, which apparently nobody does. Paragraph 9 says his liability for anything, including ne…
Underwriting is the whole job for me, so when I started getting on dispo lists I got buried. 700 emails in about seven months across six senders. I needed a way to say no in under…
I've been sitting in on pricing conversations at two shops in the same metro, similar door counts, and they've gone opposite directions on the same math. Shop A charges 10.5% of c…
I've got a proposal in front of me from someone who wants to run disposition for a wholesaler I'm partly funding. Terms are $1,500 a month retainer plus 25% of the spread on anyth…
I've been reading notes and paper for months and mostly staying out of equity deals, but a friend on the wholesale side asked me to look at the terms of a marketplace he's about t…
Running one 16-foot box truck, two-man crew, mostly REO trash-outs off one servicer plus overflow turnover cleans from two property managers. Current month looks like this. 22 hau…
Guy who flips two or three houses a year asked if I'd clear one out since I was already doing his plumbing. 1,100 square foot ranch, deceased owner, family had taken what they wan…
I buy this kind of work, I don't produce it. I asked two content people for a quote on writing descriptions for a small portfolio of notes-backed rentals I help market, and one of…
Looking at a small rental as a first purchase and I want the whole cash number before I go further. I've got the down payment and closing costs sketched out but the agent fee is c…