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I've been charging $250 flat for what I call the standard aerial: 8 to 10 edited stills plus a 60 second clip cut to music, delivered next day. Agents keep asking me to fold it in…
Take a photographer who has had to turn down four aerial requests this quarter because they only shoot ground. Say two of those agents went and hired a full package elsewhere, so…
Started with zero budget and a used sedan. Nine Saturday mornings, two to three hours each, three adjacent zips I picked because the housing stock is all 1950s to 1970s and the ow…
I'm doing thin-margin stuff and trying not to add cost, but a guy at a meetup told me driving for dollars is fine but the second you sign a contract and assign it you need a real…
A common early mistake for a new landlord with a single property is signing up for full accounting software before it's needed and then getting stuck on setup. A chart of accounts…
For anyone bird dogging with limited hours a week, the two ways of working produce very different results. Option one is picking a single situation type and covering a whole count…
Take a small mixed-use building, two retail bays and four apartments over, where the seller had a pre-listing inspection done six weeks before it went under contract, 38 pages, ph…
Take a case where a landowner sells nine acres held for a while and the gain comes out to about $41k. Small money by the standards of this room. Say the tract next to it sits in a…
Minimums for opportunity zone funds are set by the individual fund manager, not by the program itself, which is why one account might cite 250,000 and another 25,000. Both can be…
Take a co-hosting portfolio of 12 listings across two markets, eight in a home city and four in a beach town 90 minutes out. Average gross around 62k per listing, fee structure ar…
I hold land and long rentals and I don't normally sell services. This one came out of a favor. Someone I've known for years bought six units in a mid-size college market over two…
A useful diligence exercise for anyone evaluating a sponsor is requesting the last four quarterly investor updates on a currently operating deal. It's common to receive only two,…
Numbers first, because this whole case is a numbers error and it deserves to be visible. Say a scanning operator prices 3D walkthroughs at $220 for anything under 3,000 square fee…
A common situation when management changes hands: the previous owner passes along the listing photos from the sale, the units are unchanged, and they are better than a phone shoot…
I'm partway through getting my salesperson license and a contractor I know needs $55k for a rehab reserve on a duplex he's buying. His lender is covering purchase and some of the…
Closing a 3/1 in a working class suburb next week. Purchase 168k, rehab budget 52k, ARV I'm underwriting at 285k. My hard money lender does 85% of purchase and 100% of rehab, but…
This is the tail risk I'd written down and priced at zero. 140 certificates, mostly small residential, spread over four counties. 131 redeemed and the book earned $61k of interest…
Six sales a year, average around $340k. Listing side runs me about 2.5%, call it $8,500 a sale, $51k a year going out the door. That's a full renovation budget on one of my smalle…
The thing that finally paid me, after six months of research and no deals, was a contract I never closed. The target: houses built between 1988 and 1999, over 5,000 square feet, s…
Finished a full gut on a 1920s two bed bungalow for a client, $118k of work, closed out the final inspection three weeks ago. He was going to sell. Now he wants to furnish it and…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
