Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
I am a mad scientist when it comes to marketing. I will try anything once, and most things twice. So let me ask all of you, what is your favorite or most creative marketing technique?
I will shart my most creative. I made up a bunch of day glow orange stickers that say "I buy houses" and everytime I go to the grocery store, I place on sticker on the handle of my shopping cart. I have bought two houses from those stickers so far.
I ask them if their clients would like to sell their low equity homes on lease purchase instead of paying the traditional sales costs of selling with an agent, which saves their client sometimes as much as 9 to 12 per cent.
If the sellers have no equity, they do not need to break savings plans like IRAs to use to pay the costs to sell. Financial Planners like that!
Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
11y
PS to enhance your Youtube Video, you can go to Fiverr.com and literally buy a bunch of likes, good comments (which you choose) and links to get the ranking up on that video.
Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
11y
Here is an idea that anyone can use. If you want to ramp up your craigs list ads and you want to write a really good advert for your house buying or selling business.
Just go to the CL for another city and copy the text that someone else wrote. I do this all the time (sorry NY and LA investors) but I copy your best stuff and use it in my market. It is free and I get to choose the ads that speak to me and compel me to click.
Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
9y
Here is one for you all. I direct mail to attorneys and ask them for their problem cases. I do this with divorce lawyer, probate, estate, and pretty much any that deal with real estate. I also hit defense lawyers because sometimes they have client who own real estate and either need to sell to pay the lawyer or they are going away for a few years and dont need the house.
Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
9y
I havent added to this post in a while but here is a good one. I use some marketing software. Retargeting programs will allow you to follow someone across the internet based on a site they visit or a keyword they type. For example if you ever go to toys R us' website, you will see their ads on lot of other sites through that day. That is a retargeter program at work. They are tracking your with a cookie. I can do that some thing with my local realtor sights, then have a Josh Buys Houses ad with no realtor fees ad follow that person all over the internet.
Rental Property Investor · Brooklyn, NY · Member since 2016 · 18 posts · 9 votes
8y
@Josh Caldwell Thank you so much for starting this incredible forum. I thought that your strategy to use police officers to locate burned out landlords was particularly interesting. However, my concern here is that the area where criminals live could very likely be rough neighborhoods.
So my question is, how do you make best use of this strategy? Do you flip the houses so that you won’t have to worry about holding properties in rough areas? Do you simply cherry-pick gems out of many no-go deals? Or is my assumption that this strategy is likely to lead to rough neighborhoods is wrong? Something else?
I’m trying to learn from the examples without overlooking challenges, so your further insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
8y
@Ayumi Edgar We are looking for murders here, a simple domestic dispute (hubby and wife arguing) can attract a police call. You use this technique in neighborhoods where you want to buy a house. If you want to buy, others will also want to buy.