Step 1 - Spin your Wheels for 2 Months

I've been working for the last two months on educating myself, working on my website and telling everyone I can that I'm getting into real estate investing. I even added it to my LinkedIn profile and had people congratulate me on my new position.

So far most everything I've been doing has been from the comfort of my very own home, late at night or with a pair of headphones on while working my day job. I've set up my site, set up Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn (I still need to write and post blog articles and set up YouTube). I've started learning about SEO in addition to the daily doses of Real Estate Investing information I'm absorbing. Today I also [finally] ordered the business cards that I designed earlier in the week.

The closest I came to a lead was someone contacting me from Facebook a few hours after someone they knew "Liked" my business page. I helped her out, it was good practice to talk to someone that was genuinely a stranger but not exactly, if that makes sense. She's in a different part of the country, which shouldn't matter I guess, but it did help me to exercise my brain about, what to do if I had gotten that property under contract, how do I find a buyer that far away, or even if it'd been here. I'll figure that one out at some point soon.

Once the business cards come in my family and I will be going for a loooong walk and will be canvasing several neighborhoods. It should be fun. I started looking into buying lists for doing direct marketing as well, and realized that one service actually lets you see the properties using a map, so instead of doing direct mail, I can go canvas streets that have owners with high equity living in them.

Plans between now and next post: Keep learning SEO, Put up my first article on my buying site, read through at least one of J. Scott's books. I'll also be going to a localized subsection of the Local REIA.