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On this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, we're going to talk to Pete Reese about how to flip land.

What's up everybody, and welcome to the Personal Finance podcast. I'm your host, Andrew, founder of Master money.co. And today on the personal Finance podcast, we're going to be talking to Pete Reese about how to flip land. If you guys have any questions, make sure you hit us up on Instagram or TikTok at Master Money Co and follow us on Spotify, Apple podcast or whatever podcast player.

You love listening to this podcast too. And if you want to help out the show, leave a five star rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Now today we are going to be talking to Pete Reese about how to flip land. And Pete has an incredible business where he is going out and buying raw land and he's taking that land and flipping it within 60 days.

And Pete started two years ago with no experience in the land flipping business. And now two years later, his business is already generating $4 million every single year in profit. Now this is absolutely incredible and the trajectory of what Pete has done is incredible.

And you'll see he went all in from the very beginning because what he does is he has a very specific funnel on how he actually acquires these deals and maintains a very large pipeline because of the amount of dollars that he invested upfront. Now, this is a really cool systematic way to invest in real estate.

If you don't want to deal with tenants, if you don't want to deal with fixing properties or exploding toilets or any of those types of things, then you can invest in raw land and flip raw land. I think it's a very cool way to actually get into investing in real estate. There's a number of different ways to flip raw land, including buying properties from people who have backed taxes and helping them out or buying properties from people who maybe don't live in that state anymore, inherited properties.

There's a bunch of different things that Pete and I are going to go into, so we're going to talk about how he actually acquires properties. We're going to talk about how he actually finds properties to buy off market and we're going to talk about how he finds his seller so that he can flip those properties very quickly. Like I said, his timeline is he wants to flip that property in 60 days.

So in order to do that, you have to have amazing systems in place. And Pete dives into those systems as well. So I'm incredibly excited to share this episode with you guys. So without further ado, let's welcome Pete to the Personal Finance Podcast. So, Pete, welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast.

Well, thank you, Andrea. I really appreciate the invite and glad to be here. We are so incredibly excited to have you here because you do something that I've been interested in for a very long time and that's land flipping. And I think this is an underutilized and a lot of people don't talk about this in the real estate world. A lot of people talk about rental properties and buying apartment buildings and all those other things, but they don't talk about the actual land flipping that is available out there.

So can you tell us about how you got started in land flipping and how your business is doing now? Sure. I actually got started in land flipping in March of 2021, so not even 2 years at this point. And on this year, we're on track to actually do close to $4 million in revenue and that's about a 50% gross profit margin.

So on average, we try to anything we buy, we try to to double it. That's absolutely incredible. So in two years, you went from just starting off learning how to land flip all the way to getting to $4 million in revenue just in those two years. So that is, yeah, that is absolutely amazing. And one thing we really need to understand though, is how we can go about finding these deals because if somebody wants to start doing this, say somebody's interested in land flipping, how do you go about finding deals and what are some of the best places that you go in source deals?

Sure. Yeah, it's all about bringing in the deal flow. And for us, we use direct mail and we use that in a very specific way too, because we compile lists like anyone else. But we take that list and then we actually send out offers to people in the mail and it's a two page letter.

Page 1 is kind of introducing who we are and what we do and what we can do for them. And page 2 is an actual purchase agreement document. Interesting. So you actually send out the offers ahead of time. So you send a letter with the offer inside of the letter. Interesting. So you are you analyzing a large number of deals prior to even sending out those direct mails.

No, what we do is we base those offer prices off of averages for a certain area. So say we're sending to a particular county in Maryland for example. What we'll do is we'll take a look at the properties that have recently sold. Say we were interested in 10 acre plus parcels.

We'll take a look at what those properties have recently sold for and we'll come up with an average. And then based off of that, we'll back off a percentage that we would need to purchase it for. And that's where our offer price comes from. And in many cases, it's kind of just a starting point.

In reality, sometimes we're right on, sometimes we're too high, sometimes we're too low, but it it gets the phone ringing pretty good and then we just see what we can work out from there. Interesting. So as you go through this process, say you start to compile your list to send out letters for example, what type of deals are you looking for?

Are you looking for out of state owners that maybe owned properties in specific locations? Are you looking for people who are behind on their taxes? What type of deals are you looking for? I think some of those types of properties that you're mentioning, you probably have a higher percentage of potential deals out of them. But we send out just a ton of mail.

