All Forum Posts by: Bryce DeCora

Investment Info:

Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

Purchase price: $238,500
Cash invested: $55,000
Sale price: $375,000

Investment Info:

Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

Purchase price: $205,000
Cash invested: $55,000
Sale price: $324,000

I work investments in Snohomish and King counties in Washington State and have been approached by a seller who wants to sell their property rights (easy enough).  However, this seller has a lease to own contract in place with the tenant.  Is there a way for me to purchase the existing note subject to the existing loan without disturbing the lease to own contract in place?

@Vance Wyly

Look up “HTTP Request through Google Sheets” and I recommend using SignalWire as the SMS service.

@Trevor Ewen

I use SignalWire and have been thoroughly impressed. They are a cheaper alternative to Twilio

@Lance Johnson

You could reverse engineer the county assessor site API (through inspecting network traffic), then iterate through all possible parcel numbers, storing the results and their data in a database. You could then query the database as you wish... HOWEVER, most counties provide this database as a large downloadable file that is updated quarterly to yearly. That is the preferred method.

@Blaise Doremus you can’t patent software but you can patent algorithms and software logic. Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to prove that someone is breaking that patent in their code.

@Blaise Doremus about the best you can do is an NDA (which actually hold very little weight if broken). There are 2 things you can do.

1) Start going to developer meetups and network with people. Find someone who you can have a mutually beneficial relationship with and nurture that until you trust them enough to work together on your app. The advantage of this is that you are less likely to have your idea stolen. The disadvantage is that you’ll probably have to share equity in whatever you create unless you afford to pay a US software developer wage (approx. $85k annually)

2) Hire individuals off freelance sites to develop parts of the app and learn to integrate the pieces yourself. This helps reduce the chance of a freelancer stealing your entire code and becoming your competitor, but you’ll still have to learn enough to put the pieces together.

In the software world it’s almost impossible to protect your product. If people work on it, it’s likely someone will “borrow” pieces of it. People even steal Microsoft product.

I’m a self-taught python developer who is now building my own web application. If you don’t want to share your idea with partners or freelance developers, buckle in for at least 12 months of intense learning before you’re able to produce a useful app.

I recommend Python-Flask

@Tzook Bar Noy

I’m using SignalWire for SMS and still running experiments with the chatbot direction. My options:

- Chatterbot with custom decision trees based on collected knowledge

- Amazon Lex

Within the CRM one will have the ability to text, call, send RVM, send and design physical mail, email. Most CRMs focus way too much on the property (estimating ARV, repairs, etc.) and are horrid when it actually comes to managing contact relationships. They should call themselves Property Relationship Software instead of CRM.