First Time House/Car Flipping

[ChadFraz]

Hello All,

I have posted sporadically on YE for a while now, yet haven't gotten into a routine. I plan on doing so with the following venture I have begun. To give you some back story, I am a 23 year old Purdue University (in Indiana) May 2007 graduate.

I worked for Charles Schwab out of University for 6 months, obtained my Series 7/63 licenses and am currently a stock broker. About the same time, I got my real estate license in anticipation of real estate investing.

I've left Charles Schwab and have been at an Internet startup for the past 11 months, running their sales dept and slowly guiding the company to the promised land. We focus on Internet solutions for the rental industry in particular.

More recently, I have begun flipping cars due to connections I have at many national auto auctions such as Adesa and Manheim.

Even more recently I purchased my first home to flip. It is a 1500 sq/ft ranch located in a good neighborhood, off of a main road to the interstate in central Indiana. It was a foreclosure which allowed me to purchase it at around $65k when it was appraised at 120k. I have quotes for around 20-25k in repairs before it is acceptable for sale.


The Point: I plan on starting a business in the near future offering my real estate services aimed at young people and women. I will also be offering a "wholesale car finder" service aimed at the same group. Recently I decided that a blog detailing my experiences flipping cars and houses would be beneficial to those hoping to learn. It then occured to me that I should combine them all into one website/hub.

Question: My question revolves around website format and effeciency. I originally planned on doing two separate blogs, one for car flipping and one for houses. The same for the business website for real estate and wholesale car selling. I then decided to combine the blogs with the business websites, still two separate websites (One for car flipping and sales, one for real estate flipping and sales). The last option is to combine them all into one website, with separate landing pages and url's.

I am asking all of your thoughts in terms of structure and what makes sense. I don't want to overwelm the traffic I receive, yet I want to have the most relevant content in one place. The other issue I face is SEO if I have 4 separate, yet slightly different topics on one specific website for the search engines to crawl.

Any and all thoughts are appreciated.

[ChadFraz]

I would like some feedback if someone has anything of value to say.