Playbooks from investors doing the deals
Every article starts from a real conversation on one of our shows, then gets turned into a step-by-step guide.
Wholesale Acquisitions Script: The Micro-Yes That Closes Deals
The exact wholesale acquisitions script Dakota Bailey runs: five intro items, a three-ask commitment question, and the conversion numbers it produces.
AI for Real Estate Underwriting: Why Most Projects Stall
What AI genuinely absorbs in deal evaluation, why 95% of corporate AI projects fail, prompt injection risk, and why your operating data is the real moat.
Motel Conversion Economics: Cost, Timeline, and Buy Criteria
What a motel conversion really costs: $2-3M to reposition 80 units vs $10-15M to build, a 3-6 month timeline, buy criteria, and the operating model that follows.
Out-of-State BRRRR at Scale: Running Three Remote Markets
How Anson Young runs an out-of-state BRRRR operation across three markets: $20K-$30K/month in direct mail, a four-person remote team, and a DSCR refi loop.
Buying a Laundromat: Direct Mail Offers and Seller Financing
How one operator bought a laundromat off-market with direct mail and seller financing, then added seven income streams and five-year government contracts.
A Solo Wholesaler’s Daily Schedule: 100 Calls, $10K Fees
How solo wholesaler Cisco Brown structures his day — Facebook group blocks, 100 cold calls, and a $10K fee minimum in a $2K–$5K assignment market.
ADU Infill Development: Three Units on an 8,000 SF Lot
How to fit a house, attached ADU and detached ADU on an 8,000 SF lot — the setback, sewer fall and city code problems that break small-lot infill deals.
Upside Down on a New Construction Home: Seller Options
Why 2020-2024 new construction buyers owe more than their homes are worth, the tax and escrow trigger behind it, and the exit options before a foreclosure date.
Semi-Absentee Franchise Ownership: Hours, Costs, and Risk
Franchise consultant Rick Morgin on validating the 10-20 hour claim, Item 7 working capital, franchisor red flags, and who really pays your consultant.
Pigeon Forge Cabin Investing: Why Small Units Win Now
Sevier County’s 11.5-month absorption rate hides two markets. A broker two miles from Dollywood explains what to buy, where, and how to read the numbers right.
Contractor Turned Real Estate Investor: Where the Model Breaks
Doing your own rehab labor looks like free margin. Shawn Durkovic names the exact failure mode, the sub bottleneck, and the rules that actually transfer.
Short-Term Rental Amenities: What Actually Lifts Revenue
Which short-term rental amenities actually raise revenue, what they cost, and how to sequence market selection, build-out, photos and management from an STR fund operator.