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All Forum Posts by: David Robertson

David Robertson has started 93 posts and replied 717 times.

Post: Rehab Estimate Cheat Sheet

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

Weird...I guess my post with a link to my rehab estimate checklist in the fileplace got deleted by moderation?

I suppose if anyone still wants it you will have to send me a message...

Post: A Beginners FLIPPING Checklist

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

Here's a general timeline of common tasks and the order of operations for a cosmetic rehab.  

Here's a timeline for a gut rehab that has more extensive exterior & interior work.

Post: GC QUOTES VS ACTUAL REHAB COSTS

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

Did you ask for a cost breakdown by Trade Category?

If you had a breakdown of costs by trade category you could compare your typical prices that you've paid in the past 'pre-COVID' vs what you are seeing 'post COVID' and at least pinpoint areas of the project that seem high compared to normal.

It's really impossible to tell if the quotes are high or not because we have no specifics?  

Foundation - What's wrong with the foundation? This could be a small repair or a huge $ amount....

Roofing - How big is the roof?  What type of materials?

Driveway - Asphalt or Concrete? How big is the driveway?

Additional Bathroom - So you are adding a bathroom and adding new construction?

With that said the $70k prices quoted certainly seem more reasonable than the $152,000.  I would imagine you could build new construction in Tennessee for that price.

Post: Zillow discontinuing free Zillow Data API for SaaS products?

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

@Kyle Kufeldt

Thanks Kyle, I thought the name sounded familiar!

Currently looking at Estated or Attom Data, but leaning toward Estated.

Estated's API is cheaper, has simple API documentation and a user friendly interface for testing the API outputs.

Post: Zillow discontinuing free Zillow Data API for SaaS products?

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

@Kyle Kufeldt

No, I received another notification this morning stating I have one month to transition to the new Bridge Data API by September 30th, but my initial application was still rejected.

It might be a blessing in disguise anyway.  

Zillow was nice because it was free and provided the basic data we needed, but it looks like there are some other paid solutions that can provide additional owner information and data that can be beneficial to our users.  

I'm just glad we didn't waste a bunch of time building out tools and solutions using the Zillow API to get the rug pulled out from under us.

I don't understand why Zillow would kick thousands of API users off of their API without having a paid data service readily available for SaaS companies?   I'm sure there are hundreds of SaaS companies that would have gladly paid to keep their Zillow Data API access.

Seems like a missed opportunity for Zillow and a boon for all the other data service providers out there...

Post: Estimating Rehab Costs - Worksheets

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

Hey Rebecca,

I have a spreadsheet uploaded to my fileplace here on BP which has a Repair Estimator tool for creating estimates.  It has 24 common repair categories & around 400 common repairs & starter prices that you can use to help you get started.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/drobertson/file/house-flipping-spreadsheet-6-lite

Post: New House Flipping Task Management Software

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

We just pushed up the our Task Manager makeover that completely revamps our Task Manager!

We've added in new Task Template Checklists, sort/filter functionality, search, task commenting & exporting!


New Task Templates!

FlipperForce now includes 14 Pre-Built Task Templates that you can quickly load into the Task Manager in a matter of seconds! FlipperForce has Task Templates can be used to help you manage each stage of your house flip:

  1. Submitting an Offer Checklist
  2. Property Inspection Checklist
  3. Contractor Bidding Checklist
  4. Rehab Planning Checklist
  5. Purchase Closing Checklist
  6. Project Startup Checklist
  7. Demolition Phase Checklist
  8. Rough-In Phase Checklist
  9. Weekly Project Management Checklist
  10. Weekly Project Accounting Checklist
  11. Rehab Project Closeout Checklist
  12. Property Listing Checklist
  13. Offer Acceptance Checklist
  14. Sale Closing Checklist
House Flip Checklsits

New Sort/Filter Functionality

We added in new functionality to sort/filter your task data by Date, by User, by Priority & by Status!

Rehab Project Task Management

New Task Search

If you have a bunch of tasks in your checklist and you are having trouble finding a certain task, you can use the Search to quickly find the task you are looking for!

Rehab Project Management Searching Tasks

New Export Tasks to CSV/PDF or copy to Clipboard!

You can also export your Tasks Lists to a CSV spreadsheet file, a PDF or you can copy the data to your Clipboard so you can quickly paste it to another document!

Rehab Project Management Task Manager

New Task Commenting

You can also add Notes and Comment on Tasks to collaborate with your team.

Rehab Project Management Comments

Next:Task Email Notifications!

Next we will be adding new Task Email notifications to send out email notifications if you are assigned to a task by a teammate and send out task reminders & event reminders.

Daily & Weekly Look-ahead Emails

We will also be adding daily & weekly look-ahead emails so you will always know what project schedules, tasks & events you have going on during the day or week ahead.

