How Drones Can Make You Money in Real Estate!

You know, right now, depending on what

study you read, we're somewhere between

8 and 10% saturated, meaning that

there's over 90% of the marketplace is

wide open. So, people say, "Oh, well,

you can't make money with real estate."

Yes, you can, cuz over 90% of the

market's wide open. But that is pretty

simple. You don't You're basically just

fly the drone up and you position it

towards the house. You move the camera

gimbal down and you just hit a button on

a controller and then you send it off to

a video editor or a photo editor and

then they make it just even an amazing

picture even more amazing. And I know

that's hard for professional

photographers to hear because they've

spent 10, 15, 20 years to get the same

quality pictures that I can teach

someone how to do in 15 minutes and it

blows their mind. But the technology is

what allows that. And again, doing

something like that, real estate

photography is fairly simple. We call it

lowhanging fruit because it's the

fastest path to cash. It's easy to do.

It doesn't require a lot of skill, a lot

of practice, a lot of knowledge. It

doesn't require a big investment in as

far as equipment goes. So, you can just

get out there and get started. Couple

that with something like a nuclear power

plant inspection or if you're doing an

oil refinery spec inspection and doing

like fleer stack inspections. You know,

just the equipment alone you would need

to do that are is probably going to run

you around $350,000

per equipped drone. And if you're doing

a professional project like that, you

got to have a backup. So, you got to

have two drones. So, you're looking at a

minimum of $700,000 in equipment. Plus,

you got to have a lot of knowledge and a

lot of flight experience. And then

there's a whole lot of other stuff

that's on the back end. It's a bigger

investment. It's a whole lot more skill

and knowledge and stuff that's involved.

And you look at the the customer

acquisition process. How many houses are

for sale out there versus how many oil

refineries are there out there, right?

So it's a it's a there's way more

houses, so it's way easier. And then

also the sales cycle. You can go do a

real estate presentation for a real

estate brokerage and you could walk out

with 25, 30 clients in less than an

hour, but it might take you a year, two,

three years to close a refinary stack

inspection, right? Because these bigger

bigger projects, bigger dollars, which

are sexier, but more investment, more

skill, more knowledge, you know,

everything else. So, I think starting

out getting going for the lowhanging

fruit is definitely the way to go. You

know, it's just the simple crawl, walk,

run. And the great thing about when you

start with some of these easier jobs, a

lot of people don't want to do that cuz

they're like, "Oh, that's beneath me. I

want the sexy big giant job, you know."

But as you start with those smaller

jobs, you build not only your confidence

and your systems and your infrastructure

and you build your team and your

processes and all that stuff ends up

being the foundation that you can then

scale and grow to do these other big

projects. And one of the things I love

about real estate is realtors are

amazing networkers. So, you will

organically, as you build your real

estate portfolio with clients and all

these realtors, you're going to all of a

sudden get all kinds of crazy deals and

all kinds of other projects and you'll

be doing car dealerships and stuff for

the tourism board and you'll be doing

stuff for the city and you'll be doing

stuff for the planning commission and

maybe the core of engineers and all this

stuff that you would have never had the

opportunity to do. But because of the

relationships you've built with your

realtors and the realtors networking

with everyone, it leads to all this

other stuff. In the meantime, you're

getting to build your confidence, your

knowledge, your systems,