Starting a hard money lending company makes sense to me since I have hundreds of contacts in this business that I've built relationships for years, as well as it aligns with my origination background. 

The mortgage company gets paid off first, then in a traditional sale, the rest minus agent fees and utilities and closing costs goes to the seller.

Recently, a real estate friend suggested I consider starting a title company, as he and his partners (primarily in commercial real estate, like strip malls) could bring business my way.While I’ve worked with title companies in my transactions, I’ve never explored the inner workings of how they operate.

There are multiple billion dollar companies dumping money into the city, such as Intel, Google, Honda, and Amazon.

Quote from @Chris Seveney: @Zach EdelmanBe clear BP does not recommend companies - companies pay to advertise on BP and while BP I assume vets them - it’s still buyer bewareI am not an employee of BP but I want people to understand on BP and on most sites there are sponsors and affiliates but they may not be thoroughly vetted.

Now I have to battle the insurance companies.

Fourth company is the charm.

I kind of gave up on Stessa, just do not have the time to deal with ongoing computer issues and constantly not being able to communicate with a company.

Now it going above pre-pandemic was because like Miami, Nashville, and Boise, Austin was a super-fast grower and had massive companies relocate there during that period therefore homebuilders jumped on it.

If so it might be hard to sell the management side of the business as the the real estate sales may be also under the same company structure.