All Forum Posts by: Alison M.

I just entered.  What is buysellfixflip?  Something new you're cooking up? ;-)?  

I like the "make them say no" approach too.  However part of my response depends on where the property is, and how interested I might be in it.  If it's something I'd like to snag then I ask them if I can call them back in a few months to check in, then do so every few months. 

We're noticing a mid-summer slowdown in the DC market as well Wayne.  Summer doldrums?  Anyone else?

I got a call this weekend from someone who said,  if I sent him another postcard he'd hunt me down and shove it up my a**.  I couldn't stop laughing!  Then I took him off my mailing list.  I believe he owed a bunch in back-taxes, but that's his issue not mine.  

There is one thing worse than printing those mailers . . .  that's actually mailing them !  Ask me how I know ;-).  

Patrick, I think it will be tough sledding to go through tax record data without some other kind of filtering. You can do what Michael suggests and buy a list and/or get an agent colleague to give you an absentee owner list from your multiple listing service. I would say that houses that have tax values at or below the mean value for your city and that are absentee owned may be good candidates.

Alison "Data is My Life" Miller

It could be a jumbo postcard, I've gotten some that were huge recently. Was the paper thin? Seems like it would not hold up well in the mail if it's too thin.

Please send me your spreadsheet as well. Thanks, Alison

alisonmiller(at)springstreetproperties.com

All important considerations @Walt Payne . It would be done as apart of a full gut rehab, into an unfinished basement that is just a big open room. Structural engineer I think would be a must.

@Account Closed The basement can be finished into living space but is not currently finished. There are laundry, furnace, hwh, etc down there now.