Interesting Jump Start - Little About Myself

[Trevor Mcamis]

Hey guys, I am brand new to the forum but looking to immerse myself further into the real estate field. I am already in a very interesting real estate field but looking to get more into the investing side and learn about it. I have a ton of tools, resources, data, skill-sets and right now I am exploring how to best leverage them. I don't really have a specific niche that I am looking into at the moment so any input or suggestions would be helpful (but I think most of this is just preference, something I have to continue to explore personally).

Quick snippet about me, I have been working for a property tax appeal company for about 9 years(with the exception of the year I took off to move to Greenwich Village Manhattan and did some extensive traveling while one of my companies was thriving). I am now the Executive VP of Marketing and Technology for that company. I was able to scale the business 54% from 2017 to 2018 and from 114% from 2018 to 2019 without increasing marketing costs (in fact I cut them 56% and tripled our reach). Most, if not all, companies in our industry are downsizing and cutting staff in this market (we thrive in a down economy). I have always been an entrepreneur at heart even though my current situation is a 9-5. I am still very young and have owned multiple businesses of my own on the side I have had my successes and failures all of which I learn something new. One company at one point I was profiting $3k a day in its peak. Another company I established an office in Pakistan filled with 10 employees with coding and web development skill sets.

Just to highlight a few things that I have working for me that the typical newbie I don't think would have:

• I have access to costar, parcel quest and Sandicor
• I have the ability to code python (aka scraping data from the internet)
• Any web coding, website maintenance, etc... that I can't do myself I can get done for very affordable prices because of my established relationships to talented individuals in Pakistan
• I have built scrapers on sites to pull Tax Delinquent Properties in certain parts of California, so I have large lists of tax delinquent properties all with mailing addresses
• I have access to all of the tax roll data in California
• I have the ability to analyze certain markets in California using data science
• GIS experience to map that data and explore hotspots of certain scenarios (like new construction)
• I have extensive knowledge of Direct Mail Marketing
• I have spent easily over $500k of my own money between social media ads, ppc, and native ads running all the campaigns myself
• I already have a ton of contacts in the real-estate world brokers, appraisers, people who know how to value properties all of which would be willing to help me for free or cheap depending on the situation
• I know how to automate repetitive business processes to reduce company overhead
• I obviously have resources to property tax appeal experts that specialize in California properties that would be key to bringing more to my bottom line
  

I have a lot more skill-sets aside from these but don't want to get too braggy ;). Interested to see what you guys have to say and very excited to be here to learn.

PS. I also owned a chicken farm in Pakistan at one point. I usually just tell people I am a retired Pakistani chicken farmer because everything above is much too complicated to explain. ;P