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Mark Gagner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

So I have personal friends and family that loan me money at they're making similar interest rates and points.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

And I use them because they'll go to higher leverage without wanting any equity in the deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Yeah, it's debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

So they get whatever is in the promissory note that we agreed to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Has that ever happened?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

And we're in Northern California.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Everything gets sold here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

So I only once, I didn't have to go to them, but it just took longer to sell.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

And I ended up losing a little bit of money on the deal myself, but my lenders never lose money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

How many months?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Well, this one probably took about four to five months to sell, which is a crazy amount of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Again, in this market, typically we're putting houses on the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

And running two weekends of open houses and accepting offers that second weekend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

And they consistently sell in almost all cases in that kind of timeframe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

No, it's really not that cost because you're assuming that I just held it for a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

That's an annual cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

But in actuality, so those interest rates are annualized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

But in actuality, our deals are running anywhere from four months on a relatively fast project to can be up to a year, but typically four to six or seven months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Use Friends Money to Make $500k Ethically with Mark Gagner of Bridge Equity Group

Oh, got it.