I’ve built 3 lists for real estate investors:
- 1500+ equity providers (allocators & LPs: FOs & small REPE funds)
- 4500+ hard money lenders
- 6000 wholesalers
Great for GPs, HMLs, wholesalers, etc.
Emails & often phone numbers.
$399 today vs $499 regular.
Active & current.
Paul R. Williams, architect of some of the grandest homes in Hollywood & iconic buildings in L.A., learned to draw upside down bc his clients did not want to sit next to a Black man.
His handwriting is portrayed in the Beverly Hills hotel sign, which he could not stay at.
I'm happy to see this is resonating with so many. It is a sad part of who we are as a nation. Unfortunately much of this endures.
I tweet about real estate, architecture, home ownership for ppl coming from nothing & how our built environment impacts equality. Follow if you like.
I've got nothing to promote, but there's an African-American architect who sells t-shirts and apparel promoting Black architects and Black architect history.
Support him here:
I'd love to hear about the Black architects, builders, urban planners & members of related profession who have inspired you and who you look up to?
For me one of the greats is Herman J. Russell, a Black construction professional, who developed large parts of Atlanta.
I deeply believe that a well designed 1500 sq. ft. home can be much more livable and a better homeowner & resident experience than a poorly designed 2800 sq. ft. home.
This is a 1050 sq. ft. (not a typo) 3-bedroom SFR.
@samanthabhassan
My wife and I met at work, got married 6 months and 3 days after we met and will soon celebrate 19 years together. We have 4 kids.
We both wish you at least as much longevity and happiness as we've enjoyed.
Follow my brother
@AmbitiousThnkr
, a licensed architect in the state of New York, who turned my attention to Black architects many months ago.
Black architects are 2% of the profession (while Black people are 13.5% of Americans).
1/ I promised you all a thread about how I'd approach purchasing off-market multifamily properties in Cincinnati, OH.
No brokers. All direct-to-seller.
I have no connection to Ohio, but it is a place attracting a lot of out-of-state RE investors.
Part 1 🧵👇. Part 2 tomorrow.
How To Cold Call For Real Estate
To Get More Off-Market Deals Direct-From-Seller 📞📞📞
This thread begins my belated 30 Days of Real Estate Acquisitions Threads.
More threads 🧵, including more cold calling threads, to come. This is a HUGE topic.
Here we go!👇👇
1/17
@gawdess_j
@_benjvmins_
Architects usually sat side by side with clients showing them how their future design would look. Mr. Williams' clients did not want to sit next to him bc he was Black. They sat across the desk from him so he drew things for them upside down.
In a country of 330,000,000, there are 500 Black women architects.
There are no Black licensed architects in 5 states & 1 each in another 5.
Berkeley-educated Allison Grace Williams is one of those 500 women. This is her August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh.
I've been to Egypt 20 times, but I've never seen this type of organic, of place, elevated architecture.
What a brilliant way to manage harsh sun exposure.
Thumbnail doesn't give it justice, click on the photo. You won't regret it.
[Hisham Bahaa EL Din w/ Ray Designs in Egypt]
@DavidSven
You'll be out a lot more for his therapy.
I've got 4 kids (15 through 4, the older 3 doing amazing in school etc. etc.) and this is a horrible idea that teaches really bad incentives.
Hope this doesn't backfire and bite you guys in the behind.
Docusign announced remote online notarization, a gamechanger for RE investors.
"A state-licensed notary public can notarize a document remotely using electronic signatures, identity verification, audio-visual & electronic notarial journal & record keeping tech."
Boom!
If you're 22-23 y/o who wants to invest in RE, tell me:
- your day job
- how much $ you can spend on getting started (no # is too low)
- amount of time a week you can dedicate to it
and I'll describe the step-by-step to building a large portfolio.
I'll choose 1 person & do a🧵
I did 120+ paid consultation with real estate investors over past 4 months all about acquiring true off-market properties in a (semi-)automated way. I shared my skills, experience & knowledge.
Tomorrow I'll post about what I myself learned from these in return.
Follow along.
I've been cold calling on & off for 25+ years.
I do manage a team of callers & leverage calling in a variety of ways.
If you're interested in a thread on the efficacy of cold caling, pitfalls & how to do it in '22 let me know below.
h/t
@redwood_ryan_a
for the idea.
@fluffmitten
@hecubian_devil
@spazzwrongs
That's not how the world works.
If you take the wheels of a car, a frying pan or a gun, you're 100% responsible for the totality of the risk associated with that action.
I'm building out a tech stack landscape (like you've seen for martech, insurance or proptech) focused on the off-market real estate acquisitions technical stack (CRMs, skiptracing, email outreach, SMS deliverability etc.).
Publishing Wednesday.
Follow along to get it first.
A lot of great guys are asking for productivity hacks for 1st year of their baby's lives.
(4 kids, married 19 years, so if I may):
- f*ck productivity, totally unimportant
- *be present*
- take everything you can off of your wife's plate
- don't sleep with friend/secretary
🤷♂️
Current Ratio of Investors to Solid Real Estate Deals
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If you're a real estate investor, the next time you want to say 'war zone' about an area of a city, try replacing it with 'a part of town we let down by redlining it, cutting it off from resources and over-policing it'.
