In November, @michaelnerby closed on 2 laundromats in CA
Used $25k cash to close on assets worth ~$1 Million
- 4,200 sqft w/ 114 washers & dryers
A thread on creating $250k in boring biz cash flow: (WARNING - no NFTs were used in the creating of this deal 🤣)
Got the property through a broker referral. (@BizBuySell)
Followed up to get the financials.
Financials looked good (aka clean and profitable)
Both locations bringing in 46k gross and approx $23k net.
Arranged a visit to walk the properties.
No branding. Terrible flooring & green paint job 🤢.
Hardly any marketing.
Absentee owner.
No credit card.
No drop-off services.
No website = GOLD.
Lots of room for improvement... Start getting excited.
Asking price $1,250,000
Meh - no thx.
COVID headwinds, another location being remodeled nearby, the seller being absentee, they had some wiggle room.
He put in an offer at $900,000
Seller to carry 50% at 5% for 8 years (read that again)
Terms: $975k (pending DD)
Raised the rest of the capital from investors for the ~50% equity.
Ran the due diligence. Sat and counted coins (riveting)
Financial analysis aka checked w/the tax man on their filings
Turns out they didn't lie. So we signed on the dotted line.
DD = ways to bring the price down & make sure no shenanigans.
Countered to $900k again. (Old equipment, more repairs)
The seller countered to $925,000. Yup! BOUGHT.
Here's the financial skinny:
Private capital = $575,000 (extra $100k for renovations and start up costs)
Seller = $450,000
Final purchase price = $925,000
His own $25k. That's it.
Renovation plan:
- Change signage
- Rebrand
- Website and online presence
- Internet and print marketing campaign
- Flooring
- Paint
- Replace machines that needed it
- Wifi and Wifi add-ons
- Increase prices
- Implement drop off services
Projections for year 1:
$550,000 = gross
$270,000 = expenses
$280,000 = NOI (~30%)
$68,328 = interest and principal
$211,672 = cash flow
The plan is to hold for 3-5 years. Implement the take-over strategy. Seek out options to refinance to take out the seller finance and return a portion of the investor capital.
I was burned out in finance, working on someone else's schedule, tired of having my time tied to $.
So I started investing in cash-flowing biz's.
Not sexy startups, but boring businesses.
One of my fav small deals netted $67k a year, $100k at close... w/ quarters
A thread:
I asked myself:
How could I work when I want, where I want and on what I want.
Problem:
I'm not smart enough to create the next Tesla, Bitcoin, FB, etc.
But I can model like a MF'er and I'm pretty good at DD
Solution: Maybe I should just buy a boring cash-flowing biz?
Now I own 7 that I'm active in and many more that I passively invest in.
Now I ask myself: how do I get more people in the ownership/acquirer seat?
Buying 300 golf carts at a bankruptcy auction & selling them for 5x?
Don't let the ridiculously high stilettos fool you. @LisaSongSutton is a former attorney & shark.
A thread from our call on buying at bankruptcy auctions:
Tiny lady + big profits.
5'2 inches of lil Lisa likes to call up trustee attorneys and tell them:
- she's a cash buyer and when they have items come up to put her on the list.
- that's how she got access to 300 golf carts at a golf course firesale
- she promptly bought them..
When I asked, "But, how'd you know what to buy them for, how to sell them and whether you'd make money?"
Asked one of my 9 figure net worth friends what he's investing in RN.
He immediately responded with a $ by $ breakdown.
Knowing your money THIS well... is how you grow it.
Love twitter. You guys actually read. Should have mentioned this is 1 of 3 sheets of assets. Is it helpful to see a bigger asset breakdown? My point was asked him and he emailed me 10 min later. It’d take me 2 hours to calculate mine. Which is prob why he’s worth so much more.
Y’all have lotsssss of qs on his asset breakdowns and %s. At the bottom under crypto is a leverage segment where he has a margin account that accounts for some 15% ish. Additional buy in to something I don’t know what. RE?
How we created a community doing $750k in sales in 3 months: A thread…
We launched our community (unconventionalacquisitions.com) in August 2020 with a goal to create 100,000 business owners.
We’re far from done, but here are some lessons learned along the way:
First let’s take a look under the hood:
Cost is $1997 a year x (66 members) = $197k in revenue, 3 months in. Some discounts, freebies and we recently started but it’s growing FAST.
Which brings me to the first lesson...
Lesson #1: Price it higher than you think:
Sell your product at $10, some will say too high.
Sell your product at $100, some will say too high.
Sell your product for $10,000 --> less complaints, less returns.