REI Tool Stack

The free directory of AI tools for real estate investors. Pricing, honest notes, comparisons + a weekly newsletter. Built by an active GA wholesaler.

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A free directory of AI tools real estate investors actually use: CRMs, dialers, skip tracing, lead sources, comps + more.

Real pricing, honest notes, comparisons, and an upvote leaderboard.

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A Texas apartment operator posted this week about having Claude go through 500 podcasts for ideas. Small version for a wholesaler: paste 5 episode transcripts from investor shows into Claude and ask for every lead source they mention, with what it cost them.

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AI tip for wholesalers: after every seller call, paste your notes into ChatGPT or Claude and ask for 3 things: the seller's real motivation in one line, their timeline, and a follow-up text in your voice. It takes 30 seconds, and your CRM notes finally become useful.

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AI voice agent pricing per minute: Retell AI runs $0.07-$0.31, Bland AI is $0.14 on its no-platform-fee tier, and Structurely starts at $0.07. Before one of them calls your seller list, check TCPA rules. Cheap minutes don't help if the calls aren't compliant.

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@firdavsabdu Nice. Which of the 11 skills do agents actually use most? My guess is listing descriptions and follow-up texts, but I'm curious whether that's what you're seeing.

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@MaherCommercial Worth mentioning the $25k special allowance for active participants under $100k MAGI before anyone assumes their losses are trapped. It phases out by $150k.

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@TheInvestNest Good primer. One tip for anyone bulk skip tracing: scrub results against the DNC list and run a litigator scrub before you dial or text. It saves you from the expensive kind of lesson.

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@mangefriberg Love this. Lots of investor sites look the same way. Did you wire the lead forms straight into her CRM, or just to email? That's usually where the real value is.

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@Benzinga The fair counterpoint: a primary home is forced savings and a predictable housing cost. It won't cash flow, but it can become the down payment on a first rental through a HELOC or a house hack.

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@TXBSTLO Worth adding that in pricier markets many flippers use 75-80%, and wholesalers subtract their assignment fee too: MAO = (ARV x %) - repairs - fee. The 70% rule is a starting point, not a law.

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@MoneyMaker_4PF Speed to lead is the whole game on paid leads. One addition: have the AI hand off to a human the moment a seller mentions a timeline or a price, so warm leads never sit in a bot loop.

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@TreasureMusaAI Same pattern in investor tools. The ones that stick fix one painful step, like turning seller call notes into the next follow-up. The longest feature list rarely wins.

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@FLDealScanner Smart signal. Stacking a water shutoff with code violations and multi-year tax delinquency tightens a list fast. Do you see better contact rates on the stacked list than on code cases alone?

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@YourRentIntel Agreed. Check the pipeline too: if a few hundred new units deliver within a mile in the next 18 months, today's rent comps are a ceiling, not a floor.

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@Pollo_Casas_ Capex is the line everyone skips in the spreadsheet. Setting aside a fixed amount per door every month for roof, HVAC and water heater turns a surprise like that into a planned expense.

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@shaguncrypto The rule that saves a lot of people: underwrite 5-8% vacancy plus 5-10% each for repairs and capex, even on a 'turnkey' house. If it only cash flows at 100% occupancy, it doesn't cash flow.

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@PeterBuysDeals Welcome to X! Curious which back-office piece AI handles best for you: lead intake, follow-up texts, or comps? For a lot of wholesalers, follow-up is where it pays off first.

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Skip tracing cost check: Tracerfy is pay-as-you-go from $0.02 per hit. PropStream ($99/mo) and DealMachine (from $99/seat/mo) are list-building platforms with skip tracing built in. Pulling one list a month? Pay per hit. Pulling lists daily? A platform usually wins.

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"Never toss an old lead" is the most underrated rule in wholesaling. Plenty of contracts come from sellers who first called 1-2 years ago. Quick check: how many leads in your CRM have no next follow-up task? We're comparing CRMs on long-term drip. What do you use?

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Sellers now outnumber buyers by a wide margin and most big metros have flipped to buyer's markets. For wholesalers that means more stale listings and more motivated sellers. Pull expireds and 90+ day DOM weekly and call before the next price cut.

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AI tip for wholesalers: before you send a purchase agreement, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude and ask: "Which clauses could block me from assigning this, or let the seller back out? Quote the exact language." Then have your attorney confirm. Five minutes, fewer dead deals.