So I don't really filter them down that far. I mean, we're sending out probably 50,000 letters per month at this point. So it's more about the area and the property type. So we'll take a look at using that county in Maryland as an example. We'll take anything 10 acres plus in that county and we'll send them out to everyone.

Now we filter out obvious property owners that will never sell to us, like a railroad, a city, a municipality, you know, utility companies, things like that. But everyone else, we leave them in there and we send them out and then see what happens. Is there a specific tool that you use to source your list?

Do you use some like you use county websites? Do you go through and maybe use a third party? How do you find your list of people to go out and find deals? Yeah, we subscribe to a service called Datatree. It's a first American company and they compile data from all over the country.

And it's pretty robust in that you can filter down to many different variables, assessed value, you know how long the owner has owned the property, like lots of different things. So we don't use a lot of those filters because we send out so much mail, but it does really allowed us to compile our list and then we can export them and then, you know, just send them to our the direct mail house that we're using.

Interesting. So what is your cost to source some of these leads? Like if you're sending out 50,000 letters a month, obviously there's a major cost just in stamps alone, for example. And did you start off with this amount or how did you start off in terms of sending out your letters? Yeah, my first batch of mail, when I do something, I go big on it, on it.

So that's just the kind of the way I'm wired. I don't like to just dip my toe in and see how it's going. I tried to go all in. So my first batch of mail I sent out was in, I think it was the end of November or December of 2020, and I sent out a batch of 10,000 letters.

And on average with data costs and with the mail cost and everything, it's about $0.50 per letter because we sent out standard mail. We don't do first class mail or anything like that. So pretty much if we send out 10,000 pieces of mail, that's 5000 bucks, OK?

It's pretty easy to figure out in that way. So to compile all these letters, this is obviously a large volume of letters that you're sending out. Do you use a third party to do that or do you do it yourself and kind of, you know, source it all and then kind of print off all the letters yourself and kind of go through those deals as well? Or do you use another company? Yeah, we use another company right now.

We're using a company called Rocket Print. Rocket Print and Mail I think is their actual company name. They also go by postcard mania, but they do all that for the US. So basically what we do is we'll send them our letter and our purchase agreement with a bunch of merge type fields in there.

And then we also send them a spreadsheet of our list each time we send out a batch of mail. And then they merge them all together, send them all out. You know, they send us a proof to make sure it looks good, but. And how are you automating those offers? So you're sending an offer inside of those letters.

Is there some system that you're utilizing to automate those offers so that you can get in that range? Because obviously you're using the range like you stated earlier. Is there something you're using there? Are you using Excel formulas? How are you actually doing that? Yeah. It's pretty basic in the way that I do it. Maybe some people are more advanced than me when it comes to that, but I view it kind of as a starting point in a way.

So what I'll do then I'll look at all the sales in that particular county for that acreage range. And then I'll just kind of do a rough average, like, hey, on average these properties are selling for 3000 acre retail. And then I know that my goal is to double my money.

So then I'll set a price per acre of $1500 per acre. And then we'll just do a simple multiplication formula, you know, once we have the list, because I know what acreage they have and then I know what our price per acreage is and then it's easy to fill out that offer price.

And that's just another variable that goes into the letter. OK. That makes complete sense. So as you go through this process and you are starting to source deals and maybe you're getting some calls back, how are you handling those inbound calls? And then when you do that, are they just all handled by you and then you kind of start negotiating with the seller at that point in time?

Well, at this point of a pretty big team build up, but the first level basically is a call answering service that I use. And what they do is that the any calls that come in, they'll go through a basic list of questions that we have. You know, they get a reference number, which also goes on their offers.

And then we can look them up and see kind of what we offered and, and some details about the property and that, you know, that gets sent to us. I've got another person on my team then that's a lead manager and they kind of input everything into our CRM. Some people also e-mail in and some people actually send a letter back as well.

So we get all kinds of responses and then from that point I've got an acquisition manager on her team and her job is to simply make contact with all these property owners that showed some level of interest and then you know, see what kind of deal we can work out.

And the other thing is too that that a lot of these properties that come back, probably about 80 to 90% of them, we don't move forward with because they're undesirable properties in some way. At this point, we're only purchasing what I consider to be good quality properties.

So things that like landlocked properties or properties that are all swamp or properties on the side of a mountain or something like that, like we don't even move forward with them at this point anymore. That makes complete sense because I have seen land investors out there who will buy property, say for example, in the middle of the desert, and then it's like, what are you going to do with that property?

