All Forum Posts by: Edgar U.

Don't do it, unless you will really utilize the amenities on a monthly basis. The HOA/by laws will be your first insight into how restrictive these resort style communities are to keep up with the feel and look of the community.

I buy lots in FL all the time, for tax deed it's best if you do some research up front, verify that the previous owner doesn't have anything owed (i.e) judgment, liens, etc. If all is well, close on it and they will issue a tax deed sale to you. This strategy is good if you are selling sub 20k lots, maybe get away with it a bit higher then this. However, in the post 20k buy price, it's best to run a quiet title because folks in that price range will want to buy the land to build or put something. This way you could give them a clear and marketable title for the land.

Send me a DM if you have anything else in mind!

Best is Mojo, they have a power dialer for 3 calls at the same time with ability to drop voicemails. Mojo has been around a long time. I personally use this for my biz and know of many folks who have cold calling service using this. The best feature for me is that you could upload multiple phone numbers and it'll dial those on the same contact. 

It's best to focus on one strategy and get really good at it. It won't be easy at first and once you master that one, get really good on your 2nd, 3rd, etc. Tbh, in today's market, folks want to have a personal connection or at least know the person behind the company so having a great social media presence will work as well. 

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KW is excellent at this.  I'll bet there are more investor agents at Keller Williams than any other brokerage.  KW wrote the books Millionaire Real Estate Agent, Millionaire Real Estate Investor, HOLD (for Buy and Hold Real Estate)-the person that wrote that joined KW broke and now has over 100 single family and multiple commercial properties, and FLIP written by Rick Valani KW associate in Austin who flipped over 1000 houses.

I will not say investment opportunities are dumped in your lap normally and you're not force fed investment and wealth building at maybe any office, but if you want to be an investor and want to network with investors the opportunity is there and you just may have to seek it out. I liked about a year or two ago for example in my office we had a panel of female investor/agents. 4 ladies described their interest and success. One was buy and hold about 1 a year, one was flipping, one was BRRRR type, and one STR investor. I thought that was pretty neat for everyone to learn, but also inspirational for ladies who are always on the forefront perhaps of investment forums to show their strength and success.

There are all kinds of opportunities.  Investing in market centers if you want to own brokerages, investing in buildings to rent back to market centers, investing in single family, flipping (which is working not investing), all kinds of commercial, land and probably more.   Joe Williams one of the founders is regularly looking for investors in land deals.

 Those are my fav books for getting starated in real estate and couldn't agree more. My favorite is "Leads, Listing, Leverage" I still apply that same principle TODAY whether it's for my investment side or my agent side. I joined a market center and they also provided me a FREE copy of the book "The One Thing" which is also written by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan. I continue to read those exclusively at least 1-2 a year except for the Millionaire Real Estate investor, I prefer BP on this! 

I will say though, KW isn't the cheapest in terms of split/fees. However, if you are doing volume the splits get capped and you are 100%. If you are just starting out though, they provide TON of resources, education, and have great high performing agents + teams for which to learn from. I do think that Bruce was on point, the investment ops won't be dumped on your lap, you'll just get a ton of education for sure!

I use Zoho One and combine it with my acquisitions and real estate sales. I was going to get FUB; however, I see that FUB is just a CRM.

With Zoho One, I have all that I need and then more!

I do like that with FUB you could integrate your lead inbounds with Zillow and such, and I'm pretty sure if I looked into it a bit more you could do this with Zoho.

Bonus, if you are running accounting in Quick Books, Zoho already has something exactly similar = Zoho Books which could integrate with your CRM for expenses, invoices, etc.

Send me a PM and I could show a quick demo to see if it's something you'll like!

If you are in just one market, I highly advice getting access to the MLS for better data for house prices. If you are in multiple markets liked myself. I use all of the data provided (i.e) Redfin, Zillow, Realtor, Xome, etc.

I do believe Redfin/Xomee you could export the data and kinda compare contrast and Realtor you could do same just maybe in a zip code, county wide data. 

Hey everyone, I alongside my partners are actually creating a platform for folks looking to buy/sell land in Costa Rica (actually all of Latin America + Caribbean for that matter). Trying to make it where there is a lot of data, easy to use, and have a lot of articles written by local experts. If anyone in the forum is interested, send me  DM, I'd post it here just not sure if BP will allow it.

I visited and like everyone felt in love with the country. It isn't one of the cheapest in all of Central America; however, it has so much untapped potential that is hard not to look the other way.

In setting up the platform I have connected with someone local in the area and that will be my 1st point of contact and I could share his info for you to reach out.

I'm fully licensed agent and tbh, I've seen some things where agents barely make any effort on properties, so yeah I hope some get out of the business and leave it the market share to the ones who actually know about real estate.

I do think Redfin/Zillow and big platforms are waiting on something like this to happen to fully take control of the market which IMO is more scare then the latter.

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I have tried, and it doesn't work on a skip tracing capacity at least that was my experience a couple of months ago, the tech is growing so not sure now. You could probably find better luck on Fiverr to get you to skip trace those sites.

 That’s what I do now. The guy can skip trace thousands of records in a few hours. I’d like to figure out how he does that so I can just do it myself

They are probably running a script built into the browser (Chorme likely), it could be done using a site similar to this site > https://simplescraper.io/, i haven't tried it, i rather just pay for it. Some have there own built script they use and maybe this is something ChaptGPT could help with to mimick something similar. I just feel like going deep into rabbit holes like this aren't worth my time and effort tbh.