Using Valpak to find real estate deals for cheap!
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Ever received a small, colorful, shiny mini flyer coupons or offers in the mail in a fancy envelope? Typically its for food, grocery, lawn service, cleaner service and other random type advertisements from different companies. In some areas they call them valpak or money mailer and these are great services to use to get out marketing to your farm area I use.
In my last article about getting thousands of flyers out for free we broke down some steps on how to partner with other businesses to get marketing out to your farm area for free. Using valpak or money... continue reading >>
Automated systems to handle buyers and tenants
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Their are a lot of ways to get buyers and tenants to contact you regarding your properties for sale or rent but what are the easiest ways? Me, I am pretty lazy so I need systems to handle most of the heavy work leaving me with tasks that only covert into cash.
There are two ways to automate this process, thru phone and thru the Internet
Phone - It is easy to run a classified saying "House for Sale" with your direct number and have tons of people calling you. How many times have you done this method and received... continue reading >>Building a buyers list using Postcards for cheap!
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In my last post: Tips on Building a buyers list for your real estate deals I eluded to finding buyers on various free advertising website such as craigslist.org but there is also another way I find buyers that worked very well for me. Direct mail. Normally we are sending out mail to find deals but now we’re going to use it to find some buyers for our deals.
The best list you need to go find is absentee owners. Absentee owners or non owner occupied owners are owners who have their tax bill sent to an address other then... continue reading >>
CRM Solutions: Automating and Systemizing your real estate business
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How are you managing leads? When you start to put that marketing out and that phone starts ringing, how are you managing the seller and buyer calls that are coming in? How are you following up with your prospects?
That’s a questions everyone should ask themselves if they do not have a CRM in place. A CRM, a Customer Relationship Manager is a system that allows you store information about prospective clients and keep it organized. It also allows you to:
increase productivity of yourself and staff,reduce costs and boost revenues,
deliver greater customer service,
track... continue reading >>
Tips on Building your buyers List for your real estate deals
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If you read last week regarding increasing your response rate for your marketing. I posted a few tips on how to locate your target market along with a few additional tips on how to find some deals. Now that you done that (I hope!) you found a great deal, now what?
Now, its time to sell it. The best case scenerio is to have a buyer and a seller in place in order to make a quick, simple and easy transaction even if your rehabbing or doing a short sale on a property. Don’t wait until you have the deal... continue reading >>
Getting leads from mortgage brokers
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Remember to mens basketball USA dream team of 1992? Wow! that must have been the funnest olympics I ever watch. It was a complete domination of that tournament I ever seen in my life. That probable is the greatest team ever essembled for a sports team. Here is the top 10 highlights, decide for yourself. Did you know why they was so successful? Not only eveyone was a superstar in their own light but each person complimented each other by playing their role and doing it to the best of their ability. This is the same for your real estate... continue reading >>
Are you prepared to take advantage of this Real Estate market?
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Are you prepared to take advantage of this market?
As you probable already know that foreclosures now are at a all time high and everyday its reported that homeprices are falling and properties are becoming available by the boat loads. According to Standard & Poor’s latest report home prices across the nation is continueing to fall. 13 of the 20 metro areas have posted annual lows and 10 of those 20 have reported double digit declines.
You probable have been beaten in the head plenty of times with this news from everyone already but the next question is are you... continue reading >>
Simple steps on how to increase your marketing response rate next week
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Why am I able to receive 20% response rate from my marketing to sellers and others don’t? Many investors especially new investors have a hard time bringing as many leads they need in order to get a deal. Typically on average I am seeing (as well as closing rate and target demographic list) it takes about 25-30 seller calls to get a deal.
So you will have to calculate based on your businesses goal of how many houses you are looking to acquire and how much money and time are you spending to get them. My business we try to... continue reading >>
Research tip: How to find Real estate deals in the areas you like!
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Clients always ask me where do I start looking for properties? Do I just put marketing out in random places? Where are the deals? I always tell them to buy properties in the exact area that YOU LIKE! Deals are all over the place, you just have to find them and their is plenty of sellers out there that are looking for your services. Here is a quick way to research the preferred area of town or city you want to invest in that I use.
Go to www.melissadata.comOn the main page you should see FREE LOOKUPS
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How to get out thousands of flyers in your newspaper for FREE!
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How much does it cost for you to put flyer’s in your local newspaper to send out to your farm area? Sometimes marketing isn’t so affordable sometimes, as I should know when I first started out. Many have heard of this method before but I believe its such a great tactic and I still use it. Its called the Free flyer method.This is how it works.
Select a publication in your farm area that takes flyer inserts such as a Penny Saver, Thrifty Nickel or small local newspaper.Recruit 3 other businesses that wants to... continue reading >>