Taylor Doolittle
Taylor Doolittle has been a guest on Collecting Keys, the real estate investing podcast hosted by Mike DeHaan, Dan Austin and Dylan Koch.
Optimizing Your Efficiency For Maximum Success with Taylor Doolittle
Minneapolis realtor and investor Taylor Doolittle joins Mike and Dan to break down how he runs a 15-person real estate team, builds a rental portfolio, and trains for half Ironmans without sacrificing family time. He walks through a color-coded time audit system, time blocking, and a value-first cold calling approach that asks landlords if they're buyers before asking if they'll sell.
Key takeaways
- Audit your time first: log every 15 minutes for a week or two, then color-code each task — brown (wasted), light green (low-value but necessary), dark green (income-producing like prospecting), and gold (family, health, faith) — and keep more than half your week above the line.
- Time block the gold and dark green activities first, then fill in the rest and delegate light green work to people, systems or software.
- When cold calling landlords, lead with value and ask if they're a buyer before asking if they'll sell — it doubles the pool of people you can help and starts relationships that turn into sellers later.
- You don't need a paid list or a multi-line dialer to start. Taylor pulled public rental-owner data from city hall and dialed from his cell phone, and sat four to five open houses a weekend for three years to build a buyer network in a city where he had no network.