LandFlip Command Center

Local & private β€” your data never leaves your computer

Dashboard

Your whole pipeline at a glance. All numbers update as you work the other tabs.

πŸ€– Automation desk Β· Claude works while you don't

Seven Claude agents run on schedule and file their work in the project folder: Dirt Brief (daily noon β€” call list, mail due, DD deadlines) Β· Comps runner (Tue β†’ _Automation Reports/Comps Log.md) Β· Listing audit (Wed β†’ Listing Audit.md) Β· Campaign analyst (Fri β€” county grades & next week's mail split) Β· AI improvement scan (Sat β†’ IMPROVEMENTS.md, mark items βœ…/❌) Β· Bookkeeper (1st β†’ _Bookkeeping/) Β· County records drafts (1st β€” review & hit Send in Gmail). The fuel for all of it: click Backup after every session β€” no fresh JSON, no fresh briefs. Manage schedules in Claude β†’ Scheduled; fire ad-hoc jobs from your phone with Dispatch.

πŸ”₯ Needs action now Β· no lead goes quiet

Every active lead must have a next step. This list shows anything stalled, overdue, due for a follow-up letter, or ready to resurface β€” work it top-down every day.

Pipeline by stage

Performance

Funnel & conversion Β· know your numbers (Apke)

Land is a numbers game β€” watch these to see where deals leak and what a deal really costs you. (Mail cost assumed β‰ˆ $0.65/piece.)

Offer engine β€” pace & acceptance Β· volume is the engine (McCall)

Rule of thumb: more than ~1-in-5 offers accepted means you're offering too much; 1-in-20 to 1-in-40 is normal for blind offers. Set your monthly offer target in Settings.

Tasks & reminders due

Workflow β€” click a step to go there

County Records Requests

Generate the emails that ask county treasurers/assessors for their delinquent-tax & vacant-land lists. Claude can send these from your business Gmail and log the replies.

1. Pick a county & build the request email

πŸ“€ Queue & copy for Claude logs this request and copies a ready-to-send block to your clipboard. Paste it into the Claude chat and say β€œsend this” β€” Claude emails it from your business Gmail. Once sent, click Mark sent in the request log below. To send several at once, queue them, then use πŸ“‹ Copy all queued.

2. AZ county contact directory Β· + sell-through discipline

Pre-loaded with the priority counties from your playbook. Add the exact email once you confirm it on the county site; it saves automatically. Sold 90d and Median DOM are your sell-through check β€” refresh them monthly from Zillow/Redfin's sold-land filter before weighting mail spend toward any county.

3. Request log

Which counties to target β€” market intel land-sale volume & owner-age proxy

Annual land-sale volume (liquidity)

Median resident age (owner-age proxy)

La Paz, Mohave, and Yavapai score best on the two signals together (old owners + active resale). Gila is a solid secondary. The metros (Maricopa, Pima, Pinal) are deepest but pricey.

Leads

Every parcel, one place β€” import, clean, score, price, and work each from New to Sold. Click a stage to filter; switch the table view for work / pricing / disposition columns.

Pipeline

Import a county list (CSV) file or paste

Import a list (CSV)

Clean, score & scrub standardize Β· dedupe Β· McCall filter Β· motivation score

Run the cleaner

McCall list scrub β€” which parcels to keep

Joe McCall's "Flip Dirt, Not Houses" filter: keep right-sized, accessible parcels with room for margin; set the rest aside. Set the rules, then run β€” each record is marked Keep / Review / Drop. (Set each parcel's Access in the Records tab so landlocked ones get caught.)

How the motivation score works

0–100. Higher = more likely a motivated, below-market seller. Tune the weights to your market.

View:

Deal Analyzer

Turn comps into a disciplined blind-offer price for every parcel. This is where the profit is made β€” never offer more than the model says.

Pricing rules

Blind offer (Apke's default for direct mail): offer = market Γ— a low % (β‰ˆ25–40%) β€” big margin, low hit rate. Market offer: pay near full value (β‰ˆ80–90%) to win it fast and flip quickly to a retail buyer or agent β€” thinner margin, higher conversion; use on clean, liquid parcels. Divide-by-2: (market Γ· 2) safety cut. $/acre cap: acres Γ— cap. Due diligence: each Issue you flag on a parcel (Leads β†’ Due diligence) automatically lowers its offer by the β€œeach due-diligence issue βˆ’%” in Settings. The Pricing view shows the resulting offer, projected profit, and ROI per parcel.

Comps β†’ market value Β· Apke method

Land data is thin, so work each comp individually (Daniel Apke, One Lot at a Time): lead with recent Sold comps; add Active/Pending listings to fill gaps but discount them since land sells below asking. Match acreage buckets β€” a 2-acre lot's $/acre β‰  a 40-acre tract's. This tool discounts actives, flags size mismatches, and uses the median adjusted $/acre (resists a single outlier) as your market $/acre.

Add comps to see the median adjusted $/acre.

Reverse calculator β€” Max Allowable Offer

Work backward from how you'll exit. Your highest safe offer = expected resale βˆ’ the profit you require βˆ’ all your costs.

Mail β€” offers out & responses in

Your buying outreach: blind-offer letters & postcards with QR/card-number response, property-type targeting, and multi-step follow-up sequences. Every send is tracked (touch count + mailed date) on each record.