There's just not a ton that you can do with it. There's not a ton of utility. So when you're evaluating these properties, what are some of the things you look for to ensure that it's going to be a profitable flip? I love properties that have Rd. frontage. They're always easier to sell. I love properties that actually look nice on site, like they have nice trees, they have meadows.

You know, a property like you go on and you say, boy, this is a nice property. It's just kind of a kind of a feel in a way. But you try to avoid stuff like wetlands, FEMA flood zone, really bad topography. Some things like that can really kill your, you know, potential resale on a property.

And then, you know, even things like what are the neighboring properties look like? And you know, if the neighbors have like a ton of junk out there or something like that, it really hurts the resale of our properties so that. Makes sense as well. So are there any big mistakes that you look for to try to avoid when you do your due diligence?

In most cases, we try to buy properties that we think are buildable in some way. It just gives us one more exit strategy, I guess you could say. So we'll go through the whole due diligence process and we'll call the county or the city and we have a whole list of questions that we go through and ask them to try to determine, you know, if there's going to be any sort of big barriers to building on those properties.

Now a lot of our buyers actually end up purchasing the properties for recreational purposes and they may not even want to build on them, but it does really help our buyer pool when we're reselling them to have that option. And you never know who's what they're going to want to do with the property. But it just gives us one more out and hopefully a, a better resale price and a quicker resale, which is really important to us because we try to hold our properties for 60 days.

That's kind of our targets. And that that's been our average historically like a short term holds, like 60 day holds. So I'm thinking about the funnel here as you start to do this. So you're sending out 50,000 letters every single month, and then once those letters are sent out, how many of those do you actually end up truly talking to the seller and making offers on to actually make a deal with?

I would say that probably, you know, we're trying to purchase at this point about 10 properties per month. That's kind of our benchmark right now. We're probably getting pretty serious with about 20 to 30 and then maybe 10 of them end up kind of working out, you know, the the price is good, the title work is good.

Once we get under contract, we pass all the due diligence and everything. So it's kind of a filtering process as you get down there, but starts out with that really big number of letters mailed and then it kind of works its way down from there, so. That makes sense because I think it a lot of times I remember when, when we were really heavily buying rental properties, for example, we would have to make tons and tons of offers before it filtered down all the way to 1.

It'd be like hundreds of offers before we actually got one. That actually was a great deal. And it's just part of real estate is making a bunch of offers to kind of get some of those deals. It's a volume game a lot of times. Yeah, yeah. It's all about the numbers. Exactly. So when you're making these offers, what contingencies do you have in place so that you can kind of safeguard your company in the way that you're making this deal?

Sure. Our purchase agreements are really pretty basic. It's a one page deal and it basically says we have up until the close of escrow in order to get out of the deal. So it says that we can conduct any kind of due diligence that we want to conduct pretty much and that we have until close of escrow in order to to pull out.

But I mean, our goal is to buy these properties and we normally once we commit, we'll normally we'll always buy it unless there's some sort of major red flag that came up along the way. So due diligence, like you said, it's probably a major factor when you go through this process and you have a certain amount of days that you can do that based on the deal that you're putting into place.

So what is the due diligence process look like for you? Yeah, once we get a property under contract, it kind of triggers a whole chain reaction of events within our our system and our team. First thing we do is we get a photographer lined up and that photographer is normally a drone photographer.

So they'll go out, they'll walk the property, they'll also do drone shots, they'll do a report on the ground and the property and actually walk it. Another thing that we do is we have local broker partners that we work with and we, they're a big part of our process as well. So we get their opinion on the property.

You know, are there any things that we should know about this particular area because we never see any of these. I mean, I personally, I never see any of these properties in person. I have in the past, but generally that's a exception to the rule so that we we're leverage our broker partners pretty heavily and you know, as far as their price opinions and you know any insight about the local area and then we use those broker partners to resell the properties for us.

So it's kind of there's an incentive for them to kind of help us with our due diligence portion as well. And then also we have a whole list of questions that we dig into with the county, the city, the municipality to kind of determine, you know, potential buildability or restrictions on the property.

And we get into things like utilities available and maybe any red flags that are in the property file, like if it failed a perk test in the past or if there's some sort of weird zoning on a property which would not make it buildable. You know, things like that are the things that we look for on that side of things.