Just 3 of the ~2500 spectacular buildings that Mr. Paul Revere Williams designed.
They are timeless, beautiful and connect us with an amazing - yet in part very dark - time.
@bswud
@the_transit_guy
Not trolling, but can you name a country where trains are supposed to make a profit? They're part of the state infrastructure and are subsidized (in Germany and France and Italy for example, which all have great train service that many Americans use on summer vacations)
This is our store. Our main store.
My kids go there by themselves all the time, my wife is there 3 times a week, I'm there once a week.
10 souls. Maybe we know them.
God Bless all of the families and those who lost loved ones today.
Who's investing in real estate and wants to see a thread about working with wholesalers?
This is for investors who want off-market discounted deals and want to manage their wholesaler relationships and 3rd party deal flow better.
50 likes+comments+RTs and I'll post immediately.
@yvungdom
@lifeinherlane
My 15 year old daughter did this 2 days ago for the first time in a big way and all I could say is 'you're so brave for talking to us' and 'I'm so proud of you you came to your Mama and me"
I'm 90 pages into writing a book on modern RE acquisitions. It gets technical as I know many of you want that detailed process knowledge.
I haven't decided how it'll be distributed yet (paid/free; self-published/ebook; etc.).
I'll share the 1st chapter when I hit 10k followers.
There was a 'let's make Airbnbs out of shipping containers' discussion on the TL today so I'm posting this as a pallet cleanser.
If you want a spartan Airbnb with multiple units this is the type of thing I can get behind.
@Keith_Wasserman
I highly recommend a doc about him that came out this year, available online on PBS and
@ADFILMFEST
. The man built 2500 buildings, most of them in L.A. and you'll recognize many of them. He overcame a lot to leave those landmarks.
@MeadowLocke
@_wasabi504
I have to disagree with you as a pasty white person. The absolute majority of white people historically & currently are cruel to others, Black people especially. Black ppl are not 'racist' as racism is institutional and structural and there's no structural racism against whites.
If you think Twitter is amazing for real estate and LinkedIn is crap, wait till you here about investors making millions using Pinterest to source and sell properties.
(might do a thread on this)
Lots of talk about CRMs in real estate.
There are hundreds of options in a number of categories: spreadsheets, contact managers, sales-forward, ERP, marketing automation & more.
I'll compare, contrast & describe the top 30 packages if this tweet gets 100 RTs, likes & comments.
@PatrickAllies
This is how most of Europe does it. They start on December 22 at the earliest, cook on the 23rd, shop the morning of the 24th and celebrate from the 24th to the 6th of January.
@tux1980
Yeah, heartbreaking. As Joe Rogan says: "This was less than one person ago" (a person lives 80-100 years and this happened not that long ago).
@ChristoSavaides
Berkley conservatives. Conservatives want to preserve what is and not make progress. Progressives want to build, not conserve what is. "Judge people by their actions, not by their words."
If AirBnB really does go after long-term rentals, the vast majority of landlords right now are like NYC cabbies in 2011 going WTF is going on when Uber started playing in their backyard.
It's not impossible to build great buildings.
This is new. It's in Colorado. It's ICF (not paper & sticks). It has a commercial/office function on the ground floor and a two-story apartment above that so it's live/work. It's got detail and natural materials. And it's in the…
This is what "architectural interiors" means.
Not slapping some paint and some textiles on an ill-designed ill-proportioned space that has no quality and no scale, but using architecture inside a house as much as outside.
And the floors are gorgeous too.
RT from
@INTERIORPORN1
If you're the head of your family, and you kept everyone at home alive, fed, sheltered and clothed in 2020, no matter how you did it (independently, with help, in good style or in poor form),
you did good.
I know I'll get pushback, but it's still true:
People pay $30 for a $12 plate of food (Uber Eats), $100 to be driven to a place they could get to themselves for $10,
and they're willing to sell a $350k house for $300k when it's easy, fast & convenient.
It's already happening.
When you’re building a real estate investment business you should be building two companies:
- propco, which hold the real estate
- opco, which services it
Both can have value. Both can be sold.
95% of real estate investors focus on the former, completely ignoring the latter.
George Nakashima was a Japanese-American architect & someone I'm totally obsessed with.
Furniture (all his designs & craftsmanship) designed & made by architects hits different.
The concrete hand-poured roof contrasts his obsession with wood and produces stunning results.
If you're going to buy > 1 property in the next 10 years, ESPECIALLY if it's a residential investment property with< 20 doors
you need to be following me 👀
I post numerous tips/tools/techinques about buying off market & automating RE acquisitions every day
Here to work 🔨🔨🔨
Renovated shotgun in NOLA.
This deconstructed partition wall is wild. Wild & glorious.
Kudos for not wrecking the space with stainless steel appliances. This is a home, not a restaurant kitchen.
