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The Buyer's Asset Audit: Why the Smartest Purchasers Index Before They Close

Jun 25, 2026

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1 min read

The Buyer's Asset Audit: Why the Smartest Purchasers Index Before They Close

You're about to wire seven figures for a house. Do you actually know what's staying in it?

Erik Zimmer

Probate Attorneys

The Legacy You're Leaving Behind (Without a Record of What It's Worth)

Jun 23, 2026

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3 min read

The Legacy You're Leaving Behind (Without a Record of What It's Worth)

Your will is precise about the house, the accounts, the policies. It goes quiet on everything inside the walls.

Erik Zimmer

SMB

The Laundromat Was a Good 2020 Bet. It's a Bad 2026 Bet

Jun 22, 2026

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3 min read

The Laundromat Was a Good 2020 Bet. It's a Bad 2026 Bet

I put laundromats near the top of the 2020 file. I'd cross them off today, and I want to walk you through the math before anyone wires money into one.

Erik Zimmer

Probate Attorneys

Behind the Scan: How AI Turns a Photograph Into a Defensible Asset Record

Jun 18, 2026

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1 min read

Behind the Scan: How AI Turns a Photograph Into a Defensible Asset Record

You have watched AI write code and summarize meetings. Here is what it does with a photograph of your living room.

Erik Zimmer

Entrepreneur

The Tree Trimmer Who Should Be Charging More

Jun 15, 2026

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3 min read

The Tree Trimmer Who Should Be Charging More

The most profitable business opportunity in your town might be a man with a chainsaw and a spiral notebook. The notebook is the problem.

Erik Zimmer

Probate Attorneys

Five Questions Every Insurance Agent Should Ask Their Clients This Week

Jun 11, 2026

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2 min read

Five Questions Every Insurance Agent Should Ask Their Clients This Week

Most contents conversations happen after the loss, with an adjuster in the driveway. The good agents are having them now.

Erik Zimmer

SMB

The Clerical Rot of Manual Inventory — and the AI That Just Killed It

Jun 10, 2026

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3 min read

The Clerical Rot of Manual Inventory — and the AI That Just Killed It

Some processes survive because they work. Most survive because nobody got around to killing them.

Erik Zimmer

FEMA

Jun 3, 2026

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3 min read

Why the FEMA Claim Gets Denied After the Storm

The storm is the part every town plans for. The part that quietly costs a town money shows up months later, in a letter from FEMA.

Erik Zimmer

The Alpine Playbook: A City Manager's Field Guide to Knowing What You Own

Jun 1, 2026

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3 min read

The Alpine Playbook: A City Manager's Field Guide to Knowing What You Own

When I became city manager of a bankrupt Texas town, the most expensive problem on my desk was a question no one could answer: what does this city own, and what shape is it in?

Erik Zimmer

Entrepreneur

Andreessen, a Steamboat, and the Cost of Being Early

May 24, 2026

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3 min read

Andreessen, a Steamboat, and the Cost of Being Early

When Marc Andreessen wanted to explain how big AI really is, he reached back to the steam engine. In my family, that is not a metaphor.

Erik Zimmer

AI

The Buyer's Asset Audit: Why the Smartest Purchasers Index Before They Close

The Legacy You're Leaving Behind (Without a Record of What It's Worth)

The Laundromat Was a Good 2020 Bet. It's a Bad 2026 Bet

Behind the Scan: How AI Turns a Photograph Into a Defensible Asset Record

The Tree Trimmer Who Should Be Charging More

Five Questions Every Insurance Agent Should Ask Their Clients This Week

The Clerical Rot of Manual Inventory — and the AI That Just Killed It

Why the FEMA Claim Gets Denied After the Storm

The Alpine Playbook: A City Manager's Field Guide to Knowing What You Own

Andreessen, a Steamboat, and the Cost of Being Early

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