And then it's kind of a multiple layers of review once we get all that information collected. I've got a team member that's a property analyst. He's really good at digging into all the property specific things and knows what to look out for. And then I review the property as well.

The other piece that comes into play a lot of times is that once we get the title search back, you know, sometimes there are issues that come up in the title search that we don't know about until the title company brings us to our attention. Whether it be them sort of maybe they sold off the mineral rights years ago or something odd along those lines.

And, you know, and those type of situations have come up in the past and it's just a matter of reviewing everything that comes back on that title prelim and making sure there's nothing weird in there that's going to make it harder for us to resell, obviously. Now how do you find, because you're doing such a high volume and I'm sure in a bunch of different areas, how do you find these broker partners or how do you put that program together to have these broker partners available?

Are you sending letters to the same areas every single month or are you working in casting a wide net across the country? But our. Process is sort of is casting more of a wider net. I mean, most of our stuff right now as we do on the East Coast and then we look at certain areas where there's a lot of activity, there's sales happening, There's not a huge glut of inventory and limited sales, which is we know it's going to make it harder for us to actually sell the properties at the end.

And then we work with a lot of land specific brokers and many of these land specific brokers kind of cover a wide area, you know, like multiple counties or, or big portion of the state. And that's just what they focus on land. And then we, we look for the best ones in, in each particular area.

And when we get a potential deal or whatever, generally I'll give them a call and introduce myself and what we do and how we're looking for assistance from them. I mean, we pay 10% commissions on a resale. So we do try to make it appealing for them and we try to make it a win, win situation.

So and most of them are really on board and there's certain brokers that we've done tons and tons of deals with. And when we find a really good one, we try to do as many deals in that areas as possible because it really makes everything a lot easier. So as you go through this process, you, maybe you and the seller are working together, you get the title search back, everything looks good and you're ready to go buy the property.

How do you actually close on that property? Do you use traditional title companies because I know the cost would come into play if you did that? Or is there a different way that you close on these properties? We always close through a title company, a title company or an attorney depending on the state or escrow company, and it's just simply more of an insurance thing.

I mean, you'd be surprised how many issues come up with land and title issues. And a lot of times these properties are, you know, inherited and the people that have been been paying the property taxes are listed on the in the county records as the owner.

They may not even be the full owner. You know, a lot of times the title report will come back and it's like, well, did you know that there are 16 errors on this property? And they, you know, they just had no idea because of the way that the inheritance laws in a particular area work. So, you know, certain situations like that, you know, I'm just always very cautious when it comes to the title stuff.

I want to make sure everything's rock solid because last thing I want to do is buy a property and then find out that there's some sort of cloud on the title or something like that, which is going to make it an eventual problem for us to resell. So we get that straightened out before we close on it because I know I'm going to have to go through it on the resale side of things.

So. So better get that all straightened out at first. So. So typically you close with the title company. So how long does it take for you to speak to a seller all the way to go to closing typically? Is it a time frame that maybe takes 30 days or is it less than that where you're trying to close as fast as we? Try to close them as quickly as possible.

It's the title. Companies pretty much are slowing us down. I'd close in a week if we could. Quickest we've gotten done. Really it's about two weeks probably. On average, though, it takes roughly 30 days. So once you close on these properties and you have this property in your possession, how do you go about finding buyers to flip this property?

Because you said you wanted to find a buyer and sell that property within 60 days after buying the property. So how do you go about finding those buyers? We always list our properties with the broker resale partners. So they're part of our process and we keep them updated as we're getting close to closing.

So then they can be ready to go with the listing as soon as we do close on it. And then they, they get it listed in the MLS and normally land.com and some other related sites like that. And then, you know, we'll do things like we'll put it on Facebook Marketplace. Sometimes we get some leads from there, but the great majority of the deals come from listing them on the MLS through our broker partners.

So those broker partners look like, they sound like they're really important in terms of your process because what's happening here is they're helping you look at the property, go through that whole process, but they also help you on the buyer side and then on the selling side as well. So that makes complete sense because I've seen a lot of people do it where they kind of keep it off market, but it makes complete sense for that situation.

So that especially at the high volume that you're doing so that you can get those properties moved quickly and at the highest dollar amount by putting them on the MLS. Yeah, I kind of view it as a somewhat of an arbitrage situation. So I'm buying it off market. Sometimes we're doing some minor improvements to the property, but then we're taking it and we're putting on the public like retail market.

