Off Market Deals for Personal Investment

[Michael Bonanno]

Hey BP,

What are some suggested practices to find off market deals for a personal investment?

Is it better to network with wholesalers or go ahead and find lists yourself to cold call, text, direct mail, etc?

Where can I find legitamite lead lists?

Thanks!

[Greg Dickerson]

Wholesalers can be a good source as well as listed properties if you look for the right ones.

You can also purchase lists with different motivations like absentee owners, 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, evictions, probate, divorce, etc. and mail or cold call.

Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.

You can use pay per click/adwords, website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.

If you have a big budget you can do radio, TV and billboards. Lots of bigger outfits do well with these mediums.