All Forum Posts by: Miller McSwain

In addition to SEO and Website leads, there are lots of direct marketing methods that can lead to great discount deals for BRRRR. The trick with direct marking is that you have to work the methods in high volume over a long period of time to get consistent deals. Trying one of them out for a month may not yield a deal, so you have to work consistently.

Some of the methods to find prospects to market to are:
-Driving for dollars
-Evictions list
-Probate list
-Pre-foreclosure

There are lots of others, but if you get these lists and start contacting those on it, you are likely to find a distressed property ideal for BRRRR!

@Aaron Acosta

I also learned a lot about wholesaling from the forums and the podcast. Those are definitely great resources, and you should continue using those, but I found tons of value in "The Wholesaling Blueprint" by Luke Weber. I recommend it often because Luke takes you through every step of the wholesale process, from marketing to closing with your buyer. In addition to that, I've been trying to find a good YouTube channel that posts good wholesaling content. I recently found a great one called Flipping Mastery. The host often makes videos of actual cold-calls and wholesale analyses that he runs.

Those are my best tips for education, but you should definitely start networking as well to start meeting other investors that may be interested in buying your deals!

@David Robertson

I think that it is a bundle of existing software for the most part.

With ProLeads, I believe you get:
1. BP Pro ($390/year divided into months $32.50/month)
2. RESimpli ($99/month)
3. Deal driving service (I'm not sure if they use Deal Machine, but if they do that is $49/month)
4. Vestor ($49/month)

So if you bought those services individually, it would cost $229.50. I should mention that a lot of these services have different tiers. I'm not sure which ones ProLeads members will get, so I chose the package I thought it might include. So that $229.50 figure could be off.

Also, it is worth mentioning that with ProLeads, you also get access to an exclusive Facebook community, 50 skip-traces/month, and 50 postcards/month. I didn't include that in my figure, so that bumps ProLeads value up a bit.

@Account Closed

I hear what you are saying, but making a self-built site rank well with SEO sounds incredibly difficult. I think Carrot/BP ProLeads sites are definitely better than self-built sites. Although they do cost more, they should bring much more traffic and pay for the higher cost many times over.

@Sean McCluskey

What is Liondesk?

Also, I forgot to mention that ProLeads gives you 50 free skip-traces per month and 50 free mailers per month. So that is more added value.

@Sean McCluskey
Also, Brandon mentioned using the code "OffMarket" for a discount on ProLeads!

@Joseph Grullon
I haven't used either yet, but don't forget about all of the other services that come with ProLeads! You will get access to BPInsights for market/rent data, a SEO site, a CRM, and a mailing service! It sounds like an awesome deal, but it would probably be a good idea to price each of those things out individually and see how much the services would cost on their own.

@Zack McCall

My county is great about giving information, but I know that isn't the case everywhere. 

As an example, I have a friend in Starkville, MS. He said that the county website is always down and that he can't get anyone to give him information. Instead, he started driving for dollars using DealMachine. DealMachine has been pretty successful in returning good information to him. So I'm not sure where DealMachine is getting their data from, but clearly the data for his county is somewhere.

I don't know of any application that is that robust. Maybe some day, but for now you would probably need separate services for most systems (Nest thermostat for remotely controlling HVAC, sperate system for pool, etc.)

You can of course have some systems bundled together if they are the same brand. As ane example, Nest has all sorts of devices that can be linked to one account. 

@Joshua Southard

If you are looking to learn about wholesaling, then you have come to the right place!

For education, I'd recommend:

1. Read the wholesaling forums. You will learn a lot about the major parts of wholesaling by perusing the forums. Additionally, you will learn about specific issues members have, and the solutions that others present. These solutions will likely help you in your business one day.
2. For a more focused and step-by-step education, read some wholesaling books. I highly recommend "The Wholesaling Blueprint" by Luke Weber. It is possible to find all of the information that is presented within the book on the forums; however, it would take a lot of time. For this reason, buying a few books that present organized information is well worth it.

For networking:

1. Hang around the BP forums and actually interact. You've taken a great first step by making you first, but I encourage you to continue posting and replying to other people's posts. You are likely to connect with some very knowledgeable wholesalers this way.
2. As you mentioned, networking events are great. There are tons of investor meetups that you can easily find at https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

For building a buyers list:

1. Visit auctions and ask frequent bidders if they buy from wholesalers
2. Ask investors at meetups if they are interested in being brought wholesale deals
3. If you already have a property under contract, you can check your county appraiser/assessor website for absentee property owners near your contracted property. These owners are investors and could be very interested since they already have an investment in the area

I hope some of these tips help you get started!