I've met with hundreds of real estate Sponsors/GPs in the past few years.

Most are frauds.

A few are incredible stewards of capital.

Here's what differentiates the winners: Winners *always* under-promise, over-deliver.

The best Sponsor I know shows the same 13% IRR in every investment memo.

Then consistently delivers 30%+ returns.

Met a surf bum with a sign and mailbox business that cash flows $500,000 per year.

I spent a few hours with him.

Here’s what I learned (and why we bought it): While everyone's been obsessed with finding the next AI-driven fintech unicorn, my business partner and I have been looking to buy a "boring" offline business.

We wanted something that was:

Niche
Profitable
Never Going Away

6 months in we stumbled upon a gem...

And bought it:

https://twitter.com/itsDanny_V/status/1675145991945879553

I'm excited to announce that yesterday we bought a 27-year-old commercial sign and mailbox installation company.

We paid $1,600,000 for the business.

It will cash flow $500,000+ this year.

Here's how we won the deal: A little over two months ago, I received an email from a local broker.

He was listing a new business in my backyard.

Literally 10 minutes down the road.

He shared this info:

The most common question I get:

“How do you find profitable, high-margin small businesses for sale?”

The rich guys doing this at scale are going to hate me…

But I don’t care.

Here are 20+ online sources for deal flow:

🧵 Internet Business For Sale:

• Flippa
• Latonas
• IndieMaker
• Quiet Light
• Motion Invest
• Acquire(.)com
• Investors Club
• Empire Flippers
• FE International
• Website Closers
• Tiny Acquisitions
• Website Properties

Last Father's Day I received the greatest gift anyone could ask for.

A beautiful baby girl.

Here are a few "dad hacks" I wish someone told me the day before she came: 1. Film the final 10 minutes of birth.

Even if your spouse tells you not to.

My wife was against it initially, but I hit record at the last second on my iPhone.

She's watched it 50 times since and thanks me every time she does.

Met a couple doing $3 million per year running glamp sites 30-mins outside of major national parks.

They set up 15 tents per site.

With 75% occupancy, they recoup their investment in just 1 month.

The next 6 months of the season are pure profit.

Here's their playbook: Land:

A key piece of their strategy is finding beautiful land within driving distance of a major national park.

They own sites in:

- Glacier
- Olympic
- Yellowstone
- Bryce Canyon
- Grand Canyon

Sub 30 min drive is the magic number (any further has proven too far).

First-time SMB searchers:

Do not perform a colonoscopy on the business *before* submitting an offer.

Your time is too valuable.

Instead:

- Take 1-2 efficient calls with the seller
- Sanity check the provided financials
- Create flexibility in your offer

Then hit send.

👇🏻 The goal is not to renegotiate the purchase price post-LOI.

That's poor form.

But there are mechanisms to create flexibility, if you need it.

For example, include both:

- The SDE you are assuming
- The multiple you are paying

Both can change if new info arises.

With $40,000 you could own 66% of a business generating $1,000,000 of annual profit.

You could make key decisions, pay yourself a comfortable 6-figure salary and build equity.

Sound too good to be true?

Well it's not.

Let me explain: The core concept is entrepreneurship through acquisition "ETA"

Starting a business from scratch is really tough.

You don't have:

- Product-market fit
- Customers
- Staff

Buying an established, profitable business is like a cheat code.

You get all of the above on day 1.

My younger brother bought this 4 bedroom home and is converting it into an Airbnb.

#1 - I'm super proud of him.

#2 - This investment is going to save him $91,200 in taxes this year.

Here's how: Most call it the Short Term Rental Loophole.

I prefer the "STR Strategy"

There are 5-steps:

1. Buy a property
2. Rent it for stays of 7 days or less
3. Spend 100 hours & more than anyone
4. Run a cost seg report
5. Bonus depreciate it

Let's break it down 👇🏻

A few weeks ago, I signed a Letter of Intent to buy a “boring” business doing $500,000 in annual cash flow.

My team is halfway through due diligence.

Here are 4 huge opportunities (and 2 potential red flags): Quick intro:

The business makes signs and mailboxes.

A local broker brought us the deal.

We knew very little about the space, but had been looking to add an offline business to our portfolio.

