Seller Financing Interface Online

I'm planning to build a website solely designed for the purpose of properties with potential seller financing and am planning to make lease options the primary method.

I want to form an interface for sellers and buyers alike, and especially get the word out to the realtor community in order to get their potential lease option properties/seller financed properties on the site.

This project is in the very preliminary stages and I am still in the process of deciding exactly what it is I'm planning to do.

Any ideas, suggestions, ideas are very welcome.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 08:09AM

Rachel Rofe

Real Estate Consultant · San Diego, California

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Icon_minipost May 25 '09, 10:39 PM

First off, I'm not 100% up to speed with RE terminology (got started on this board to help my boyfriend, who is).

That being said - I'd focus on getting one thing first - maybe all sellers, maybe all buyers - and then inviting the other group to come through.

There are tools you can do to speed up the process, like Lead Evolution (not mine, I just adore it like crazy), or you can hire people to do Google searches for you and then contact people.

If you do a forum, I'd suggest pre-populating it so it doesn't look devalued when people come in. I'm personally not a huge forum person but when I DO use them, I like to hire the people at WiredFlame (again, not my service, but inexpensive and great work). Their service helps get some introductory posts on the forum so it doesn't look like your site is a ghost town.

As for building it, I personally love Wordpress. It can do pretty much anything, is easy to use, and there's a plugin for everything.

Joomla's another great one but the learning curve is insane!

Hope this helps - please clarify with any specific questions and I can try to target in more. :)

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 08:20AM

Jack Mize

Real Estate Investor · Houston, Texas

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Icon_minipost May 29 '09, 01:43 AM

Very popular search term if you go after "city owner financed houses" If you are planning to do this in your local area you should be pretty successful. I've done some tests with these key terms and it won't take long to get the traffic. You just need to decide how to monetize it (agent, advertising, note brokers, pay per listing etc..) There are a number of ways. If you are somewhat technical there are some decent scripts out there for this type of site like http://phprealestatescript.com.

If you are planning on going national, well that's a whole other animal.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 08:23AM

Raz V.

Real Estate Investor · The City of Angeles, California

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Icon_minipost Jun 25 '09, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by Jack Mize

Very popular search term if you go after "city owner financed houses" If you are planning to do this in your local area you should be pretty successful. I've done some tests with these key terms and it won't take long to get the traffic. You just need to decide how to monetize it (agent, advertising, note brokers, pay per listing etc..) There are a number of ways. If you are somewhat technical there are some decent scripts out there for this type of site like http://phprealestatescript.com.

If you are planning on going national, well that's a whole other animal.

raz
For keyword research, Wordtracker is just about the best program. But it costs money.

There is however a simpler version of it available free through a back door that's not commonly known!

Here it is: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

raz

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 08:44AM

Clint S.

Real Estate Coach · Thornton, Colorado

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Icon_minipost Oct 23 '09, 11:26 AM

Jack makes a good point. Targeting your keyword with your city name in it is pretty easy.

Google has free keyword tool but I personally use Market Samuri - probably more features then someone that just needs keyword research.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:13AM