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Signed a 9 month exclusive buyer rep last spring with an agent who marketed himself as investor-focused, which he genuinely was. He also runs a flip business, which I knew and did…
An agent circling deals without closing one for a while can still learn something valuable from a single referral, and the mechanics are worth laying out plainly. Say a former col…
I'm working through the licensing coursework and doing informational interviews with local management shops so I have some idea what the job actually is before I ask anyone to hir…
I do HVAC and plumbing work for a management company that runs about 600 doors, mostly single family and small multi. They bill owners my invoice plus a 10 percent coordination ch…
Take an operator three rungs into a live in then rent ladder, where the qualification problem has become bigger than the deal problem. The first two houses sit on owner occupant l…
Take a sponsor offering $220,000 of preferred capital at 11% accrued, no current pay, into an 86 acre split, where the numbers deserve scrutiny before the modeling even starts. Sa…
A typical sponsor deck shows a parcel bought at about $4,000 an acre and models the resulting lots at $9,000 an acre. Same dirt, same road frontage, and the only thing that change…
Take a case run the right way round: a buyer gives a written box, a wholesaler finds a 1960s three bed on a corner lot that fits it, goes to contract at 141,000 with 2,500 earnest…
Course hours are done, exam is in five weeks, and I'm licensing in the state I live in. The problem is that roughly 60% of my usable leads are coming out of a metro about 700 mile…
The filing cabinet gets less attention than the houses, and it is where this model gets stuck. Take a plan to source in four states, none of them the one where the LLC is organize…
A private lender describing how his money moves will sometimes mention that two of his borrowers pay a wholesaler a monthly retainer to hunt for them instead of waiting for blast…
A useful case: a buyer client engages a sourcing service with an agreement better than most. Fee $9,000 at closing, buy box defined, tail limited to ninety days, and a sentence sa…
I've been at this six months with zero deals, and part of why is that I spent five months and $5,400 on a marketing engagement that was built for listing agents while I was trying…
One of the agents I write pre-listing material for asked for conversion numbers before she renews. She goes on something like 30 listing appointments a year and signed 12 of them…
A common first client situation. Someone has built landing pages and run small campaigns for their own deals, and a local flipper asks what they would charge to run seller ads for…
Not buying property here. A friend runs a small real estate PPC shop and wants $85,000 for a minority stake to hire two media buyers. What he showed me: 14 active clients, $4,000…
I set up the closing coordination side of a few creative deals for other people and now I've got four of these files where the buyer is self-servicing, meaning he logs into the se…
Closing attorney's suggestion on a house I'm working: deed into a land trust with the seller as the initial beneficiary, then she assigns the beneficial interest to me at closing.…
Worth studying as a case on how office syndications can go quiet. Take a $85k investment in a three story suburban office building, roughly 62,000 square feet, purchased at what w…
I wanted the license for brokerage originally. Then I got offered a leasing consultant seat at a lease-up, 312 units delivering in four phases, and took it because I figured I'd l…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