And it's important especially for the, you know, as you get into the higher dollar properties, I think to have them marketed professionally like that with someone who's kind of a local broker in an area because you know, you get some additional credibility. If you're just, you know, listing something by owner off market, I think you're going to have a harder time getting the the exposure that you want to get and also the high dollar prices that you want to get.

As well. So as you go through this process, then is there a specific size of property you won't buy? Like will you not buy properties that are too small or is there like a sweet spot I guess, of properties that would be the highest profitability that you're finding? A real good sweet spot honestly is if you're buying properties.

Seems like buying properties in the 30 to $50,000 purchase price range and then reselling them for double to triple. That's a pretty good range right now. But I also like higher dollar properties as well as we can get them.

I did one deal where it was a purchase price of 315,000 and we sold it for 595. So that's a big chunk of money right there just from one deal. That's incredible. And so it sounds like what you're doing is a lot of times you're selling them on the MLS.

So a lot of these deals are probably coming in cash, but do you ever do deals where you do seller financing on some of the land deals? I don't personally, and I know there are other land investors that do seller financing, but I, I just actually recently started working with another investor and basically what he does is he'll buy the note from me at closing.

So essentially I can offer owner financing, but what happens is at closing, he actually comes in and pays for the note at a discount, but then the buyer gets to utilize that financing. So it's kind of a win win. I don't like to do that strategy off the bat is probably not the best because you know, I have to take a discount when I sell the note.

But maybe some properties that have been in inventory for a little bit of time or something where we could mark it up a little bit higher to begin with and then you know the numbers might work out well with that as well. I would kind of side with you on that as well because a lot of times I just feel like you be chasing down your money on some of these longer term notes and I can I feel like there be more headaches in play if you had to do it that way.

So that makes complete sense as well. So what are some big mistakes that you have made along the way that you know that you would caution for others to avoid? Well, thankfully I haven't lost money on any deal to this point. And then about 100 so far. So knock on wood. But the one thing that really, and this wasn't like a huge mistake in retrospect, but it was kind of a situation where a big learning thing for me.

I used to be under the impression that, hey, any of these properties are the great if I can get them for the right price. So if it's cheap enough, I'll go for it. This one property in particular is a 12 acre property and I was able to pick it up for $3000. I thought it was such a great deal. I was like, I'm going to sell this for 20,000 and, you know, just be a very easy deal.

But the property was landlocked. So that was the big problem with that one and the reason why it was so cheap. It had no physical or legal access to the property. I mean, rightfully in this state, you could access your property, you know, just by right, but there's no potential to ever build on the property or actually do anything with it.

So I put it on the market and just had a ton of interest and it cost, you know, I cost so much of my time. I actually to try to market this property and I had to keep reducing it and everything. And you know, I still made it like a couple $1000 when it all of a sudden done.

But it kind of like, so it didn't cost me anything and money, but it did cost me my time and then it taught me a valuable lesson and I'm just not really going to deal with landlocked properties anymore, no matter how cheap they are. Exactly. Sometimes some of those properties, I can think of rental properties that we had the same way where they just teach you the most lessons of anything else.

And it's sometimes it's the best education to have because you'll just never do that again. And it's one of the most frustrating things. But as long as you make a little bit of money, at least it comes out OK and you learn those lessons along the way. So that's absolutely perfect. So what is the best deal that you've ever done? The best deal I think was that property I mentioned that we bought it for 3:15 and sold it for 595.

Now a couple things about that deal that we're interesting. This is a 650 acre property, beautiful property, lots of nice pine trees really level I mean just a nice trails going through the property. It was a beautiful property. Generally, I buy most of all of our properties with cash and then myself and then we resell them obviously cash that we get cashed out at that side as well.

But this property was only one of two properties at the time that I'd purchased with a partner. And in this business you can, you really can't find hard money lenders for properties, but you can find partners that are willing to do the deal with you. And in this case, the partner brought the money and then I did all the marketing and all the, you know, I found the deal, did all the marketing side of things with the broker partner and then we split the profits.

So in that situation, we bought the property for 3:15. We put a little bit of money into cut it, getting some extra trails cut in the property. But when all was said and done, we each got a check for 108,000 or something like that. And when you look at the return on investment, I mean, for me, my investment was finding the deal.

So I have that cost to acquire a deal. But but really it's kind of an infinite return of investment because I didn't put any money into the deal. That's absolutely incredible and sometimes those are some of the best deals, those sweat equity deals where you can, especially as fast as you're moving on some of these, those sweat equity deals can be absolutely incredible because all you're investing is your time.