@randypaint
@YesImSamone
190 comments & not one correct insight:
People took hats off when they were around people indoors (homes, pubs, church) to prove that their scalps were healthy and they weren't infectious.
A lot of common 19th & 20th century diseases manifested on the top of the head.
All I can think about is getting ready to buy from overextended investors.
Already happening with flippers and seeing some churn in self-storage.
6-12 months away, depending on asset class and location.
I give you one of the🔑's to denser walkable urbanism.
The compact fire engine, designed for fire fighting & rescue in a dense urban environment.
Cities insist on keeping streets super wide so fire trucks can get through. Other cities solved for that already.
@cheersmom
Women (I love all of you to death) don't start with context. My wife does this. My grandma and mom did this. You go into the story without any prologue or characters lol.
Wholesaling real estate
I get asked to walk people through a RE wholesale deal from A-to-Z at least 10 times day so I wrote it down in the FB group. This is of course not all-encompassing & there's a lot of moving pieces & details, but on a good day this is all there is to it.
I took the 1st picture of Charles Haertling’s Menkick House here in Boulder a couple years back (pics
#2
&
#3
are Zillow).
Haertling was a STL, MO architect (where I actively invest) but was most active in the Denver/Boulder area.
He nailed "architecture of place" brilliantly.
@ImTheReasonWhy
The white soul won't be healed (and we'll continue dying earlier than previously, drinking/drugging/eating ourselves to death and having much smaller families) until we give back land to Indigenous Peoples and pay reparations to ADOS
What RE wholesalers say "I'll give you a cash offer on your house today, buy it as is & close in 2 weeks"
What sellers want to hear "Man, I see you're in a tough spot. Let's work together to find you the best possible outcome for you & your family. Whatever it takes I got you"
I know, race in RE doesn't play a factor I'm told.
Meanwhile Wharton-grad Martin Muoto is successfully developing low-income housing in South LA & is now raising $1B for low-income CRE & housing at an unprecedented scale
He is of course Black. No one else is even close in scale
So much of housing, real estate and urbanist twitter focuses on how can we reform or revamp suburbs.
The only answer is: we can't and we shouldn't.
Suburbs were built for a very particular evil reason in a bad way. If we want to live better we have to abandon them.
Many current real estate fortunes were made by buying in late 2008 through 2011.
This cycle will be even m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶u̶t̶a̶l̶ better and the words "if I only bought in 2021-23" will echo for decades to come.
We cannot go back and undo what was done, but what we can do as white people is:
> face up to what we've done & admit it
> pay ($$) reparations for all the damages we & our ancestors have done
> stop blocking Black people from education, economy, the job market & opportunities
Paul R. Williams, architect of some of the grandest homes in Hollywood & iconic buildings in L.A., learned to draw upside down bc his clients did not want to sit next to a Black man.
His handwriting is portrayed in the Beverly Hills hotel sign, which he could not stay at.
Most rookie wholesalers, when estimating rehab expenses, start with kitchens, then move on to bathrooms, then look at room, landscaping, etc.
You need to start with: Electric, Plumbing, HVAC, Roof, Foundations, Framing before you get to all the stuff that you can see.
The main reason people use Amazon Prime isn't the selection or the prices.
it's the fact that you press a button & the thing shows up at your doorstep, sometimes in hours.
Same for Uber. Netflix. Airline tickets (remember travel agents?).
This is coming to real estate.
Real estate, vending machines and ATMs aren't "passive income", they are cashflowing (if you're good) assets that require work, effort and risk taking.
I've returned to posting mainly about real estate.
I've been involved in residential RE (not interested in anything besides housing) for 20+ years. Ran a brokerage years ago. Invested, been a LL, wholesaled, rehabbed.
Currently posting mostly about acquisitions.
Follow along.
"A house that sold for $290k in 2016 isn't worth $480k today. It may cost $480k and someone may pay even $510k for it, but it's not worth $480k."
Believing this to be true is the key to sustainability & longevity in RE investing (and sleeping at night).
Every mediocre average white guy in business knows representation matters.
We know because we're in rooms/at tables we had absolutely no logical way of getting into/to except for...
our skin (representation).
We just won't tell you until we're 4 drinks in.
[I don't drink]
An average of 600 Americans are dying of Covid everyday (that's an annualized death rate of 200k) so excuse me if I'm not on board with "We're back baby twitter".
How many 2-4 unit buildings are there in your 400k population city? My bet is it's 2000-4000.
You can EASILY build a database of 4000 properties, segment them into say 80 different cohorts & run 80 micro-campaigns with different messaging, creatives & duration to each group.
I feel a lot has been said about using CRMs (customer relationship management software) in real estate acquisitions.
However I still get questions about CRMs all the time.
Who needs a🧵about them? Different options, how to use them, how they differ.
100 likes/RTs & I'll do it.
SEO for Real Estate Acquisitions:
Instead of trying to rank for "we buy houses cash"
Rank for:
"taxes on inheriting a house"
"how to remove liens"
"how to avoid foreclosure"
"can I stop a tax auction"
and then offer a solution (in our case a cash offer) to those who visit you.