All Forum Posts by: John Mucilli

Some methods are looking in the various property sections of Craigslist, googling “we buy houses” and contacting all the companies you find in your area and looking for company Facebook pages. 

@Joshua McCarthy, it is very hard to find corporate owner info in our state. There are tons of easy ways to find the LLC owner, especially when using some free and paid softwares but to get an individual tied to the LLC is next to impossible. Even if you are to find a registrant, it tends to be an attorney.

Try seeing if any skiptracing companies will offer that info - or as I've read other people suggest just mail to the corporation. I haven't done any marketing to LLCs so I can't give you any example of results.

Not exactly a wholesale question, but figured the wholesale forum would have followers that are savvy with Propstream.

I've been getting familiar with the software by doing research on local properties. I am finding that there are TONS of errors, and its making me second guess sending out a marketing campaign to a list. I have a particular list set to exclude any sales after 01/01/2017, and after cross referencing some properties, I've come across plenty that have been sold recently. Also, I have "off-market" selected and there are plenty of properties that have been listed this year and are now pending or sold - but they show as a failed listing. 

Is there anything I can do to make my searches more accurate, or do you just market to the list anyway and take the losses on properties like those?

@Jerryll Noorden Hey Jerryll, I am a believer in your results - but I will say that I put in pretty significant work to rank my site and didn't get any leads whatsoever. I believe at one point I sat at #3 for "Sell my house in Westchester NY". Pretty likely search keywords, no? Sure I didn't rank #1, but 0 leads? You now hold #1 for that keyword, did you ever receive significant leads in that area- because I never heard from you.

I see where you're coming from, motivated sellers are coming to YOU day in day out. You know they're motivated, because they came TO YOU - there's no arguing that. Maybe it is because you are the best of the best at what you do, and other people just can't see putting in the time to become SEO experts themselves to get there.

I want to explore the back to basic methods that people DO say they get results with. Sure, you are playing a numbers game, but people do get leads. I want to send out marketing because my website was getting me no where. Should I have done pay per click? You said yourself you never used it for your lead gen site. From what I understand, in my market the marketing costs for Google are astronomical and still not guaranteed MOTIVATED LEADS any more than sending out/calling PEOPLE. 

Thanks for the tip @Joe Gonzalez .. Do you use VA's for most of your work? What are your marketing methods?

Have any wholesalers completely stopped mailing and turned to using methods like ringless voicemail and texting only? I've read that the response rate tends to be much greater.

Hey @Kenneth Bullock! I see you are based out of LA. Do you use the same methods to invest locally? My market is just outside of NYC so I'm wondering how well Propstream works for those in big city/high value suburb areas like ours. Or is that why you've turned to virtual wholesaling.. 

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@Jerryll Noorden hey Jerryll, long time no talk! Do you have any posts where you talk about your initial experience switching to PPC, before you were master of SEO?

Hey everyone, quick question that I haven't been able to easily search and find the answer for.

When pulling an absentee owner list, especially in my area, I run into a lot of houses that have two addresses (usually due to being a double lot). For example, "100 Main Street" may have a mailing address of "102 Main Street" and not be vacant or distressed at all.

What techniques do you use to scrub a list like this? Keep in mind I use Propstream. Would I just have to visually scan it and delete the ones that are obviously no good, prior to running a campaign or export it to Excel, run some script that takes care of this and import it back in?

Thanks !