Joe Schmitt, an active land investor, shares his experience hiring, training, and building processes for due diligence. Topics include hiring tips, accessing due diligence reports, importance of physically visiting the property, using virtual assistants, and hiring a good intake manager.
Joe Schmitt recommends new land investors to gain experience and understanding of the due diligence process themselves before outsourcing to virtual assistants (VAs).
In the hiring process for due diligence VAs, Joe Schmitt suggests using platforms like hiremymom.com to find candidates and testing their competence with work samples like running comps on properties.
Deep dives
Importance of Hiring a VA for Due Diligence
Joe Schmidt emphasizes the importance of hiring a virtual assistant (VA) to handle due diligence in land investing. He suggests that before outsourcing, new investors should first gain experience and understanding of the due diligence process themselves. Joe shares that he tested and trained several VAs, using a work sample to assess their competence in running comps on vacant land. He recommends having a well-structured process and providing written documents with step-by-step instructions instead of relying solely on video tutorials. Joe also advises starting to consider hiring a VA for due diligence after completing about 10 land deals.
Two-Step Due Diligence Process
Joe describes his two-step due diligence process. His first VA conducts an initial sanity check on properties, ensuring factors like access, topography, and zoning are suitable. If a property passes this test, the VA proceeds to run comps to determine the price point. Once the seller agrees on a price, Joe brings in a second VA, an abstractor, who performs comprehensive due diligence by checking zoning regulations, searching for liens, and conducting a chain of title search. The second VA provides Joe with a detailed summary spreadsheet of their findings.
Hiring Process and Cost
Joe shares insights into the hiring process for due diligence VAs. He recommends using platforms like hiremymom.com to find candidates, as it offers a mature candidate pool of professionals looking for side hustles or part-time work. Joe advises testing applicants by giving them a work sample, such as running comps on properties, and selecting the candidate with the best performance. He pays his intake VA $12-15 per hour and the abstractor VA around $50-75 per property, depending on the complexity of the due diligence required.
Joe Schmitt is an active land investor who has set out to create processes for his team. We've brought him onto the show to talk about his processes.
In this episode Joe shares with us his experience hiring, training, and building out his processes for completing his due diligence process - which is now mostly hands off for him.
Listen to this episode:
how Joe hired his team to perform the due diligence process
hiring tips and things to look out for
get access to his due diligence reports
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