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All Forum Posts by: Michael Hayes

Michael Hayes has started 180 posts and replied 353 times.

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233
Originally posted by @Shawn C.:

I am also wanting to use VA's for cold calling, pulling different types of lists and I am wondering what else I can have them do> How are you finding your VA's for cold calling? Also, what are some examples of scripts you have them use. What other tasks do people use VA's for concerning real estate investing.

Enquiring minds want to know. LOL

I went to onlinejobs.ph for my VA who works 30 hours. For simple stuff like Podio design and skiptracing, I've used upwork.com. The scripts I use were just made up based off of the information I needed. I customized it and just made changes as we went. Not sure about other people, but all my VA does is cold call, set appointments, and filter lists. She's exceptionally good though, so in the next couple of weeks I'll increase her tasks to training a new cold caller and possibly accepting all of my incoming calls. Still thinking about that last task though. May need to higher a completely different VA for that.

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233
Originally posted by @Joe Davalos:

Where are you finding your VAs. I am looking into onlinejobs.ph which is a site that allows you to view resumes and interact with potential candidates.

Just curious if anyone has any recommendations

 Bingo! Thats who I use. http://store.onlinejobs.ph/?aid=111056

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233
Originally posted by @Johnny Kang:

@Michael Hayes

The VA who makes calls for you, how many total hours are they working/week? Do you have them do other admin work to keep them busy full time? I'm asking this, because I've gone through several VAs to cold call, but they were all PT, since there's a finite amount of leads they can call every week.

She does 30 hours a week, but has gone through our lists 3 times each.  Some don't pick up the first round, some ask to call on a future date, etc.  We don' have a dialer system, so she dials manually through Skype.  So probably takes a bit longer than if we were to use mojo dialer or some other tool, but she's just super efficient with her time.  I've gone through 2 other dud VAs, but this one just came in with a super level of drive.

Right now she's not calling only because she's filtering our new lists, but no other tasks right now.

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233
Originally posted by @Antoine Martel:
Originally posted by @Michael Hayes:
Originally posted by @Antoine Martel:

Has the cold calling for these seller leads been working for you?

Where have you been finding this list for the seller leads? Have you been buying lists of home owners and having your VA call them?

 Yes my va is great with seller leads. We generate our own lists through driving for dollars, a public record of properties going into tax sale that you can probably Google for any city, and public records for inherited properties and evictions.  We test new lists as we find them.  And yes the va calls and sets my appointments. She's averaging me an additional 2 closings per month since she started.

 Wow thats awesome. But then how are you generating phone numbers from driving through dollars and the public record? which tool do you use to pull the cell numbers?

You can hire a skip tracer to do this pretty cheap through upwork.com  We filter the lists, send them to the skiptracer, the lists comes back with numbers and addresses and we get to work.

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233
Originally posted by @Damien Dupee:

Hey Michael,

Easy fix. All you need is mls access. You can pull the area your targeting and set the criteria for cash sales in the last say 180+ days. Skip trace the llc and now you have your vetted cash buyers list. Boom!!!!

I was actually already pulling this list from MyReiPro, but was more so looking to see how others were automating the tasks and communication using a VA. 2018 is dedicated to me freeing myself from a bunch of extra work.

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233
Originally posted by @Antoine Martel:

Has the cold calling for these seller leads been working for you?

Where have you been finding this list for the seller leads? Have you been buying lists of home owners and having your VA call them?

 Yes my va is great with seller leads. We generate our own lists through driving for dollars, a public record of properties going into tax sale that you can probably Google for any city, and public records for inherited properties and evictions.  We test new lists as we find them.  And yes the va calls and sets my appointments. She's averaging me an additional 2 closings per month since she started.

Post: Using A Virtual Assistant to Generate Buyer Leads

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233

What's up BP family?  Curious to know if anyone out there is using a virtual assistant to generate solid buyer leads?  I've been using one for the past 4 months for seller leads (cold calling) and she's been great, but trying to expand my core base of buyers so that I can tackle some other areas and zip codes and some more people to move the deals to.

What are some of their tasks?  How do you keep track of their goal numbers, etc?  How do you have them vet buyers if you do that?

Looking to scale this thing a bit quicker than my starting days, so any help is appreciated.  

Thanks!

Post: Under $10k Memphis, TN Deal 3/1

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233

@Verna Littleton yes but I will double check to make sure.  Someone else did the walk-through and took pictures for me.

Post: Under $10k Memphis, TN Deal 3/1

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233

@Verna Littleton "had" a furnace for central heat from what I understand, but everything will need to be redone and updated.  

Post: Under $10k Memphis, TN Deal 3/1

Michael HayesPosted
  • Investor
  • Memphis, TN
  • Posts 369
  • Votes 233

1961 Boyle Ave. Memphis, TN 38114

3/1 808 sf

Full rehab needed.

Only asking $8,000

MAKE AN OFFER! YOUR OFFER COULD WORK.

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Michael

901-979-9723

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