All Forum Posts by: Bryan Scoresby

Hi, I am looking for an app that will simply build a cumulative map of where I have been when I go driving for dollars so I can look at the map and know I’m not repeating a neighborhood. I can’t seem to find the right keywords on google because all I get are fitness apps. I want something I can turn on, go driving for a while, turn off, come back a week later, open the map, see where I have been, start it back up and drive roads/neighborhoods I haven’t been to yet while adding to the breadcrumb trail from the first map.  In 6 months I would hope to have most of my area covered.  Does that make sense? Full disclosure I’m planning to use this to target new customers in my regular business not wholesaling specifically.  My wife and I are also working on building a list of people we may approach about seller financing, and it would be great to track where we have been so we don’t repeat drive through the same neighborhoods. Surely someone somewhere has built this app, I just can’t get through the aggressive seo of the fitness apps to find it.  If you know of one I would really appreciate a reply about it.  The idea being we can improve everyone’s efficiency by not repeating neighborhoods too frequently.  Thanks.

This forum seems the most likely place for this to be useful/ have useful responses. 

Quote from @Franklin Navarro:

Hello everyone,
I am currently looking to get a HELOC, and would like some recommendations of people, and/or institutions that can walk me through the process and help me.
Thank you in advance.
-Franklin.

Honestly any bank or credit union can do that. As far as cost/choosing who to go with, most helocs cost a few hundred dollars to open, then your rate is a variable rate based on the prime rate plus a small amount depending on the institution. One might change you .25% above prime and another .35% above prime. Many right now seem to be offering something like a .99% introductory rate that lasts 12-24 Months. 
it’s only slightly more difficult that getting a car loan, but the implications are much bigger. 
I would say the best thing you could do is just stop in at the bank/credit union you regularly bank with (our regular credit union didn’t have the Absolute lowest rate but the convenience of having money available in the same institution made it worth it for us) - just walk in and say “I would like to talk to someone about a heloc”. All your questions will be answered in detail 

I recently started a small business- I know this is a real estate forum, but they have a business podcast and I hoped they had a business forum... 

To the point, I am looking for anyones thoughts on the usefulness of Honeybooks, it sounds like its great software for project management and customer interactions, but doesn't have the accounting capabilities you need to file taxes, and so most people end up Using QuickBooks as well.  Does that sound right? 

my questions are: 

1.  Has anyone tried and found the customer interaction features to be useful, or is it just the standard bot responses of "thanks for asking, we will get to you soon?" 

2. Did you enjoy the project management side of things? Was it useful to your business? Would you suggest Honeybooks for this or another software?

3. Does it really integrate well with quickbooks or do you end up doing a lot of entering data twice simply because you are using two systems? 

I would really appreciate any real feedback that isn't filtered by advertising money.  

- a little about my businesses, I have two of them. One is a tree trimming and removal company (Serenity Tree Care) with me, and soon to be 3 part time employees.  20% of my clients are cold contacted by me while out and about chatting with people, the other 80% come from my 2nd business, Tree Med.  I recently purchased Tree Med from a guy who was ready to do more camping and less working, its a fertilizing and disease prevention/treatment company for trees.  it comes with about 80 clients, and is busy for only a few weeks out of the year.  So far no employees there, but that soon will change.  So far my client tracking (inherited from my predecessor) involves an eclectic mix of quickbooks info, apple contact list info, notes app info, google spreadsheets info, and stuff written down on pieces of paper.  I have someone who is going to remedy that, make a master client list, clean up my quickbooks so it has everyone and so forth... I would love to only do this once, and am wondering if its worth getting Honeybooks and putting everyone in it.  Any real world experience would be greatly appreciated.