Advice from a YouTube discussion on thinking like the CFO of a real-estate business. Key recommendations: build an economic model (or derive one from recent profit-and-loss statements), use a simple daily dashboard (clicking the same six tabs) to check the next two months, progress vs target, year-over-year comparison, lead-generation performance, and agent vitality. Operational cadence: glance at CTE/dashboard ~30 seconds/day, review P&L monthly, maintain a network tracker, and expect under one hour/week total once systems are set up. Speaker notes personal experience doing taxes and recurring expenses; recommends at minimum a bookkeeper so owners can stay within ~1 hour/week and have better oversight than many peers.
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About 30 seconds a day.
Six tabs.
Once a month.
Less than one hour a week.
I would create an economic model. And if you're like, well, I don't know how to do that, you can find the information in the toolbox, or you could just look at your profit and loss for the past couple years and go, well, there's my economic model. I paid this in percentage and staff this percentage. You have something actually to go on and you may need to adjust that. But I would do that. I would look at CTE for 30 seconds a day. Every day I click on the same six tabs. I want to know what my next two months look like. I want to know how I'm on target. I want to know how I look compared to last year. I want to know what my lead generation sources are doing and what my agent's vitality is. And I click on those and it's fast. I look at my P and L once a month. I fill out my network tracker. I'm probably spending about. I doubt it's 10 minutes a day, but it sure feels like it. Maybe two minutes a day, but it's consistent. Yeah.
So maybe over the course of a, of a week, less than an hour a week. Being once you have these systems set up and you understand it and it doesn't freak you out, less than one hour a week, I would guess.
Oh yeah, yeah. And I had the advantage. I advantage my lack of wanting to hire. I did my business taxes for years, so I would spend a ton of time. But I really got to know like, wow, look at that. That, that really recurs year after year, those expenses. I hire somebody, I got to keep paying them. I got. Which means we have to produce. So if you have smarter and you have a bookkeeper take care of this. There's just no way you could spend more than an hour a week and have a better handle on your business, guaranteed than most real estate companies that I, that I think you could find because, because most of them, large and small, are just trying to sell their way out of this dilemma that we're in.
