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How to Write a Business Plan for a Fix-n-Flip Real Estate Company

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Consider this example: Pleasant Acres Real Estate, LLC (PARE) is a startup company located in El Paso, Texas. The problem: El Paso is a hot real estate market with lots of young people and families seeking homes on the cheap. For example, PARE fixes and flips homes in the El Paso real estate market.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

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These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

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This would ultimately be the advantage Keith had, and still has, in running a smaller operation: relationships mean more to the owner and the customer. In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , His new customers were ready for the change. “Most of them said, ‘Hey, we’re glad you did.