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?
Solution:
We figured out that one of the simplest and easiest places to start buying businesses is in laundromats. Why?
1) Simple - customers do the majority of the work 2) Little labor - means training, on-boarding, and labor is relatively minimal
3) Upfront cash - customers pay upfront, makes accounting easier 4) Recession resistant -people always need clean clothes 5) Good ROI - laundry industry has a 20-35% ROI and nearly a 95% success rate, according to Speed Queen (eek, not sure on 95% but maybe directionally).
5) Inventory. - Unlike a restaurant, convenience store, or grocery store, laundromats have very little physical inventory. 6) No Seasonality - Not seasonal or weather-dependent 7) There's a program and a roadmap to follow. There's a way to do it passively
Cons:
Who the f*ck grew up wanting to be a laundromat owner or work in one? Not me.
Could we do it passively?
Turns out yes.
Sound cool?
That's why we did a write-up and playbook with our friend who has bought 3 of these, for $900k in income and works about 10 hours a week on them.
So follow along for the ride to hear more opportunities like these, input your email to learn more, and maybe this is your path to increased financial freedom as well.
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?"
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.
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.