Building your buyers list

[Jeanette Haigler]

I'm just starting to build a buyers list. I hear that you should get a Google number for business so i don't have to talk to them directly. In my voice mail should I ask certain questions like, (what are you looking for, how many bedrooms and what area are you looking for).

[Thomas Mitchell]

If you're trying to do this by what you read in a book, then you will fail because the books are full of ******** to make it sound easy and to make it sound like you can get rick quick. They make money by selling you more stuff. Remember that. What you're saying sounds like something I read in a ************* book. This business is made on relationships. You know, actually having talking with people and connecting with them. I am going to make 14K this month wholesaling to a guy who is now my friend, but was originally just a guy selling a house owner finance on Craigslist. I called him up, asked him if he wanted to meet and then I found out what his preferences were. He's buying two duplexes and a house from me this month. (We close on the house at 4 pm today, actually.) If I had a prerecorded message he probably wouldn't have even called it. He was busy with his own problems, and wouldn't have been interested in learning about mine. But since we have a friendship now, he helps me A LOT. Not just by buying stuff I wholesale, but he's also a lawyer and advises me when I get in a pinch. So, build your network of buyers like you build your close network of friends. You wouldn't tell your wife to call a prerecorded message to tell you how her day was. Don't do it with potential business partners either. /rant