What are the best domain names for my REI business?

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I'm wanting to run 3 different REI websites with my Carrot subscription:

• 1. Sell My House Fast - aimed at property owners who want to sell their house fast.
• 2. Find Homes to Flip/Turnkey Homes to Rent - aimed at investors looking to flip properties/rent out properties long term. 
• 3. Overall website - aimed at the general public. This one will use my (mycity)propertysolutions.com domain name. It will link to:Site #1 above;Site #2 above;The primary website for my residential real estate brokerage (general marketing website for past clients, sphere of influence, retail home sellers);Guaranteed Home Sale Program - for sellers, e.g. "guaranteed sold or I'll buy it!"Home search site (unbranded home search site, primarily for home buyers);My Property Management company website (for prospective client-owners and tenants)
• Site #1 above;
• Site #2 above;
• The primary website for my residential real estate brokerage (general marketing website for past clients, sphere of influence, retail home sellers);
• Guaranteed Home Sale Program - for sellers, e.g. "guaranteed sold or I'll buy it!"
• Home search site (unbranded home search site, primarily for home buyers);
• My Property Management company website (for prospective client-owners and tenants)

• Site #1 above;
• Site #2 above;
• The primary website for my residential real estate brokerage (general marketing website for past clients, sphere of influence, retail home sellers);
• Guaranteed Home Sale Program - for sellers, e.g. "guaranteed sold or I'll buy it!"
• Home search site (unbranded home search site, primarily for home buyers);
• My Property Management company website (for prospective client-owners and tenants)

Question is, I'm not sure the best domain name for dedicated websites #1 (fast home sellers) and #2 (flip and buy-and-rent investors).

Candidate domain names for website #1: these are names I already own. I'll probably just use one, then offer the other two for sale to someone who could make better use of it than I could.

• (mycity)homebuyers.com
• sellmyhomeforinstantcash.com
• sellmyhomein48hours.com

Candidate domain names for website #2: help me select which one of the below to purchase for a website geared towards investors and flippers.

• A. (mycity)realestateinvestments.com
• B. (mycity)turnkeyrealestate.com
• C. (mycity)rei.com
• D. (areacode)realestateinvestments.com
• E. (areacode)turnkeyhomes.com
• F.  (areacode)turnkeyrealestate.com
• G. (areacode)rei.com

Thank you in advance! 🙏🏼

Jason Moss · Answer

@Aaron Lewis Use (my city) homebuyers for website #1. Honestly I’d scrap site #2 and just setup a page on site #1 or #3 to attract investors (prefer site #1). Investors already know you buy and they always are always filling out the contact form so it’s easy to build a buyers list.

Mark Shaver · Answer

Teaser: "1) The right length of a good domain 2) Finding domain services."

@Aaron Lewis wrote: "Help me select which one of the below to purchase for a websites"

I'm sorry, but all the domains listed are not suitable. They are too long, they consist of 3-6 words, some of the domains are SEO-oriented and linguistically incorrectly. As a result, they are difficult to understand and almost impossible to remember.Imagine your virtual assistant makes a cold call and names a company: sellmyhomeforinstantcash. He could repeat that name every minute of the call, but the seller still wouldn't remember it correctly. Six words and 24 characters are too much to remember. Also, the seller will not understand why the virtual assistant wants to sell the virtual assistant's house, quickly and for cash.

Good News

I was recently looking for domains for a seller website (type 1) and for a real estate buyer website (type 2). I'm happy to tell you the good news. The .com domain zone is still full of free two-word domains that are only 10 characters long. The virtual assistant pronounces it easily and happily. The interlocutor remembers the domain instantly.

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Aaron Lewis · Answer

Account Closed Agreed - if you're gonna do something, do it right. My website will be the destination to which all online and offline marketing will point. And, the shorter the better.

@Jason Moss Thanks for the direct feedback on preferring (mycity)homebuyers.com over the others. And frankly, I feel more strongly about the effectiveness of site concepts #1 and #3 than #2. Agree with you there. Yet, the annual Carrot subscription that I forgot I had comes with three. So, might as well pick a third domain name and design a basic use case around it. Open to alternative ideas on different/better use cases?

Thank you both!

Jason Moss · Answer

@Aaron Lewis Don’t have FOMO. I see investor clients all the time shooting themselves in the foot with 2 or 3 sites built out just because they have the option. They tend to be half built out, or going after the same keywords, or just poorly managed. It’s hard enough to fully manage 1 site, let alone 2 or 3. I use my extra website slots as testing grounds primarily.

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