All Forum Posts by: Derek Smith

Hi Jon, not yet, I did pick up a few interested buyers. Almost every inquiry was from someone who is updside down in their home and I could not make them work as a wholesale deal. Very motivated, just not right for me. I did not do a December mailing due to the hoilday. I am gearing up for a January mailing now. I was happy with the amount of response though. I have big plans for 2012 and I will get to my 2-4 deals per month goal. I will not let anything stop me!.

I tried to send you that message Joshua but could not w/o being your colleague. There was no option for me to become one that I could find.

Thank you very much Joshua, I REALLY appreciate your feedback. I did my website myself using sitebuilder and then added an aweber form to it. My funds are very limited so I am trying to make it happen until I can MAKE IT HAPPEN and reinvest into my business.

Joshua, I am trying to do wholesaling to start. And anything else later. I have several websites with a goal of 1. Finding motivated sellers. 2. locating buyers, and 3. Locating investors.

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My real estate website is doing nothing for me. I wanted to try something different. I discovered "Interactive Real Estate Investor Websites." It seems like a very valuable tool. Has anyone ever tried it? Thanks yall!

Well I sent out my first campaign. It consisted of 200 postcards to sellers and 50 to buyers. I mailed them on November 7 and I have so far received 18 calls, 2 from buyers and 16 from sellers. I have called 1 sellers back so far and will work through the others tomorrow. The one I called is kind of interesting. They guy owns 20 acres with nine houses. 4 are early 1900s and 5 are Army houses moved to the lots. All are rented and worth 70,000-100000 each (according to him). The guy wants to sale as commercial land and get it rezoned. He wants 2 million. The development is prime location. Not for me though. Anyway, 250 went out and 18 calls have come in so far. That is a 7.2 percent return so far. From what I have been reading, that is not bad. Hoping for at least 10%. Now lets see if any are deals. BTW, I used an ansentee owner list.

Dwaun, wonderful, congratulations. I hope that I am so lucky. Mike as usual, thanks for the great advice. Jackie, thank you for the great advice. None of the "guru" courses have given me this important bit of information.

Thanks All.

Same here Tamara, but I need a couple fo deals first to build a reserve. I put out 20 signs in my area Friday night, but I have yet to have a call. I have another area I am targeting and will put out at least 20 more next Friday. I am still completing my first batch of 100 yellow letters to go out tomorrow. Tamara, I will let you know how it goes.

Nick, I am going out to hang my first batch of bandit signs tonight. Are you using those?

Mike again thank you as your advice is invaluable. I have done them in Red inside and out. I did them by hand this time...man that sucks, but if I get 1 deal I am done with this maual stuff. I am trying to figure out how to do tem on the printer and using mail merge, but I wanted to get them out and not but stuck on research. Thanks, Mike.