Post: Zillow discontinuing free Zillow Data API for SaaS products?

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

I received a notification this week that Zillow is migrating all of their Zillow Data API accounts over to their Bridge Interactive Data API starting September 2020.   They stated that I needed to request access to the new Bridge Data API to get my new API token.

I requested access, but was rejected because I have a SaaS product.

I was told that Bridge API is not allowing API access for products that "live behind a registration wall, or are a part of a paid service."

I sent a follow up question asking whether Bridge API had a paid data service that I could pay to subscribe to, and they said "At this time, we do not offer Bridge access in any paid capacity."

Any other app developers running into this issue?

What data cost-effective data APIs are you utilizing for property data, recent sales, comps, etc?

Post: Flipper Force July Software Update

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

https://vimeo.com/438051742

Dave provides a quick software development update on what we are currently working on in our Flipper Force house flipping software.

These monthly software updates are something we are going to start doing to help provide transparency on what tools we are building in the platform, but also provide some accountability for ourselves so we can hold ourselves accountable for getting these tools built for you in a timely manner.

We’ve got our Software Road Map open that we have posted to our website which shows all of the tools and features we recently completed, are currently working on, what’s up next & what we have planned in our backlog.

July and August are going to be an exciting month, we have a lot of new improvements planned that will significantly improve the overall functionality of our Flipper Force platform.

Based upon our user feedback it sounds like the Rental Calculator/BRRRR calculator, the Materials manager & a Quickbooks integration is the most important new feature you want us to add.

We definitely are planning on getting those tools and features built for you, but before we do that we really feel like there are existing tools and features that need to be improved before we start adding in completely new software tools.

We don’t want to be a jack-of-all-trades, master of none platform so before we build out those tools we are going to be spending the next month improving our existing tool set.

In case you didn’t see we’ve already started to make some exciting progress in July, this last week we launched our new export to CSV functionality so you can export your expenses to a CSV spreadsheet.

We also launched some new improvements to our Project Scheduler that improves the way schedule starter templates are loaded into the scheduler. Now you can select the schedule start date and load a schedule template into your project in a matter of seconds.

This week we will be launching new print to PDF functionality for all of our Accounting reports, so you will be able to print your budget reports, expense reports & final profit statements to a PDF to share with your account.

Next week we are going to be starting on a major revamp of our Task Manager, so we will be completely revamping the Task Manager, adding in functionality for saving task templates/checklists that you can reuse on future projects, we will also be adding in new email notifications.

Our task email notifications will send out task notifications if you been assigned to a task by a teammate, it will send out task reminders & event reminders, and then also it will be sending out daily & weekly look-aheads so you will always know what project schedules, tasks & events you have going on during the day or week ahead.

After the task manager improvements we will be revamping the Document Manager to provide improved file management so you can add, edit, and delete folders to create a customized folder hierarchy. We will also be improving the cloud infrastructure utilized to store the files which should improve speed/performance.

Finally we will also be revamping our Expense Tracker to improve the overall user interface and performance.

Currently the Expense tracker can be a little slow with large datasets so we will be adding in pagination to improve the speed and performance of the Expense Tracker. We will also be adding functionality to upload receipt images for your expenses.

Once we get done revamping some of our existing tools, we will finally be ready to start building the new tools you requested like the Rental Calculator/BRRRR Calculator, material manager & Quickbooks integration which we will hopefully be able start in middle to late August.

To track our progress, you can find all of our latest updates on our New Features page, or directly in the app there is a lightning bolt at the top of the navbar which has a list of the latest updates we’ve made to our software.

We're excited about the upcoming month of development work we have planned, I think our software will undergo a major transformation over the course of the next few weeks and months as we significantly improve the overall functionality and usability of our underlying tool set, and then we're really looking forward to getting the Rental Calculator built which has been one of most widely requested features by our user base.

If you have any feedback or thoughts on how we can improve our Flipper Force software you can request a feature on our Feature request page and then our user base can collaborate and upvote your suggestions to help us prioritize what we should build next.

Learn more about our web-based house flipping software at https://www.flipperforce.com/

Post: Webinar: How to Estimate Rehab Costs

David Robertson
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  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Posts 736
  • Votes 752

Learn the basics of estimating rehab costs in our webinar with Dave Robertson from FlipperForce house flipping software.

Estimating rehab costs is skill that is learned over time and through experience, so unfortunately watching this 1 hour webinar will not tell you everything you need to know, but hopefully you will learn some basic information about the different methods of estimating rehab costs, and learn the process of estimating rehab costs.

Dave will also dive into a real life example where he will share some different tips and tricks of how to estimate rehab costs!