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I post on craigslist for buyers. I have received a few buyers contact from it but not a lot. But one day one of those buyers may buy my next big wholesale deal, so every new buyer contact I have is great!!

I'll show you exactly what I put on mine:

We are searching for buyers for great discounted house deals typically 40-65% off the ARV. These deals are great for the real estate investors who need a new project to rehab or landlords that need their next property to rent out. We do deals all over the Houston area.

Please feel free to email me or call me with your criteria and to add you to our investor list. We get new deals on a daily basis and need new investors to assign them to. We usually assign contracts and are looking for cash buyers or hard money. Conventional financing may be ok on some cases.

Call us at xxx.xxx.xxxx or join our investors list HERE (http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com)

But instead of having my website typed out like that it is actually linked from there

Craigslist may be good for certain things, but I have found a lot of scams on their site. Years ago it was a great place to advertise anything, mostly cars, trucks, etc... but be careful on Real Estate, you can spend alot of time answering questions to people who are just out to get your information or have nothing else to do but waste your tme... Happy Investing - There are sites out there that can help you, some for free too!

Originally posted by "czach41"

Thank you for your post Jason, I appreciate it.
I like your method. As of right now, I am focusing on building my buyers list and hopefully Craigslist will be a great asset for me to do that.

This may be a bit nit picky, but which section of Craigslist are you posting this?
Are you posting your ad to find buyers under the general " Housing," or " Real Estate for Sale," or " Housing Wanted?"

No problem.

I usually put the ad in real estate for sale, though I will put it in Housing wanted every once in a while for good measure.

Infact, I just had someone call me from my backpage.com ad just today looking for rental houses to buy.

Add him to my buyers list!!

Originally posted by "Snowbird2e"

Craigslist may be good for certain things, but I have found a lot of scams on their site. Years ago it was a great place to advertise anything, mostly cars, trucks, etc... but be careful on Real Estate, you can spend alot of time answering questions to people who are just out to get your information or have nothing else to do but waste your tme... Happy Investing - There are sites out there that can help you, some for free too!

Yeah, definitely need to agree with this. It will be interesting how the current situation on Craigslist is going to pan out since they said they are going to let it 'police' itself. If you're not familiar with it, scammers are developing networks on Craigslist setting up scams all over the place. Then, whenever a legitimate users thinks a listing is suspicious and tries to post about it, someone in the scam network will immediately delete it.

That's really going to put a dent on Craigslist reputation for I don't see how something like this will 'police' itself on its own.

I think Craigslist is a huge asset because it is free and your posts are not only on Craigslist, but they also end up indexed in the search engines in a matter of hours. Sometimes you can actually get in the first page of google that day (you have to have a title with keywords that are not too competitive in order to get in the first page of google). You can advertise in the " real estate" section and also the " small biz" section. Both are free. You can post in both in one day, you just have to make the two ads a little different from one another.

I love craigslist, I find most of my investors on there who are looking for birddogs, and I find motivated sellers and buyers. I work with investors who'll pay me if someone I refer to them sells, and work with some who pay me if I refer to someone who buys, so I go on craigslist to find these buyers and sellers. If you know where to look you can find endless amounts.

you can spend alot of time answering questions to people who are just out to get your information

Thats the truth. Its worse in some areas than others, as well. I know people that make a killing from craigslist ads, and others who have trouble getting any calls at all, because of the constant flow of ads.

Im to the point that I dont take many emails from craigslist. I make them call me. The agents/investors around here are slick, and pretend to be everything from wounded soldiers back from iraq, to homeless single mothers. Anything to find out my angle. I've had decent response on the sell side, though.

If you are running " we buy houses" type ads in the homes for sale section, your competition may flag you, depending on your area. They flag me all the time, though many times Im able to sneak it in. If that happens, just post in the real estate services section.

Hi Mike,
As you know Craigs List only keeps ads running for a certain amount of time, that is why the link no longer showed.

Here is a link to another ad, http://boise.craigslist.org/rts/639624422.html

Notice how you can click on the link.
Please let me know if you have any quetions.

Ramaon,
Thank you for you input but I have to say you are wrong. I have been using this technique to generate leads in my local area for a couple years now.

The ads are targeted, show up in the 1st page of Google for my local area, and when someone clicks on the link it takes them to a page that is specific for that area with key words included.

The system is all automated so I just receive the leads through e-mail. I also do not get many realtors submitting info unless they are looking for an offer on short sales or someone who needs to buy with cash because the property condition.

I do get some investors wholesale deals but the majority are people who need to sell their house quickly for one reason or another.

Hope this helps.

You may use the concept but not the same ad.

Please note that you are only seeing ½ of the ad system. There are tasks that need to be incorporated in order to get the ad to the top of Google for your local area and generate leads. I also post this add to multiple websites other than Craigs list and I will tell you Craigs list is not the best one. Also the site that the ad goes to needs to be set up to receive leads, and needs to be targeted for the local area of the ad.

If you are interested in using this exact ad and the rest of the system follow my profile to my investor page.

This is also only 1 ad, I use similar free marketing techniques to generate leads and have 9/10 organic listings on the 1st page of Google for my local area.

Hope this helps.