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Often when there is a great deal, it means there is something wrong with the house or neighborhood.
Worth nothing that neither of those things disqualifies something from being a great deal.
> "Send me great real estate deals" Why can't I just browse them? I honestly don't want to deal with your spam in my inbox every day.
I know "great artists steal" but man is this cutting it close compared to Scott's Cheap Flights. I mean, you even took the same copy text. What's funny is I'm not even sure if I mean that accusatorially or admiringly. Maybe both.
> "Send me great real estate deals" Why can't I just browse them? I honestly don't want to deal with your spam in my inbox every day.
I think the business model is based on email subscribers. OP has mentioned elsewhere[1] here that he modeled the site and offering very closely based on Scott's Cheap Flights .com which was in the Cheap Flights domain.
See their story on IH. 320K / month in recurring revenue. https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/scotts-cheap-flights-...
I did see that you have 1 past deal listed on home page. It would be great if you can add just a single page titled "Past Deals" or "Highlighted Deals" and show a few houses that your AI bot identified. That's more likely to encourage potential subs.
Also, how do you calc the CAP rate etc? Do you crawl existing sites that already have this data, or do you generate it on the fly? If the latter, how?
And how does your site / email list stack up against the following (which I think are somewhat related to what you are doing).
1) RoofStock.com - https://www.roofstock.com - Based in Oakland, they do end to end investing online, from intent to closing on mortgage. Most are already rented too, and they even provide Property Management services. They have a great engineering team. I even landed a Sr. Software Engineer position with them last fall, but ended up turning it down. Highly recommend if you are looking for a tech job... I think they are still hiring.
2) Mashvisor - https://www.mashvisor.com - Based in Silicon Valley (I think). They identify and list properties with AirBnB and Vaca rental potential. I like them too, but their sales team is very pushy and you can't do anything without signing up for a monthly subscription. I had a demo with their sales guy last year, and the whole thing was geared towards getting me to signup and pay.