I BUY HOUSES in JOPLIN, MISSOURI

So this will be part updating and part ranting.

So if you've read my previous post located here you will see I THOUGHT I had it made and was setting myself up for success. 

So far NOTHING!!!! (I know that's MikeOH style typing, just bare with me)

In that last post, you will notice a Realtors name, Apparently that Realtors phone is broke because when she says she'll call you back, she never does! 

Apparently when you spend about $300 for a months straight of newspaper ads, they 'forget' to print it. 

The only good thing is that OZ still writes for me and he's doing an amazing job! I'm showing up literally within top 5 of most of the keywords I was going after. He really does a great job. 

The bandit signs are not working for me either. I am paying my uncle $1 per sign to put them out, I know he's doing it because I can see hits on my site from google analytics so I know people are viewing my site. I'm going to have someone go through my site and tell me how I can get more 'calls to action' out of it to capture more leads because so far NONE! 

So, back to the drawing board for now, this may prove a tad bit harder than expected. I'll continue to press forward knowing that I will eventually get what I'm after. 

So here's my rant, this is directed towards Realtors. If this offends you then I'll assume you're the exact type of agent that gets on my nerves, if my rant doesn't offend you then you as an agent and probably fellow investor know exactly what I'm talking about! 

Dear Agents of Joplin Missouri, mainly of the 2 big broker houses, Charles Burt and Pro100. 

When an investor calls and emails you telling you that I have cash and want to buy as many houses as I can get my hands on. That I will buy 'subject to' and all cash depending on how good the deal is. CALL HIM BACK!!

When you do call him back and he tells you excatly how he buys 'subject to' and tells you that he will also buy CASH as well for the deals that are good but 'subject to' isn't a good option and you get all excited that you have some investor informing you that he WILL BUY ALL CASH and ALL 'SUBJECT TO' properties. Do yourself a favor and CALL HIM BACK or at least email him, ANYTHING! 

I was recently watching a new show that was brought to my attention from James in FL called 'Shark Tank' and one of the sharks was saying that he gets insulted because he has money he's trying to spend and invest with but the people were not bringing him good opportunities to invest in. I felt the same way. Insulted that I'm telling agents to send me their own listings if they want, I'll buy all their listings. 

I'm not asking to waste hours of your day or weekends showing me properties that I'll never buy. I'm telling you that I will buy. Here's what I want and lets do some deals! 

What do I want you say? maybe I'm being to particular that nothing fits what I'm looking for you say?

Here's what I tell them. I will buy all 1/1, 2/1 and 3/1 houses. I will buy duplexes and triplexes and guess what, even 4-plexes. 

I will buy them at 70% minus repair cash or if the seller is willing to sell 'subject to' I will also seriously consider. I will close as soon as title and an inspection(mainly termites, foundation and roofing are my main concerns) are complete. 

Whats amazing is the realtor that you see in the last post had sent me some of her own listings which I'm completely ok with, I don't consider that shameless, I consider that smart! get your listings sold with me. I called her to tell her which ones I'll buy and she says she's busy at the moment and will call me back. It's been a week now. I'm not calling her back! I'm not chasing her down to make her money! If she wants a commission then learn to dial for dollars lady and call me back. 

Now I've got what I'm hoping is a much better agent. She has sent me a property, again it's her own listing which I'm completely ok with, she says the seller is motivated and it's listed for only $15k. Great! if the seller is motivated then I'll obviously get a discount, but I WILL BUY! 

I sent the agent a response this morning telling her I am interested and this one I'll just buy cash(I'll sell it owner financing instead of renting) and get back to me asap to get moving on it. I've heard NOTHING all day! 

So for those of you agents that are here on BP and feel I have hard feelings towards agents and I'm always bashing on them, YOU ARE RIGHT and you can see exactly why! This has nothing to do with me being a jerk on the phone to them. I am actually very very very nice and those that know me and have spoken to me on the phone know that. 

I've offered these agents visit biggerpockets to come and check me out, I've challenged them to openly ask about me in the forums. I want them to know up front that I'm legit and serious and yet I still get no love. 

So that is my update. I still have no houses in Joplin, Missouri and I have money to spend. I'm even closign on some great short sales soon that I can add to the collection of money to spend and yet no one wants my money. 

Hopefully next week I'll have some good new for you guys, as for now, I'm chalking this weeks failures to the fact that I'm blogging about it. For some reason I have bad luck when I do that so maybe I'll just stop blogging all together. 

Thanks for reading