1 Man Operation To 450 Deals

Chip spent ten years as a professional online poker player, never held a traditional job, and used the same statistical targeting philosophy he developed at the card tables to build a wholesale real estate operation that went from one man doing 36 deals a year to a lean two-person partnership closing 450 deals across Austin Houston and Dallas. In this episode Chip and Zaman break down exactly how they went from a one man show to 450 wholesale deals, why Chip's poker background gave him a targeting system that most real estate investors have never heard of, how finding the most motivated sellers instead of marketing to everyone is the single biggest competitive advantage in wholesale real estate today, why Chip stopped doing sales the moment Zaman joined and deals immediately doubled, how they pivoted from virtual statewide operations across all of Texas to focused in-person appointments in Austin and why that single decision transformed their closing rate, and what the division of roles between a visionary strategist and an elite closer actually looks like inside a high-volume real estate operation.Chip and Steve cover the bomb hunting strategy Chip developed as a professional poker player and exactly how it applies to finding motivated sellers in real estate, why marketing to everyone is the most expensive mistake a wholesaler can make and how targeting only the highest probability sellers cuts your marketing waste and increases your conversion rate simultaneously, how Zaman went from a civil engineering career to becoming one of the most effective real estate closers in Austin by spending five hours a day studying sales calls after work for an entire year, why hiring based on Predictive Index personality profiles changed everything about the quality of people they brought into Smooth Closing, how they use curative title work and foreclosure strategies to find deals that every other investor in their market walks away from, why doing 36 deals alone for two years confirmed that the ceiling of a one person operation is not a market problem but a people problem, and the specific moment Chip realized Zaman was better at sales than he was and made the decision to step back and only handle strategy.If this episode gave you one idea to restructure your wholesale real estate business hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the operators investors and entrepreneurs who are actually building real wealth to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million.Follow Chip And ZamanChip Personal Instagram: @thechipfergusonhttps://www.instagram.com/thechipferguson/Chip LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chip-ferguson-581a94271/Smooth Closing Instagram: @smoothclosinghttps://www.instagram.com/smoothclosing/Smooth Closing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SmoothClosing/Smooth Closing website: https://www.smoothclosing.comSmooth Closing phone: (512) 368-9989Chip email: [email protected] Closing LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smoothclosingSubscribe for more disruptive conversations: https://youtube.com/@DisruptorsPodcast