So a lot of people listening, if you don't have as much money as you do time, maybe you have more time and play. This is something you can definitely do to start to get into this is find partners who can be your cash partners and then you can find deals and source the deals and go through the whole process and then you guys split the profit. That's a fantastic way to look at it.

Right. It's and believe it or not, there's actually a lot of a lot of those money partners out there that they want to be more passive in a way that you know, so, but if you can bring a deal and you can prove to them that it's a deal, then you'll have no problem finding those partners on on that side of things.

That's absolutely incredible. So let's say you were brand new to land investing again, it's two years ago, you're starting all over again. What is the first thing you would do to find your first deal and how would you develop pipeline of deals? Well, I would definitely commit a certain amount of money to doing that outreach, the direct mail, you know, even if you put it on the credit card or or whatever.

I mean, it's kind of an investment to get the business going. I mean, it's kind of like running a car without gas. I mean you need that gas and that makes everything move basically. So you got to commit a certain amount of budget for that each month to get things going. So I would just look for some areas, maybe areas that you're familiar with if you feel best with that starting in that way.

But I would look for markets where there are land sales that are happening. And the easiest way to do that is really check on Zillow. So say for instance, I'm looking at that county in Maryland and general, I'll just do a basic search like this. I'll, I'll put in 10 acres plus of just land filtered out for just land.

And then over the last year, how many properties within that range sold, say 20 sold in that range? And then I look at the active listings that are there for that particular county and I see that there's 50 active listings. That's really not that great because that's over 2 years worth of inventory, you know, using that metric.

But if I pull it up, you know, I see 20 sales that have happened and I only see 10 active listings. That's pretty good because that's about six months worth of inventory. So if you're in a market where you know that things are actually moving and there's some demand and there's maybe not a glut of inventory, that's really a good start.

Those are fantastic tips as well because I think kind of going through that Zillow process is something where you can look all over the place, areas you're familiar or look somewhere outside of your geographic area as well. And you can kind of see what's moving and what's happening around there. So is that how you would kind of 8020 your results when you first get started is kind of doing that direct mail side?

Because I think that's the best way to do is what it sounds like for a lot of people going through like tax sales and all that kind of stuff, just seems like it's a major headache and you're not going to get the deal float that would happen there. So would that be how you would kind of 8020 your results? I would definitely, and maybe if you don't have as large of a male budget initially, maybe you could filter down some of those things like for instance, out of state owners or something like that.

Like maybe you could hone in a certain county and then take it a step further and hone in on out of state owners or people that have owned the property for quite some time. Something like that where you know, maybe delinquent in taxes, you know, that could be a good one as well. So that would kind of be how you kind of make the list more targeted in a way.

OK, that's absolutely perfect. Those are fantastic tips as well. So Pete, I want to shift gears here for a second because this is a question that we ask a lot of our guests and we always get a different answer out of this. And so I'm really excited for this as well, just because a lot of times we want to kind of, you know, eventually put a episode together where we kind of everybody's answer on that episode.

But this is a question that we absolutely love. So what does wealth mean to you? Well, wealth is really about freedom in my mind. So if you've got monetary wealth, you've also got freedom generally of your time and kind of like you can do whatever, you can do whatever you want to do in a way.

I mean, I've got a pretty good nest egg build up at this point and I don't have to work every day like I do, but I do and it's what I want to do. So having that at least that option there that you can call the shots, I guess you could say is wealth in my mind so.

Absolutely, and that freedom is the most valuable thing that you can have. Well, Pete, thank you so much. This was amazing insight into land flipping. I'm so excited for people to hear this episode. So where can people find more about you and what you have going on? Sure. The best place to find me is called turningprofit.com. On that website there you'll see that I do a monthly income report and the monthly income report basically talks about all the revenue we took in that month, how we did each deal, we break down each deal that we did, what went well, what didn't go well, try to look into each one and learn something a little bit from each one.

And then you know how we did on the profit or average days on the market and all these different things that we track in our business. And I think by going through some of those reports, you'll get quite a bit of insight into the land flipping business, what's possible and and what types of results possibly you can get for yourself.

That is absolutely incredible. So I encourage every single person to go check that out as well. We'll link all those links down in the show notes. And Pete, thank you so much for coming on. This was truly a pleasure. Well, thank you, Andrew. I really appreciate it.

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