Here's the Tweet I shared a few weeks back:

https://twitter.com/itsDanny_V/status/1651228387103440896

Harvard MBA’s are turning down $300K salaries from prestigious Private Equity Firms to go buy “boring” blue-collar businesses in rural America.

Here's the irony:

Anyone with an average IQ and a strong work ethic can do this.

So why not you?

Your simple guide to buying one: Step 1: Study Up

All the information you need is literally at your finger tips.

Start here:

- Buy Then Build (book)
- Let's Buy a Business (podcast)
- Acquisitions Anonymous (podcast)

You'll be 99% further along than the average searcher.

Another one bites the dust:

First Republic Bank collapses.

The 2nd Largest Bank Failure in US History.

Here are the only 5 things you need to know (in plain English): 1/ This all started with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March:

- Fed raises benchmark interest rates
- The economy begins to contract
- Tech companies need cash
- SVB doesn't have cash
- Forced to sell bonds
- Incur huge losses
- People freak out
- Bank run
- Fire sale

It's been a wild first 3 months posting daily on this little bird app.

In celebration of 10,000 followers, I'd like to formally introduce myself:

My name is Danny.

I'm a corporate drop-out turned HoldCo Operator.

Here's my unusual story: I spent the first decade of my career trading time for money.

My early 20's were spent working 16 hr days as an investment banker.

Built valuable skills, but sacrificed a lot.

So in my mid-20's I jumped to tech.

Corporate life was comfortable and lucrative.

But uninspiring.

I don't want a job
I don't want a boss
I don't want a career.

I want a Personal Holding Company.

Here's exactly how I'm building it: I spent a decade grinding:

--> 40 hrs/wk at my day job
--> 20 hrs/wk on my side hustle

I made decent money.

But the pace was unsustainable.

So I quit my day job,
and sold my side hustle.

Now I'm building a Personal HoldCo.

Here's how it works:

There are thousands of cash-flowing internet businesses for sale right now.

One deal can replace your 6-figure salary and allow you to work from anywhere.

Here's a simple guide to buying one: Step 1: Find brokers

These sites will cover 99% of deals on the market:

@EmpireFlippers
@microacquire
@quietlightinc
@BlogsForSale
@withkumo_
@Flippa
@FEIntl

Don’t worry about sourcing off-market deals.

Let the brokers do the hard work of convincing owners to sell.

There’s a proven strategy the Top 1% use to build their Fortune.

It's called, 'The Wealth Flywheel'.

No one ever talks about it.

Let’s change that:

🧵 The Wealth Flywheel:

1. Build Your Active Income
2. Buy Cash-Flowing Assets
3. Shield That Income
4. Repeat

In today's thread, we'll unpack the steps above.

Stop Overpaying Taxes.

Here are 7 advanced strategies that could save you $10,000+ this tax season 🧵 Full disclosure: I am not a CPA.

Which, frankly, is to my advantage.

This thread compiles 7 proven tax strategies that actually move the needle.

Written in plain English, so an 8th grader could understand.

Let's do this 👇

My wife and I welcomed our first little girl into the world last year.

These days all she wants to do is sit on my shoulders and yell "dadada" to anyone who will listen.

But, one day, when she needs financial advice, here’s what I’ll tell her: ◾ Time Freedom

The ability to control your time is the highest dividend money can pay. No career, paycheck, or title is worth sacrificing everything.

The ultra-rich don’t play by society’s rules.

Instead, they use a tax strategy known as “BUY, BORROW, DIE” to build generational wealth.

It’s time to expose their dirty little secret: Step 1: BUY

The rich understand that trading time for money doesn’t build wealth.

So what do they do?

They use their income to buy assets that produce cash flow.

Specifically, real estate.

Because the US government LOVES real estate investors…. as you’ll see:

You can work 40 grueling years building wealth for someone else.

Or you can do this:

🧵 Buy a profitable small business,

using other people's money,

grow it slowly,

and sell it for 20x your investment.

I'm not exaggerating.

I’ve helped $1,000,000,000 companies IPO,

And built $1 million side hustles.

Success in business is the same—BIG or small,

If you Master these 7 Growth KPI's: KPI = Key Performance Indicator

These are the metrics that FUEL your business.

Ignore Revenue, Traffic, Profits…

Those are the outputs.

Instead, obsess over these 7 metrics: