All Forum Posts by: Jeff Fairchild

I was only posting in real estate services. How many different ads can you place at once in each section? Do you have a rotation schedule for placing them each day?

I've been posting 2 or 3 ads each day for 3 days now and I still don't have any leads. Here are my ads that I posted on craigslist:

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/rts/1023942983.html

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/rts/1023947061.html

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/rts/1023061145.html

Can you guys review this process and tell me what I may be doing wrong? Would it be more effective to send them to this page instead?

http://www.nw-property-solutions.com/forclosure.html

What do you do if you get a lead to buy a house but there is still a renter living there? He said that I could come take a look at the property but just the outside. What should I say? How would I structure the deal differently that if the house was vacant?

209k ARV
10k Repairs
Some Investors in my area will buy a deal for 70% ARV - repairs which is 136.3k. This does not include my fee of $5,000.
Mortgage balance 127k
Payment $759/mo T&I $208/mo = $967/mo
House would only rent for $1,100/mo.
He wants to sell the home due to tired landlord & wants a chopper touring bike.
He said he is open to terms.
There is still a renter living in the house.

So I'm guessing the best investor for this house would be a renovator who would fix & resell it retail.

It looks like I could structure it three ways.
I could offer $4,300 cash along with taking over his payments subject to, but he wouldn't have enough money for his bike.

I could ask if he would do a subject to and continue to make the payments on the house for 6 months and then be able to offer quite a bit more cash.

I could do #2 above and also ask if he has money for the repairs on the house and pay him even more cash for being a hard money lender.

Do you think these are good options to ask him about?

Clint,

I think that is an awesome idea to send out mailers and a day later do a voiceblast to that same list.

I don't agree that it would be worth it if you have a list of 500 people that you are mailing and then voiceblasting that you should make 500 landing pages.

Christian,

I must say, that is somewhat hard to believe that you just saw 4 houses that you wanted to buy, you wrote 4 letters, and ended up buying all 4. How the heck did you do that?

1 billion opt in leads, are you on crack?

Anyone tested 800 vanity number with the same message as a local # to see which pulls better?

Very funny Mr. Investor.

Nick thanks for that referral to wufoo.com and to you guys showing me that a very short ad can work. I was thinking of testing that out. It just makes so much sense to get them interested and not disqualify them with a bunch of text in the ad before getting their contact info.

Hey, I have tried a few different ads and they aren't pulling in any leads. Any of you have tested ads that pull well & could share?
If you don't want to post to everyone please at least pm me.

Also, what is the best time of day to post?