MFREE 126 Trailer # 4 with Ryan Gibson: Could Better Operations Create Better Results?

One of the biggest lessons from this part of the conversation is simple:

Not every “fixed” expense is truly fixed. 💭

In this episode Hutch and Ryan Gibson talk about the importance of looking deeper into the operating side of a business or real estate asset.

Ryan explains that customers may never notice certain backend changes — like renegotiating vendor contracts, changing utility payment systems, adjusting treasury platforms, or finding savings inside the profit and loss statement. 🧾

But those small operational decisions can still matter.

The key is not to cut corners.

It is to communicate professionally, work openly with vendors, and ask better questions. 🤝

Can this contract be reviewed?

Can this expense be renegotiated?

Can this process be improved without affecting the customer experience?

That is where leadership shows up. Not always in the big flashy moves, but in the disciplined review of what most people ignore. 🔍

Ryan’s point is a strong reminder for operators, business owners, and investors:

There may be room to improve performance without making the customer feel the difference.

Sometimes the opportunity is not in doing more.

Sometimes it is in managing better. 🏢

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Transcript

Speaker 2 0:00

Customer doesn't care that you cut your bank fees this month or your customer is not gonna care if you, renegotiated your utility expenses. But one thing that everybody has to know is that there's no such thing as a fixed expense. Everything can be renegotiated. Your utilities, your payroll, your subscriptions, your technology costs, all these things can be renegotiated, right? And so don't ever think of, you'd be surprised, call up your vendor and say, we're on hard times and we need to renegotiate this contract. And you would be surprised and, work with them professionally and. Openly and things like that. But yeah, you can renegotiate these things. You can cut a lot outta your P and L. And outta your expenses, and the customer won't even know it. That's some one thing that we've done. We actually just switch, we just did a bunch of this stuff, right? We switched our utility payments to credit card, which gave cash back, which flows to the properties. We've,

Speaker 0:55

okay.

Speaker 2 0:55

Done things like changed our treasury platform, right? Where it saves money every month we've done, just a number of backend things that the customer doesn't really notice, right?

Speaker 1:06

Okay.

Speaker 2 1:06

So do as much as you can at that as possible, right? Because the customer's not gonna see it. Call your utility company, you call your utility vendor and try to renegotiate your utility contracts. Your trash, water, electric are kind of your main, utility vendors.