1. Compose

When ON, the Subject/Body below are ignored and every owner gets the matching letter automatically β€” remote/off-grid, good-access/buildable, or recreational β€” based on the Access & Use columns you set in Records. Turn OFF to send one letter to everyone.
Available merge fields (click to insert)

2. Choose recipients

Printing a run marks each parcel mailed, bumps its touch count, and schedules the next touch. Pick β€œFollow-up due” to mail only parcels whose next touch has come up.
Log a response that came back

Log a response

Seller call kit β€” what to ask & say

Apke's stance: be a friendly problem-solver, not a pushy buyer. Let them name a price first, then anchor to comps, back taxes, and the certainty you offer (cash, cover closing, no fees). Pick a parcel to capture notes and build a one-page deal report.

Qualifying questions β€” find the motivation
1. How did you come to own this parcel?  2. What's got you thinking about selling now?  3. How soon would you want it done?  4. Are the taxes current, or is anything owed?  5. Is it paid off, or is there a loan?  6. Have you ever tried to sell it before?  7. Have you used it / been out to it?  8. If we could close quickly and cover all costs, what would you need to walk away happy?
Negotiation moves
β€’ Let them say a number first β€” β€œWhat were you hoping to get?”  β€’ Anchor gently to reality: recent comps, back taxes, years of holding cost, that it's raw land.  β€’ Sell certainty, not top dollar: cash, you cover closing, no agents, close on their timeline.  β€’ Use silence after they counter.  β€’ Never go above your analyzed max (Deal Analyzer) β€” be willing to politely walk and follow up in a few months.
Call script β€” what to say
β€œHi {owner}, this is {you} with {company} β€” you reached out about your {acres}-acre parcel in {county} County. Is now an okay time?” β†’ β€œI buy land in the area and I'd love to learn about yours.” β†’ ask the qualifying questions β†’ β€œHere's how I work: I pay cash, cover all closing costs, and there are no fees or agents. Based on recent sales nearby, I could do {your offer}. How does that sound?” β†’ if yes: β€œGreat β€” I'll email a simple purchase agreement today.” If no: β€œTotally understand β€” mind if I check back in a few months?”

Recent responses

Campaign stats β€” where your mail dollars work

Letters sent vs responses vs deals, per county. Industry benchmark is ~1% response on a well-priced list β€” a county running well under that after 2–3 drops means fix the list, the letter, or leave the county. Weight next month's mail toward the counties earning it.

Sell β€” market a parcel you own

Generate listings, neighbor & realtor outreach, and platform-ready copy for the land you're reselling.

1. The parcel & price

1b. Price-to-sell schedule & owner-finance returns

Apke: price it to move, and if it sits, cut it on a schedule β€” a lot that lingers is priced wrong. Uses the cash price + terms above.

2. Generate copy

β€œFind the top local land realtor” asks Claude to research who sells the most land near this parcel and draft outreach to them. β€œHave Claude post this” posts the listing via Claude in Chrome in your logged-in browser (it'll confirm before submitting; it can't solve CAPTCHAs).

3. Neighbor mailing β€” sell to the people next door

Adjoining owners often pay a premium for the lot beside them β€” mail them first. One per line: Name β€” mailing address. These auto-load when you pull an owned parcel, and save back to it.

3b. Buyer list β€” reverse match Β· line up the exit before you buy

Only close when the exit is basically pre-lined-up. Log every inbound buyer inquiry, interested neighbor, builder, and repeat land buyer here. The Deal Analyzer, deal reports, and the accepted-offer workflow all check this list and show how many buyers match a parcel (county + acreage + budget).

Pick a parcel at the top of this tab to see how many buyers on file match it.

4. Realtor network β€” send parcels to active local land agents

Build a list of agents who actively list land near your parcels, then email them your for-sale inventory. Claude researches who's selling within your chosen radius; you send from your business Gmail.

5. Open a β€œpost a listing” page

Opens the site's create-listing page in a new tab β€” paste your copy from above. Lands of America/LandWatch needs a paid account.

6. Publish inventory to reddirtlandco.com

Builds the website's Land for sale page from your Owned/Listed parcels and the homepage's Recently purchased proof section from your Sold parcels. Downloads two files β€” drop them into Red Dirt Land Co/Website/ (replacing the old ones) and deploy the folder to Netlify per the README there. Never changes DNS.

Documents

The LGPass core, rebuilt and free: fill purchase agreements, deeds, promissory notes, and land contracts in seconds.

Share & sign β€” the ways the book suggests

For low-priced land, keep it simple: email the agreement and get it signed electronically (or print-sign-scan). Then use a title/escrow company β€” or self-close β€” to record the deed and move the money. Claude can do the sending from your business Gmail.

These are practical working templates, not a substitute for legal review. Have an Arizona real-estate attorney check your deed/contract templates once before you use them at volume β€” recording requirements vary by county.

Settings & Backup

Your business details (merged into every email, letter, and document) and your data safety.

Business profile

Valuation & pricing defaults (all parcels)

Market value comes from comps (use the Analyzer's Comps tool / β€œHave Claude pull comps” from Zillow, Lands of America, LandWatch). These rules then set buy and sell prices automatically. The single-parcel deal calculator (Analyze tab) applies the deductions and outstanding taxes.

Deduct from the buy % for each problem the parcel has (then subtract any outstanding back taxes):

Apke due-diligence deduction (Deal Analyzer subtracts this for each checklist item you flag as an Issue on a parcel):

Deal-making discipline

These drive the Dashboard's β€œNeeds action” list and Offer engine: your monthly mail-offer target, the due-diligence window written into your purchase agreement, and when a dead lead automatically resurfaces for another touch (β€œno” often becomes β€œyes” later).

Data & Google Drive backup

Recommended setup: This app lives in your Drive at Red Dirt Land Co/apps/. Click Backup in the header after each work session and save the JSON snapshot into Red Dirt Land Co/data/. Drive then versions and off-sites it automatically β€” free.