All Forum Posts by: Jordan Johnson

I'm getting my ducks in a row before my first direct mail campaign. I'm going to purchase a list and send post cards. Firstly, I'm wondering what an proper message for wholesaling will be for the postcard. I've been looking around and it seems a lot of them say, "I buy houses for cash!" which is a great attention getter for a motivated seller, but is that an honest slogan for a wholesaler to use since I wouldn't be necessarily be the one buying the house? My goal with the mailers would be to find properties to wholesale, or if the owner would be willing to owner finance I would purchase the house, so again "I buy houses for cash" wouldn't work for me. What would be a short eye catching way to draw ing potential sellers?

Secondly what should I do as far as the phone number I leave on the card? Should I use my personal number, look into a second pay as you go cell, or use an answering machine and call them back? 

I've been looking in to all this for over a year now and I've decided nothing is going to happen just by listening to the podcasts. I'm very excited and nervous to start this journey. Wish me luck!

Yes, there is one tomorrow. They're very informative and there's a lot of people to network with. They have a page through meetup.com that will alert you what day it  is every month. Hope to see you there some time. 

Wow, thank you so much for organizing the meet up. My fiancé and I had a great time and we learned so much from Ray. I can't wait for next month's meet up. 

Welcome to biggerpockets!

I missed the last one, but will be at this one. See y'all there!

 Thank you for your help. I have looked in to the down payment assistance program with my lender and I make to much to qualify and my fiancé doesn't make enough to qualify for the loan on her own so unfortunately that's a no go. But the way my lender organized my loan, it'll be like we're getting the assistance through the bank but with a higher interest rate. So everything works out in the end. 

I do but it doesn't have enough in it to pull from.

I think I figured it out with my loan officer. He played with the numbers to cover most of the closing costs but with a higher interest rate so everything will work out evenly.

Thank you everyone for the help. 

 Thank you Steve. We have thought of that, but I rather explore any other options we have first before we ask my my fiancés parents or my own for money. 

 Thanks Tom.  After the house has been inspected and appraised and everything, would we be able to go back into negotiations to include the closing costs as long as the house appraised for what the cost would be with the fees?