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Dave Meyer
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Dave Meyer
Rental Property Investor from Denver, CO

posted over 1 year ago

Here are some tips for getting better results from your marketplace postings:

  1. If you are posting a property, provide details! Photos, location, PRICE, and other pertinent information that any prospective homebuyer would obviously want in a listing should be included.
  2. Do NOT poach other people’s marketplace posts. Their marketplace post is not the correct place to start talking about YOUR property, offer, listing, or financing solution
  3. Fill up your post with keywords! If you are posting in Denver, make sure to include keywords like “Denver” “CO” “Colorado” and perhaps even specific neighborhoods that the property is in and that surround the property.
Scott Trench
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Scott Trench
President of BiggerPockets from Denver, CO

replied over 1 year ago

This post came up in my keyword alerts, as I have one set for "Denver" -- Good work Dave!

Eric Sheridan
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  • 4 votes

Eric Sheridan
Lender from San Diego, California

replied over 1 year ago

I'm new to Bigger Pockets. Thank you for the insight!

Kyle Doney
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Kyle Doney
Flipper/Rehabber from Golden, CO

replied over 1 year ago

Glad you put this out there. I think BP needs to promote the marketplace more. I put properties in the marketplace (3 recently) and don't get much interest or even people reaching out to get on my buyers list. Most of my sales come from advertising to my list or putting them on CL. 

Bill S.
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Bill S. (Moderator) -
from Denver, CO

replied over 1 year ago

@Dave Meyer so I would also suggest you not spam the market place with keywords that don't apply. I sometimes see this with the turnkey providers. They cleverly (or not) spam the high priced market names to get eyeball on their "cheap" properties. Not sure what can be done about this but certainly it's a bit of a turn-off to me. 

BTW there is a huge need for a local clearing house of off-market deals. It would be nice if BP could act as an investor MLS of sorts.

Brett Lynch
  • 4 posts
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Brett Lynch
Flipper from Munger, Michigan

replied over 1 year ago

Does anyone know where to post a property that we are looking for investors for?

Any help is appreciated.

Hai Loc
  • 840 posts
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Hai Loc
Investor from Toronto, Ontario

replied over 1 year ago

How do you post something for sale?

Lana Sha
  • 17 posts
  • 3 votes

Lana Sha
Rental Property Investor from San Jose

replied over 1 year ago

hi! My name is Lana. I'm a Realtor Investor in CA. 

I'm looking for good deals to buy/invest money in CA or somewhere also. 

We need contractors, wholesalers, investors. 

All contact information on  http://myhomesus.com/

Geoff Neidenbach
  • 20 posts
  • 15 votes

Geoff Neidenbach
Investor from Saint Louis, Missouri

replied over 1 year ago

Hi, I'm looking for help selling a few rental houses in St. Louis.  What category would I place that in?

Sunita Maharaj
  • 114 posts
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Sunita Maharaj
Real Estate Agent from St Petersburg Tampa, FL

replied over 1 year ago

@Hai Loc you can use the Post Marketplace Ad tab on the upper right corner of the page.

Sunita Maharaj
  • 114 posts
  • 30 votes

Sunita Maharaj
Real Estate Agent from St Petersburg Tampa, FL

replied over 1 year ago

@Brett Lynch click on the "Post Marketplace Ad" in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Gay Lloyd
  • 98 posts
  • 56 votes

Gay Lloyd
Real Estate Investor from Ogden, Utah

replied over 1 year ago

Question about marketplace:  Is there an amount of time a post remains here or to see "my posts" or something similar ?  I can't seem to find the post we did a while back- please advise.

Thanks so much !

Jeremy Michiels
  • 26 posts
  • 4 votes

Jeremy Michiels
Investor from Dallas, Texas

replied over 1 year ago

Are you able to post to this forum using the mobile app? I tried selecting the category, but am unable to do so, perhaps because there is no marketplace subcategory.

Ohio Alofoje
  • 38 posts
  • 2 votes

Ohio Alofoje
Real Estate Investor from Santa Clara, California

replied over 1 year ago

@Lana Sha Would love to connect with you. We do business in California and other parts of the country. I just sent you a friend request.

Karen Margrave
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Karen Margrave (Moderator) -
Contractor from Redding CA Sunriver, OR

replied about 1 year ago

my .02 , I think if Marketplace were set up more like classifieds it would be much more useful and easier to use. Not sure why BP chose their particular format on this when the traditional format works. Also, I'd like to see people be able to remove their ads as they sell, or ?  (or have a time limit for ads and they drop off) , and ability to edit. 

This post has been removed.

Maurizio Gazzini
  • 4 posts
  • 0 votes

Maurizio Gazzini
from Katy, Texas

replied about 1 year ago

Thank you for the information.

Phil Hartten
  • 23 posts
  • 2 votes

Phil Hartten
from Naples, Florida

replied about 1 year ago

Suggestion

Christine Johanns
  • 69 posts
  • 13 votes

Christine Johanns
Rental Property Investor from Jersey City, NJ

replied 11 months ago

Are we allowed to use the marketplace to try and build buyers list is we intend to wholesale? :/

Karen Margrave
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Karen Margrave (Moderator) -
Contractor from Redding CA Sunriver, OR

replied 10 months ago

@Dave Meyer Maybe you can answer some of the questions posted to your thread, since you are an expert on Marketplace. I got called out for "stuffing" and putting keyword with a list of words so I obviously don't know the rule. 

For instance, if someone is interested in investing in Vacation Rentals, they may put a keyword alert for that, but not put short term rental, VR, etc. So I thought listing those as keywords would alert those people. Or for people looking for real estate in and around an area may only have that one area on their keywords, but other nearby communities may have something they're interested in too, so ... do we just make sure to name those in the acutal post or ? 

I know as a moderator I should know all the rules, but I'm perplexed on this. Where does it show info on what is allowed on keywords, what is stuffing, etc. so that all of us can avoid breaking the rules?

James Wyant
  • 26 posts
  • 2 votes

James Wyant
from Alexandria, Virginia

replied 8 months ago

Thanks!

Michael Botha
  • 12 posts
  • 0 votes

Michael Botha
Rental Property Investor from Big Sky, MT

replied 5 months ago
Hebgen Lake, MT residential development property for sale. We have a beautiful Hebgen Lake residential development property that we have decided to offer for sale. The property is located 10 miles from West Yellowstone on Hebgen Lake, which borders Yellowstone park. Over 90% of the lake shore is private, forest service or state land so there will never be more development, these are stunningly beautiful very hard to find parcels (2 x 3 acre parcels adjacent to 8 acres of open space). We acquired the property recently to build our own family lake compound, however we have decided to sell the property to finance a new ranch property we would like to acquire. Please see more info on our website www.thelandingathebgenlake.com
Carole G.
  • 138 posts
  • 27 votes

Carole G.
Investor from Durango, Colorado

replied 5 months ago

I didn't see a way to add photos.

Moses Berkowitz
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  • 1 votes

Moses Berkowitz
Real Estate Investor from Brooklyn, New York

replied 4 months ago
@Dave Meyer how do you make keywords ?
Diane Mettlach
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  • 1 votes

Diane Mettlach

replied 4 months ago

I copied and pasted a Google Drive link of my pictures of the property.

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